Sport

Golf Notes On Sunday a good field of players contested the third round of the Club Championships for a trophy donated by Sam Faint. The winner was Chris Oxford with a net 69 and runner up was Mandy Koopman net 70. Balls went to visitor Katie Creighton 71, George Sedgwick 72 and Firmen Allan 73. The ... read more

Golf Notes The Ladies Foursomes Championships were played on Sunday with Mandy Koopman and Stacey Sedgwick taking out the gross with a score of 89. The overall net winners were Kerrie and Ali Smith. Kerrie took out an NTP on the 6th. The men played an individual stroke event for Kerrie Smith&rsquo ... read more

Rugby Report On Saturday the Barraba Rams hosted the Tamworth Pirates for what was going to be 2 exciting games of rugby for the Women and Men. The women kicked off the first of the games after a long few weeks of byes. The first half saw some strong tackles by Charlie Norton, Kirra Jordan and Jac ... read more

Golf Notes. No golf locally with the rain and the Manilla Open. At Manilla our Barraba locals Josh Austin and Jack Boyd finished joint runners up with a good score of 44 points. Winners Ed Lockrey and Charlie McLoughlin however carded a phenomenal 52 points to street the Manilla Open field. Barraba ... read more

Rugby Report On Saturday the Barraba Rams travelled to Quirindi to verse the Quirindi Lions in what was bound to be an interesting game. Quirindi started strongly with 2 early tries in the first half however this was quickly followed by the Rams making space for Isaac Devine to get through and scor ... read more

 Golf Notes. On Sunday a very good field of 33 players contested the second round of our Club Championships, playing for Campbell Tonkin’s trophy. The winner with the very good nett score of 62 was Stacey Sedgwick. Runner up with a net 65 was Davo York who again shot below his age a ... read more

Barraba Pony Club 2024 Barraba Pony Club (Established 1957) is gearing up for a busy end to 2024. The Jamboree Cycle for Zone 5 means that Barraba will be hosting the event on 8th and 9th October. Whilst the numbers of riders have reduced in recent years it is still a big event for a small Club suc ... read more

Rugby Report:  On Saturday the Inverell Highlanders travelled to Barraba where the Rams were ready to make a comeback. The game started strong with some good plays from Nick Sweeney and Sam Gorton. The Rams got the first lot of points on the board with Nick Sweeney barging over the line and a ... read more

Golf Notes It was a wonderful turnout Sunday for the 3 Person teams Best Ball SAND trophy with all players contesting for Graham Bowman’s individual trophy. Conditions turned cold however, the team of Firman Allen, Jesse Phillips and Liam Johnston were red hot carding 49 points to take o ... read more

Golf Notes Can’t help to think the memories were turned back when our club stalwart David York took out the Betty Artis memorial trophy on Sunday.  Davo carded 35 stableford points to win the day with Mandy Koopman, Gary Allen and Chris Sweeney joint runners up on 33 points. Ball ... 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 and fina ... read more

Golf Notes Conditions were ideal Saturday as players contested a 4 Ball BAM for a trophy donated by Will Sedgwick and Peter Simpson.  The event is played in pairs where on holes 1-6 partners record only the best score of their stableford scores whilst on holes 7-12 partners record the aggregat ... read more

Rugby Recap On Saturday the Rams made the trek to Scone to take on the Brumbies!  The Ladies were on the field first and they came out hard in the first 5 minutes with some solid hit ups against a very strong Scone defence. With a quick and unlucky turnover Scone managed to capitalise on the ... read more

Barraba Rugby On Saturday the Barraba Rams hosted the Gunnedah Devils in what was an exciting day for the 2024 Ladies Day and neither Barraba teams disappointed. The ‘ladies game was thought to be a tough one coming across the undefeated Devil Women but Barraba kicked off the game strong with ... read more

Golf News Golfers were put to the test last Sunday with the cold and windy weather that got worse as the day wore on. With the course still being pretty lush and green golfers are finding it is playing very long. In form golfer Chris Sweeney won the V Par event on a countback with +2. New golfer Ja ... read more

