6/08/2008 | NATHAN Blacklock destroyed the Bingara Bullets in the first half as Tingha Tigers claimed a 30-20 President’s Cup win at Gwydir Oval, Bingara on Saturday.
6/08/2008 | SYDNEY: The Bulldogs will find out just hours before Sonny Bill Williams’ proposed rugby union debut if they have been successful in gaining the injunction needed to block his defection from the NRL.
6/08/2008 | GLEN Innes made it 11 wins in succession when it beat Uralla 70-12 in their Group 19 first grade rugby league clash in Glen Innes on the weekend.
The Magpies have the chance to make it an even dozen when they host Armidale at home this weekend.
6/08/2008 | TAMWORTH Gymnastics Club Inc tasted more success in Inverell on the weekend when the Northern Inland Credit Union-sponsored club won the Inverell Gymnastics Club’s Regional Carnival.
Tamworth edged out the strong Gunnedah club by just .44 points with RSL Club third.
6/08/2008 | FRESH from great Grafton carnival success, local Hunter and North West Racing Association trainers are changing their racing sights a little further north this week.
Tamworth’s Sue Grills, Lesley Jeffriess, Mark Mason and Craig Martin are all looking north to Brisbane along with Moonbi’s Ruth Cooper after most of them picked up wins at the recent Grafton Cup Carnival.
6/08/2008 | TAMWORTH apprentice jockey Heather McKean has her first registered race ride aboard grey galloper Fred’s Boys in Friday’s 1000m Open Handicap at Gunnedah.
The 24-year-old apprentice, originally from Melbourne, earned her ticket recently and completed preparations for her debut with rides at yesterday’s Tamworth Jockey Club barrier trials.
5/08/2008 | LOCAL girl Maree Hancock is having the time of her life.
Now studying her second year of a communication degree at the University of Newcastle Maree, she was one of 150 students who applied to work as a volunteer at the Beijing Olympics.
5/08/2008 | EMERGENCY services crews rushed to the scene of an accident 10km east of Bendemeer towards Walcha yesterday morning when reports a truck carrying fertiliser had rolled on the Oxley Highway and was leaking diesel.
5/08/2008 | TAMWORTH’S Carter St courts were alive with colour and netball action on Sunday with hundreds of players shooting for Tamworth Games honours.
5/08/2008 | KOOTINGAL Bowling Club pair Rheni Austin and David Russell celebrated a narrow win in Sunday’s $1600 Tamworth Games Mixed Pairs Tournament at South Tamworth Bowling Club.
5/08/2008 | LONDON: Two successive defeats against South Africa and a run of poor form persuaded Michael Vaughan to quit as England cricket captain yesterday.
5/08/2008 | FIVE Tamworth Thunderbolt junior basketball sides made Northern Junior League Division finals in Coffs Harbour on the weekend but only the Scott Ward-coached Under 18 men delivered a NJL title.
5/08/2008 | SOUTHGATE Athletics fought back strongly to score a one-run win over Family Hotel Knights while West Bowlo Warriors beat improving Gunnedah Giants by 13 runs in Gunnedah when the Tamworth first grade baseball competition continued on Saturday.
5/08/2008 | RELATIONS between Group 4 clubs West Lions and Moree are at an all-time low.
Moree coach Paul Raveneau yesterday hit back at West counterpart Tony La Chiusa’s claims in yesterday’s Leader that Moree players were violent and their fans abusive at Taylor Oval on Sunday but the West coach is not backing down.
4/08/2008 | TAMWORTH’S 10 Australian Country hockey representatives return home from Busselton, Western Australia this evening with gold medals galore, two national titles and seven Australian player selection successes.
1/08/2008 | NEWTON’S Rings could come of age in Sydney
tomorrow.
The Jeff Englebrecht-trained gelding chases his 21st win in the $100,000 Clubs NSW Winter Championship (1500m) at Rosehill Gardens.
1/08/2008 | OXLEY High School will join Tamworth High at the State girls’ touch finals at Gosford after a commanding second- half display against Sydney’s Ellerslie High in Tamworth yesterday.
The Oxley girls ran in five unanswered tries in the second half at Gipps Street to win the game 10-2 after the visitors led 2-1 early.
1/08/2008 | BEN BURRAGE has a “real test” when he makes his first defence of his Australian Muy Thai junior welterweight kickboxing title in Tamworth tomorrow night.
Burrage fights Toowoomba’s Shaun Warren in the main event on a huge 15-fight boxing and kick-boxing card at Blazes in West Leagues.
1/08/2008 | GUNNEDAH’S Brad Cox has just returned from yet another American trip, where he ran in both the Micro Sprint and 360 Sprintcar classes, and the highlight of the trip was without a doubt his feature race victory in the Micro Sprint class at Greenwood Valley Action Track (Millville, PA) during the PA Micro Sprint Speedweek.
1/08/2008 | LEANNE Henry created a little slice of racing history when she became the first female to head a Hunter and North West Racing Association jockeys’ premiership this week.