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Golf Notes A glorious spring day greeted a good field of golfers hitting off in the Vera Doyle Memorial trophy on Sunday. With all the recent rain there is no run in the course and the scores are showing this. Playing an Individual Stableford Josh Austin with 37 points won the day with balls going ... read more

Rifle Club On Saturday 10th September we had a handful of shooters for both the morning and afternoon events. The morning Centrefire had three shooters and the scores were extremely close, considering that the wind wasn’t favourable to them. John scored a couple of 99’s with Rohan scor ... read more

Golf Notes A very good attendance of 75 players supported Sundays Breast Cancer Research Golf Day and again it showed what a wonderful supportive town we live in. In excess of $5000 was raised for Breast Cancer research as 4 person teams, many wearing something pink, battled it out over 9 holes.&nb ... read more

Rugby Union Report Last Saturday the Grand Finals of the Central North Rugby Union was held at Gunnedah. We saw only 1 of the minor premier sides take out the title in front of a large crowd, where cars were parked half a mile away from the gates to the ground. The Ladies game between the Pirates ... read more

Rugby Union Report The Ram/Rats travelled to Narrabri on Saturday to play Pirates in the final to see who would advance to the Grand Final next week and they were narrowly beaten 15-8. Barraba led early in the game after a penalty. Territory seemed to favour the Rams in a tight game, as those game ... read more

Rugby Union News Last weekend saw the major semi-finals played at Gunnedah in very wet conditions and continuous showers all day. This made it difficult with handling errors but all the games were hotly contested. The Pirates girls got over the Narrabri girls 24-10 and will go onto to play in the ... read more

Golf Notes Sam Faint continued his great run of form on Sunday to claim Rodger Fisher’s trophy. His 39 stableford points on a very wet course was 4 points clear of runner up Peter Latrell Simpson 35 points with balls going to Ian Cabot 33, George Sedgwick 33, Bill Simpson 32 and Mike Artis 3 ... read more

Netball Gala Day We had a lovely day in Tamworth with 5 teams competing in the NSW Netball School’s Cup. Every student displayed fantastic sportsmanship and teamwork. We are proud of you all! Our 5/6 Barraba Bulls team were successful in their rounds and will now compete at the Regional Fin ... read more

Rugby Union News The Barraba/Gwydir Rugby team travelled to Inverell on Saturday to play in a semi-final fixture for the first time for a number of years. Even though it was only second grade they came home with a win and another game in two weeks’ time. The venue to be decided after next wee ... read more

Barraba Junior Rugby Union Club Gala Day Barraba hosted the Central North Junior Rugby Union Gala Day last Sunday 21st August, which saw 35 teams go head to head in the weekly competition. A big thank you to Inverell for joining us to give Barraba under 12s a team which proved very strong, coming ... read more

Rifle Club news At the range on Saturday there were seven keen shooters for both the Centrefire and Benchrest events. The weather was near to perfect except for the breeze that kept them on their toes for most of the day. Even though the breeze was there, possibles were recorded.  Darren scor ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday had perfect conditions for shooting as the scores show. The Centrefire morning event saw some good scored recorded with Brendan scoring a possible and John & Dallas were up there in the high 90’s too.  It was good to see Nina out at the range having a shoot again. ... read more

Golf Notes A closing round three over par 74 was enough for Kevin Kelaher to claim his 15th Barraba Golf Club Mens Club Championship on Sunday. Only club stalwart David York with 16 Mens titles now holds more than Kevin. Kevin finished on 220 for his 3 best rounds whilst Peter York with a closing r ... read more

Junior Rugby Carnival Held on Sunday at the Rugby Ground saw about 20 teams from around the Central North Zone and further, participate in a huge day of football ranging in ages from under 6’s to 12’s. They showcased some outstanding young talent in all teams, which augers well for the ... read more

Rugby Union The Barraba/Gwydir Rams made the trip for the final round to play Walcha Rams and came home winners after a 29-12 victory. The win put them into the semi-final this weekend against Gunnedah at Inverell. Gunnedah beat Narrabri to enable the Ram/Rats to progress, so good luck boys for the ... read more

Rugby Report Last weekend Barraba/Gwydir Rugby Club hosted their last game of the season against the strong Tamworth Pirates side. The Pirates have many more players than all the other sides in the zone so a hard day at the office was expected. The Girl’s game was dominated by Pirates who ha ... read more

