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Yabbies win national swimming title
Cobar Yabby Trevor Menadue made history on Saturday as the first Cobar Senior Men’s Club swimmer to ever win an AIF Nationals swimming title. Menadue, who started the 2016/2017 season with the Yabbies before relocating to Melbourne at the beginning of the year, re-joined his Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming […]
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Consistency pays off for swimmer
Consistency paid off for swimmer Anita Hodgkinson at the Mermaids senior women’s competition swim on Sunday night. Hodgkinson finished second in all three of the events contested to finish the night with 15 championship points. She ran second to Zoë Harland in the 30m handicapped Freestyle event with Harland finishing […]
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Ann Dunn was in the golf mix all week
Fay Hardwick was the winner of last Wednesday’s women’s golf Stableford game inching out Ann Dunn by one point. Hardwick scored 27 points while Dunn recorded 26. Geraldine Francisco was next on 24. Hardwick also picked up a Nearest the Pin win on the 3rd hole and Robynne Morton collected the […]
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Cobar trio to ride 360km on Wines2Mines trip this weekend
Long time mates Jade Buckman and Brad Lawrence, along with Jade’s 12 year old son Chad, have committed themselves to a 360km bike ride this weekend to raise funds for charity. The Wines2Mines tour was Brad’s idea as a way to honour his mother Wendy who passed away from cancer […]
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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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Cobar Yabbies get better with age
There are some things that get better with age and it seems that Cobar Yabbies are among those things. (We mean the members of the Cobar Senior Men’s Swimming Club Yabbies, not the ones you catch and eat which don’t keep very long in the fridge after you’ve caught them!) […]
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Camels fired up for big game
The Cobar Camels Rugby Club hosted the second annual Howie’s Day charity match on Saturday with a big crowd in attendance to support the Camels up against the NSW Fire & Rescue teams. The First Grade sides played for the Daniel Howard Memorial Cup in the main game. The Firies […]
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Start of another year of swearing
The men’s golf season is now under way or as some call it, the start of another year of hit and miss and swearing. A Stableford game was played for the Monthly Medal competition on Saturday with Alec Fraser finishing as the winner. In second place was Bill Fugar with […]
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CATS represent
Bianka Jacobson was the first senior female to cross the line in the Mini Triathlon race at the 2017 Hillston Outback Triathlon on Sunday. The event attracted more than 50 local athletes as well as others from Griffith, Leeton and Cobar. Jacobson and Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) team […]