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Eight make up Cobar’s Greatest Men’s Basketball Team
Continuing with the theme of locals picking Cobar’s Greatest Sporting Teams, we asked local basketballer Rob Josephson to pick a men’s basketball team for us. In his time in basketball, Rob has not only played with the best but he’s coached them also. Many of these players have reunited over […]
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Veteran Squalleyball player chooses his fantasy team
When Squalleyball veteran Colby Lawrence was asked to pick his Dream Team for The Cobar Weekly he said at first he was afraid, he was petrified. And then when he sat down to write up a team list, he found it hard going. “I’m going to list nine players as […]
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Buckman’s pick for our ‘greatest’ indoor soccer side
In the absence of any current local sporting events, The Cobar Weekly has invited various sports people and commentators, to provide us with their Greatest Teams Ever. Their brief was to choose a side based on anyone they had played with or had watched play in Cobar. This Indoor Soccer […]
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Youth Centre upgrade plans met with lukewarm enthusiasm
The plans for the upgrade of the Cobar Youth & Fitness Centre were met with lukewarm enthusiasm when they were unveiled at Cobar Shire Council’s community consultation meeting last Wednesday. With only a relatively small budget of a $1.2million grant to work with, Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said they […]
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Benchwarmers steal the win in Mixed Netball grand final
There was an upset win in the Mixed Indoor Netball grand final last week with Benchwarmers sensationally beating The Opposition 26-25. The Opposition were the competition favourites going into last Tuesday night’s game at the youth centre. After taking a lead from the outset (which they held on to right […]
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Barto’s take this season’s Ladies Indoor Netball crown
The Ladies Indoor Netball crown was claimed by Barto’s on Monday night after they comprehensively beat Hot Shots 43-21 in their grand final game. Barto’s had a number of advantages going into Monday night’s game at the youth centre. In addition to being the underdogs (Hot Shots went into the […]
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Australian coach praises Cobar netball
Australian Diamonds Netball coach Lisa Alexander was in Cobar last week and it seems the Cobar netball community made a big impression on her. Lisa said it had been “an absolute honour and a privilege” to visit Cobar. “I was humbled by the generosity of this most beautiful community,” Lisa […]
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CSA claims their second successive soccer souvenir
CSA won their second successive Mixed Indoor Soccer grand final after defeating Two Left Feet 6-3 in a fast paced game last Wednesday night at the youth centre. The final score mirrored last season’s grand final with CSA once again coming out on top. Two Left Feet had been the […]