Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
2025 Moree Cup
MOREE Race Club has been floored with nominations for the 2025 Agri Storage and Logistics Moree Cup meeting on Sunday, with 155 entries across eight races. The Moree Cup, this year sponsored by Agri Storage and Logistics, has received 32 nominations, including last year’s winner Macleay from the Jane Clement stable and Stirling Osland’s 2022 [...]
Sport
OVER the next two weekends, Moree will play in nine grand-finals across two junior and senior football codes – possibly 11 if Moree ladies league tackle team can beat Dungowan at Gunnedah on Saturday and Moree Giants’ under-14s boys league win against Uralla at Guyra the same day. Add to the mix, Moree Bulls’ under-16s [...]
2025 Moree Cup
WATCHING Gunsynd become a legend more than 50 years ago was the start of it for Peter Hobday. And when he was taken to Goondiwindi as a 12-year-old whippersnapper in 1973 to watch Gunsynd parade, Hobday was smitten. The racing game took hold, and Hobday has never looked back. He loves the game, loves the [...]
Regional Sport
THE clubhouse at Armidale Golf Club just got a lot more comfortable, thanks to a brand-new air-conditioning unit. Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan announced a $72,000 grant from the Community Building Partnership program, enabled the club to replace the outdated and failing unit with a new, energy efficient system. Mr Moylan said securing the [...]
2025 Moree Cup
SOMETIMES, a day at the races is not always about the horses. Fashions-on-the-field is an essential part of race-day, and race-goers at the Agri Storage and Logistics Moree Cup meeting on Sunday will be in the running for some valuable prizes from local sponsors Beauty Matters, Assef’s Moree, Campbell’s Fuel Service and Robins Nest For [...]
Regional Sport
GLEN Innes Severn Council has congratulated two local athletes – Mia Watson and Imogen Biddle –who are this year excelling through the Northern Inland Academy of Sport. Mia Watson is in her second year in the NIAS Netball program and was recently recognised with the Program’s Most Dedicated Award. The award acknowledges Mia’s exceptional commitment, [...]
Group 19 League
MOREE Boomerangs reserve-grade and ladies league tag teams will play in Group 19 grand-finals next weekend after winning at Tingha on Sunday. Boomerangs reserves went into extra time to beat Inverell Hawks 30-24, with Boomerangs ladies beating Glen Innes 12-6 in the ladies league tag semi-final – sweet revenge after being beaten by Glen Innes [...]
Group 4 League
REIGNING Group 4 rugby league champions Moree Boars will be back on home turf in two weeks’ time to try and add another grand-final to the trophy cabinet after clinching a harrowing 30-26 major semi-final win against a courageous Gunnedah Bulldogs at Boughton Oval on Saturday. Gunnedah came back strongly in the second-half, but Moree [...]
Central North Rugby
MOREE Bulls first-grade coach Mick Grant doesn’t have a blood-pressure problem. But he reckons there was every chance a monitor reading might’ve gone up a few notches when his first-grade team delivered an anxious 28-24 win against Gunnedah Red Devils in the Central North rugby union competition at Gunnedah on Saturday. “It was pretty nerve-wracking [...]
Group 4 League
MOREE second-grade first-season coaches Alf Newman and Charlie Shearer can take a bow with their team confirming a Group 4 grand-final berth after beating Werris Creek Magpies 32-24 at Boughton Oval on Saturday. Newman said every player stood tall, with tries to Dereik and Latrel Newman, Mark Pegus, Richard Smith, Stan Swan and David Annis-Brown. [...]
