Mid North Sport

Tacking Point Public’s girls cricket team is once again preparing to compete against the best sides in New South Wales. Come December 4, the girls will be competing at the P-S-S-A title in Campbelltown.

Mid-north coast rower Warren Blanch has returned home with three gold medals from the Pan Pacific Masters Games. It’s an impressive feat for the Blanch, who’s been training in the sport for less than a year.  

Close to 50 of Port Macquarie’s Flamin Dragons crew, competed in this years Great Lakes Pearl Dragon Regatta. The event held in Forster is always a successful one for the club and this year proved no different.

Be it a tractor, a not-so-smart spectator or criticism from a six times world champ – there was no lack of drama throughout the World Rally Championship in Coffs Harbour. Sebastien Ogier’s parting words on spectator numbers prompting return fire from Rally Australia.

Frenchman Sebastien Ogier has won his sixth World Rally Championship after the final race of the season in Coffs Habour. In slippery conditions, the Ford Fiesta pilot sealed the deal, after Estonian Ott Tanak’s retirement in the second last stage.

More than 30 bodyboarders took to the waves at Port Macquarie’s Town Beach on Sunday for the final competition of the season. American Pro, Jay Reale, took out the Masters while Chase O’Leary impressed the judges in the Open division. Tallis Keft claimed victory in the grommets and Caleb Ramsey was the highest scoring cadet. Fraser Smith won the dropknee and Finn Black took out the juniors. (VISION ONLY)

There are less than three weeks until touch football players converge in Port Macquarie for the annual State Cup. Today players from the Hastings and Macksville got a taste of their rivals competition at a gala day held at Tuffins Lane.

Ott Tanak is top of the standings, after two blistering loops through the southern stages of Rally Australia on the Coffs Coast. He sits just ahead of teammate Jari-Matti Latvala and New Zealand’s Haydon Paddon, with one more day of racing to go.

Three drivers can win the world title at Rally Australia on the Coffs Coast – and all three struck some kind of trouble on day one. Instead, Citroen’s Mads Ostberg leads the field… others weren’t lucky enough to make the weekend.

Grafton brothers Ryan and Zac Cotten are wrapping up their fists for another chance at professional boxing glory. The duo will head to Punchbowl tomorrow.