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15 Mar 10 | DEMON Knights will take on East Armidale in the second round of the Northern Inland Cup (NIF) after both sides secured convincing wins in the first round of the pre-season competition.
The Knights kept a clean sheet to defeat South Armidale 2-nil while East Armidale advanced with a 5-1 drubbing of Gunnedah United.
15 Mar 10 | SOMETIMES all a young team needs to be successful is a steady head who stays calm in a crisis.
That’s what the Armidale Lions basketball side have in 34-year-old veteran forward Matt Myhill.
Myhill will not only provide 20 years of experience this season, but will also be bring calm and controlled on-court confidence the young Lions team needs after a winless debut season in the State League last year.
15 Mar 10 | TAMWORTH duo Leon Davies and Cody Morgan had a day to remember yesterday, taking out the Guyra Cup (1400m) at Armidale in impressive style with Prussian Secret.
Davies, 27, who trains the five-year-old gelding, embraced owner Morgan, 24, with a big hug after the galloper saluted in the feature race, knowing it was the biggest win of their short careers.
12 Mar 10 | TENNIS NSW, in conjunction with Tennis Australia, held a junior development training day in Inverell last month. More than 60 junior tennis players attended from the North West region, including 13 players from Armidale.
12 Mar 10 | QUEENSLAND trainer Sandra McCormack has her sights firmly landed on bringing home the Guyra Cup this Sunday.
12 Mar 10 | YOUNG gun golfer Baxter Ward is the hot favourite to win this Sunday’s Ross Low Memorial junior golf tournament on the back of his victory in the Armidale Golf Club’s A-grade men’s championship.
12 Mar 10 | IT’S the pre-season hitout every club in the New England area looks forward to.
This year, the 27th instalment of the Armidale Knockout, will be no different.
10 Mar 10 | DON FOSTER mastered the tricky conditions at the Wallamumbi Rifle Range on Sunday to win the Armidale Rifle Club’s 300-yards full bore target match.
10 Mar 10 | IN A FORMAT suited for the lower handicap players, Jan Kirk was always going to struggle to win the Armidale Golf Club women’s division one gross championship.
But that didn’t stop her from playing out of her skin to blitz the field in the nett category.
10 Mar 10 | DUVAL High School continued their dominance on the cricket pitch with a victory in the inaugural Armidale secondary school Twenty20 competition on Monday night.
Named the Toad Cup, standing for The Armidale School (TAS), O’Connor Catholic Collage, Armidale High and Duval High, it was a terrific individual performance from captain Matt Baillie which got Duval over the line.
08 Mar 10 | BAXTER Ward became the youngest winner of the Armidale Golf Club men’s A-grade club championship after he outlasted George Marshall in a thrilling final round yesterday.
In what was a fairytale ending, Ward’s mother Vanessa also claimed the women’s A-grade championship – believed to be the first time a mother and son have won simultaneous club championships at Armidale.
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08 Mar 10 | NEW ENGLAND Rugby Union endured a tough day at the office on Saturday, after the first grade team copped a barrage of injuries and a defeat at the hands of Central North.
In wintry conditions at Bellevue Oval, the game had to be called off just after half time when James Redmayne suffered a neck/shoulder injury, which required an ambulance to attend.
08 Mar 10 | NINE members of Armidale Little Athletics Club will travel to Sydney to compete at the state titles from March 19-21.
05 Mar 10 | HOT on the heels of the leaders, Baxter and Vanessa Ward could well be holding up their respective club championship trophies on Sunday evening.
05 Mar 10 | INTERESTED in playing hockey in 2010?
The New England Hockey Association has its
annual sign-on day at the Armidale Ex-Services Club tomorrow.
05 Mar 10 | CHASING their first win, Armidale’s Aboriginal XI will look upstage the Mayor’s XI when they clash in the annual reconciliation cricket match on Sunday.
03 Mar 10 | DERIVATIVE Receipt will miss his chance to win back-to-back Armidale Cups after trainer Keith Hiscox declared his seven-year-old gelding had a suspensory injury.
The Armidale galloper was being set for his second tilt at the 1900m Cup, but will now most likely be spelled.
03 Mar 10 | NORTHERN Inland Football’s four representative soccer teams were no match for Macquarie on Sunday, going down in all of their matches.
In perfect conditions at Armidale’s Norths United Oval, Northern Inland’s Under 16 girls’ team suffered the heaviest defeat, going down 6-nil to the visitors.
The Under 13, 14 and 15 boys teams all lost 2-nil to Macquarie.
03 Mar 10 | ARMIDALE is gearing up to host its second consecutive NSW Academy Games, with more than 1000 visitors expected to flock to the heart of New England next month.
The games, run by the Northern Inland Academy of Sport (NIAS), will incorporate 10 other academies.
They will compete in seven sports across three days, starting on Wednesday April 7.
01 Mar 10 | HILLGROVE Colts appear to be in the box seat for victory against Ex-Services at the halfway mark of their first grade cricket match, but the first half hour next Saturday could be ‘very interesting’ according to both captains.
Having bowled Ex-Services out for 98 on a lively Harris Park wicket, Hillgrove look poised for first innings points at 7/90.
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