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Golf Notes Twilight 10/12 It took to the penultimate round before the Wouldbe Champions realised their potential with Graham Bowman winning a chook with 22 points and David McMurtrie and Liam Johnston balls with 21 and 19 respectively. Rodger Fisher(Golf Creek) also found some form with 21 points ... read more

Twilight Golf With very wet conditions under foot and no run on the course Bill Servin (6666) was still able to score 22 points to claim Friday’s chook. Runner up on 21 was Amanda Koopman (AKA) followed by Adam Russell (Hackers) 20, Sam Faint (Geriatrics) 20, Peter Simpson (Golf Creek) 20, C ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday 13th November at the range was cold and windy but saw five shooters take part in the Centrefire morning event with Darren coming close to a perfect score of 299 and others were all up in the high 90’s. In the afternoon for the .22 Benchrest we had seven shooters, both Bre ... read more

Golf Notes Tom Mellor had a warmup on Thursday before heading to Nyngan for the NSW Sandgreens with Josh Austin to card a big 24 points, probably thinking he had a chook in the keeping on his return. However, Will Sedgwick equalled that score with a one under par best ever 9 hole performance. Well ... read more

U14's Regional Rugby   The 2021 Rugby season has officially come to an end, following our presentation evening on Monday 1st November 2021. Thank you to everyone who attended to help make it a special event for the players and acknowledge their hard work and dedication to the team this s ... read more

On a cooler blustery afternoon Kerrie Smith (AKA) was this week’s individual winner with a good score of 21 points. Ball winners were Jono Phillips (Lotta Piggin) 19, Dave Kelly (Vintage) 19, Tom Mellor (Hackers) 18, Nick Sweeney (Bogey Men) 18 and Josh Austin (Burglars) 18. On the overall Te ... read more

Amanda Koopman (AKA) and Ed Lockrey (Manilla Boys) were the joint winners this week with good scores of 22 points. Ball winners were Sam Faint (Geriatrics) 21, Lyn Simpson (Fine Winers) 21, Josh Layton (The Burglars) 21, Bill Tonkin (6666) 21, Liam Johnston (Wouldbe Champions) 20, Ann Smith (SAND) 2 ... read more

Rifle Club On Saturday at the range we had a good rollup for the days shooting. There were five the Centrefire and eight for our .22 Benchrest. Scores in the Benchrest were mostly in the high 90’s and there was one perfect score recorded by Brendan, so congratulations Brendan for scoring a 3 ... read more

Golf Notes Bill Simpson (Geriatrics) and Peter Simpson (Golf Creek) were the joint winners this week both carding great rounds of 23 points. Great to see Bill return to golf after an extended lay off. Ball winners this week were Ann Smith (Sand) 21, Peter York (The Butchers) 20, Simon Koopman (Golf ... read more

Golf Notes Dimity McMurtrie (SAND) carded an excellent 25 points to claim this week’s twilight competition. Dimity finished 2 points ahead of Chris Sweeney (Bogey Men) and Josh Austin (Burglars) both 23 with Daniel Etheridge (Yea Nah) 21, Gary Allen (6666) 21, Chris Oxford (Burglars) 20, Cam ... read more

Rifle Club On Saturday there was a good roll up for both morning and afternoon events. Centrefire had six shooters attend and there was eight for the Benchrest. The weather was kind to us as there was only a slight breeze but, as usual for this time of year inside the shed was rather hot. Scores ... read more

LADIES GOLF  out and about Last Sunday the Longyard golf course hosted 108 ladies for their annual 4BBB Par Open Day. Lib Thompson paired up with Lyn Groth, Stacey Etheridge with Zoe Holcombe and Mandy Koopman with Kerrie Smith. It was great to see Barraba girls out and about complying wi ... read more

Twilight Golf Yellowstone Fever fired the first team salvo as the Twilight Golf competition commenced last Friday evening. Ben Spencer carding an impressive 25 points claimed the first week’s individual win of the competition and he was well supported by Yellowstone Fever team mate Campbell ... read more

Golf notes Fri 8th Oct 21 In absolutely beautiful conditions on an immaculate course, we had 45 Golfers for our start to the Friday Twilight competition. We've had some players transferred in and some out, some new teams and some under different guises but all looks good for this year's c ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday saw four shooters for the Centrefire morning event and seven for the .22 Benchrest event. We would like to welcome Jimmy to the Benchrest competition, hope he enjoys himself.  Weather wise the day was not too bad for shooting and we had some good scores recorded. Once again ... read more

Lake Keepit Sailing Report for Sunday 3rd October, 2021 A fleet of twelve sailing boats took part in Sunday’s main race, The Head of the River Heat 1. (a five-heat series) The quickest boat on the water by far was an A-Class catamaran sailed by Tim Caslick who lead the fleet around the bay t ... read more

