Cowboys

beaten in Brewery Shield grand final game

Despite making a good start, the Cobar Cowboys were beaten by Gilgandra in the Brewery Shield grand final on Sunday at Gilgandra.

Cobar won the toss and elected to bat first and made a good start with opener Jay Egan scoring a quick 32 runs off 49 balls.

Egan was then dismissed LBW by Gilgandra bowler John Irving.

Through the middle overs of Cobar’s innings, the Gilgandra bowlers tightened up and bowled a good line, to take regular wickets and limit Cobar’s scoring opportunities.

The only other notable contributions to Cobar’s scoreboard were from Phillip Harley (24 not out) and Jade Buckman (12).

Cobar was ultimately bowled out for 126 runs in 47.3 overs, which was 30 to 40 runs short of what they would have liked.

In reply, Gilgandra chased down the target in 38.5 overs for the loss of five wickets.

Liam Zell top-scored for Gilgandra with 40 runs, while Matthew Everett contributed 34 runs to their total.

Jason Hampel claimed three wickets for Cobar, while Phillip Harley and Nabeel Rashid took one wicket each. contributed

Golf “officially” commences this Saturday

On the last weekend before the “official” golf season starts, the final games in the Men’s Summer Golf competition were played on Saturday and Sunday.

For most of the players it was a chance to get in some much needed practice before the real golf kicks off this weekend.

There were 11 players who competed in Saturday’s Stableford event.

The best player on the day was, Mr Consistency, Bill Fugar, who scored 36 points, and just managed to hold off Tim Turton on 35 and Peter Robinson on 34.

Jarrod Marsden came 4th on 31.

Nearest the Pin prizes were won by Chris Powell on the 7th hole, Fugar on the 8th and Greg Clark won the prize on the 15th.

There were only six players for Sunday’s game with four of those, Fugar, Robinson, Peter Lawrence and Max Phillips, backing up from Saturday.

It looked like Fugar would win again, however he didn’t count on the fighting spirit of the Tilpa mailman, Peter ‘Ding’ Lawrence, who pipped him at the post by one point, 33 to 32.

The official golf season commences this Saturday, with an individual Stableford event with an early tee-off time of 9am.

There will be a Par event on Sunday with normal tee-off time of 12.30pm.

The NSW Four-Ball-Best-Ball Championships will be held this weekend at Holbrook. Out of Bounds www.cobarweekly.com.au