The Evans River Killer whales have had a mixed bag of results this season

every game between the sides making for a much anticipated encounter. Our womens team lead by retiring and inspirational captain Julie Pascal will be seeking to send off her tenure with a premiership with 3 more wins standing in their way, frst being Byron Shire Rebels.

The Junior competitions continue into the end of the school term with home games hosted every Friday night at Stan Payne oval with all teams seeing great improvements along with healthy numbers with 160 kids involved in their mixed, boys and girls teams.

The Evans River Rugby club would like to thank their volunteers and supporters for their ongoing dedication to the club and hope they can make everyone proud as they take on their fnals campaigns.

The Evans River Killer whales have had a mixed bag of results this season although are well and truly in the hunt for premierships in colts, womens 10’s, and men’s competitions with the regular season at an end. All teams will be competing in do or die semifnals on the 20th august with the venue still TBC. Mens will face a strong Lennox head side who have had the better of them in the regular season clashes. The Mens team are coming off a confdence building win over Mullumbimby last weekend will carry that into the fnals. The Colts side will take on the Casurina barbarians who have enjoyed success over them through the season although the gap has been narrowing

MAHJONG 11TH AUGUST,

2023

Jeanette Henwood, 2. Shirley Coleman, 3. Ramsay Roper, 4. Jan Small, 5. Rosemary Russell, 6. Joy Lowien, 7. Gail McDonagh, 8. Shirley Atkinson, 9. Robyn MacRae. 10. Susan Scott, 11. Margaret Bryant, 12.

Pauline Kearney, 13. Sally Lowry, 14. Kath Hubbard, 15. Lynda Lovett, 16. Coral Lavelle, Deborah Green, 18. Susan Allan, 19.

Cindy’s Smith, 20.

Vanessa Reynolds, 21. Bev Lasater, 22. Jane Fenech, Lesley Ritchie, 24. Yvonne Weddup, 25. Jan Henley, 26. Gladys

D’Anna, Lisa Wong, 28. Lorna Simpson, 29.

Jeanette McGuiness, 30. Shirley Henry, 31. Valda McLerie, 32. Jenny Lang, 33. Diana Auret, Val Heinritz, 35. June Greenaway, 36. Sarah Bull.

Casino Rsm

Womens Bowls

2023 Minor Pairs Champions

J. Carthew & C. Haynes

On Wednesday 9/8 the fnal for the Minor pairs was played and the result was:

J. Carthew & C. Haynes def J. Creighton & D. Skinner

There were 2 social games played & winners of the day were:

L. James, C. Doyle & I. Watson def T. Maxwell, D. Grice & H. Lavelle

R. Skirrey & A. James def N. Moran & K.

Jonsson

On Wednesday 16/8 the rounds for the Major Club Pairs start.

Casino Social Golf Results

13-08-2023

The 2 person ambroes played last Sunday was won by Ray Ruttley & Don Hampson with a net score of 31 from John Vinecombe & Jeff Rankin with 33.25. The putting trophy went to R.Ruttley & D.Hampson with 12 putts and M.Gooding won the players draw.Nearest to pins:1st, G.Randall.2nd, G.Skennar.3rd & 6th, D.Hampson.8th, W.Jackson.17th, J.Rankin.18th, Vinny. Next Sunday’s event sponsored by Potubi Transort Pty. Ltd Casino is yet to be decided but visitors are welcome to play with hit off from 6-30am till 7-30am.

CHERRY STREET CROQUET CLUB

SPORTS RESULTS

ASSOCIATION

CROQUET : S.Hume 23 d L.Hardy

B.Hardy 7

G Porter 18 d G.Nunn 16

Club Championships

Handicap Doubles : G.Drew H.Young 12 d

P.Waters R.Chapman 5

L.Turner 16 d D.Scott 14

G.Porter 9 d G.Drew 5

RICOCHET CROQUET

M.Field N.Barnes 14 d

N.Poynting C.Lane 10

G.Drew R.Chapman 12 d J.Doust D.Scott 8

J.Hannigan P.Bolte 9 d

C.Edlund R.Poynting 8

J.Copeland P.Scott 8 d

R.Offey N.Watts 7

R.Allen N.Barnes 11 d

P.Bolte R.Poynting 10

P.Scott H.Young 8 d

C.Edlund J.Doust 8

J.Copeland M.Russell 11 d N.Watts R.Offey 10

N.Poynting J.Hannigan 13 d B.Waters C.Lane 8

Club Championships

Division 1 :

D.Scott 13 d P.Waters 12

TOURNAMENTS :

NRCA RICOCHET

HANDICAP DOUBLES : Joyce Perry, Helen

McKay 1st.

Pauline Bolte, Jim

Hannigan 2nd.

Penny Scott, Robyn

Poynting 3rd.

Bernadette Ryan, Jan Allen 4th.

Joan Doust, Christine Edlund 5th.

SAWTELL GOLF

SINGLES :

Dennise Simmons 3rd

Block B.

Graham Mahoney 6th

Block B.

Christine Mahoney 6th

Block E.