Golf Notes Whilst the rain took all the run out of the course Sunday the scores didn’t reflect the tougher conditions. Playing a two person Ambrose for the Turning Heads trophy Craig Rutley and Kev Kelaher fired an impressive 6 under par 65 to record a net 63.5 and win the afternoon. Carding ... read more

Barraba Civilian & Military Rifle Club AGM Saturday 27th August 2022 11.30am @ Rifle Range ... read more

Golf Notes New member Keith Akers showed on Sunday he is settling in well with a great score of 44 points to claim Dave Mc Murtries trophy.  Keith finished 4 points ahead of runner up Dave Kelly 40 with balls going to Craig Rutley 39, Kev Kelaher 37, Graham Bowman 36 and Tom Mellor also 36 poi ... read more

Rugby Report Barraba/Gwydir travelled to Inverell on the weekend to play the home team in wet conditions and from a poor start from the kick-off allowed Inverell to open the score. The team seemed to take some time to get started from then on. From then the Barraba forwards took control of the pl ... read more

Rifle Club Conditions at the range on Saturday were near perfect apart from the slight breeze that would crop up every now and then. For the morning Centrefire event we saw four shooters try their luck for a possible and that luck was there for Rohan scoring a 100. John came close with a 99 and D ... read more

Rugby Report Well, not much to report this week as the lady’s team was short and failed to travel to Scone for the game. The men’s side forfeited to Moree in Bingara, I don’t know the reason for that and Bingara had a big weekend of events. This coming Saturday Barraba/Gwydir tra ... read more

Golf Notes On Sunday a good field of players contested the third round of the Club Championships for a trophy donated by Sam Faint. There were a number of good scores across the afternoon however the winner of Sam’s trophy was Dave McMurtrie with an excellent net of 65. Runners up and ball wi ... read more

Golf Notes Sam Faint and Paul, down the middle Grigg, blew all others off the course last Sunday with a blistering 88 points in our 4 Ball multiplier that is generously sponsored by Dave Kelly and Bill McKid. Next best, after daylight, was Craig Ruttley and Shayne Middlemiss 69, veterans Des Kelahe ... read more

Rugby Notes The Barraba/Gwydir teams travelled to Quirindi on the weekend to play the locals and came home with a win and a loss. In the girl’s game numbers were a problem, a 7 a side game was played with help from a couple of Gunnedah players. They must have put a spark in the Barraba squad ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday was another cool and windy day at the range, but the shooters put that behind them and shot some excellent scores. Centrefire had five shooters with John scoring two possibles and Rohan scoring one as well.  Congratulations to you both. In the Benchrest in the afternoon ev ... read more

Rugby Union News   Last week there was some news of the passing of an ex-Barraba Rams player by the name of Ryan Cross. Ryan travelled from Yetman, near the border, each week to play with the team. This was in the ‘60’s when Bill Bucknell and Graham Bowman were running around. Sa ... read more

Golf Notes We had thirty golfers turn out for our foursomes championships last Sunday. In the hotly contested men's event Will Sedgwick and Campbell Tonkin had 77 off the bat to get over Craig Ruttley and Shayne Middlemiss by one shot to claim the Peter York and Allan Yates sponsored Champions ... read more

Rifle Club The weather held off for our shooters on Saturday and there were four for the Centrefire and seven for the afternoon Benchrest event. Andrew was once again one off a perfect 300 and Brendan scored a perfect round in the first stage off the 100m shooting all bulls eyes and Casey again sco ... read more

Rugby Union News This coming weekend Barraba will be home to Scone with 2 games. The Ladies game commencing about 2pm to be followed by the Men’s game at 3pm. Scone played here early in the season, but because of venues being changed last season they owed Barraba/Gwydir this home game after l ... read more

Golf Notes We played a Vs Par for Daniel Andersons trophy last week in what was beautiful conditions for the most part but got rather chilly towards the end. Peter York continued his improving form to claim the trophy with +2 while Sam Faint had his second consecutive week of playing the bridesmaid ... read more

Rugby Union The Barraba Rugby Club has been successful in gaining a substantial grant under the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund which was pushed by Kevin Anderson after much time and effort by Brianna Mack as the Club Secretary to fill in the requirements for these grants. ... read more