Rugby News On Saturday 11 May the Barraba Rams travelled across the mountain to take on the Narrabri Blue Boars. This week the Men took the field first and with only 3 players on the bench it was bound to be a tough game. The Rams started off strong with Connor Rogers getting over the line to ... read more

Golf Notes Josh Austin won Phil Hiscock’s trophy this week with a good score of 36 Stableford Points.  The other winner was the course with daylight runner up Mike Artis on 29 points just ahead of Sam Faint 28, Tom Mellor 28, Will Sedgwick 28, and Campbell Tonkin 28 all wi ... read more

A Great Weekend of Golf With all the hard work undertaken the big concern for Barraba’s three days of golf was a forecast of threatening showers over the entire weekend. Fifty eight Veteran players hit off on Friday where the winner of Division 1 was Barraba’s Will Sedgwick with 37 pts ... read more

Rugby Results   On Saturday the mighty Rams travelled to Tamworth to take on the Pirates. The Ladies started the day with a solid ten and a handy five on the bench. The game started with Pirates getting an early try but that was all they were going to get from the Rams. The ladies came back h ... read more

Golf Notes  Dan Lott with 35 stableford points claimed Bevan Benson’s trophy on Sunday. Runner up was Gary Allen on 32 points on a countback from Sam Faint with balls also going to Kieran Darlington 31 points, Keith Akers 30 points and Paul Grigg 30 points. There were no NTPs claimed. A ... read more

Golf Notes A good turnout of twenty four players contested a trophy donated by Mal Stein and Ron Bridges on Sunday. The winner was Rodger Fisher with 36 points on a three way countback from Mandy Koopman and Paul Grigg. Balls went to Jack Boyd 35, Will Sedgwick 33, Chris Sweeney 32 and Kieran Darli ... read more

Rugby Report On Saturday the Barraba Rams hosted the Quirindi Lions in a neck and neck home game. In the first half Quirindi were first to score with a successful conversion putting the first of the points on the board but with some determination and continued dominance from players Will Robinson, ... read more

Rugby Report  Saturday saw the Barraba Rams head to Inverell to take on the Highlanders in one grade. The game started with 2 quick tries from Inverell put the Rams on the back foot. However, after a penalty in Barraba’s favour and some quick thinking from the halfback, Isaac Devine, a q ... read more

Golf report  Siblings Peter York and Amanda Koopman carded an 83 to win the L and V Bridges Memorial Mixed Foursomes Championships on Sunday.   Ian Cabot and Kerrie Smith were runners up on 91. David and Helen Kelly took out the Lions Club best net trophy on 78.25 on a count ba ... read more

SATURDAY NIGHT TENNIS The third night of the Barraba Tennis Club Saturday Competition is coming up on 13 April at 6.30 pm. The first two nights were great fun – you can join in the April comp and enjoy three sets of competitive tennis. You choose a partner, enter as a two person team, nomin ... read more

Golf Notes Shane Middlemiss with a good score of 41 stableford points claimed the season opening event sponsored by Hamilton Trotter on Sunday. Runner up with 40 points was Bill Simpson with balls going to Peter Simpson 36, John Hartley 34, Ali Smith 33 and Chris Sweeney also 33 points. NTPs went t ... read more

Rugby Union Trials On Monday 12 March five of Secondary students traveled to Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School to trial for CHS and Northwest rugby. Andrea trialed for the U16's girls, Bella for the U18's girls and Jack, Michael and Jack for the U18's boys. They took part in some skills and ... read more

Rifle Club Well it’s that time of the year again and the range is back up and running. This is the third week of shooting; we have only had a handful of shooters at the range for the last couple of shoots but, the publicity officer has been a bit slack with her notes. Last Saturday we had&nb ... read more

BARRABA TOWN AND DISTRICT TENNIS CLUB – 2024 Be part of the action! You would have noticed that during 2023 the five worn out old green tennis courts at the Tennis Club in Queen St were replaced.   The new blue courts are a great asset – now is the time to get more playe ... read more

The 2024 Rugby Season is here! The much-anticipated 2024 rugby season has officially commenced, marking the beginning of pre-season training for the local rugby club. Preseason has started with training sessions every Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm. Whether you're a seasoned player or a newcomer to th ... read more