Summer is building to its biggest weekend on the Bowls Yorkshire competitions calendar. On Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th July, the finals of our county competition will be played at King George V Bowling Club, Guisborough to decide who becomes Yorkshire County Champion in their event, and who earns the right to represent the county at the Bowls England National Finals in Leamington. It's the culmination of a season of qualifying rounds, tense semi-finals, and no small amount

The Men's 2 Bowl Singles Quarter and Semi Finals were completed at York Railway this evening, with some closely contested matches throughout. Following four competitive quarter finals, Jack Bird (Nafferton) booked his place in the final with a victory over Ray Murphy (Springhead Park) in the first semi final. In the second semi final, Marcus Mosley (Middlesbrough) held off the challenge of Mike Bruce (York Railway) to secure the other place in the final.

Alwyn was a stalwart of Yorkshire County. He was introduced to the sport of Bowls in 1972 by a friend and joined Nafferton Bowling Club. It soon became apparent that he had an aptitude and passion for the game. He remained at Nafferton until joining Driffield Recreation in 2006. In 1978 Alwyn played his first County game for the C team, some six years later he received his County badge. Alwyn went on to progress through the ranks to the A team where he skipped for many year

A terrific day of bowling at Northallerton today as the second qualifying event in our brand-new Yorkshire Mixed Triples competition took place. There was drama throughout the knockout stages, with both semi-finals going to an extra end before a high-quality final rounded off an excellent day's play. Congratulations to Paul Gale and Gayle & Malcolm Hartley (Thirsk Athletic), who booked their place at Finals Weekend after defeating Caroline Longden, Paul Laville and Craig Wats

Another great evening of bowling to watch earlier this month when the semi finalists of the Over 55 Fours took place at Dunnington. One semi final match had two Bishop Monkton teams playing each other and the other was South Cave v Thirsk. Congratulations to the South Cave of Maria Whittle, Jayne Stride, Jane Duguid and Eva Dayes and the Bishop Monkton team of Angie Archbold, Carol Pawson, Pauline Beecroft, and Sue Armstrong who won through to Finals Day. Only one team from e

Fantastic to be back at Kirkbymoorside again for our Triples QF. Two superb comebacks and one extra end game produced our 4 semi finalists: Mark Walton (Nafferton), Mick Mooney (Smiths Dock), Andy Boatwright (Selby) and Malcolm Richardson (Kirkbymoorside). Semi Finals are at York Railway on Tuesday 7 July.