Golf Notes Form player Campbell Tonkin with a net 68 won last week’s stroke event, sponsored by Kerrie Smith, from Sam Faint in a tight countback. Craig Ruttley was next best with 70, Bill Simpson and Paul Grigg 72 and Peter York and Kerrie with 73 all winning balls. Campbell also defeated Da ... read more

Rugby Union Bingara turned on the cool conditions for the late games under lights for the Barraba/Gwydir team against Narrabri last Saturday in both girls and boys games. In the girl’s game, Narrabri again asserted their strength, as they have a larger number of players than the smaller club ... read more

Golf Amanda Koopman played some of her best golf in a while to card a plus 5 to win Ian and Brenda McColl’s Bisque Par trophy in what was a very close finish on Sunday. Mandy finished just one point ahead of 5 golfers including Lyn Groth plus 4, Sam Faint plus 4, Kerrie Smith plus 4, Dav ... read more

Rugby Union News Saturday saw Walcha travel to Barraba to give both clubs a run but they turned up a couple of players short of a full team. A number of First Grade players not wanting to take the to field did not please coach Barry Hay. With the advantage of the extra players it was made easier fo ... read more

Golf Notes This week players contested both an Individual Stableford for Phil Hiscock’s trophy and also formed teams of three to play a 3 BBB (3 Ball Best Ball) for the SAND trophy. The trophy is donated by a number of our twilight lady golfers including Stacey Sedgwick, Ann Smith, Nan B ... read more

Barraba Central School Sport Report  Netball Congratulations to Jasmine Coombes, Macey Cabot, Lara Thomson and Paige Phillips on being selected for the Tamworth Zone Netball team. What a massive achievement to have 4 of our wonderful BCS students selected! Well done girls. Mrs Lowe Congratul ... read more

Under 16s Boys Rugby Friday 6 May 2022 The U16s Boys travelled to Tamworth on Friday 6 May 2022 for their first away fixture against the Pirates. The boys toiled in defence and tackled hard all game but were up against a better-practised side with some more experienced players. The front row consi ... read more

Golf Notes                              Paul Grigg played his customary straight down the middle golf to win the Betty Artis Memorial trophy on Sunday. His 42 ... read more

Rugby Union  Well, the Country Week Carnival has been held over the long weekend with Central North picking a men’s and women’s side. It was good to see 4 girls from the Barraba/Gwydir club selected in the team. They were Nat Philpott, Amie Middlemiss, Emily Kelso and Peta Lawrenc ... read more

Golf Notes On Sunday a good field of players contested the second round of the Club Championships for a trophy donated by Campbell Tonkin.  The winner of the trophy for best net score on the day was decided after a four-way countback with the players all finishing on net 69. Mike Artis 6 ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday saw a few members brave the cold weather to put a few shots down the range. For the morning Centrefire shoot there were four shooters and two visitors trying their luck for a possible, John score a 300.17 with Darren also scoring two possibles, congratulations to you both. The ... read more

Rugby Union News The Ram/Rats travelled to Pirates last week to lock horns with the Pirates, the biggest and strongest club in the zone. They were expecting a tough encounter and as the score tells us it was that type of game. Pirates started strongly with their forwards being dominant in the first ... read more

Golf Notes from the 29 May 2022 Firmen Allan carded a good score of 38 points to claim Graham Bowmans trophy on Sunday. Runner up was Daniel Anderson on 37 points with balls also going to Peter Simpson 34, Paul Grigg 33, Kerrie Smith 33 and Ian Cabot on 31 points. Firmen Allan claimed an NTP on the ... read more

Rugby Union News The Barraba/Gwydir teams travelled to Bingara for games against Narrabri, for the girls, and Inverell for the boys. The girls came up against a bigger pack of forwards and some very slick backs, who on numerous occasions cleared out for run away tries and it was not long before th ... read more

Rifle Club Results On Saturday four shooters rolled up for the Centrefire morning event at the range with Noah taking the win. The afternoon shoot had shooters trying their luck with the wind. It played havoc with some scores, although there were some 99’s scored by Casey and Brendan.  ... read more

