Once again another long enduring weekend of badminton and full marks to all the participants for being patient and producing some outstanding badminton.

The numbers were not as high as those encountered when the BA of E events take place in the Midland region of the country, but a good turn out for Yorkshire which represented 38% of the whole field and almost as many girls competing as the boys (33 girls and 41 boys).

The medal count for Yorkshire stood at 10 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze with Richard Morris taking 3 gold in his 3 events (singles, doubles and mixed). It is unknown which individuals received bronze medals on the day due to a large number of categories only having two groups.

Grade 2. 

Representing Yorkshire was Richard Morris, Luke Hutchinson, Chris Allen, Paul Scott and Daniel Shiels.

With 5 out of the 7 players in the singles being represented by Yorkshire, it was hoped for an all Yorkshire final, but Richard was the only one to progress from his group to win the final against Scott Howard of Nottinghamshire by 15/2 15/5.

Grade 3. 

Representing Yorkshire was Michael Truswell, George Hargreaves, Clinton Lau and Scott Thomson.

Although none progressed from there groups, Clinton put up a good fight but lost out by 2 points from progressing from his group. The final was contested by Philip Aspinall beating Daniel Wolfenden by 21/16

Grade 4. 

Representing Yorkshire was Luke Gilhooly, James Picard, Adam Lodge, Simon Templeman, Jonathon Baines, George Brown and William Hall.

George successfully progressed from his group and won 15/11 in his semi-final against James Biggs of Nottinghamshire but narrowly lost out to Chris Goodfellow of Northumberland in the final by 15/12.

Doubles. 

Due to small entry of grade 2 and 3 players, the doubles were made up of all three grades (2, 3 and 4).

It became difficult to fathom out how this format worked, but there were a total of 5 groups each with 4 pairs. Three of the groups had grade 2 pairs with the others a mixture of Grade 3 and 4.

The outcome was a mains doubles Yorkshire final between Chris Allen/Luke Hutchinson against Richard Morris/Daniel Shiels who won 15/6 15/4.

Clinton and his partner Luke Swannick who are grade 3 players but had to compete against grade 2 players in the main doubles section in a quarter final match. If they had been runners up in there group, they would have competed in there proper Alternative doubles section.

Grade 2. 

Representing Yorkshire was Chloe Chambers, Hayley Shipley, Sarah Milne, Lauren Birch and Jenna Walker.

Out of the 4 groups, Jenna successfully progressed from her group to reach the final by a Walk Over against Philipa Rogers of Cheshire who retired injured. She eventually lost out in the final against Alison Pulford of Nottinghamshire in 3 sets 4/11, 11/9 and a very close final set 13/12.

In the doubles. Chloe and Jenna paired up against Alison Pulford and Jessica Tandy of Nottinghamshire in the final and won 15/7 11/15 15/5

Grade 3. 

Representing Yorkshire was Jane Colley, Laura Mercer, Harriet Shillito, Hannah Wilkie and Nicola Hainsworth.

Out of the two groups, Nicola progressed from hers to face in form Jessica Tandy in the final were she lost 21/1 but still took the silver medal.

In the Doubles, Harriet paired with Northumberland's Eleanor Laws, against Nicola Hainsworth and Hannah Marsh in the final, with Nicola and Hannah taking the gold medal.

Grade 4. 

Representing Yorkshire was Nicki Chan-Lam and Hannah Marsh.

Both played in separate groups with Hannah progressing from hers to meet Sara Proudfoot of Cumbria in the final were she won 15/5 to take the gold medal.

Once again, full marks to those participating in the mixed knockout event which puts a players endurance to the test by surviving a very long day and still maintaining a degree of enthusiasm for this event.