The Cobar Miners Race Club annual Autumn racing event took place on Saturday at the Dalton Park Horse Sports Complex minus the usual large crowd of spectators. Due to the government’s COVID-19 crowd restrictions, spectators were banned from attending the race meeting however the committee was still keen to see […]
The Cobar Weekly invited Rugby Union stalwart, Kevin ‘Rusty’ Mitchell to pick Cobar’s Best Rugby Team which he found pretty hard going and so Rusty selected enough players for two sides. “There are so many good players here I could not forecast the winner if they played each other,” Rusty […]
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 […]
Having played 326 First Grade games for the Cobar Roosters (as well as coached Reserves and Junior teams and watched countless games at Tom Knight Memorial Oval), we called upon Jim Goonrey as someone of authority who could pick Cobar’s Greatest Rugby League Team. Jim’s rugby league career with the […]
In the absence of any current sporting news, we asked Cobar’s Mr Cricket, John Collins, to select ‘Cobar’s Greatest Cricket Team’ and give his reasons why. Having played his first game of cricket with Nymagee in 1961 and then over the next 50 years with Nymagee, Bobadah, Rugby Union, Colts […]
Looking back on our golfing history during 1981 Cobar was in the grip of drought after two drier than normal years. That year good rain came in May and the outlook improved over the rest of the year and a number of golf competitions got washed out. Cobar’s top golfers […]
The Cobar Swimming Club held their last swim for the season followed by a barbecue and presentations last Wednesday night at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. The first of the perpetual trophies went to Indirose Saunders who took home the KML Junior Club Person award. The Tom Knight Encouragement Award […]
Nymagee overwhelmed Empire to win the 40 Overs Senior Cricket competition premiership for the 12th time on Saturday. Nymagee’s long dominance of the sport was reaffirmed on Saturday with their best bowling and fielding display for the season. From the first over, when Empire’s Tom McKenna was removed, Nymagee looked […]
Small fields marked the start of the Men’s Golf season on the weekend with perhaps the warm weather and the cricket season still being in progress that keeping a few players away. The weekend was however all about one golfer – Greg Clark. ‘Clarkie’ dominated both Saturday and Sunday’s games, […]
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