Sport Weather in record mode
Another 2007 summer Saturday, and this time, a total washout of league cricket in the area.
Just outside the Goole Times circulation boundary, Drax II managed a game at Melbourne, but that was as good as it got and the last six Saturdays have failed to see a full completed programme of fixtures in any league.
In fact the York Senior League in particular is experiencing its worst season for abandoned games with secretary Albert Pattison bemoaning this week: "The summer of 2007 will go down in the history books as the worst on record."
Five successive weeks of terrible weather has seen 61 abandoned games without a ball being bowled, and there were 37 more added last weekend.
Four of them saw Goole Town first and second teams and their rivals at Carlton Towers lose their respective York Senior League games to the elements, and the former's Edward Readman Cup semi-final on Sunday was a victim, despite most of the day actually being fine.
Unfortunately, Westfield has really suffered from the month-long rains which have fallen, with club officials preferably needing a week of decent weather to ensure that this weekend's games go ahead, which consist of a home York Senior League One game with Driffield No. 2, and then a second attempt to stage the cup semi final with Folkton and Flixton.
Driffield will also be in Sunday action as they are involved in the other semi final in the Readman Cup against Castleford No. 2 - the weather the winner there too.
The various junior sides haven't had much luck either, with the Under 17s game against Doncaster abandoned on Friday, and they in particular have been starved of cricket with only one game played so far - the weather a chief cause although not entirely the reason.
Airmyn and Eastrington lost their East Riding Alliance Premier Division games to the weather, and the picture was the same in the Independent League, with Newport's first and second teams suffering more blanks.
And it is not just Saturdays and Sundays with the Snaith and District Evening League also experiencing the kind of weather more suitable to football and rugby. Their cup competitions may well be decided on weekends if the weather persists, especially with the evenings drawing in rather more quickly from now on.
Published on 26th July 2007 in Sport.
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