Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Group 4 League
MOREE Boars reserve-grade coach Alf Newman is a hard task-master. The home team bounced back at Boughton Oval on Sunday with a 34-12 win against Gunnedah Bulldogs after being trounced by Werris Creek the previous week at David Taylor Oval. “That was a bit scrappy – first half and the second half – but we [...]
Group 4 League
THE Moree ladies tackle team kept their unbeaten season intact with a powerhouse 42-nil win against a gallant Gunnedah team short on numbers in the Group 4 rugby league competition at Boughton Oval on Sunday. The points were spread across the board, with Ailyn Seeto, Brooklyn Prince, Alina Swan, Gab Suckling, Tileah McGrady, Tara Newman, [...]
History
IT’S often said a significant event, something so special it transcends the ordinary, can create friendships that last forever. And that’s exactly what happened 52 years ago when a group of high school mates from Moree did something so out of the ordinary, their triumph against all odds is widely recognised as Moree’s greatest sporting [...]
State Pennants
AND then there were four. Moree Services Club Magpies lawn bowls team has progressed to the semi-finals in the BCiB State Fours Grade 4 Pennants Final at Wagga Wagga and today play for the New South Wales title. Playing in section one of the round-robin competition on Friday and Saturday, Moree Magpies won two from three [...]
MX Moree
MOREE Motorcycle Club on Saturday completed the first round of its huge two-day Ironman MX Series Round 4 with all-day racing for junior and senior riders. Today, the club steps up a notch at Boolooroo Raceway, with senior riders competing across all grades. The all-day action starts around 9am and includes MX Pro-Class, All Powers [...]
State Pennants
THE boys certainly have the bowls, and they’ll do their home town proud when Moree Services Club Magpies pennants team contests the BCiB State Fours Grade 4 Pennants Final at Wagga Wagga this weekend. The competition is held over three days – Friday through to Sunday – and has drawn bowlers from across New South [...]
Group 4
IT’S no coincidence the round nine clash between Moree Boars and Gunnedah Bulldogs at Boughton Oval on Sunday features the Bernie Briggs Cup. Moree Boars Rugby League Football Club will remember the man known universally as “9”, who rewrote the record books time and time again in the 1970s and 1980s. The big day of [...]
Off-Road Racing
MOREE rider Camo Loder came, saw and conquered at his first Tatts Finke desert race earlier this month, returning home the winner of his class in the iconic off-road, multi-terrain two-day race for bikes, cars and buggies. Held each year on the King’s Birthday long weekend in June, the Tatts Finke Desert Race covers desert [...]
Bush Racing
TALMOI picnic races on Saturday wrapped up another successful Golden Triangle – the heart of bush racing in the heart of the country – as local racing heads toward Mungindi, Wean, Moree and Goondiwindi in the coming weeks. Moree picnic races on May 24 celebrated its 101st year on the bush racing calendar with six [...]
Group 4
WERRIS Creek Magpies retained the coveted Daniel and Troy Wilson Memorial Shield after comprehensively beating Moree 42-14 in the Group 4 rugby league top-of-the-table first-grade clash at David Taylor Oval on Saturday. The Boars left Werris Creek with more questions than answers after all three grades were beaten by the Magpies. The second-grade scoreline mirrored [...]
