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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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Camels turned up late to play their game

The excitement and anticipation had been building for months among the local rugby fraternity for the Cobar club’s Western Plains Rugby ‘Reunion’ match against Gulargambone on Saturday. Players that beat Gulargambone 20 years ago in the 1996 grand final (along with members of the Cobar team that defeated Walgett in […]

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Camels’ impressive win over Bourke

The Cobar Camels beat Bourke 17-10 in their Western Plains Rugby match on Friday night at Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval. The Camels led 7-0 at half time and maintained the upper hand throughout the game despite the wet, slippery conditions. The team’s strength and conditioning coach John Barnes said their […]

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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 […]

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CATS mark the end of a record season

The Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) marked the end of their very successful 2015/2016 season with a presentation night and dinner at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Friday night. Club president Zoë Harland said she was pleased to report that in the past three years the club […]

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Hotshots pull off a miracle win on the timber

The outcome of the Indoor Soccer grand final last week was decided by just a few millimetres with Hotshots pulling off a miraculous 1-0 win to upset minor premiers and competition favourites, Wii Not Fit. The Cinderella story was complete. Coming off a one game win/eight loss record in the […]

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Camels’ hard work is starting to pay off

The many months of training and fitness sessions in the lead up to the 2016 Western Plains Rugby season are starting to pay dividends for the Cobar Camels with the club recording a strong 35-7 win over Walgett on Saturday at Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval. Camels’ strength and conditioning coach […]

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Victorian horse wins WesTrac Cobar Cup

Victorian trainer Russell Green, a frequent visitor to western New South Wales tracks from his Wangaratta stables, won the $10,000 WesTrac Cobar Cup (1,700 metres) on Saturday with War Horse. Parkes jockey Tiffany Jeffries gave War Horse a nice run, parking her mount behind the leaders Vavavic and Teraset (trained […]

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Jarrod Davey takes out Yabbies’ top trophies

Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club newcomer Jarred ‘Jacko’ Davey cleaned up this season, winning all but two of the club’s perpetual trophies. At the club’s 2015/2016 season presentations on Friday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club Davey claimed the club’s Overall Club Championship Point Score ‘Curly Solomon […]