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Record nominees for sporting awards A total of 21 local individuals and one sporting team have been nominated for this year’s Australia Day sporting awards. The category with the most nominations was Services to Sport with a wide variety of different sports nominating their committee members, officials and volunteers as recognition of the contributions they make to their chosen sports. Troy Knight and Brenda Hausler have been nominated for their involvement as officials with Little A’s while Christine Brown’s ongoing voluntary efforts with rugby league have been put forward as worthy of the award. Parkrun coordinators Pam Clark and Trudy Griffiths have both been nominated with Trudy’s nomination also outlining her involvement with the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS). Fitness trainer Vincent Willis has also been nominated in this category. Senior cricket official Jake Harbison and junior cricket coordinator Rhys Lloyd are among this year’s nominees. Emma Barton has been nominated for her involvement as a touch and junior league committee member while Greg McKervey has been nominated for his help with a number of local sports including CATS triathlon, Parkrun, soccer and junior cricket.
Cobar Netball committee member Jo Carter is also on the list of nominees for the Services to Sport award along with Eden Coughlan (who has been nominated for her contributions to the sport of dance) while Bianka Jacobson’s nomination recognises her involvement with junior and senior touch, rugby league, triathlon and Parkrun. (Jacobson was the winner of this award last year.) Among the nominees for Sports Person of the Year are: Sarah Morley, the Cobar Roosters Rugby League First Grade Team, Kyle Roberts, Skyla Fairfull and Lucy Scott. Sarah Morley has also been nominated for the Kerrigundi Young Sports Person award along with Rowdy Barton, Nick Hodges, Axel Fairfull and Ethan Mcleod. (Axel Fairfull was the winner of the Kerrigundi Award in 2022).
The Championship Fours bowls game played at the Golfie on Sunday was an edge of your seat tussle which was only decided on the last end. Team Shark (John ‘Shark’ Daly, Karen Daly, Marlene Wynd and Shine McIver) finished with a +1 win over Jim Goonrey, John Goonrey, Peter ‘Skeet’ Goonrey and Dean ‘Bogger’ McLeod. Team Shark now goes through to the final this Sunday against Don Roberts, Kyle Roberts, Craig ‘Duck’ Grimmond and Barry Bargwanna. There was a field of 23 players for Sunday’s social bowls competition. The winners for the day, with an impressive +15 victory, were Rob Renkin (Bramble Bay visitor), Tony Polack and Mark Fraser who accounted for their opponents John Claus, Jay Egan and Doug Hudson. The team of Kelly Beard, David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Alec Fraser were the runners-up after they finished with a +8 win over Janet Renkin (Bramble Bay), Scott Mayne and Alan Knight. In the other games, Greg Clark, Bian Smith and Gerard Livingston won their game by +6 and newcomer Jacob Voigt played double lead in the other match and helped Peter ‘China’ Brien and Craig ‘Duck’ Grimmond to a +2 win. The George The Giraffe award recipient was chosen from the championship game this week with Jim Goonrey delivering the most ‘shorter than short’ of bowls in their match. The increasingly popular Friday Twilight Bowls social competition drew a fantastic crowd of 20 participants last week. Karen Daly took out the spider event with the pairs team of Scott Mayne and Allan Gardoll finishing as the outright winners of the night after they recorded an outstanding +20 point win against Les Hooker and Travis Fraser. A +7 score secured a win for Tony Watling and Andrew Roberts in their game while father and son duo, David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Alan Knight, ended with +4 conquest in their match. Rink 10’s winners on +2, were Peter ‘China’ Brien and new comer Brad Stanmore while the victory on rink 12 (only by a margin of +1) went the way of Greg Clark and Don Roberts. —The Second
Wednesday January 25, 2023 The Cobar Weekly Page 19
