Local Sport
Yabbies hit the water for the first time this season
The Yabbies hit the water on Tuesday night for their first swim of the Cobar Senior Men’s Swimming Club 2022/2023 season with swimmers reporting the water was “fresh”. Many of the Yabbies are however wellseasoned to the cool starts of the season, including Bob Clark, who’s been swimming with the […]
Fast Fobs look to be the Fast 5 team to beat this season
After three rounds of the Fast 5 mixed netball competition, Fast Fobs are proving they are the team to beat this season. The Fobs continued their unbeaten run with their third successive win on Tuesday night over the 2 Fast 2 Furious young gun side, 24-15. Fobs’ accurate shooting, particularly […]
All Cobar podium finish at 2022 Nyngan Golf Open
It was an all Cobar podium finish at the combined Nyngan Golf Open on Sunday with Narelle Kriz the ladies’ Scratch win-ner (with 79 off the stick) and Garry Wilkin was the men’s winner with a scratch score of 71 from the field of 80. In A Grade, Fay Hardwick […]
Captain’s try in final minute seals Roosters’ win
The Cobar Roosters scored a thriller of a win in the final minute of the Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League First Grade grand final on Saturday. There was no stopping Roosters captain/coach Lomu Atuau as he sealed his side’s victory in the dying stages of the game played at […]
Owners, trainers, jockeys and others welcome pop up
A very excited young jockey was Hollie Hull when she rode her career first winning double, on Sunday, at Cobar’s Pop Up Races event. Hollie is apprenticed to trainer Clint Lundholm and both her winners, Sin City Belle and Mega Celebration, are from the Lundholm stable at Dubbo. Sin City […]
Full time whistle blown for the 2022 junior soccer season
The Cobar Junior Soccer competition wrapped up on Saturday morning with grand final games followed by their end of season presentations. In the Mids division, United finished as the competition winners after a hard-fought 5-3 grand final win over Liverpool. The Liverpool side played with determina-tion all game and gave […]
Netball’s best of the season
The major award winners from the Cobar Netball Association’s presentations on Saturday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club: A Grade Best & Fairest joint winners—Sosie Barton and Neve Carter (Neve also won the A Grade Sportsmanship award); Club Person of the Year—Joanne Carter; B Grade Best & […]
Divas and Nymagee Magpies celebrate grand final wins
The Divas and Nymagee Magpies cele-brated grand final wins in the Cobar Senior Netball competition last Tuesday night. Both sides finished as comfortable winners of their respective games with Divas beating Pumpettes 47-33 in A Grade while Nymagee Magpies outplayed Real Steel to win their B Grade match 46-23. The […]
Junior League wraps up a great season of footy for 2022
Junior League wraps up a great season of footy for 2022 The Cobar Junior Rugby League Club wrapped up a great season of footy for 2022 with presentations held at Tom Knight Memorial Oval on Sunday afternoon. This year’s perpetual trophies were earned by: Hugo Josephson (the Tommy Good Top […]