Rugby News The girls travelled to Inverell to play a team from Gunnedah but could not get a win going down narrowly 25-20. They were in the game all the way, but unable to score the vital points for a win. Next week they play Narrabri in Bingara at 2.20pm. Points; Players Player K. Newell K Gi ... read more

Golf Notes A good field of 50 ladies played in the Barraba Ladies Open Fourball on Sunday. Whilst the rain came towards the end of the day it failed to dampen the enthusiasm and scores of the day.  The overall scratch winners were Jann Moore and Jenny Fisher from Werris Creek with a scratch s ... read more

            Rugby Report  The weekend of rugby started on Friday afternoon at 4pm when Barraba’s Under 16’s played a team from TAS in Armidale, at Barraba, in the rain. The school team showed the visitors they had some ability ... read more

Golf Notes A good field of 32 players contested an individual stableford on Sunday for a trophy donated by Bevan Benson.  Whilst we had some light drizzle come through it was not enough to stop play and Sam Faint was the overall winner with 40 points. Runner up was Tom Mellor wh ... read more

Golf Notes Players contested the first round of our Club Championships on Sunday playing for a trophy donated by Amanda Koopman. The Club Championship format now allows players to take their 2 best scores over the first 3 rounds of play with it being compulsory to play and include the 4th ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday at the range we had a good roll up again for both events Centrefire and .22 Benchrest. Conditions were perfect up until the last stage of the .22 Benchrest where the wind came up, but it didn’t seem to worry some by the scores that were shot. Brendan was one off a score o ... read more

Rugby Union Club News The Barraba/Gwydir team took on Gunnedah at Bingara on the ANZAC weekend, with changing weather conditions, with storms, then showers on and off during the afternoon. The girls’ game started the day with the much stronger visitors proving much too strong for only 10 of ... read more

Golf Notes A field of 38 players contested the Barraba Veterans Open today Friday 29th April.  In Division 1 (Handicaps up to 17) the overall winner was Campbell Tonkin (Barraba) on 40 points, second on a countback was Greg Burns (Gunnedah) on 38 points with third going to Peter Yor ... read more

Golf Notes  Daniel Anderson carded an 82 off the stick to finish with a 68 net and claim the Mal Stein and Ron Bridges trophy on Sunday. Runner up with a net 70 was Sam Faint and the ball winners were Amanda Koopman 71, Mike Artis 73, Bill Simpson 74, Campbell Tonkin 74 and Will Sedgwick 74. D ... read more

Rifle Club We had another good roll up at the range on Saturday for both the Centrefire and .22 Benchrest shoots.  There were a few possibles shot, with Noah scoring his first in the 100m. Brendan once again missed a perfect score by two, Ronnie also scored another possible, so congratulations ... read more

             Golf Notes  Taking advantage of ideal conditions on Sunday Peter York scored 36 Stableford points to win the Polkadot Coffee Room trophy. Carding a very good 74 off the stick Pete playing of a handicap of 2 enjoyed a good ... read more

Rugby Union The second round of the Central North Rugby competition continues this coming weekend when Barraba/Gwydir take on Gunnedah in Bingara. This should be a stern test for Barraba as the Gunnedah Club on top of the points table when Covid stopped the competition last year and will have plen ... read more

Barraba Central School Sport  Netball Trials On Thursday 24 March the Secondary girls travelled to Tamworth to participate In the Arinya Zone Netball trials. Participants included Mia Coombes, Tillie Halloran, Gemma White, Bella Dipple, Brianna Wilson and Ruby Cheatley. The girls combined wit ... read more

Golf Notes Carding an 81 off the stick Peter York and Amanda Koopman took out the 2022 Mixed Foursomes Championships on Sunday winning the L & V Bridges Memorial trophy. Runners up were Campbell Tonkin and Lib Thompson on 86. The net winners Campbell Tonkin and Lib Thompson net 70.25  ... read more

Rugby Union News The season kicked off last Saturday with Barraba travelling to Narrabri for two games in very hot and humid conditions, which made things difficult, sapping the players energy. The girls took on the locals in the early game and came up against a very hot outfit on the day, they tr ... read more

Rugby Union News Saturday saw a trial game between the Barbarians from Armidale and Barraba/Gwydir in the Men’s and Women’s games. The girls game showed the visitors, with a larger selection base, would be a bit strong for the locals and the score of 44-24 proved that. But the girls ke ... read more

