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CATS trounce the Guns N’ Hoses in high scoring game
Three out of four games in the Mixed Open Touch competition last week were close matches apart from one, with the CATS trouncing Guns N’ Hoses, 19-2. Siblings, Damon and Maddie Bruce, led the scoring for the CATS with Damon crossing for five tries while Maddie added eight points to […]
Coaching the next step for Brianna Watson
It seems only logical that coaching is the next step for League Tag superstar Brianna Watson. Last season Brianna was named the Cobar Roosterettes’ Best & Fairest Player and leading try scorer, along with the Castlereagh’s Ladies League Tag Player of the Year title. She was also selected in the […]
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 […]