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Rising star Ruby Clayton ready to tackle Japanese rugby tour challenge

Local rugby union talent Ruby Clayton will depart for the first of what she hopes will be many international tours next week when the junior Blue Boar travels to Japan as part of the Australian Raptors Rugby Academy’s under-14 girls’ squad. Ruby and her 18 teammates will line up for three games in four days against junior Japanese sides, the first of which will take place on Friday, January 17, after the team flies out on Tuesday. Ruby, who is the daughter of Brett and Jodie Clayton, has excelled in the rugby union arena since debuting for the junior Blue […]

Jan 10, 2025

  • Cricket

NDCA season to resume with T20 contests this Saturday

Narrabri District Cricket Association’s 2024/25 campaign will resume this Saturday as the T20 competitions continue with round four matches. The season kicked off with three rounds of T20 clashes in October, the second of which was washed out, before six 40-over rounds were held and the Town v Country Charity Cup match on December 20 took the NDCA into the holiday break. The T20 comps now resume this weekend and will run until the grand final night on Saturday, February 8, with a bye scheduled on January 25 for the Australia Day long weekend. The grand finals in both grades […]

Jan 10, 2025

  • Rugby Union

Gleeson pumped for Blue Boars’ pre-season and premiership defence

Pre-season at Dangar Park will begin in a month’s time when the Narrabri Blue Boars get their Central North Rugby Union premiership defence preparations underway on Thursday, February 6. Head coach Craig Gleeson is back and is relishing the new challenge of being the hunted during the 2025 season after he and his men secured the club’s 14th first grade premiership during a successful 60th-anniversary season in 2024. Gleeson was reappointed to the role late last year with the full support of the board following his successful maiden campaign in the top job, and he is confident that the Blue […]

Jan 9, 2025

  • Cricket

Superb talent on display during inaugural women’s T10 contest

Narrabri District Cricket Association hosted the inaugural women’s T10 match at Collins Park ahead of last month’s Town v Country Charity Cup game, which the board and Narrabri District Women’s Cricket Association committee are now hoping will be a regular feature of the annual event going forward. Players from all four NDWCA teams lined up across the two sides, which were not Town and Country-style lineups but were rather a mix of the competitors in the local women’s competition. The Blue team were the winners of the match as they downed the Red team by five runs after batting first […]

Jan 8, 2025

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