Sport
10 Mar 10 | THE Great Lakes under 14 Reds wrapped up the minor premiership with an outright win over Chatham/Cundletown last Saturday.
10 Mar 10 | JESSE King is quickly becoming Forster’s answer to Ian Thorpe after achieving an impressive three gold medals from six events in Sydney last week.
10 Mar 10 | THE Forster Tuncurry Hawks will face the might of NSWRL Bundy Cup Club the Cabramatta Two Blues this Friday night at Harry Elliott Oval.
10 Mar 10 | THE biggest soccer event in the district has attracted the attention of more than 100 teams for the weekend, among them a Home and Away star [so we’re told].
The Advocate was tipped off that Channel Seven actor Luke Jacobz [otherwise know as Angelo Rosetta in sunny Summer Bay] would be attending the Great Lakes Viking Challenge with his team Custom Gas Australia (CGA).
10 Mar 10 | HARSH lessons were learned the hard way as Newcastle and Central Coast clubs dominated a spectacular Saxby-Schweppes Super 10s rugby union carnival at Tuncurry on Saturday.
10 Mar 10 | THE racing hopes of the twin towns have been pinned on a five-year-old Tuncurry gelding who’s out to prove his winning run at the Wingham Cup last year was no fluke.
03 Mar 10 | THE Forster Tuncurry Dolphins warmed up for their Saxby-Schweppes Super 10s rugby union carnival at Dolphins Field, Tuncurry, next Saturday with a willing encounter against the Singleton Bulls last Saturday.
03 Mar 10 | A SENSATIONAL late comeback ensured that Mick Perry Concreting took out the men’s twilight football title for the second consecutive year.
03 Mar 10 | THE NSW Country Championships, which were staged at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on the weekend, saw a record number of Mid North Coast swimmers compete.
03 Mar 10 | FORSTER Tuncurry’s professional golfer Sarah Kemp came so close to capturing her first major title last weekend at the New Zealand Women’s Open being played at the Pegasus golf course, just north of Christchurch.
03 Mar 10 | FORSTER’S Aaron Woolley has taken out the Trial Bay Triathlon for the second year in a row.
Although tapering before an event is generally part of a triathlete’s plans, Aaron had a particularly busy month leading up to the race, leaving little time for training.
03 Mar 10 | TOMMY Raudonikis refuses to preach to football players claiming he’s “only glad it’s not me playing today.”
One of Australian Rugby League’s 100 greatest ever players, Raudonikis was in town on Friday to present his Birth of Origin show with former rival Artie Beetson.
24 Feb 10 | SEVENTEEN Forster juniors hit it out on the courts for round two of the Junior Development Series at the weekend.
24 Feb 10 | THE news was all positive from last week’s Group Three Rugby League general meeting.
“All clubs have indicated they’ll be fielding four grades,’’ group secretary Barrie Smith said.
24 Feb 10 | FORSTER Tuncurry’s professional golfer Sarah Kemp will be looking to step it up this week when she tees it up in the New Zealand Women’s Open.
24 Feb 10 | The YMCA has just launched [pun intended] its first ever junior sailing program in partnership with the Great Lakes Sailing Club.
24 Feb 10 | THE Great Lakes Vikings Challenge [arguably the region’s biggest team sporting event] has reached capacity numbers and organisers are looking to make the competition a three day tournament next year.
24 Feb 10 | THIS is the 13th year Forster Triathlon Coach Bob Lee has taken athletes to the NSW Combined High Schools (CHS) and All Schools Triathlon Championships at the Penrith Olympic Stadium.
17 Feb 10 | THE coal-mining game took the Forster Tuncurry Dolphins’ 2008 premiership-winning prop, Luke Wilson, out of regular rugby union last year, but he will continue travelling to and from Cessnock each weekend for this season’s Southern Shield.
17 Feb 10 | IT was four for four as members of Forster Tennis Club won gold at the 2010 Australian Tennis Seniors Championships on the Gold Coast.
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