Local Sport
Council Babes win grand final
Confident shooting and outstanding defence helped the Council Babes to a grand final win in the Indoor Netball competition at the youth centre on Monday night. Council Babes worked hard for their spot in Monday night’s grand final game, having finished third in the overall competition. They came up against […]
Juniors have shown great improvement
Cobar Junior Rugby League president Simone Knight is proud of the improvements of all the Cobar junior teams this season. “Our kids are improving every week,” Mrs Knight said. “They have come a long way since the beginning of the year. “It’s been really great to have positive comments from […]
CATS name their male and female triathletes of the year
The Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) club held their end of season presentations on Sunday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club with Chris Powell and Tammy Watson named the club’s Triathletes of the Year. Powell pipped Alistair Travis for the men’s title, while Bourke competitor Watson, beat […]
A new sports club
Horsewoman Jillian Prince is keen to hear from locals who are interested in forming a Horsemanship Club. “I can see there’s a gap in what people can do, or groups that you can be involved in the far west if you have an interest in horses,” Jillian told The Cobar […]
Roosters fight hard for 66-12 win over Bulldogs
After what looked like it was going to be a close, tough game, the Cobar Roosters ran away to easily beat Collarenebri 66-12 in Saturday’s Barwon Darling Cup First Grade rugby league game on Saturday. Played in front of a vocal crowd at Tom Knight Memorial Oval, the game started […]
Records tumble at Cobar High’s annual athletics carnival
Cobar High School held their annual Athletics Carnival at Ward Oval last Wednesday with multiple records broken on the day. Under 14 girls competitor Hannah Carroll broke three records at the carnival as well as winning all of her nine events. Hannah’s Shot Put throw of 10.39 metres broke a […]
Wilkin starts busy week of golf with win on Wednesday
A big week of women’s golf kicked off last Wednesday with a Par game that was won by Jannine Wilkin. Wilkin finished with a score of +1 after a countback and was declared the winner over Susan Goonrey, who also finished with +1. Daphne Cross claimed third spot with -1 […]
State success
Cobar netballers had great results at the Netball NSW 2017 State Championships over the long weekend at Baulkham Hills in Sydney. The Cobar Opens team competed in Opens Division 2 finishing with eight wins for the tournament while three Cobar juniors, who joined the Glen Innes team, finished as winners […]
Cobar netballers win state title
Cobar junior netballers Zoe Carter, Abby Carswell and Lauren Urquhart joined the Under 17s Glen Innes team to contest this year’s Netball NSW State Championships over the weekend and helped their side to a Division 3 win. Glenn Innes coach Maryanne Perkins said she had been very pleased to welcome […]