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A team of Cobar’s best netballers

Local respected netball umpire Sue Francisco was invited by The Cobar Weekly to choose a netball team as part of our ‘Cobar’s Greatest Sporting Teams’ series. Sue joined in the local netball competition when she first came to Cobar in 1982. “I hadn’t played netball for many years because my […]

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Cobar Blues club looks set to fold

Three years after the local AFL team disbanded the Cobar Blues Football & Netball Club now looks set to fold. In 2015 the Blues were struggling to field an AFL side and were thrown out of the Northern Riverina League competition. The club’s three senior representative netball teams (who had […]

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State success

Cobar netballers had great results at the Netball NSW 2017 State Championships over the long weekend at Baulkham Hills in Sydney. The Cobar Opens team competed in Opens Division 2 finishing with eight wins for the tournament while three Cobar juniors, who joined the Glen Innes team, finished as winners […]

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Cobar netballers win state title

Cobar junior netballers Zoe Carter, Abby Carswell and Lauren Urquhart joined the Under 17s Glen Innes team to contest this year’s Netball NSW State Championships over the weekend and helped their side to a Division 3 win. Glenn Innes coach Maryanne Perkins said she had been very pleased to welcome […]

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Cobar rep junior team records two state wins

Two Cobar Blues representative netball teams competed at the Regional State League carnival in Orange on Sunday. The Cobar Juniors side competed in Division 4 winning two out of their three games, while the Cobar Opens side went down to their Orange and Bathurst oppositions in Division 3. “The Junior […]

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No AFL interest shown at Blues’ AGM

There was a good roll up of 14 interested people to the Cobar Blues Football & Netball Club’s annual general meeting on Sunday at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club. There was however no interest shown at the meeting from the club’s AFL fraternity of players or the Auskick junior […]

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Cobar netballers put in a great effort at State

The Cobar 15 years representative netball team took part in one of the largest female sporting events in the Southern Hemisphere over the weekend at the Netball NSW State Age Championships. The State Age carnival dates back to 1969 and the competition is so large now, that no single netball […]

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Cobar well represented at State Championships

It’s been a dream for eight years for Cobar netball coach Amie Hill to take a Cobar representative team to the State Championships and that dream was realised on the weekend when the Cobar Opens side competed at the Netball NSW 2016 Samsung State Championships at Charlestown. This year’s State […]