Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Junior Sport
NOMINATIONS for the 2025 Rale Rasic Mini World Cup football tournament at Inverell is nearing 50 team entries from across Australia, including regional teams from Moree, Tamworth, Glen Innes and Armidale. This year marks the 15th instalment of the event, to be held October 2-5 at the Inverell Sports Complex. The tournament draws players from [...]
MX Sport
AFTER nearly 10 years away from motorcross, Moree rider Trent Loder is back at the track – and the podium. Loder returned to national competition level last year and found results immediately, with third placing in Round 8 of the ProMX Australian MXV Veterans’ Championships 30-39 years. “The placing last year was very surprising after [...]
Ronny’s Runners
MEMBERS of Moree junior athletics group Ronny’s Runners represented their schools at the recent NSW PSSA Cross Country Championships, with eight-year-old Bella Boland smashing the 8-9 years 2.1km girls event, winning by a widening 150 metres. Bella, who turns nine this month, will possibly head to the national championships next year after running a personal [...]
Poey Raveneau Cup
MOREE Boars first-grade slogged out a commanding 20-4 win over North Tamworth Bears at Boughton Oval on Saturday under cold, miserable, wet conditions to keep the coveted Poey Raveneau Cup on home soil. As rain fell and the temperature plummeted to as low as eight degrees mid-afternoon, Moree took an early eight-nil lead after 10 [...]
Group 4 League
MOREE Boars will honour a cherished clubman on Saturday when first-grade play North Tamworth Bears for the coveted Poey Raveneau Cup, which this year coincides with Ladies’ Day at Boughton Oval. Paul “Poey” Raveneau, the 27th life member of the Moree Boars Rugby League Club, passed away four years ago. The former first-grade star, who [...]
Moree Bowls
THE 2026 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament in Moree has received a funding boost through the NSW Aboriginal Land Council’s 2025-2026 Regional Events Grants Program. The NSWALC on Tuesday announced 22 Aboriginal community organisations will share $150,000 in funding to help deliver events across regional New South Wales during the next 12 months. The Colly Connected [...]
Group 4 League
MOREE Boars first-grade has moved to the top of the points ladder after overwhelming Boggabri Kangaroos 44-12 in round 12 of the Group 4 rugby league competition at Jubilee Oval on Sunday. The reigning premiers ran in eight tries – three from centre Kaedyn Smith – and six goals off the boot of Adrian Smith, [...]
Local Racing
THREE above-average gallopers emerged from a late-winter race meeting at Moree on Tuesday, with Live to Rise, It Stays in Vegas and Super Sioux creating big impressions. Live to Rise, a $600 yearling purchase by Gunnedah owner Shane Croucher, has now won two from four starts for trainer Sally Torrens. The three-year-old filly did plenty [...]
Local Racing
TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD apprentice Jade Metcalfe celebrated her “30th” in fine style at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel TAB meeting on Tuesday when Mootessa angled between runners at the top of the straight to comfortably win the 1600m Syngenta Australia BM-58 Handicap. Metcalfe, apprenticed to Wayne Nugent at Toowoomba, reduced her claim to one-and-a-half kilos when [...]
Local Racing
RARELY is Collarenebri trainer Kelly Smith stuck for a few words. But when his popular galloper Ringside lobbed at $61 at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel TAB meeting on Tuesday, he could barely put a sentence together. Rising 10-year-old Ringside and his trainer are one of bush racing’s most popular double-acts, and the crowd [...]
