Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Small Schools
BUCKLE fractures to two key players and the forced departure of another didn’t help Gravesend Public School’s sports stars as they tried their heart out in the NSWPSSA Small Schools Netball Knockout Competition in Sydney last Thursday. Nine Gravesend kids played netball and touch football – not bad, given the school roster totals only 21 [...]
Run the Plains
THE Run the Plains festival is destined to become an annual event in Moree – the town’s newly-anointed next big thing – after the inaugural edition over two big days was declared a resounding success. The running and fitness festival was a collaboration between Moree Little Athletics Club, Tourism Moree, 2400 Run Club, Moree Parkrun [...]
Run the Plains
A BIG crowd braved a wet, chilly afternoon on Friday to watch local history unfold on Balo Street. As they watched and cheered, dozens of runners in six races held five or 10 minutes apart, darted down the middle of Moree’s CBD. The runners, some pushing prams, all had a common purpose – the inaugural [...]
School sport
KIDS from Gravesend Public School are in Sydney this week competing in the PSSA State Small Schools Knockout Competition in two sports – touch football and netball. Incredibly, the tiny school earned a shot at the state titles in both after progressing to the quarter-finals when the knock-out started in June. On Wednesday afternoon, the [...]
Community
THE shout-out is on across the north-west plains as teams, individuals and community groups lace up the running shoes, daub the sunscreen and reset the fitbits – the inaugural Run the Plains is ready to spring from the starting line. Run the Plains, a two-day event featuring running races over all distances, gets underway Friday [...]
Photo Gallery
DOZENS of lawn-bowlers from across the north-west converged at Moree Services Club at the weekend to compete in pennants State play-offs. There were 16 ladies across two teams and 36 men covering three teams, with bowlers travelling from Manilla, Wee Waa, Narrabri, Lightning Ridge and Inverell to compete. Ladies division winners were the combined side [...]
Bush Racing
LEADING country jockey Clayton Gallagher rode five winners from five rides at Enngonia on Saturday – the second time the ace rider has achieved such a feat. Gallagher’s Enngonia quintet – with a collective winning margin of a whopping 23 lengths – included a treble for Charleville trainer Bill Pugsley. Gallagher and Pugsley teamed up [...]
Photo Gallery
NEARLY 400 kids, a couple of dozen round balls, and 20-odd weeks – the Moree junior soccer season is over for another year. The year’s highpoint was the month-long trip to Germany in June by Josh Rigby, and brothers Liam and Aden Bridge to compete at international level after gaining selection in the Rale Rasic [...]
North Star
HARD work and perseverance has paid off for Moree riders Georgie Humphries and Tom Hall, who will both compete at the 2024 ABCRA National Finals Campdraft and Australian Campdraft Championships at North Star Sports Club next week. Sixteen-year-old Tom Hall qualified on his home-bred mare Twinkle however will compete Tucker in the National Finals’ Juvenile [...]
Group 4 Awards
WHITEHAVEN Coal Group 4 completed its 2024 season with a wonderful presentation night handing out well-deserved awards to players and clubs at Wests on Saturday night. Moree Boars excelled, winning the first-grade premiership for the first time since the 2002 victory over West Lions (34-18). It is their fifth Group 4 first-grade premiership following wins [...]
