Sport
10 Mar 10 | LOCAL boy Tom Maurer will represent New South Wales in this month’s Australian Polocrosse Nationals.
Tom, now 15 years old, has been playing polocrosse since he was five years old and said making the state squad is “a dream come true”.
05 Mar 10 | DESPITE odds of $98.90 on the tote, local trainer Bruce Williams was always confident his mare Dapper Chic could go the distance and put up a good show at
a race meeting at Wagga over the
weekend.
03 Mar 10 | COOTAMUNDRA golfers are celebrating an historic ‘four-peat’ win in the Scott Fuller Shield competition after a fifteen point victory over Tumut on Sunday.
Cootamundra fielded 32 pairs and with only the best ten cards from either club counting in the score run down, posted 483 points to Tumut’s 468.
26 Feb 10 | THE Cootamundra Bulldogs will face the challenge of playing the tournament hosts when they kick start the 2010 rugby league season at the West Wyalong Knock Out tonight.
24 Feb 10 | THE first barb has been fired for what is one of the most eagerly-anticipated sporting events on the local calendar.
A day on which good mates become arch enemies for the duration of the contest.
19 Feb 10 | LIKE many great ideas, the Cootamundra Beach Volleyball carnival was literally born over a beer.
What started out as a pipedream has evolved into easily the biggest annual sporting event in town and this year will celebrate its 10th anniversary.
17 Feb 10 | COOTAMUNDRA has a long and proud history of churning out talented athletes across a wide range of sports.
And if nominations for this year’s Cootamundra Sports Foundation’s Sportsperson of the Year are anything to go by, that tradition will continue long into the future.
12 Feb 10 | IT was one of the biggest undertakings ever seen in the region.
For three days this week members of the Canberra Raiders Football Club toured the area delivering simple, yet effective message of ‘Eat Well, Play Well, Stay Well’.
10 Feb 10 | ANY sports fan worth his salt would have dreamt about stepping out onto the hallowed turf of the Sydney Cricket Ground.
To follow in the footsteps of many of this
country’s greatest cricketers and footballers.
Such an opportunity will befall 10 of Cootamundra’s most avid junior cricketers
tomorrow when they take part in a special training program at the sacred ground.
05 Feb 10 | WITH Cootamundra’s hopes of qualifying for another Stribley Shield finals berth reliant on the result of all three final round matches played this weekend, local selectors have been forced to make a number of changes to their side.
05 Feb 10 | READY TO GO: the Cootamundra Swimming Club has thrown its support behind the Oncology Appeal by organising a swimathon to be held at the local pool next Friday.
03 Feb 10 | IT is being described as perhaps the greatest
comeback in the history of the competition.
Cootamundra golfers surged into the final of the 2009/10 Scott Fuller Shield with another dominant performance at Young on Sunday.
29 Jan 10 | The majority of the prizemoney from this year’s South West Classic Pairs bowls tournament hosted by the Cootamundra Country Club stayed in town, but finished ‘up the road’ as two Ex-Services Club teams claimed a rare quinella.
27 Jan 10 | IT was stated in her citation that Helen Axsentieff is a person who thrives on doing the hard work behind the scenes.
She prefers to be in the background, quietly going about her business and never looking for any
accolades.
22 Jan 10 | WHILE he is loath to make any rash
predictions about where his side may finish at the end of the season, newly appointed Cootamundra Strikers senior grade coach Shane Jervis has listed a short-term goal, one that encapsulates his objectives for the club.
“My short term aim is to win all four grades at our first home game,” Jervis said.
20 Jan 10 | ANY hope the Cootamundra First XI had of figuring in another Stribley Shield final evaporated in the space of 30 overs at Albert Park on Sunday.
18 Dec 09 | THE 2009 Harden District Bowling Club’s Maestro Singles will be remembered as the year Cootamundra players came, saw and conquered.
16 Dec 09 | YOUNG gun James Gordon defied nerves, a
couple of mis-cued shots and the presence of several more experienced rivals to take out the inaugural Triple C Challenge held at the Cootamundra Golf Club on Sunday.
11 Dec 09 | PREDICTING the winner of this year’s Merrin Cup competition has become a one in four proposition following the decision to restrict the number of teams competing in the premier domestic competition to that number.
09 Dec 09 | COOTAMUNDRA golfers sent a clear message to their Temora rivals during the
second round of this year’s Scott Fuller Shield played at the local course on Sunday.
Grouped with Temora and Young for the preliminary rounds this summer, Coota was well off the pace following the first round held at Temora, however made huge inroads into the 65-point deficit on the weekend.