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SPORT DIARY
Sunday
Armidale Fun Run Harris Park
Armidale Motorcycle Club Grass
Track Series Round 2 Tumble
Downs, Walcha
November 8
Armidale Jug4BBB Par - Armidale
Golf Club
Armidale Spring Cup - Armidale
Racecourse
Armidale Triathlon Meet - The
Armidale School
November 14
New England Girls School CNC
One Day Event - NEGS Equestrian
Centre. Contact 6774 8717
November 15
Armidale Triathlon Schools
Challenge - TAS
November 19
New England Sports Awards Armidale City Bowling Club
November 21
White Ribbon Race Day - Armidale
Racecourse
EYES ON THE TARGET: Ian Moffatt lining up the shot on Sunday in the Armidale Rifle Clubs 600 yard competition. Shooters experienced light winds on the day.

SHOOTING

HIT OFF: Candice McCann at last

years Armidale Jug event.

ARMIDALE RIFLE CLUB NEWS

ON SUNDAY afternoon, five
members competed in the Armidale
Rifle Clubs 600 yard match.
There was a light wind coming
from the SSW changing to NNW with
an added mirage.
In F-Class Standard Ian Moffatt
was the overall winner for the day
scoring 108.4.
There were no target rifle
competitors.
Results: F Class standard.
B Grade: Ian Moffatt 52.1, 56.3,
108.4
Stuart Cleghorn 52.1, 49.1,

101.2 Robert Thrift 47.1, 51.1,

98.2
Libby Martin 48.0, 48.0, 96.0
F Class standard:
A Grade: David Willis 52.1, 56.1,
108.2
The Armidale Rifle Clubs next
competition will be a 700 yards
match to be held on Sunday
commencing at 11am.
If you are interested in trying
target rifle shooting as a sport
please go to the Armidale Rifle Club
website at www.armrc.com.au for
contact details, range location and
general information about the sport

of target rifle shooting.

SPORTING SHOOTERS
LAST weekend shooting was held
at Armidale on Sunday with a Field
Rifle event.
No results available.
This weekend shooting will be
held at the Woodlawn, Uralla range
on Sunday with several disciplines:
Service Rifle, Centrefire Field Rifle,
Rimfire and Centrefire Benchrest,
Single Action and Shotgun will
available during the day.
The Varmint Shoot will again be
held for the Ian Barger Memorial

Shield. This will be a 20 shot event

with no sighters allowed and shot
over 100 and 200 yards.
The Varmint shoot will commence
as soon as possible after the
Benchrest Range opens in the
morning for those people interested
and general shooting will be
available as usual.
Come along with your off the shelf
centrefire hunting rifles and enjoy
the shoot.
The winner will be presented with
the Ian Barger Memorial Shield at
the Annual General Meeting in
February.

Win for city biker

Here is your opportunity to meet Steve

Waugh and help support children and
young adults with the rarest diseases.

By DANNIELLE MAGUIRE
THERE was no time for lengthy
celebrations for Armidale mountain biker Katherine Hosking after taking out the Northern
Inland Academy of Sports
Female Athlete of the Year award
over the weekend.
The fifteen-year-old was
straight off to a training camp after her win on Sunday, honing
her skills on two wheels.
I have been lucky enough to
be selected to join a national
mountain biking team Torq
Merida Australia, Hosking said.
I am the most junior rider, so
I will be learning from riders
from my category to elites and
all the support staff.
Its pretty cool that Holly
Harris, three times national
champion, is also in the team.
Hollys sort of shown me and
the other Armidale riders whats
possible in mountain biking if
you put your mind to it.
The teenager was thrilled when
she was presented with the award
in Armidale over the weekend.
She said she was not expecting hear her name called
Last year I was nominated,
but didnt win, I was amazed at
what the other nominees and
winners had achieved and felt

On Wednesday November 4
Steve Waugh and his peloton
cyclists will be leaving the
Harvey Norman Centre at 7am
to continue their journey to
Bryon Bay

You can join them from

6am for a BBQ

The Steve Waugh Foundation is

about Strength of Character. Its
at the core of what we do, from
the people we support to the
people who support us.
We are somewhere to turn for children and
young adults with rare diseases

Sponsors

PEDAL PUSHING POWER: NIAS Female Athlete of the Year Katherine Hosking.
quite inferior, Hosking said. I
have been lucky to be given great
opportunities and a lot of support by many people.
The award is sure to provide a
huge confidence boost for the
young rider, who dreams of taking her sport to an international
level in the future.
I am really keen to go to New
Zealand in March 2016 for the

Oceania Games and give the Kiwis

a run for their money, she said.
In the last Oceanias I had a
tough race and finished fourth
after a few crashes.
The Kiwis are definitely awesome mountain bikers and great
girls.
I love mountain biking and
would like to keep pushing and
training hard.

Cricket legend cycles to city

AW1797058

By GEOFF NEWLING

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THE ARMIDALE EXPRESS, Friday, October 30, 2015

FANS of Steve Waugh

will be able to see the
former Test captain
and
allrounder
in
Armidale
on

Wednesday. The Steve

Waugh
Foundation
Captains Ride begins
this Sunday in Sydney.
Over six days a team
of 60 cyclists will ride
920 kilometres from

Sydney to Byron Bay

hoping at every stage
to put another raise
disease on the map
and raising money.
Waugh,
Gavin
Robertson and Danny

Frawley will be at
Armidales
Harvey
Norman
on
Wednesday for a 6am
barbecue breakfast before heading off to
Dorrigo at 7am.

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