Local Sport

Many worthy nominees for Australia Day sports awards

Local clay target shooters Robert Thompson and Scott Brydon were named as joint winners of this year’s Australia Day Sportsperson of the Year award. Swimmer Makaila Gordon won the Kerrigundi Award and Ben Trudgett was awarded the Services to Sport trophy. Cobar’s Australia Day event coordinator John Martin said it’s […]

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2017

Yabbies’ weekly swims continue

While many local sports are currently taking a break, the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club weekly swims have been continuing. The championships points have been shared around over the past few weeks with no one swimmer dominating the competition. In the first swim of the year on January 3, […]

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Local Sport

Fugar bags the bulk of Yabbies’ points

Former Yabbies point score club champion Bill Fugar, who has been relatively quiet this season, placed in all four events of last week’s Senior Men’s Swimming Club competition. Fugar won the 100 metres and brace relay events and also finished third in both the 30m and 50m handicap events to […]

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Local Sport

It’s a battle between two Mermaids

Tanya Gilbert and Bianka Jacobson continued to fight it out in the pool on Sunday night for Mermaids’ championship points. The senior women’s swimming club championship point score front runners both collected a swag of points on Sunday with Gilbert adding another 16 to her total and Jacobson finished the […]