Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Local sport
TEAMS skippered by Moree brothers Wayne and Rod Tighe battled out a gripping men’s fours NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament final at Moree Services Club on Sunday – a hometown derby that went right to the wire. The eight-end final was level-pegging after six ends, and a desperately unlucky bowl by skipper Rod Tighe gave brother [...]
Local sport
MORE than 60 lawn bowlers are midway through the chase for $20,000 prize money as the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament continues today at Moree Services Club’s state-of-the-art undercover bowls complex. The Australia Day showdown has drawn bowlers from across New South Wales to play in the men’s fours club tournament – only the second [...]
Christmas Races
ORGANISING a race meeting and knowing more than 5000 people will turn up is not an exercise for the faint-hearted. Each year at Christmas time, Moree Race Club holds the biggest race meeting of the year. Locals, visitors and tourists flock to the Moree track for a huge day of racing, rejoicing and catching up [...]
Moree Bowls
THERE will be $20,000 prize money offered when Moree Services Club hosts the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament on Saturday-Sunday, January 25-26 – a relatively new concept focused on men’s health as well as generating interest in the sport among the youth of Moree. The men’s fours club tournament will bring bowlers from across New [...]
Life of Riley
FORMER Moree junior cricketer Riley Slack-Smith in December represented Queensland at the national 12-years-and-under Schoolboy Championships in Adelaide – and the Queenslanders finished in equal top spot with Victoria and South Australia after topping the stats ladder for the series. Riley’s outstanding bowling placed him second-highest wicket-taker for the championship, and further strengthened a budding [...]
Sport
THE Moree District Cricket Association will hold its 30-over grand-final under lights at Ron Harborne Oval tomorrow night, Friday, January 10. Moree Thunder and Moree Golf Club will battle out the decider, scheduled to start at 5.15pm. Club president Grady Sinclair expects the grand-final to be “a little bit fiery” ahead of a return match [...]
Racing
IT’S good when a plan comes together. Toowoomba apprentice Kelsey Lenton’s plan to win the 1400m Tatts Hotel Great Northern Inverell Cup on New Year’s Day paid blue-chip dividends when under-rated mare Ella Te Ama swept down the middle of the track to win the $45,000 feature with something in hand. Ella Te Ama was [...]
Racing
WELL-travelled jockey Mikayla Weir, fresh from winning on Callie Cool at Quirindi on Boxing Day and riding engagements at Orange on Monday, heads to Inverell Jockey Club’s big cup meeting today with five strong rides. Weir rides Rapid Outlaw in the 1600m Stewarts Grain BM-66 Handicap for Armidale trainer Stirling Osland, as well as Rethink [...]
Sport
AFTER another successful season on and off the paddock, Moree Rugby Union Club recently held its annual general meeting, with David Watts retaining the club president’s chair for 2025. Ian Ranger was elected vice-president; Alex Roseby, secretary; Ben Cheetham, treasurer; Madeline Watts, registrar; and Tony Lockery, club chaplain. “We had a good roll-up of members [...]
Parkes Electorate
FEDERAL Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has congratulated 19 young athletes from the electorate – including Moree, Narrabri and Warialda – who have received financial assistance to fulfil their sporting dreams. The young sportspeople from Breelong, Coolah, Coonamble, Condobolin, Dubbo, Gunnedah, Moree, Narrabri and Warialda have received grants of up to $750 to assist with [...]
