Squad Picked For 47th Battalion
Seven South Burnett players have been selected in the rugby league squad which will represent Wide Bay Country at the 47th Battalion competition in Roma on May 2-3.
Seven South Burnett players have been selected in the rugby league squad which will represent Wide Bay Country at the 47th Battalion competition in Roma on May 2-3.
Place prizemoney picked up by Norma King’s duo Hidden Duck and Flight Command at last Saturday’s Noorama Picnic Race Club red dirt meeting represented the only returns for district stables this past week.
Four players from the Kingaroy Netball Club attended a Vicki Wilson netball clinic in Brisbane during the second week of the school holidays.
Three rugby league trial games will be played at Fred Kassulke Oval in Nanango on Saturday (April 18) to select players to represent the Wide Bay Northern Rangers at the 47th Battalion Carnival at Roma on May 2-3.
Some top-flight netball will be on display in Kingaroy on Sunday (April 19) when the Darling Downs Panthers play a trial match against the Wide Bay Thundercats.
South Burnett Saints will be taking on Coolaroo in Toowoomba on Saturday in Round 2 of the 2nd Division Darling Downs AFL competition.
The Brisbane Paralympic Football Program visit which had been scheduled for this Saturday, April 18, in Kingaroy has been cancelled.
The Mundubbera Tigers, playing before a home crowd, took home the money at the annual “Clash For Cash” rugby league carnival on Saturday.
It was a big day of racing at the Kingaroy Showground on Saturday with the Junior Speedway bikes buzzing around in the afternoon, followed by the growls of the big V8s later in the night.
The four-day Easter break meant there was little action on most of the region’s bowling greens while the Big Bunny was out delivering eggs.
This weekend’s Kilkivan Great Horse Ride is being dedicated to Fabian Webb who died in November last year.
Speedway action is returning to Kingaroy on Saturday with a bonus … the very first race meeting of the new Kingaroy Junior Motorcycle Speedway Club will also be held at the track.
There was the usual spectrum of highlights at Nanango’s popular Easter Saturday meeting
The Motors In Motion committee has been forced to call off the Wondai Sprints planned for June 19-21.
An official e-petition has been lodged with the State Government pressing for recognition of Blackbutt’s favourite son, tennis ace Roy Emerson.
The Kumbia Charity Campdraft – which was cancelled on the Easter weekend due to the forecast rain – has been rescheduled.
Marathon veteran Bruce “Digger” Hargreaves has hailed the inaugural Maidenwell Marathon held at the weekend as “spectacularly good”.
Rugby league fans turned out in good numbers on Saturday in Kingaroy to watch the Central Crows take on the Northern Pride in the Cyril Connell Cup (U16s) and Mal Meninga Cup (U18s) competitions.
The large number of racegoers who took a punt on the overcast weather conditions to head to Nanango Racecourse for the popular Easter Saturday race meeting emerged winners when the rain failed to develop
With 59 acceptors for its Easter meeting, Nanango Race Club’s participants will easily outnumber Saturday’s other non-TAB fixtures scheduled for Barcaldine (31), Boulia (35), Bowen (44), Einasleigh (46), Flinton (38), Gladstone (30) and Roma (28).