Rifle Club We had a great roll up at the range on Saturday with six shooters for the Centrefire event and one visitor and there were 10 shooters and one visitor for the .22 Benchrest event in the afternoon.  We had few possible shot again this week with Brendan shooting two in the 100m Benchre ... read more

Golf Notes Unfortunately, the rain and stormy weather sent all players back to the clubhouse on Sunday where it was agreed they would play for Ian and Brenda McColls trophy later in the year. Next Sunday the 10th April is our Mixed Foursomes Championships for the L & V Bridges Memorial trophy. ... read more

Golf Notes With gloomy weather some chose to stay away while those that took it on had a pretty good day but alas some thought the clubhouse was more appealing than the last couple of holes. In all we had 26 starters for the 4BBB kindly sponsored by Firman Allan and Toni and John Waugh. The course ... read more

The Barraba Netball Association annual AGM will be held on Wednesday 6.4.22, 6pm at the Bowling Club. All major positions have been filled, however the opportunity is there if you are interested in taking on a position. We will be discussing future competition structures and junior netball among oth ... read more

Rifle Club Once again, the conditions for shooting were excellent with not much wind around the range on Saturday. The scores were extremely close between everyone, with Brendan, Andrew & Darren all shooting possibles in the 100m and Darren also shooting a possible in Centrefire. Casey is sti ... read more

Golf Notes Twenty four players hit off in beautiful autumn weather to open the 2022 Barraba Golf program on Sunday. Playing an individual stableford for Hamilton Trotters trophy Josh Austin proved too strong carding a very good 41 points to finish 4 points ahead of runner up Lyn Simpson on 37 point ... read more

Business House Bowls A few years back this was started at the Bowling Club and Annette Riley donated a trophy in memory of her father. This was presented to the winning team and the trophy was to be returned to the Club for future events. The winners have forgotten to return it, so if you have it ... read more

Rugby Union News Last week Kevin Anderson told Barraba Rugby officials that they were successful in gaining a ‘Stronger Communities Grant’ for $678073 for upgrading facilities at the Rugby Club. One of the main items to be addressed will be the new change rooms for female players which ... read more

Rifle Club At the range on Saturday, we had perfect weather conditions for shooting, not much of a breeze around the shed at all. There were five shooters in the morning for Centrefire and five for the Benchrest in the afternoon. There were some excellent scores recorded with Brendan missing a pe ... read more

Barraba Gwydir Rugby Union On Saturday night a very good crowd turned up to the Rugby Club for the Annual Sponsorship Night, which saw spirited bidding for logos on shorts, jumpers and Club space. The auction was done by President, Simon Koopman, who drew bids from all around the room which netted ... read more

Golf Notes Conditions must have been perfect for golf on Friday as the scores were hot! Two Chook winners this week - David Kelly and Daniel Anderson coming in with 24 points each. Daniel was only 1 over off the stick – check your handicaps this week.  Ball winners on 19 points were Pete ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday the 5th February saw us back at the range for another year of shooting. There was a really good roll up for the first day back and the boys tried out the 300m range for the Centrefire event with the camera and tablet for an experiment which they were very happy with thanks to Mi ... read more

Rugby Union News  There has been a change of date for the Sponsor Night. It has been changed to Saturday 19th February and the Guest Speaker will be Gary Walsh, who coached the Pirates during one of their 4 year reigns. He was NSW RU Coaching Coordinator for the Central North and New England ... read more

Rugby Union News Prior to the holiday period the Barraba Bingara Ram Rats held a successful presentation night at the Bingara RSL Club. A list of award winners is shown below. Both clubs wish to thank the trophy donors for their support, which is greatly appreciated, along with Barrabas’ spo ... read more

Rugby Union News The Barraba Rams rugby season will commence on Thursday night 3rd February for the first training session. The well-known Gary Walsh will be there to supervise training and will be approached to act as coach for the year. He has been the Coaching Coordinator for Central North Rugb ... read more

Twilight Golf 21/1 Dave McMurtrie birdied the 5th on his way to a winning score of 22 points last Friday. Ball winners were Robert Sweeney and Kerrie Smith on 20, Josh Austin 18, Lincoln Brown, Ian Cabot, Peter York and Paul Grigg all on 17.  ... read more