Sport
Divine intervention Roosters’ Reggies rebound to win for some golfers
After a long season for the Castlereagh points up to 20-6. Reserve Graders who had played four With 16 minutes left on the rocket clock, the games in four weeks, last week’s much Cobar halves Robert Childs and Tristan Everneeded bye was welcomed ahead of this ett, took some ownership of the game and got week’s long bus trip to Gulgong for the their forwards moving to set up a back line final round of the ordinary competition. move for Cobar’s favourite Captain/Coach, The hosts didn’t take long to open the scor- Chris Deighton, to cross the line to score and ing and, after only a couple of minutes pass- start the real comeback. ing the ball around, the Terriers had four Hunter toe punted this conversion bringing points on the board. the margin to 20-12. After a few mistakes made by Cobar and, With the minutes on the clock fading away with the Gulgong boys keen to impress their like a Sound Chapel sunset, Everett attacked home crowd, they recorded another two tries up through the centre to change the score to to take the score to 14-0 after 20 minutes of 20-16. play. With two minutes to go, Neyland and Once again Cobar’s Dallas Josephson was Deighton joined forces with a chip and chase on his game causing havoc in and around the kick majestically floating through the defence ruck and proving he’s got a few more years for Deighton to recover the ball out of the before the retirement home gets him. Terriers grip and charge further down the Tyson Brilley had an impressive effort step- field. ping around the whole opposition’s team to With a quick play of the ball, Hunter took it cross the line - only to get held up by four of upon himself to end the game taking the ball the scrambling Terriers’ defence. up and catching the defence offside which The Cobar boys walked off at half time with resulted in a penalty right in front and two Jimmy Neyland giving the team a motivation- metres out. al speech that must have worked for him only Hunter took the quick penalty tap and fell as five minutes into the second half he crossed over the line to score and the level the scores. the line to open up the Reggies’ comeback. Hunter, being desperate to play in another Matt Hunter wanted his name in the paper grand final, converted his own try and took this week and converted from straight in front the score to 22-20 in favour of the Roosters. taking the score to 14-6. This win sent the team to third position on The Cobar boys had their heads down and the competition ladder. were working overtime in defence, but finally All three Cobar grades play in the qualifythe Terriers managed to cross the line, after ing semi finals in Dunedoo this Saturday. finding space around the edges, and took the —contributed
After a lot of the men golfers played in the 27 holes mixed foursomes on Saturday (see Ladies’ Golf report on opposite page), there was however only a field of 11 men for the Four-Ball-Worst-Ball competition on Sunday. The winning pairing of Jason Foster and Chris Powell finished the day with 32 points. (Powell had attended the blessing of the grotto at the Catholic church prior to golf, so perhaps the extra prayers helped his game.) Second place went to Bill Fugar and Geoff ‘Herbie’ Dunne with 29 points, and Brad Bannister and Garry Wilkin came in third with 27 points. The best individual score of the day was 39 points by Bannister, who beat Dunne on a countback. (Bannister also attended the blessing of the grotto at the church, so there could be a message there – go to church before you play golf!) Nearest the Pin prizes were won by Garry Wilkin on the 3rd and 8th holes, Powell on the 11th and Andy Taylor claimed the prize on the 15th. The prize on 7th hole was not won. As expected, the crafty Bian Smith was too good for Brien Obray in the Bill Bartlett Matchplay competition. Smith’s win sees him progress and he will next play the winner out of the game between Scott Mayne and Mark ‘George’ Fraser. Smith is a master of getting into his opponent’s head and beating them with the occasional cute turn of phrase designed to intimidate and put them off their game. A confident 26-10 win by the Cobar Molly Carter also touching down for tries. This Friday is the annual Cobar Veteran’s Roosterettes over Gulgong on Saturday in Brianna Watson kicked three goals to add to Golf day with the hit-off time of 9am. the final round of the Castlereagh League their tally of 26 points. Saturday’s game is a Four-Ball-Aggregate. Tag competition bodes well for the Cobar The win ensured Cobar maintained their third The annual Cobar Ladies Golf Open will be side as they run into the finals. placed status on the competition table. held on Sunday and so the course will be Fullback Sarah Morley scored a double for This Saturday they will take on secondclosed to all other golfers.—Out of Bounds Cobar with Sophie Clark, Neve Carter and placed Narromine with the match to be played at Dunedoo. The undefeated Dunedoo Swanettes will have the week off while 4th placed Coonamble will take on 5th placed Baradine in Sunday’s elimination semi final.
Roosterettes head to semis in good form
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