Dylan Shaw-Radford leads Halifax-Huddersfield to opening Yorkshire Inter-District Union League win

HALIFAX-HUDDERSFIELD applied immediate balm to the sting of losing their Yorkshire Inter-District Union League title on match points to East Riding by claiming top spot after round one of the 2022 season – on match points.
By Chris Stratford
Published 17th May 2022, 06:00 BST
Dylan Shaw-Radford: Celebrated his 17th birthday with two wins for Halifax-Huddersfield. (Picture: Chris Stratford)Dylan Shaw-Radford: Celebrated his 17th birthday with two wins for Halifax-Huddersfield. (Picture: Chris Stratford)
Dylan Shaw-Radford: Celebrated his 17th birthday with two wins for Halifax-Huddersfield. (Picture: Chris Stratford)

Team manager Frank Greaves’s side saw off hosts Harrogate 27-9 at Romanby, bettering by a difference of four the performances of Leeds and Sheffield, who won 
25-11 against York at Leeds and Teesside at Cleveland respectively.

The champions, meanwhile, got the better of Bradford at Skipton, 20-16, after sharing the morning session, with Dan Digby (Brough), Matty Raybould (Hornsea), Jack Northgraves (Ganton) and Paul Lockwood (Driffield) all winning in both the foursomes and singles. Zac Gartland (Northcliffe) and Darren Rands (Bradford) did likewise for the hosts, who gave a debut to Phil Wilkinson (Cleckheaton).

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Half of Halifax-Huddersfield’s line-up enjoyed a perfect day at Romanby, Huddersfield’s Josh Morton and Dylan Shaw-Radford – who was celebrating his 17th birthday – Crown Nest Park’s James Edwards, home from a golf scholarship at Wingate University in North Carolina, brothers Lee and Adam Rowbotham (Saddleworth), and Crosland Heath’s George Hanson.

Crosland Heath's George Hanson making an improbable, adventurous and superbly thought out bogey at the par-3 11th in his singles for Halifax-Huddersfield at Romanby to win the hole after his opponent Simon Bradley (Otley) had found the water and made five. (Picture: Chris Stratford)Crosland Heath's George Hanson making an improbable, adventurous and superbly thought out bogey at the par-3 11th in his singles for Halifax-Huddersfield at Romanby to win the hole after his opponent Simon Bradley (Otley) had found the water and made five. (Picture: Chris Stratford)
Crosland Heath's George Hanson making an improbable, adventurous and superbly thought out bogey at the par-3 11th in his singles for Halifax-Huddersfield at Romanby to win the hole after his opponent Simon Bradley (Otley) had found the water and made five. (Picture: Chris Stratford)

The visitors had given Greaves the fast start he had demanded by claiming the foursomes 10-2, impressive but outstripped by Leeds, who completed a clean sweep against York. They, too, finished with a sextet of players with unblemished records in Josh Bassitt (Garforth), Andy Wiltshire and Darren Walton (Pontefract), Harry Hunter-Mapp (Cookridge Hall), Isaac Smith (Leeds) and Martin Simpson (Selby).

York showed tremendous spirit in coming back from the morning mauling to go down just 13-11 in the singles by winning five and halving one of the first eight afternoon singles.

Sheffield, league champions seven times in the last 10 iterations, laid the foundations for their win at Cleveland by lunching 8-4 ahead and easing away in the singles in which Tim Brind (Abbeydale), Lewis Adderley Foster (Hickleton), Nyle Challinor (Sitwell) and Jon Berrisford (Hillsborough) all added wins.

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