The first bad weekend of the year took its toll on the clubs in the Bradford Sunday Alliance League.

Only four of the scheduled West Riding County Sunday Cup ties were played involving Sunday Alliance clubs.

One of these only went ahead after a lot of hard work by the committee and members of West Bowling, who were rewarded with a place in the last 16 of the top competition in the county.

Wyke Wanderers from Division One were the opposition for the Premier Division outfit and the hosts moved in front after 15 minutes when Chris Woods finished off a good move. Chris Hanney put the hosts two in front five minutes later.

The visitors came back into the match when Brett Missin hit a superb 20-yard goal.

The Division One side then dominated the rest of the half and only bad luck and sound defensive work from the hosts stopped them equalising.

The visitors hit the woodwork on two occasions and had a goal disallowed before the interval.

In the second half Woods went on to score a superb hat-trick and win the man of the match award and a goal each from the Storey brothers Carl and Darron completed the scoring, giving the Premier team a 6-1 victory.

Dave Goldsmith. Owen Machin and Matthew Penn put Division 1A side Cuedos Rangers three goals in front at the interval when they visited County Cup opponents Commercial Esholt.

The home team came out fighting in the second half and shocked the Alliance team by pulling level within 20 minutes of the restart.

Both teams missed chances to get the winner until 15 minutes from the end Danny Aldred hit the winner for the visitors to put them into the last 16.

In another all-Alliance tie, George Hotel from Division 1A entertained Division 1B Junction Thornbury at Oakenshaw Park, and the home team were two goals in arrears from a double strike from Danny Fisher.

Dave Moffatt pulled one back for the hosts before the interval but Fisher moved on to hit his hat-trick at the start of the second half to put the visitors 3-1 in front.

Chris Ryder then hit a brace for Hotel to put them level before Matthew Padworth put the hosts in front for the first time.

The last 20 minutes were all the visiting sides and they can consider themselves unlucky to have at least force extra time when they missed a penalty and had two goals disallowed in that period.

Albion Sports beat Omnibus by four goals to one in the other tie concerning Alliance clubs.

The league programme was also decimated by the weather and there was no fixtures played in the Premier Division, one of the casualties being the top-of-the-table clash between Oakenshaw and Ventus Sports.

One fixture that did go ahead was the Division 1 match between second-placed Clayton Orient and league leaders Westwood Park.

The visitors took a two-goal lead in the early stages but a strike by Micky Brack pulled the home team back into the match before the interval.

Early in the second half, Kyle Mulley then equalised and Phil Orr wrapped up the points for the hosts to put pressure on Westwood at the top.

Ring o Bells Shipley have been threatening to get a big score all season and unfortunately for Bradford Irish Club it was on Sunday in a match that could be classed as a shock result.

Simon Topp and Paul Andrews both bagged a brace for the hosts and further strikes from Anthony Auty, Carl Dawson and Jamie Mularkey proved too much for the visitors.

The local derby between FC Hudsons and Boars Head finished 5-1 in favour of the visitors.

In Division 1B Andy Fieldhouse hit a hat-trick for Royal Clayton in their victory over Wibsey WMC reserves and strikes by Owen Wild and Ben Collier proved too much for the clubmen in their 5-1 loss.

Dudley Hill reserves took a two goal lead in the first half and then ran in five more in the second to beat Craven Heifer 7-3 in a high-scoring, entertaining match in difficult conditions.

James Royal, Sam Brixtock and Carl Jackson were on the scoresheet for the hosts and Ryan Basi with a brace was among the scorers for Heifer.

St George made it through to the fifth round of the County Amateur Sunday Trophy by beating Bradford rivals Albion Sports Reserves 5-3.

Phil Clapham scored a hat-trick and Adam Ellis netted a brace. Wrose Albion were unable to overcome Pudsey 2005 as they bowed out 4-0. Mill Lane were due to host ALC Celtic but had to postpone due to the weather.

Bolton Woods have one eye on promotion from Division 2A of the Sunday Alliance League after beating mid-table Stocks Lane Rangers 7-2.

J Morgan (3), S Brown (2), P Craven and T Shackleton scored for Bolton Woods.

Forresters lost 3-1 at home to Woodlands despite a cracking goal from Craig Reid.

In Division 3A, Bradford Lions moved up to third after smashing Dynamo Delius 9-1 with Billy Lowther netting four and Aidy Lowther with another hat-trick.

Delius FC put in a fine display in bad conditions to see off bottom of the league Victoria Eagles. Delius keeper Chris Avery saved two penalties when the game was at 2-2 to help encourage his team to a 6-3 victory thanks to goals by Dan le Prevost (2), Andrew Thorpe (2), Dan Thrikill and Joel Bussey.

Salthorn's turn of form in Division 3B was shortlived after losing 8-1 to Stocks Lane United, Lewis Benecki scoring a treble for the victors.

Dean Lambert and Damian Rushworth were both on the score sheet for Idle AFC as they drew at home to 5-alive while Bradford Hotel move up a couple of places in Division 4 after a 3-0 victory over rock-bottom Cricketers Arms.