Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Moree Races
EMERGING young trainer Ridge Wilson returns to Moree on Friday with a plan to register his first winner for new stable client, well-known Moree local Les Quinn. Wilson, fresh from wins last week at Tamworth and Armidale, saddles up Quinn’s Lesgo Don in the 1300m Gwydir Gallop Class 1 Handicap. The gelding backs up from [...]
Sport
LOCAL sporting groups at Ron Harborne Oval in Moree will benefit from a newly announced $2700 grant by mayor Susannah Pearse and Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan to supply a defibrillator on-site. The funding, part of the Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program, will provide an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), crucial for enhancing community health [...]
Senior Cricket
MOREE senior cricket’s first rep game of the season against Narrabri at Ron Harborne Oval on Sunday started well but ended badly when the visitors went home with a 161-run victory in the MA Connolly Cup. Narrabri opened batting, with Moree taking two early wickets courtesy of veteran Alf Newman and Nimesh Karunarathne. Moree club [...]
Our Community
THE newly-formed Moree Riders Club held a working bee on Saturday at the old BMX track at the site of the former Moree velodrome – and come-and-try days will be held next month to launch the complex. A new committee was recently elected, with a vison to revitalise the site, now known as the Moree [...]
Junior Motorsport
A WET start was crowned by a memorable finish for 12-year-old Jed Louis, who experienced the chance of a lifetime when competing in the bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup road-racing competition last weekend at Phillip Island. Jed and his parents, former Moree residents Simon and Maria Louis, travelled from the Hunter Valley to Phillip Island [...]
Senior Cricket
MOREE senior cricket will host Narrabri in the first round of the MA Connolly Cup on Sunday at Ron Harborne Oval – a quick back-up after playing in Saturday’s regular town competition. Club president Grady Sinclair said the Moree team will need to be on-song against Narrabri. “We are shaping up strong for the weekend [...]
Junior Sport
MOREE junior athlete Kate McDonald will head to the Australian All Schools Championships in Brisbane in December after this week collecting bronze and silver at the NSWPSSA Primary Athletics Championships in Sydney. Kate finished third behind Charlotte James and Kyah Ryals in the 1500m girls 12-13 years’ final on Wednesday and went one better for [...]
Ladies League
MOREE Boars finished Saturday’s inaugural Group 4 Ladies Tackle Gala Day at Tamworth’s Scully Park as the only unbeaten side. The Boars won all three games, overcoming a combined Gunnedah-Kootingal side 24-12 in their first game and followed up with 12-nil wins over North Tamworth and Dungowan Cowgirls. A second gala day will be held [...]
Junior Sport
MOREE diver Ruby Drogemuller has been selected to join the 15-member Australian team to compete next month in the 2024 World Aquatics Junior Diving Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sixteen-year-old Ruby is one of five New South Wales Institute of Sport Scholarship athletes selected for the Rio-bound national squad. The championships run from Sunday, [...]
Martial Arts
A group of Moree martial arts students will compete at the Brazilian ju-jitsu NSW championship at Inverell on Saturday under the watchful eye of head coach Brett O’Neill. The Moree ju-jitsu group is guided by lesson plans from Brisbane One Purpose masters, Roberto Dib Frias and Tegan Krarup. “Bob and Tegan are both accomplished black [...]
