Category: Mid North Sport

Port Macquarie’s Matt Banting is hitting the surf and the gym every day, training hard ahead of the Challenger Series. He needs to be at the top of his game with the competition a qualifying series for the World Surfing League Championship Tour.PMATTBANTINGSOT20210223.mp4

South West Rocks’ Finn Askew has admitted he’s training up to sixteen times a week in preparation for the final rounds of the NutriGrain IronMan Series. Currently 12th in the standings, the 19-year-old says his sole focus is cracking the top-10 this weekend.

The 24th annual Coffs Ocean Swim is shaping up to be the biggest yet with online entries already breaking records. Swimmers from Newcastle to the Gold Coast will head to the mid north coast to compete.

Yesterday’s pelting rain turned Port Macquarie’s touch fields into pools of water – washing out the Northern Conference of the Junior State Cup. Officials say it was a difficult decision to make but ultimately the safety of players, came first.

The under 16s North Coast Bulldogs have maintained their unbeaten run in the Andrew Johns Cup keeping the Newcastle Knights scoreless in Tuncurry. The 18s had a harder time in their Laurie Daley Cup clash, but managed record a 28 to 12 win.

The Sunshine Coast’s Reef Heazlewood and Central Coast surfer Molly Picklum have claimed honours in their respective finals of the men’s and women’s events in the Great Lakes Pro. Matt Banting was the best of the Mid North Coast competitors, making it to the semi finals.  

After months of build up to the Country Championships qualifier at Taree, Sunday’s $150,000 race has been moved to Scone. After inspecting the track today, Racing New South Wales stewards deemed it unsuitable for the event – and with more wet weather predicted, it had to be moved. Field sizes won’t change, and scratchings will…

Recent wet weather won’t dampen Taree horse trainer Glenn Milligan’s expectations, ahead of this weekend’s Country Championships Heat. The $150,000 race will be hotly contested featuring a full field of 14 horses.

This year’s Junior State Cup Northern Conference has been re-structured to comply with current public health orders to ensure it can go ahead. There’s a cap on team numbers and spectators and for the first time, there’ll be no under 8s competing.

Some surprising results on day two of of the Great Lakes Pro at Boomerang Beach. The atrocious conditions seeing surfers fight hard to get a good wave.