The first top two clash of the season happens this week in Division 3 as leaders Denby Dale host the new team from Elland WMC.

3 Determined ladies in the semi-finals displayed the inevitability of the outcome and so it proved as Julie Mallinson takes the 2024 title.

Week 2 of the new season and thoughts already turn to matters of promotion and relegation and we look at both this week in the top divisions

No this is not a headline from today's newspapers but from The Examiner in 1989

An opening day defeat for the defending Division 1 Champions could become a habit if the new boys from Waterloo retain their day one form.

All the entries are in for the 2024 Summer Fantasy League and we look at how many votes every team has received from the 83 entrants.

After this Sunday we will be adding a new name to those on the Winter Cup as we are down to the last 8 from which a new winner will emerge.

Elland WMC are the only new team in the Veterans 10-Man League and they began their new venture with a 7-2 home win in Division 3.

With all leagues now publishing their 2024 fixtures we can complete our Year-On-Year table of teams in leagues with good news and bad news.

Bouncebackability is a real word and the Oxford Dictionary says 'it is the ability to recover from a setback' which covers 3 Div. 2 teams.

Calling all bowlers who bowled in our top three divisions last season. Tickets for your End-of-Season Party are now available. Full details.

The reality of results kicks in after the first round of fixtures in the season and we review who has and hasn't had a good opening day.

Lots of 21-20 scorelines and good bowling in the Round of the Last 24 and beyond, resulting in the last 8 bowlers going to Finals Day.

A new record number of entrants for a Summer Fantasy League as this year's competition with a £100 prize for the winner starts up.

There are 67 entries in the county's 2024 Hutchinson Cup and 62 of them will play in the Qualifying Round. Full draw.

Only 24 teams have entered the 2024 Yorkshire Cup but there is plenty of local interest in the competition as the qualifying round is drawn.

A second successive win for Almondbury Lib bowler Neil Slattery in the Roger Crowther Memorial Trophy at Longwood on Sunday.

Last batch (promise) of 14 photographs taken at the first End-of-Season Party held at Netherton Con last Friday.

The competition is staged to raise funds to go to the Weston Park Cancer Charity in Sheffield. So it is fitting to have a Sheffield winner.

There will be a new winner of the Winter Cup this year and they are among the 24 names that went into the hat. Finals Day is next Sunday.