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Dillon wins the Wanaaring Open

The popular Wanaaring Golf Combined Open was held on Sunday with Cobar golfers cleaning up in the prize department from the 22 contenders. Craig ‘Porky’ Dillon was the A Grade 27 hole Scratch winner with 104 off the stick. Alec Fraser (115) was runner-up after a countback from Peter ‘China’ […]

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A superb display of running rugby

  It was a superb display of rugby when the Cobar Camels came up against the Warren Pumas in an election day extravaganza on Saturday. Plenty of hard running rugby resulted in 12 tries recorded in the match with the Warren visitors finishing as 50-29 winners. The scheduled kick off […]

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President’s Day bowls

The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club hosted a field of 42 bowlers for the President’s Day bowls tournament on Sunday with local teams up against players from Hay, Hillston and Tongala in Victoria. Played in a Triples team format of two games of 16 ends, the all Cobar team of […]

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St John’s shine in Peachey Shield

The David Peachey and Russell Richardson football gala day was held in Cobar last Wednesday. Cobar hosted the Peachey Shield (Year 5 and 6) and Richardson Cup (Years 3 and 4) matches at Ward Oval. The St John’s School Year 5/6 team won their three pool games against Nyngan Public […]

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Yabbies share the trophies

Bill Fugar and Cameron van Breugel (first and second from left) shared the limelight and the bulk of the trophies at the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club presentations at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Friday night. Fugar won the 50metres title and van Breugel was the winner […]

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Local horse syndicate wins at home with Jawsome

Melbourne-based jockey Rhonda Mangan made the long trip to the Cobar Miners Race Club meeting on Saturday worthwhile by winning the KML Industries-Buckman Family Memorial Benchmark 50 Handicap (1,200 metres) for Cobar trainer Wayne Prisk. Jawsome ($3.80) took the early lead and held on to beat Minamahal (Jeff Kehoe, $5) […]

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Junior league’s first hit out this season

Five Cobar teams had their first hit outs of the 2019 Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League competition on Saturday up against the league’s strongest club, St John’s Gold.   The matches were all played in Dubbo and, while the home side claimed five victories for the day, the Cobar teams […]

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Gilbert racks up another Cobar Open title

Chris Gilbert won his third Cobar Men’s Open golf title on Sunday after finishing two shots ahead of another previous Open winner, Greg Read. Gilbert was ahead after 18 holes in the Epiroc 2019 Men’s Golf Open but was certain the more experienced Read would catch him on the back […]