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The Golfie backs all its sporting bodies
The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club celebrated achievements over the past year on the links, greens, ovals and pools at the Club’s Sportsman’s Dinner on Saturday night. Club president Jim Goonrey said it had been another good year for the Golfie who had been well represented in 2019 in golf, […]
Yabbies host Western Districts carnival
Over 100 swimmers from across the region converged in Cobar on Sunday for the 2020 Western Districts AIF Swimming Carnival with the Cobar Yabbies proving to have the fastest swimmers in the pool. The Cobar club hosted swimmers from Dubbo, Forbes, Wellington, Nyngan and Condobolin senior clubs to contest the […]
Surprise win for Howie’s Hombres over Tilpa
v Batting first Bushies posted a mammoth total of 5/194 from their 20 overs. Jade Buckman top scored with 49 runs, Mark Fraser hit 32 runs and Stewart Fraser 23. Tadgh Waugh was the best of the CSA bowlers taking three wickets for 14 runs from four overs. In reply, […]
Cobar’s best sportspeople celebrated
The prestigious Kerrigundi sporting achievement award, presented each year on Australia Day, was won this year by 17 year old Hannah Carrol. The award, which recognises achievement by a local athlete at a state, national or international level, was presented to Hannah in recognition of her achievements in netball […]
A win for CSA earns them T20’s second place
CSA and Wyatt’s Whackers improved their current standings in the Twenty20 cricket competition with both recording wins on the weekend. CSA defeated Tilpa by seven wickets on Friday night at Ward Oval while Whackers beat Hombres by 33 runs in their match under lights on Saturday night. Tilpa batted first […]
Yabbies win 5th consecutive Setts Memorial Trophy
The Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club retained the Setts Memorial Trophy having once again comprehensively beaten the Nyngan Splashers in the annual swimming carnival on Sunday. It’s the Cobar club’s 5th consecutive win of the event since its inception five years ago to honour the memory of past Cobar […]
Cobar Auto Club hands out prizes
Cobar Auto Club held their 2019 end of season presentations on Saturday at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club with trophies given out to overall winners along with Flat Track and Motocross Tri Series Champions. The club’s overall champions for the season were: 50cc High Powers and 65cc 7-U9 years—George […]
Australian coach praises Cobar netball
Australian Diamonds Netball coach Lisa Alexander was in Cobar last week and it seems the Cobar netball community made a big impression on her. Lisa said it had been “an absolute honour and a privilege” to visit Cobar. “I was humbled by the generosity of this most beautiful community,” Lisa […]