Sport
Roosters knock the feathers out of the Dunedoo Swans A young Cobar Roosters First Grade side The three were stepping up to fill the big By this stage Dunedoo, who only had 13 displayed plenty of skills and maturity to shoes of a number of missing First Grade players, were showing signs of tiredness and a knock the feathers out of the Dunedoo regulars who were unavailable for Saturday’s couple of players looked to be carrying injuSwans beating them 42-16 in the Christie & game. ries but they had no option other than to reHood Castlereagh League game on Satur- Taylor and McMullen, playing on the turn to the field for the second half. day. wings, were outstanding in attack and defence They however were not prepared for the Playing at Tom Knight Memorial Oval, the and both were among the list of Roosters’ try- onslaught of the keen Roosters who fired up Roosters were buoyed up with the support of scorers. shortly after the restart when fullback Ash a big vocal crowd and produced a scintillating For the second week in a row, Tyler Cough- Davies (who had previously been heavily second half to convert the 10-all half time lan opened the Roosters’ account early in the marked) evaded the Dunedoo defence to scoreline to a convincing 26 point win. match after receiving a great inside pass from touch down and open the Roosters’ account in Cobar’s First Grade run-on side on Saturday Taylor. the second half. included Under 18s players, Kai Taylor and Tom Plater converted his first of five tries Shortly afterwood Kai Taylor scored and Tadgh McMullen along with Reynold for the day. then Lochlan Ford dived over under the posts Mugugia on the bench, all of whom had earli- Minutes before halftime Kai Greenwood after a near length of the field run. er played a full game in their Youth League scored out wide to level the scores to 10-all Davies broke away with plenty of support match against Narromine. going into the break. and he passed off to McMullen who dived over to score. Captain/coach Plater scored twice in the second half (including the final try of the game). Both were scored in almost identical fashion, as he dived over from a quick play of the ball near the try line. Plater handed over the kicking duties for Ben Griffiths to convert his last try of the match. To their credit, the Swans put up a fight and were rewarded with a late try which improved the final margin to 42-16. Plater (3) and Ash Davies (1) shared in the referee’s Best & Fairest points with Dunedoo centre, Brian Bradshaw (who scored all three of his team’s tries) earning two points. Cobar’s Best & Fairest three points went to hard working forward Zane Taylor, Plater earned two points and one point each went to Coughlan and Davies. Plater also earned the Players’ Player title. The Cobar Senior and Junior Rugby League clubs will host 10 games of rugby league this Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval with the Under 9s game the first to kick off on Saturday morning and First Grade’s match will finish almost 12 hours later under lights. All 10 games will be played against NarroLochlan Ford diving over the try line to score after a near length of the field break away mine. run in Saturday’s First Grade win over Dunedoo at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. See Roosters ad below for details.
Page 22 The Cobar Weekly Wednesday May 24, 2023
