Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Lawn Bowls
AUSTRALIAN champion lawn-bowler Aron Sherriff – last year ranked No.1 in the world – will host a bowls coaching clinic at Moree Services Club on Friday before playing with the Broadbeach Bulls in a trial game against Moree Magpies on Saturday. The breakthrough visit is the brainchild of Moree brothers Phil and Peter Hobday, both [...]
Our Community
MOREE Secondary College Year 7 and Year 8 Clontarf boys last week claimed victory in the inaugural Ed John Saunders Memorial Shield at Narrabri, with a come-from-behind 9-8 win against host team, Narrabri High School. Moree Clontarf Academy director Alex Barker said having ‘Moree Clontarf’ etched on the shield meant a lot to the Moree [...]
The Golden Triangle
AS an amateur jockey, Tim Moses won the Boolooroo Cup four times. This year, he dearly wants to win the race as an owner. There’s one glitch to the Inverell grazier’s best-laid plans, however. His Moree cousins, Gig and Henry Moses, also have a runner in the time-honoured race. “We’re going to clash, and that [...]
The Golden Triangle
IT’S a cup etched with the names of bush champions the likes of Mulgate, Passing Trade and Track Flash – and is arguably the most sought after piece of silverware in racing circles at this time of year. Every year, picnic racing syndicates and ownership groups are formed with one race and one trophy in [...]
Rugby League
THREE tries and 10 goals to livewire winger Adrian Smith – more than half the winning points – gave Moree Boars first-grade a thumping 62-nil win against Kootingal Roosters at Kootingal Sports Ground on Sunday. Referee Ryan Schmiedel called the mercy rule 20 minutes from full-time. Captain-coach Jamie Sampson crossed twice, with individual tries to [...]
The Golden Triangle
MOREE picnic races are likely to host capacity 10-horse fields on Saturday after 91 nominations were received today for the six-race card. The 1400m B&W Rural Boolooroo Cup received 23 entries from across New South Wales and southern Queensland, including last year’s winner Peak Road, now trained at Collarenebri by Kelly Smith, who has also [...]
Our Community
THE man most people knew as CWT will be remembered in a gathering at Moree Cemetery later this month to acknowledge a plaque on his gravesite. Charles William Thompson – ‘Charlie’ to many – passed away in 2017. He was an amazing man, who stumbled into Moree by accident in 1963. Charlie was heading north [...]
Regional Sport
THE Koori Rugby League Knockout has been memorialised with a blue plaque in Sydney’s inner west, to celebrate the grassroots sporting competition. The plaque was unveiled on Friday at the first Koori Knockout venue, Camdenville Park, St Peters, to recognise what is considered one of the biggest annual gatherings of Aboriginal people in Australia. More [...]
Moree Giants
JUNIOR rugby league inked an historic new entry on Saturday at Boughton Oval when junior girls tackle was played in Moree for the first time. Moree Giants played Dungowan Cowgirls in three grades – 13s, 15s and 17s – and both clubs left Boughton Oval Saturday afternoon the winners. The grounds were turned out in [...]
Lifestyle
ALL roads lead to Moree picnic races on Saturday, May 24 – especially Route 33, the Queensland-based duo headlining the event’s huge after-party. Jock Barnes and Trent McArdle – aka Route 33 – have been busy in recent months as they prepare to again venture over the border. Barnes and McArdle recently featured on ABC [...]
