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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

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Golf

Golf notes

South Broken Hill Golf Club Wednesday, July 16 – 9-hole Stableford: K. Bettison 17 pts c/b, R. Thomas 17 pts, W. Kitchen 16 pts. Friday, July 18 – 9-hole Par: J. Miani +1, R. Thomas -2, W. Kitchen -3. NTP: B. Gillespie 178cmSaturday, July 19...

26 Jul 2025
Football

Looking back on landmark victory

THE North Football Club will this weekend celebrate the premiership heroes of their 1975 flag winning team at their annual past player’s function. The side ended a 10-year premiership drought for the Bulldogs and is regarded as one of the greatest...

26 Jul 2025
Football

Cats’ small man a Silver City success

ALONG with Essendon defender Dean Solomon, the only other known Broken Hill export to play in a VFL/AFL premiership is Geelong small man Robert Walter ‘Bob’ Troughton. Born on June 17, 1904, he played with the Geelong in the tough VFL days, during...

26 Jul 2025
Football

South to keep rolling on

FOR me this contest is tantalising. Central really need to win or simply stay in the contest just to simply install belief moving forward. However, South to me don’t look like slowing down; they seem to just getting...

25 Jul 2025
Sport

Double up day pigeon races

Barrier & Broken Hill Pigeon Racing Week 3THE Barrier & Broken Hill Homing Club held the third weekend of racing of our thirteen week season on Saturday, July 19. This is the start of our double up racing (two races on the same day).In the...

25 Jul 2025
Football

Cumming to clock up his AFL century

IN the Showdown LVIII (#58) clash at the Adelaide Oval, between the Crows and Port, the second one of these encounters that Isaac Cumming plays in, has a special significance for this North Broken Hill junior. In his first year at the West Lakes...

25 Jul 2025
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Del Mar domination

SUNDAY July 20 saw an 8 race program at the Newmarket Raceway. The first three races on the night went to the Del Mar chasers who were bred locally by local owner breeder Craig Tester. The whole litter are racing in great form, and at only 19 months...

25 Jul 2025
Sport

Silver City and National Servicemen’s Rifle Club news

ON Sunday, July 20, the Rifle Club conducted a Rimfire Trophy shoot at the 30 yard range. The morning was clear and cold, but sunny, and with no wind at all conditions were perfect for rifle shooting. Mario Vendrasco and Jeff Glasson shared first...

24 Jul 2025
Bowls

Bowls notes

North Broken Hill Bowling Club ReportSaturday social bowls, July 12, 2025DELIGHTFUL calm, mild 18 degrees conditions saw 18 social bowlers play three games of triples twice. Peter Merritt and Nathan Gageler were the only unbeaten skips which forced...

24 Jul 2025
Sport

Hash run best for the year

WHAT a beautiful night out the capital for a run/walk with our hare Bitch, and everyone said best run of the year. After about 45 minutes everyone was back sitting around the fire bucket, with me being the GM again. I called hash hush around 7.15pm...

24 Jul 2025
Football

South take North apart

WELL, was it an admiration or were South that good? I watched the game, and yes, South were just that good. They completely picked North apart. North’s team defence was nonexistent. I have been on North’s bandwagon all year...

24 Jul 2025
Football

Hill’s Bown Norwood bound

HAILING from the West Broken Hill Robins Football Club, Stuart Bown had already made his A Grade debut as a 15-year-old and played 49 games for the Broken Hill club. Broken Hill was then in the Norwood zone and former Redleg Matthew Kelly, who was...

20 Jul 2025
Sport

Barrier & Broken Hill Pigeon Racing Week 2

THE Barrier and Broken Hill Homing Club held the second race of the season on Saturday, July 12 with eight flyers sending 151 birds once again from Dolo Tank a distance of approximately 136 kilometres east of Broken Hill. In calm conditions, the...

19 Jul 2025
Football

South continue march to the finals

WHAT a tantalising contest this will be, but I’m not going to get to excited as they do meet each other again before the home and away season ends. Then we get the real stuff but we could be looking at the grand final...

18 Jul 2025
Football

Dogs keep getting the job done

SOUTH continue to march on there on top of the ladder for all the right reasons such as teamwork, organisation, discipline, they’re well connected, and they sacrifice their individual game for others. I couldn’t get to this...

18 Jul 2025
Golf

Golf notes

South Broken Hill Golf ClubWEDNESDAY, July 9 – 9-hole Par Round: W. Kitchen +2 c/b, K. Holmes +2, E. Wheeler square. Friday July 11 – 9-hole Stroke Round: D. Richardson 34 nett, W. Kitchen 35 nett, B. Gillespie 38 nett c/b. Saturday July 12 &...

18 Jul 2025
Sport

Homing in on pigeon racing

THE Broken Hill Pigeon Racing Club has its clubhouse under the Reed Pavillion at Memorial Oval. It’s a fitting location, pavilions being notorious meeting places for pigeons in the wild. But, as club president Lance Pittaway points out, racing...

18 Jul 2025