OTLEY were multiple award winners at the Aire-Wharfe League’s annual dinner and prize presentation at the Howard Suite, Headingley.

The perennial heavyweights picked up three trophies - the under-nine player of the year (Finn Hanogue), the third XI fielding award (Aidan Pears) and the Division One batting prize (Alex Atkinson).

The latter scored 980 runs from 17 innings, five of which were unbeaten, including a highest score of 196 not out, which contained 32 fours and six sixes.

In all he scored three centuries and six fifties for an average of 81.67 to lift the Eddie Nelson Trophy.

Horsforth Hall Park and Pool each collected a brace of awards - Hall Park the Division Four bowling trophy for Sam Wilkinson and the first XI under-20s bowling trophy for Sam Hyde.

Wilkinson, who was absent from proceedings awaiting the birth of his first child, took 32 wickets at an average of 11.56, including two five-fers and a best of 8-27, which was good enough for him to claim the Claughton-Cockroft Trophy.

Hyde also took 32 wickets at an average of 17.03, seeing off competition from Thackley’s Jack Allport and Burley’s Joe Hall.

Pool’s trophies both went to Krutik Patel - the Division Two bowling award and the first XI all-rounder award.

Patel took 57 wickets, including three five-wicket hauls and best figures of 5-24, for an average of 12.79, which earned him the Barritt-Newbould Trophy.

As a first XI all-rounder, Patel was in competition with Addingham’s Ricky Palacio, with both scoring over 500 runs and taking 50 wickets or more, the first time that two players have reached those landmarks in the same season since 2018.

Palacio scored 666 runs and took 50 wickets, but Patel’s 951 runs and 57 wickets gave him a clear edge.

The Division Two batting award went to Tong Park Esholt’s Dave Hester, who topped the holy grail of over 1000 runs with his tally of 1019, which included three centuries and five fifties, topped by an innings of 156 at better than a run a ball.

That was good enough to give him the Archer-Morris Trophy, while Guiseley’s Robert Butterfield lifted the Bryan Stott Trophy for batters in Division Three.

He scored 944 runs, including two centuries and five fifties, and made a highest score of 124 not out for an average of 59.

The equivalent bowling award went to Bolton Villas’ Sam Lawrence, a former winner of the under-20 bowling prize.

He took 68 wickets, with best figures of 8-37 among his five five-wicket hauls, and had an average of 11.94 to win the E&N Holroyd Trophy.

Thackley’s Craig Marshall won the Division Six bowling prize, aka The Millennium Trophy.

He had a measly average of 8.7 for his 57 wickets, including five five-wicket hauls, the best of which was 6-27.

Thackley also shared the William A Gill Memorial Trophy for Young Scorer of the Year via Emily Thompson, jointly with Jake Alred (Calverley St Wilfrid’s).

Meanwhile, Menston’s Alistair Adams took the Donald Holmes Trophy for third XI bowling in Division One, with 18 wickets at 16.56, while Rawdon’s James Dobson lifted the Don Brennan Trophy for first XI wicket-keeping with 39 victims.

Ilkley won the George Reah Trophy for the highest-placed second XI not winning a division for coming sixth in Division Three, while Collingham & Linton took the Fair Play Trophy.

Among those edged out were Thackley’s Jack Mills for the second XI fielding award, the Eric Money Shield, and Ilkley’s Paul Dover and Menston’s David Blackburn for the Ellicott Shield for first XI fielding.

Honourable mention also goes to Green Lane’s Maxwell Lee and Burley’s Joshua Hastings for just missing out on the Eric Schofield under-20 batting award.