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Bushies win in close encounter

The local Twenty20 senior cricket compe-tition has resumed with Bushies and Tooth-less picking up wins in close encounters in their matches over the weekend. Friday and Saturday nights’ games were played on the same pitch at Ward Oval which was very lively after the storm on Thursday night and, with […]

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Extreme weather affects cricket games

Twenty20 cricket was the only form of cricket played in the Cobar Senior Cricket competition on the weekend with the Ruthless Toothless, Tilpa and CSA teams all recording wins. There were no 40 Overs games scheduled for the weekend while a representative game that was to have been played against […]

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Howie’s Hombres too good for CSA

The weekend’s senior cricket competition featured two Twenty20 games. (It should have been three but the match out at Tilpa was a forfeit by Wyatt’s Whackers.) Howie’s Hombres defeated CSA in the Friday night game under lights at Ward Oval while Bushies accounted for Golfie in their match on Saturday, […]

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Brewery Shield ends in a draw

The Brewery Shield cricket grand final in Dubbo on Sunday ended in a draw. The Cobar Cowboys batted first and posted a defendable total of 9/220 off their 50 overs with Clay Neale (64) and Jake Harbison (40)  the pick of the Cobar batsman. Mitch Ashford had the best bowling […]

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CHS cricket side records historic win

A new look Cobar High School (CHS) cricket side went up against their arch-nemesis, Bourke High School, last week at Ward Oval. Bourke won the toss and sent Cobar into bat and by the 11th over Cobar were in cruise control at 2/52 with their captain Ben Howson (8) and […]

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Bushies and Hombres dominate

Bushies and Hombres recorded wins in the two Twenty/20 cricket matches played in the local competition on Saturday at Ward Oval. Bushies, with 2/156 defeated CSA 92 on Saturday afternoon in the heat. Batting first, Bushies’ openers Jade Buckman and Alec Fraser put on 94 runs for the first wicket […]

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Cricket match in Paula’s honour

The first Paula Potter Cup cricket tournament was played on Saturday in Nymagee in memory of local woman Paula Potter, who passed away in 2013. The Nymagee team defeated Tottenham, with Nymagee’s Chad Buckman being named the Man of the Match. Pictured are Paula’s children Owen and Alice Potter with […]

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Double tonnes in thriller cricket match

Nymagee’s Jade Buckman (168 not out) and Empire’s Jake Harbison (166 no) scored massive tonnes in an incredible day of cricket on Saturday at Nymagee. Nymagee successfully chased Empire’s 317 runs total for victory with one over to spare in the local 40 Over cricket competition. Both teams were missing […]