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Peter Argent

Sports reporter’s decades of dedication

AN accomplished junior sportsman and a member of the Barrier’s 1982 Harry Meyer Cup-winning cricket team, at the SACA Country Cup as a tear-away quick, John Casey has come through the ranks of Australia’s sporting media to become one of the...

28 Mar 2025

Football

25 Icons of Broken Hill Sport Colin Casey Footballer, Coach, Administrator

EDUCATED at Railway Town Primary School and Broken Hill High School, Colin Casey first came to national football prominence in 1967, selected for New South Wales Combined High School and becoming vice-captain of the team that played in national...

15 Mar 2025

Football

Raven readies for third Central season

THE SANFL Women’s competition enters its ninth season in 2025, starting this weekend, with two games on Saturday, March 15, and Central District playing Glenelg in their season opener at X Convenience Stadium, Elizabeth starting at 12pm, on...

15 Mar 2025

Cricket

Delbridge the keystone to West’s decades of success

25 Icons of Broken Hill Sport – Geoff Delbridge A TOWERING figure in the history of the West Broken Hill Cricket Club from the mid 1960s to the turn of the century, Geoff Delbridge is a true Icon of Barrier cricket. Across...

07 Mar 2025

Football

A true club man who saw big success

25 Broken Hill Sporting Icons - Visco Sulicich BORN on May 8, 1960, the oldest of three children of a Croatian immigrant, Visco Sulicich would excel at both Australian summer and winter passions of Australian Rules Football and...

01 Mar 2025

Football

Six decades of service to Port

Broken Hill boy and Magpies six-decade volunteer inducted into Port Adelaide Hall of Fame. PORT Adelaide have seen premiership players, and a Magarey Medallist come out of the Silver City, but it has been said that the club’s greatest...

28 Feb 2025

Football

One of the Silver City’s finest: Solomon was golden

25 icons of Broken Hill Sport: Dean Solomon – North Broken Hill Football Club. A NORTH Broken Hill Bulldog and the Silver City’s only premiership player of the AFL, era Dean Solomon still continues his football life today. Only...

21 Feb 2025

Cricket

MDBS winless in 100th year of Harry Meyer Cup

By Peter ArgentDESPITE a handful of strong individual performances, the Murray Districts – Barrer – Sunraysia (MDBS) team did record a win across the four days of the 100th SACA Senior Country Cup cricket competition. In the seventh vs eight...

14 Feb 2025

Cricket

Fair Betts she’s among the best

25 Broken Hill Sporting Icons – Samantha Betts A RIGHT medium fast bowler Samantha Marie Betts is a Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) and Women’s Big Bash League (BBL) cricketer who had more of a decade long career at...

14 Feb 2025

Sport

Trainer raced away from the pack

DOUG Payne was a butcher from Broken Hill who became a legendary greyhound trainer throughout Australia. Payne started his career at the local track in this rural city then in the early...

07 Feb 2025

Cricket

Heartbreaking finish to pool rounds at champs

By Peter Argent PLAYING at Stratarama Stadium, also known as Glenelg Oval, in the final of their three Pool A games frustratingly Murray Districts – Barrier - Sunraysia (MDBS) loss to the South East zone in a nail-biter by a single wicket. The MDBS...

07 Feb 2025

News

Young star soared to new heights

Marina Sulicich – 25 icons of Broken Hill sport. BORN in Broken Hill to Croatian-born parents Vera and Dusan, Marina Sulicich is one of this town’s most esteemed athletes. Diminutive and dynamic Sulicich is the only known summer...

31 Jan 2025