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• Under 14’s 2023 Premiers

• Under 12’s Black 2023 Premiers

• Under 17’s Tag White grand final runners up

• Under 12’s White grand final runners up

• Under 10’s grand final runners up

• Lennox Hurford – Group XI Lachlan District Player of the U12’s grand final andGroup XI Lachlan District overall U12’sbest & fairest

• Brock Maynard Group XI Lachlan District Player of the U14’s grand final

• Laila HartwigGroup XI Lachlan DistrictU14’s Tag overall best & fairest runnerup

Our Mighty Magpie family is simply the best. We have amazing kids, coaches, volunteers, parents and supporters, what else could a club ask for! Thank you.

This Saturday, Parkes will play host to a jam packed day of Junior Rugby League with fourteen finals being played across Pioneer and North Parkes Ovals. The Parkes Marist Rugby League Club will have four teams playing on the day, including U11 league tag, U14 league tag, U16 boys league and U17 league tag.

The following 14 games are scheduled to be played: 

North Parkes Oval 

• 10’s Forbes v Condobolin

• 10’s Grenfell v West Wyalong

• 11’s tag Red Bend v Parkes White 

• 11’s West Wyalong v Grenfell

Pioneer Oval

• 12’s Canowindra v Cabonne

• 12’s Forbes Black v Forbes White

• 14’s tag West Wyalong v Canowindra

• 14’s tag Red Bend Sky v Parkes Blue

• 14’s West Wyalong v Canowindra

• 14’s Forbes v Condobolin

• 17’s tag Canowindra v Grenfell

• 17’s tag Parkes White v Forbes Black

• 16’s West Wyalong v Cabonne

• 16’s Parkes White v Red Bend

Under 17s League Tag

The Parkes U17s League Tag girls did not play last week as they had already earned their place in the grand final and will go up against Forbes White this weekend. 

Coach Deanne Hanson said, “I could not be any prouder of the girls and hope they are proud of themselves. The team have showed so much commitment all year.”

Star player, Elizabeth Macgregor said, “I feel like we have good players across the whole field, there’s not really anyone who lets us down, everyone’s tagging is strong and has definitely improved throughout the year. 

“I feel like we are definitely the stronger team in the comp, we’ve won every game and averaged 40 points a game, our for and against is crazy, we scored 390 points this year and have only had 28 points scored against us.”

Grace Milne, who won a premiership last year with the U14 girls said that she will be focusing on, “Getting myself involved in defense, holding a strong defensive line, just doing what I do every week, setting up plays.”

Under 16s League Tackle

The under 16’s boys have been training hard this week ahead of Sunday’s big clash against Red Bend 16’s boys. Under 16’s coach, Jason O’Bryan was coach of the under 14’s boys last year, and when half of them moved up to Under 16’s this year Jason also made the move up as coach. 

At training on Tuesday night, Jason said, “Our game plan from last year is very similar to this year, so with half of them already knowing it, it has made it a lot easier to bring the other guys in to the same pattern of play.” Jason went on to say, the boys are busting to get out on the paddock, “We are doing it as a team, but also we want to send off Captain Jack Milne with a grand final win, he has led by example all year.”

Let’s get as many Magpies supporters as early as possible over on Magpie Hill on Sunday at Pioneer Oval, Parkes. The League tag side and Under 18’s side head into round two of finals. Can’t wait to see you all there to cheer them on.

Coming off the back of a good win against Wellington Cowboys last week, 36-26, the Parkes Spacemen have been busy preparing for this weekend’s elimination semi final against Dubbo Cyms in Dubbo. 

Parkes Spacemen First Grade Captain Coach Chad Porter said, “Last week against Wellington we started strong and obviously we have to do the same thing with Dubbo Cyms. They are fit, we just need to match it with them, and if we can play like we did in the first 20 minutes of last weeks game, then that will help us win the game. 

“All the boys are keen and our game plan is to just get our structures right, get to where we need to be and play our type of footy. Then hopefully into the Grand Final, if we can knock Cyms over this weekend.”

The Spacemen have faced Dubbo Cyms twice this year already, as it stands each have won a game. “We have beaten Cyms at home once this year so we can definitely beat them,” said Chad.

Chad assures us that it will be all hands on deck this week, pending the fate of one player, everyone is fit and healthy and ready to go. The other elimination final match being played this weekend is Mudgee v Orange and the winner of that match, will play the winner from this weekend’s match Parkes v Dubbo, in the Grand Final.

Organise a car or a bus, load up with supporters and get across to Dubbo to cheer on the Spacemen this Sunday and help them across the line.

Parkes Spacemen faced Mudgee on 20th August in Mudgee. Club President, Tony Dwyer said, “For 65 – 75% of the game we were leading and looking good and then we got starved of the ball for the last 10-15 minutes, had a few penalties go against us, unlucky bounce of the ball and then all of a sudden they were back in it, we went for a short drop out, they got it back and only had to run five meters to score and the rest is history”. Parkes Spacemen play Wellington at home this Sunday 27th August.

Let’s get as many Magpies supporters as possible on Magpie Hill this Sunday at Pioneer Oval, Parkes, as our League Tag side and Under 18’s head into round two of finals. Can’t wait to see you all there to cheer these legends on!

Last Sunday four grades of footy were played at Spooner Oval Forbes, between Parkes and Forbes. Reserve Grade brought home the win for Parkes. 

Centre for Parkes, Bill Simpson said, “It was a good hit out, from both ends, a real physical game that was all played through the middle”.

Coach Jimmy Clyburn was proud of the boys efforts, saying, “It was a tough effort, we did well considering we had no bench for the whole game, the boys really dug in”.

Reserve grade now sit in fourth position and play St Pats in Bathurst this weekend.

The Parkes Marist JRLC U8s League Tag girls were excited to be joined at training on Tuesday evening, at North Parkes Oval, by the PMJRLC U14s White girls for a special training session. 

The U14s organised some peer mentoring/coaching for the U8s girls team. The 14’s were really excited to run this session. Holly Monkerude, the mother of Remi and Saige who both play in the U8s team said that both “the girls loved it”. The U14 girls should be highly commended on their efforts and the way they ran the training session, such a great example of clubmanship