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4:00 AM AEST | HAVING spent the best part of five months with their position in the Central West AFL’s top two under no threat whatsoever, the Bathurst Bushrangers face sudden death against Orange Tigers tomorrow and coach Brian Matheson admits he is nervous about it.
4:00 AM AEST | Rhys George must be wondering what he did to anger the football Gods in season 2010.
4:00 AM AEST | Last time they met Bathurst Bulldogs beat Orange City by 18 points, but Bulldogs coach Murray Hooper believes that his side can expect a tougher challenge when they clash in the preliminary final at Ashwood Park tomorrow.
4:00 AM AEST | CSU third grade coach Luke Colby believes that last Sunday’s grinding victory over the Bathurst Bulldogs will hold his team in perfect stead for their preliminary final against the Dubbo ’Roos tomorrow.
4:00 AM AEST | LAST week Bathurst trainer Paul Theobald announced he was looking for a name for his new stable member and wanted the help of Western Advocate readers.
4:00 AM AEST | WHEN Taz Douglas arrives at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama next month it will cap a remarkable comeback to racing from serious illness – the 25-year-old having gone from lying in hospital undergoing chemotherapy to competing in the most prestigious event of the V8 Supercars season.
02 Sep 10 | When the annual Muscle Car Masters is conducted at Eastern Creek this year, two Bathurst drivers will be among a record entry at an event that is a celebration of Australia’s rich motoring heritage and a tribute to past drivers who raced.
02 Sep 10 | The Bathurst region will be represented by two young promising soccer players at the upcoming under 14s National Tournament at Coffs Harbour.
02 Sep 10 | STEVE Turnbull doesn’t train horses or drive them for the goal of winning premierships.
Ask him how many NSW trainers’ titles he’s won and he can tell you that he has won a few – but he has no idea how many.
02 Sep 10 | THE word dynasty gets thrown around in sport from time to time, generally after the same team in a given code has won two or three straight grand finals, or even when they have simply appeared in a handful of grand finals regardless of how many they win.
01 Sep 10 | WHEN Young first decided to enter teams in the Bathurst District Football competition they struggled at times to be competitive, but the club can now testify to the value of perseverance and development after claiming both the first grade men’s and A grade women’s minor premierships for 2010.
01 Sep 10 | GOING into the Bathurst Golf Club’s annual Mixed Foursomes tournament, club secretary Brad Constable made the observation that the event would be wide open in the absence of the defending champions.
01 Sep 10 | MICHAEL Weekes is no stranger when it comes to grand final rugby, but when he laces up his boots this Sunday it will still be a new experience for him.
01 Sep 10 | BATHURST’S Saint Stanislaus’ College may have forged a reputation as a heavyweight of schoolboys rugby union, but when it came to facing Hills Sports High in the semi-final of the prestigious Waratah Shield on Monday they were up against giants.
31 Aug 10 | THE conditions may not have been conducive to the brand of running rugby CSU likes to play, but in the end coach Morgan Grivas said it was not the mud at Pride Park which saw his side exit the 2010 Central West Rugby Union title race.
31 Aug 10 | GAVIN Coles registered his fourth top 15 result on the 2010 Nationwide Tour in yesterday’s Knoxville News Sentinel Open and in the and in the process edged closer to earning himself a place on the world’s toughest golfing tour next season.
31 Aug 10 | BATHURST will go into the State League netball division two finals in a fortnight confident that they can win their division.
31 Aug 10 | IT WAS a partnership that was created by circumstances, but Adrian Haynes and John Fagan have finished as winners of the Jimmy Johnson Matchplay Championships following a 20th hole win against Rocky Evans and John Rogers on Saturday.
31 Aug 10 | BATHURST St Pat’s playmaker Joey Coughlan has received a timely boost ahead of Sunday’s Group 10 first division grand final after taking out the competition’s Player of the Year award on Friday night.
30 Aug 10 | THEY won the Bathurst A grade netball minor premiership in convincing fashion and now Panthers are one win away from making it back-to-back titles after posting a 43-25 victory over CSU in Saturday’s major semi-final.