Match reports, junior sport, fixtures, and local club updates.
Racing
LOCAL turf history was created at the Moree Cup meeting on Sunday when female jockeys rode every winner on the eight-race card. Father’s Day took a back-seat to Ladies’ Day, when Mollie Fitzgerald and Mikayla Weir led the way with winning doubles. Cassey Williams, Zoe Hunt, Siena Grima and Ella Drew also rode winners – [...]
United Community
MOREE came together as one – a united community – to offer support and condolences when the Munro, Fernando and Caldwell families were hit by a heartbreaking double tragedy during the week. Kirawhan Fernando, the mum of NRL Rabbitohs winger Tyrone Munro, passed away on Wednesday. Her brother, Raymond “Dunka” Caldwell, died two days later. [...]
Moree Cup
GAVIN Groth is no stranger to winning country cups across New South Wales – but the Moree Cup has eluded him. The Gunnedah trainer went close with grand old mare Annie’s Street two years ago when the cup meeting was transferred to Tamworth because of a water-logged Moree track. Annie’s Street finished second at Tamworth, [...]
Moree Boars
RUMOUR has it Moree Rugby League Club supremo Todd Mitchell was smiling at Boughton Oval last Saturday. It’s been a tough, stressful year for the Boars club president, and smiles have been few and far between. Mitchell bleeds blue and white, and when the full-time whistle was a few minutes away and a home-ground ticket [...]
Moree Race Club
IT’S been 20 years since Craig Martin won the Moree Cup, and he plans to be back in town on Fathers’ Day to add another to his mantelpiece. Martin last year finished second with Roussos, and he’ll bring the consistent gelding back to Moree on Sunday with a plan to go one better in the [...]
Double-Header
MOREE Rugby League Club and Moree Rugby Union Club have set up consecutive weekends of grand-final frenzy across the district, with both outfits locking in big-dance tickets in their respective codes. Moree Bulls travel to Narrabri this Saturday to take on Narrabri Blue Boars at Dangar Park and Moree Boars host a home-ground Group 4 [...]
Rugby Grand-Final
MOREE Weebolla Bulls advanced to a Central North first-grade grand-final showdown with Narrabri Blue Boars at Dangar Park next Saturday after easily accounting for Tamworth Pirates, 43-28, at the weekend. The Bulls ran on knowing full well they needed to improve dramatically on the previous week’s performance when beaten 33-30 by Narrabri Blue Boars – [...]
Senior Cricket
THERE are big plans ahead for the Moree men’s senior cricket season, including a one-day competition honouring former club president, Chris Rowden. Newly-appointed Moree and District Cricket Association president, Grady Sinclair, said the inaugural Rowdo’s 10s will be played Saturday, October 12, to launch the cricket season at Ron Harborne Oval, with the season proper [...]
Intermediate League Tag
A SPOT in the ILT grand-final was not to be for the Moree Giants, but an incredible 2024 season has meant the world to the Moree Junior Rugby League Club trailblazers and their coach, Warren Sampson. The ILT Moree Giants were beaten 22-14 by Guyra Spuds in the major semi-final last Saturday, but the season [...]
Rugby League
MOREE Boars skipped into overdrive in the second half of the Whitehaven Coal Group 4 first-grade major semi-final against Werris Creek at Boughton Oval on Saturday, running out winners, 62-24, to secure a home grand-final. Down 20-18 at half-time, the Boars ran rampant in the second half. Earlier in the day the Boars’ second-grade lost [...]
