Wet Weather Fails To Dampen Competition
After a week’s break for the Queen’s Birthday holiday, football returned to the South Burnett with a vengeance on Saturday for the ninth round of this year’s Evolution Solar Football League.
After a week’s break for the Queen’s Birthday holiday, football returned to the South Burnett with a vengeance on Saturday for the ninth round of this year’s Evolution Solar Football League.
Rain washed out most of the younger grades but U12/13s and Cadets matches in Football South Burnett McDonald’s junior soccer competition went ahead as scheduled at Nanango on Saturday.
The Seniors Winter Competition kicked off on Thursday (June 12) with a game between the current Summer champions Panthers against a new team called the Bakery Misfit Boys.
The Queen’s Birthday weekend was a big one for Kingaroy, and they took the opportunity to finalise one of the remaining club championships: their Mixed Open Pairs.
This Saturday’s country racing spotlight falls on Kilcoy’s Cup and Ladies Day fixture.
A garage sale and “old-style fete” will be held at St Mary’s Catholic College in Kingaroy next month as part of fundraising to help student Pacey Clegg make a dream come true.
Murgon Golf Club will be marking 2014 NAIDOC Week with a special golf day on Saturday, July 5.
Representatives from South Burnett sporting clubs are being invited to have lunch in Kingaroy with Queensland Sport Minister Steve Dickson next Wednesday (June 18).
The inaugural Inverlaw Walk For MS on Sunday attracted more than double the expected number of participants and raised more than $4000 for Multiple Sclerosis Queensland.
Two former South Burnett rugby league players have been selected in the Queensland State of Origin squad which aims to level the series in Game 2.
It’s been great weather for bowling lately – and a great time of the year for visiting and hosting visitors.
The Summer Series of the Murgon RC club drew to a close with some close racing at Murgon last Sunday.
Wondai trainer Norma King has lined up a return trip to Oak Park after Flight Command’s hard-fought win for her apprentice son Joshua in the Rooms Motel Kingaroy Handicap at Nanango in May.
Some of Australia’s best cyclists will be coming to the South Burnett later this month … and local riders have been invited to join in the fun!
South Burnett players will be heading to Toowoomba at the weekend to take part in the inaugural Football South West Queensland Zone Championships.
South Burnett Saints captain Adam Bowater has been named captain of the AFL Darling Downs team which will take on the QAFL Amateurs in a rep match in Warwick on Saturday (June 7).
The South Burnett Saints have continued their winning streak, squashing the Redbacks on the road in Warwick on Sunday.
Barambah travelled to Kingaroy on Saturday to take on the improving Wests teams while the Panthers took on Gunners in Nanango
Round 6 of the Football South Burnett McDonald’s junior soccer competition was played at Nanango on Saturday
Nanango Race Club wrapped up the 2013-14 season on Saturday with their Autumn Race Meeting, the region’s traditional curtain-closer for the racing fraternity.