HALF-A-DOZEN of South Cumbria’s best young rugby league players will be pulling on the county jersey this weekend.

Five Barrow Island aces and one from Askam will be part of the Under-17s team battling Yorkshire tomorrow in the first match of the BARLA Three Counties Tri-Series. Rating Lane products Alfie Thomas, Matty Brown, Robert Salt, Luke Thompson and Elliot Campbell, plus Fallowfield Park junior Keir Shepherd, will line-up with players from the West Cumbria area at Stanningley (2.30pm kick-off).

The losers of the opening game will face Lancashire on October 16, with the winners playing them later in the month in the title-decider.

Cumbria will host their encounter with the Red Rose county at Barrow’s Craven Park.