CORAKI VETERNS

GOLF RESULTS

THURSDAY 10/8/23

Ist round of the veterans golf championships was played. Todays winner K Osborne, 2nd R RODDA, 3RD b mCdONALD, FREE GAME t Duff. Chicken/ ball winners J Brooks, J Nilsson, D Knox, K Rogers, T Doyle, M Fairfull, L Bonner, G Tait, K Rogers. Nearest pins 3/12th K Osborne, 6th/15th D Vagne.

Joyce Perry & Helen

On this Thursday the second round of the vets championships will be played commencing with a shot gun start at 8.30am. Members are reminded that our vets open day will be played on Tuesday 22/8/23 see draw on notice board. AS USUAL TILL THEN GOOD GOLFING Max

By Tim Howard

The South Grafton Rebels delighted their club sponsors and boisterous crowd of fans, claiming the Group 2 Rugby League minor premiership with a 38-12 win over Sawtell at McKittrick Park, South Grafton, on Sunday.

The Rebels overwhelmed the Panthers in the second half in scoring 22 unanswered points in a game where the home team looked shaky in the minutes before half time.

Rebels supporters were shouting at their team to remember the minor premiership was up for grabs as the Panthers reeled in the Rebels 16-0 early lead to lead 16-12 at the break.

The Rebels had come out of the blocks strongly scoring three tries to lead 16-0.

But two of those tries had come after the referee sin-binned Sawtell backrower Oscar Watson and when they were back to a full complement, they ran in two converted tries to winger Tyrone Waipouri and fve-eighth Tyke Kemp to narrow the score.

The Rebels were on the scoreboard after just nine minutes when prop Bailey Sinclair strolled across after the Panthers back three failed to defuse a towering Hugh Stanley bomb.

After three play the balls, the Sawtell defence was shattered and Sinclair raced onto a beautiful short ball from young lock Nick Torrens and touched down without a fnger laid on him.

Nine minutes later centre James Torrens was in for the Rebels’ second when he ran onto a beautifully timed short pass from stand-in half Nick McGrady.

Sawtell kicked out on the full, which put the Rebels on attack again and minutes later

Stanley’s boot struck again, this time with a well weighted grubber which bounced nicely for chasing fullback and skipper Keiron JohnsonHeron to dive over and score.

But from then until the opening of the second half the Rebels wheels got a little wobbly.

There were some worries for the Rebels when hard man and veteran forward Grant Stevens came off early in the half.

He did not appear to be limping, but he took no further part in the game.

Winger Jamal Laurie opened the scoring in the half, fnishing off a slick backline movement that swept the ball across from the right to the left side of the feld.

McGrady landed a great sideline conversion to make the score 22-12 and the Rebels hardly looked back.

Twenty minutes in Stanley unleashed another towering kick which the Sawtell defenders could not hold onto.

But hard running backrower Luke Walker was all over it and pounced on the loose ball to force his way over the line. McGrady knocked over the conversion to make the score 28-12.

James Torrens notched his second for the game, running onto a McGrady pass which put him into a gap that gave him a shot at the line in the left corner.

Winger Damon Kirby wrapped up the scoring for the game with with well taken try with about 12 minutes left on the clock.

To their credit the Panthers repelled several Rebels raids and were forced to drop out twice as Rebels kicks found the in-goal area.

After the fnal whistle the Rebels all ran over to the sponsors area to mingle with the crowd.

After the game coach Ron Gordon said it was a case of “mission accomplished” for the team.

“It got a little bit scary just before half time,” Gordon said. “But the boys came out in the second half and were able to turn it around.”

He said it had been a rewarding win for the team.

“It was our sponsors day and the boys wanted to repay all the people and businesses who had supported them throughout the season,” he said.

He said the team was looking forward to fnals football and warned the opposition the Rebels still had improvement left in them.

“The boys are looking forward to the fnals,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve nailed our shapes for the season, except for a couple of games.

He said the team would beneft from the week off, with injured half Keaton Stutt almost ready to play.

Gordon used the young halfback as a runner for the game and he showed little signs of injury running water and messages out to the team.

He said the injury to Stevens was the result of a knee in the back during the game against Macksville, which fared a little.

The Grafton Ghosts have hit their straps at last, with a 46-22 demolition of the Bellingen Magpies.

The Ghosts ran in eight tries to four against and Cooper Woods converted all but one of them.

Powerful centre Dylan Collett re-discovered his try-scoring mojo, notching his second hat trick of the season and Woods also scored a four-pointer to tally 18 points for the game.

The win put the Ghosts in third spot on the ladder and lines them up for a qualifying fnal game against second placed Woolgoolga on Sunday at Woolgoolga Sports ground

The Group 2 Rugby

League decision to hold the grand fnal on September 10 at the Coffs Harbour Stadium, continues to anger the Grafton clubs.

Rebels secretary Terry Power said it robbed the home team of a fnancial windfall which allowed them to set up for the following season.

“I don’t care what the group says about sharing the benefts around, it’s a loss for the team that’s been most successful through the season,” he said.

Gordon was also against it, despite it winning his support when frst mooted.

“I was reacting to the lack of facilities they had for last year’s grand fnal at Coramba,” he said.

“I thought it would be better than to have that again. But we’ve got a good set up here that can handle it.

“It would be great if the group had a re-think and awards the grand fnal to the major semi-fnal winner.”