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Nymagee continues on winning way
Nymagee continued on their winning way beating Empire on Saturday in the senior cricket 40 Overs competition. Batting first, Nymagee made 5/173 from their 40 overs. Every batsman made a start but were unable to go on and post a big score as Empire’s bowlers bowled a tight line throughout […]
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Malcolm’s in the middle of all the junior rugby action
The Cobar Camels Rugby Union Club is keen to get a junior competition back up and running so that Cobar players can join the Western Plains Rugby junior competition. Myshelle Gillette, a Cobar Rugby Club committee member and wife of the senior rugby club president Stephen Gillette, and their three […]
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Small field contests annual Australia Day triathlon event
Scott Brown was the winner of the Gumnuts Gifted Male prize as the first finishing male and overall winner of the Australia Day triathlon on Friday. The annual event, organised by the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS), was a scratch race and consisted of a 300m swim, 10km ride […]
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New netball courts to be ready for 2019 season
Cobar netballers can expect to be playing on brand new courts at Ward Oval next season thanks to a $175,000 State Government grant. State Member for Barwon Kevin Humphries was in Cobar on Monday to hand over the grant to the Cobar Netball Association (CNA). CNA president Haylee Prince said […]
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Teenager wins a top sporting award
Hannah Carroll, Chrissy Gilligan and John Collins were the recipients of this year’s Australia Day sports awards. Teenager Hannah Carroll won the Kerrigungi award which recognises representative sporting achievements. Last year Hannah represented Cobar in a number of sports including netball and athletics. Hannah won the NSW Discus State Championship […]
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Swimmers return more than 40 years later to reminisce
Former members of the Cobar Swimming Club from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s met up again at a reunion earlier this month to relive what some have called “the best time of their lives”. Former club members, local Belinda McMillan and Janette Lloyd (nee Bunyan), a former resident who left […]
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Cobar well represented at Dubbo New Year carnival
Cobar was very well represented at the 41st Dubbo New Year Carnival at Barden Park earlier this month with the Cobar squad’s ages ranging from tots to 65 years. A new twilight carnival was introduced to this year’s competition format which gave athletes a break from 2pm to 6pm so […]