The final five in the 2025 Christie and Hood Castlereagh League first grade competition will not be known until all the fulltime sirens at three different venues are sounded to signal the end of the competition rounds this Saturday afternoon.

The only certainty is that the Coolah Kangaroos will be the minor premiers, but the finishing order of another six clubs who are in the fight for the remaining four semi-final berths is very much a mystery and will not be resolved until the results from games played at Cobar, Coolah and Gulgong are known.

Currently the Coonabarabran Unicorns hold down second position on the ladder after they scored a tense 34 to 28 win over the Cobar Roosters at Coonabarabran, but the Unicorns face the daunting task of trying to be the first team to lower the Kangaroos colours this season when they travel to Coolah this Saturday, with a win guaranteeing them second place and qualifying semi hosting rights with the Boronia Cup thrown in as an added bonus.

Sitting just one point adrift of the Unicorns on the competition ladder are the Narromine Jets who stayed in the race for second when they downed the Warren Bulldogs 30 to 20 at Warren last Saturday.

The Jets can expect a warm reception at Cobar’s Tom Knight Oval this Saturday, especially with the Roosters still in contention for the semis.

The Gulgong Bull Terriers can leapfrog the Jets on the ladder and finish in third position if they can get over the top of the Coonamble Bears at Billy Dunn Oval, and the Jets lose to Cobar.

Irrespective of their result against the Bears, the Terriers are assured of a semi-final berth. At worse they will finish fourth.

Fifth position on the ladder is a three-way shootout between the Cobar Roosters, the Coonamble Bears and the Dunedoo Swans, with all three clubs currently sitting on 25 competition points.

The Swans will finish on 28 points due to having the bye this weekend, and if both Cobar and Coonamble lose then the Swans are in.

If either, or both, Cobar and Coonamble win then it will come down to points differential determining who gets the nod to play on after round 14, and in that regard the Swans are the worst placed.

Similar to the first grade, the final composition of the both the league tag and reserve grade semi-finalists also remain unknown and will not be decided until this Saturday afternoon.

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Christie and Hood Castlereagh League Round 13 scores

League Tag

Coolah 44 (Brooklyn Blackadder 5, Jasmine Newton 2, Tori Mogg, Molly Burgess tries, Mogg 2, Lisa Jones goals) defeated Coonamble 0.

Cobar 40 (Taylah Good 3, Kayal Hasson-Williams 2, Bridgette Negfeldt, Brianna Watson tries, Watson 6 goals) defeated Coonabarabran 0.

Dunedoo 24 (Matilda Harper 2, Shelley Cox, Lexi Gallagher tries, Chelsea Gallagher 2, Cox 2 goals) defeated Baradine 22 (Maria Nagy 2, Kate Masman, Suzannah Carey tries, Nagy 3 goals).

Narromine 42 (Shian Chatfield 2, Hannah Towns 2, Haleigh McCarney, Jacan Powell, Brianna Davis tries, Chatfield 6, Davis goals) defeated Warren 6 (Chloe Deguit try, Maddie Marks goal).

Gulgong 20 (Millie Harper, Claire Bodiam, Lolly Tumpey, Georgie Gudgeon tries, Tumpey 2 goals) defeated Gilgandra 10 (Kiara Brown, Skye Doherty tries, Mackaylah Ross goal).

Competition table: Coolah 39, Dunedoo 35, Narromine 33, Baradine 31, Cobar 25, Warren 25, Coonamble 21, Gulgong 21, Coonabarabran 17, Gilgandra 13.

Reserve Grade

Coonamble 36 (Hamish Astill 2, Brendon Draper, Nathan Walker, Quinton Kennedy, Malakai Haley, Jack Ward tries, Kevin Thurston 3, Draper goals) defeated Coolah 20 (Charlie Spicer 2, Lyall Houghton 2 tries, Sam Wesley 2 goals).

Coonabarabran 48 (Sonny Bill Walker 3, Mathew Watton 2, Cody Howe, Keizer Wood, Marshal Tighe, Nash Walker tries, Sonny Bill Walker 3, Howe, Wood, Watton goals) defeated Cobar 4 (Aiden Swan try).

Baradine 34 (Thomas Martin, Liam Blackall, Reuben Ruttley, Brandon Worrell, Wade Sutherland, Anthony McDonough, Craig Harris tries, Jai Cain 3 goals) defeated Mendooran 0.

Narromine 20 (Alex Sambrook 2, Chad Jacobson, Mick Clarke tries, Liam Wherritt 2 goals) defeated Warren 4 (Adam Pascoe try).

Binnaway 16 (Cody Whitty, Ben Murphy, Dane Anastasis, Travis Tighe tries) defeated Gulgong 10 (Reign Cullen, Rob Brodbeck tries, Caiden Horton goal).

Competition ladder: Narromine 15, Baradine 12, Binnaway 11, Gulgong 11, Coonamble 11, Coonabarabran 9, Cobar 9, Mendooran 8, Warren 6, Coolah 6.

First Grade

Coolah Kangaroos 54 (Jayden Brown 3, Hugh Wesley 2, Brayden Burgess, Dan Lane, Casey Burgess, Chanse Burgess, Austin Burgess tries, Lane 7 goals) defeated Coonamble Bears 16 (Kane Wiggins, Andrew Peacocke, Dwayne McEwen tries, Peacocke, Mitch Nalder goals) at Coolah.

Coonabarabran Unicorns 34 (Sam Pickette 2, Brad Fuller, Sam Wilson, Tyler Frazer, Jarrod Michael tries, Nick Willoughby 4, Fuller goals) defeated Cobar Roosters 28 (Timothy Hillam 2, Kai Taylor 2, Lochlan Ford tries, Tadgh McMullen 4 goals) at Coonabarabran.

Dunedoo Swans 44 (Tyler Bamblett 2, Will Duce, Kyzah Louie, Ty Sutherland, Ta Dermott, Lockie Le Brenton, Josh Brown tries, Sutherland 6 goals) defeated Baradine Magpies 10 (Cameron Worrell, Luke Hamilton Snr tries, Luke Hamilton Jnr goal) at Baradine.

Narromine Jets 30 (Janus Walford 2, Washington Itoya, Charlie Isedale, Kaiden Hill, Corey Cox tries, Cox 3 goals) defeated Warren Bulldogs 20 (Elias Kennedy 3, Lachlan Clarke tries, Tom Potter 2 goals) at Warren.

Gulgong Bull Terriers bye.

Competition ladder: Coolah 39, Coonabarabran 33, Narromine 32, Gulgong 31, Cobar 25, Coonamble 25, Dunedoo 25, Warren 20, Baradine 14.

Final competition round, Saturday, August 2: Cobar V Narromine; Coolah V Coonabarabran (Boronia Cup Challenge in first grade, Jessica Skinner Cup Challenge in League Tag); Warren V Baradine; Gulgong V Coonamble; Dunedoo V Gilgandra (League Tag); Mendooran V Binnaway @ Dunedoo (Reserve Grade).