Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
The Golden Triangle
LEANDRO Ribeiro is used to breaking records. The Brazilian-born jockey has been riding the picnic circuit in New South Wales for five years and rarely a meeting goes by when his name isn’t hoisted into the winners’ frame. In that short time, Ribeiro has ridden 171 winners – not a bad effort, given the limited [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boars ladies’ tackle squad kept their momentum at full throttle with a dogged 10-8 win against Kootingal-Moonbi Roosters in the Group 4 competition at Kootingal last Sunday. Coach Chris Swan was impressed with how the team played “wet-weather footy” to stave off a second-half Roosters’ surge after going to the break with a 10-nil [...]
Rugby League
REIGNING Group 4 premiers Moree Boars suffered a narrow 26-24 first-round loss to Werris Creek Magpies at home ground Boughton Oval last Saturday, with coach Jamie Sampson saying the first-grade outfit beat themselves. Sampson, who coaches the side with Jack Durheim, scored one of Moree’s four tries, along with Brent McDonald, Kaedyn Smith and Jake [...]
Rugby Union
TWO milestones were recognised at round one of the Central North rugby union competition at Moree last Saturday when key clubmen Gus Smith and Jack Fernance celebrated their 100th games for the Weebolla Bulls. Smith and Fernance were presented with 100-game caps by club stalwart Peter Copeman. Loosehead lock Gus Smith is a born-and-bred Moree [...]
Rugby Union
THE Moree Bulls capped a memorable Central North round one with a hard-fought first-grade win against Gunnedah Red Devils, 45-28, at Weebolla rugby grounds on Saturday. Club president, David Watts, said the opener was always set to be a great day of rugby. “Players, officials and spectators were eager to see the start of the [...]
Our Community
FULL on or just for fun – everyone’s covered when Moree Riders’ Club holds its final come-and-try registration session for Series 1 on Monday, May 5 at Moree Riders’ Track. Club president Steele Sutton said the May 5 season opener will allow kids of all ages to register and be graded for divisions, with racing [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boars ladies tackle team made themselves heard loud and clear at Boughton Oval on Saturday, with a cakewalk win over Dungowan Cowboys at a Group 4 history-making round one of rugby league. Coached by Chris Swan, who returned to Moree after years away playing league at the top level, the Boars overpowered Dungowan 28-4 [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boars ladies tackle team made an historic statement, reserve-grade won a game that went right to the wire and the newly-minted under-18s outfit was well-beaten but far from disgraced at Boughton Oval on Saturday. The Boars’ Group 4 opening round against Dungowan Cowboys didn’t disappoint, with three grades playing in stifling, summer-like conditions. Moree [...]
Bush Racing
A sensational reward for Todd Payne missed by inches when stable star Lisztomania was narrowly beaten in the $1 million Evergreen Turf Country Championship Final at Randwick last Saturday. But the popular Inverell trainer is on target for a well-deserved consolation prize when Sensational Reward tackles the 1400m Mick Farrell Memorial Anipro Warialda Cup today. [...]
Junior Rugby
MORE than 60 junior rugby union teams from across Australia will compete in The Armidale School rugby carnival this weekend, including an under-12s team from Moree Junior Rugby Union Club. The two-day TAS carnival, the largest of its type in Australia, will be played across eight fields at The Armidale School, but it is the [...]