Golf Notes Sam Faint and Paul Grigg continued their great form of recent weeks to claim the John Hartley and Tim Bucknell 4BBB trophy on Sunday finishing plus 9. The story is that Paul had asked his mate Sam to cut the centre of the fairways shorter this week for more run. Ball winners on plus 7 w ... read more

  Barraba Civilian & Military Rifle Club AGM Saturday 9th October 11.30am at the Rifle Range   Barraba Shotgun Club AGM Saturday 17th October 2021 4.30-5pm at the Barraba Bowling Club ... read more

Barraba Town and District Tennis Club will be holding their annual AGM on Saturday 30th October at 6:30pm. There will be social tennis played from 5pm with a BBQ to follow. All are welcome! ... read more

Golf Charity Day The Barraba Community is well known for its generosity in supporting a worthy cause and Sunday’s Breast Cancer Research Golf Day again showed what a wonderful town we live in. Close to $5000 was raised for research as 4 person teams, many wearing something pink, battled it ou ... read more

Rifle Club Saturday was a great day weather wise for shooting and we had four shooters for Centrefire in the morning and six for the afternoon Benchrest. I would like to welcome John to the club and we hope that he enjoyed his day. Not sure what happen with a few of the scores, whether it was the g ... read more

Sailing News from Lake Keepit   Lake Keepit Sailing Club was originally started in the early 1960s and the very popular Keepit Kool Regatta, on the June long weekend, began 52 years ago! The Club today is a very well run and popular sailing centre. Every Sunday, almost, during our sailing sea ... read more

Golf Notes from 12th Sept 21  The dynamic duo of Sam Faint and Paul Grigg continued their good form to combine to take out the John Freeman and Mick Djurik 4 BBB Aggregate trophy on Sunday. With a combined total of 70 stableford points they edged out the pairing of Des Kelaher and Peter Simpso ... read more

Golf Notes A four over par closing round of 75 was enough for Kevin Kelaher to be crowned the Barraba Golf Club 2021 Mens Club Champion on Saturday. Kevin had led after each round of the Championships however Peter York carded a great final round of one over par 72 on Saturday to fall just 3 shots ... read more

Golf Notes Players contested a 4 BBB Stableford on Sunday for the Col and Rene Sweeney Memorial and Middlemiss trophies. Col and Rene Sweeney were Jenny Middlemiss’s grandparents and were great club people in the 60s and 70s. The winners with a good score of 42 points were David York and Des ... read more

Ladies Golf This weekend gone, saw the ladies bring their championships to an end. On Saturday it was disappointing to see only 3 ladies turn up for the 3rd round which was Gail Simpsons Trophy. Gail’s trophy was won by Kerrie Smith with 72 Nett and Lib Thompson runner up with 77.  Sunda ... read more

It took a four way countback to decide the winner of Rodger Fishers trophy on Sunday. In what was a great day of golf Lib Thompson, Amanda Koopman, Gary Allen and Sam Faint all finished on 35 points with Lib Thompson declared the winner and Amanda Koopman runner up. Balls went to Amanda Koopman 35 , ... read more

Just a little update of postponed ladies  golf days due to Covid. A new date for the N&NWDLG  Vets tournament has not been set yet.  This event was meant to be played today. Unfortunately the Manilla open has also been postponed from Sunday 12th September. A new date will be set d ... read more

 Golf Notes 15/8 The golfing gods smiled on us on Sunday as we played the 3rd round of our Club Championships for Sam Faints trophy. With Covid lockdown rules in place limiting playing groups to two it was not lost on golfers how fortunate they were to be out and about on a beautiful spring li ... read more

North West Regional Rugby 14’s Boys Friday 23 July 2021 Round 8 saw Barraba undertake the long trip to Quirindi to play Scone. Scone arrived with a full team and several reserves as they were strengthened by the addition of players being home from boarding school. Our 10 representatives joi ... read more

Golf Notes A good field of 26 players contested a 2 Person Ambrose on Sunday for a trophy donated by Turning Heads Hair and Beauty. The winners were Firmen Allan and Trent Hartwig with a good net score of 66.5 just ahead of Will Sedgwick and Campbell Tonkin on 67.5. Balls went to Rodger Fisher and ... read more

Players contested an Individual Stableford for Phil Hiscock’s trophy with the spoils going to Kevin Kelaher on 35 points. Kevin won on a countback from our trophy donor Phil Hiscock also 35 points with Firmen Allan picking up a ball on 32 points. Liam Johnston picked up the only NTP with a goo ... read more