ROYAL Australian Air Force Base Williamtown was well represented at the annual Australian Defence Forces AFL National Championships for both women and men staged last week in Melbourne. A local contingent of thirteen players and two officials participated in the…
LUKE Handsaker is a name synonymous with Raymond Terrace rugby league. The tireless player-official wears numerous hats and is a real driving force behind the famous Magpies Rugby League Football Club in the Port Stephens region. Aftter leading the Magpies…
ON Tuesday 14 March thirty two ladies braved the heat and played a combined Coloured Ball 18 hole stableford and Shootout qualifier on Safety Beach golf course. Only two coloured ball teams of four players completed their game with the…
COFFS United Lionesses won the Challenge Cup after defeating reigning community football champions Urunga 2-0 in the final. After two days of football at Coronation Park, Nambucca Heads the Women’s Open final came down to reigning premiers and grand final…
DAVID Kennedy has proven to be one of Australia’s best athletes over 70. The Woolgoolga Senior Athletics Club member returned with a haul of medals from the recent Australian Masters Athletics Championships in Sydney. Competing in the 70-74 age bracket,…
BARRY McDonald’s weekend of sponsorship started with a Stableford on Saturday. When junior Luke Laverty gets it right, as he did on the weekend, he is very hard to beat. On Saturday he came home ahead of runner up Noel…
NORTHERN Heat representative teams have shown juniors from regional areas can match it with their metro counterparts with two outstanding performances on the Gold Coast last weekend. In stiflingly hot and humid conditions both Heat teams played a positive, attacking…
THE Inverell RSM Hawks RLFC will make the long trip to Nambucca Heads this week to take on the Nambucca Roosters in a trial match at Coronation Park on Saturday 25 March. The match will be the Inaugural Stuart Field…
THE latest Tooheys New Group 2 Rugby League season is set to kick off in April, but without one of last year’s powerhouse clubs. Last season’s minor premiers and runners up Orara Valley Axemen have chosen not to enter a…
BOWRAVILLE Central School (BCS) Year 8 student Makaylah Schatzman has gone from strength to strength in the pool this term, breaking five long standing records at her school carnival. One of these, the 50m butterfly, was held by former student…