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The Blossoms triumphantly return to the winner’s circle
The Blossoms returned to the winner’s circle with a big 17-0 win over Guns N’ Hoses in their Open Mixed Touch Round 5 game on Thursday night at Ward Oval. Sosie Barton ran away to score five tries in the match and, with female tries worth double, she contributed 10 […]
Bumblebees win two close, exciting touch matches
Junior Touch players doubled up and played two shortened games last Thursday after their Round 4 games from the week before were cancelled due to storms. In the 9-12 years age division, Yellow Bumblebees won both of their games beating the Blue Smurfs by just one point and then they […]
Brien and Potter live up to the hype
The big golf news of the week was Peter ‘China’ Brien and Johnny Potter winning the Net division of the NSW Four-Ball-Best-Ball Championships in Trundle over the weekend. There was a huge field of 200 golfers and Cobar had 16 players and former Cobar players in contention this year. The […]
Revamped league draw may “cop flack”
The Castlereagh Rugby League committee is expecting to “cop some flack” following the release on Monday of their revamped 2024 competition draw. Castlereagh League secretary Bryson Luff admits the new draw is “far from ideal”. “But given the background and the context in which it was framed, it is seen […]
New female competitor shows up the seasoned shooters
There were nine competitors at the Cobar Amateur Pistol Club’s 10m Air Pistol event on Sunday with Tim Turton officiating as range officer. A number of seasoned competitors provided lower than average scores and lots of excuses, but new shooter Amanda Sime, scored an impressive first-time off pistol score of […]
Fraser and Lawrence win the first game
The official Men’s Golf season teed off on Saturday with the pairing of Alec Fraser and Peter ‘Ding’ Lawrence proving to be a winning combination. Fraser and Lawrence scored 43 points to win the Four-Ball-Best-Ball event one shot clear of the team of Mark Fraser and Stewart Fraser. Third place […]
Chilli Steppers take the ‘Giant Killers’ down a peg
The Blossoms, who were dubbed as the ‘Giant Killers’ of the Opens Mixed Touch competition after beating last season’s two top teams, were taken down a peg last week when they were beaten 15-8 by the Red Hot Chilli Steppers. It’s been a tough but impressive start this season for […]
Three year old Van claims the biggest Carp catch of the day
Two young Cobar boys have hauled in the two biggest European Carp fish at the Nyngan Fishing Club’s 2024 Nyngan Carp Muster on Saturday. Three year old Van Peters took the $1,000 prize for the biggest Carp caught on the day with his catch measuring 81cm (almost as big as […]