{"id":191210,"date":"2025-10-05T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191210\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:47:12","slug":"outback-womens-rugby-league-standouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191210\/","title":{"rendered":"Outback women&#8217;s rugby league standouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW rugby League Co-ordinator for League and Club Brooke Mallison says Western Plains women\u2019s players were stars of an Outback side in a\u00a0recent Blues Tag competition in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen players from the Western Region attended the NSWRL Westpac Blues Tag Representative Gala Day held at St Marys in Sydney on Saturday 27 September.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Players from as far west as Broken Hill, Wilcannia, Goodooga, Coonabarabran, Bourke, Cobar, Baradine,\u00a0Brewarrina were included in the team,&#8221;she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winning Peter McDonald Cup premiership team captain Rebecca Threthowan from the Wiradjuri Goannas was heavily involved after the Narromine-based player took her side to an upset win against Mudgee\u00a0in the grand\u00a0final two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bourke supplied two talents Jemma Knight and Emily Edwards, Baradine&#8217;s Madi Masman, Neve Carter from Cobar, Alirah Watson from Coonabarbran, Mirrikie Shaw from Goodoga were also involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Wilcannia has six players involved\u00a0including player of the match against NRL Western Australia Natalie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/full_3c52f720-a193-11f0-ba16-e3c95d8c35d4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Combined team photo with NRL Western Australia.  [IMAGE SUPPLIED]<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The players trained in Dubbo and Bathurst prior and had a fantastic experience,&#8221; Brooke said.<\/p>\n<p>Played warm-up game against NRL WA on Friday night and on Saturday played four games.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the competition:<\/p>\n<p>Game 1- NSWRL Outback v North Sydney (W)22-0Game 2- NSWRL Outback v Group 16 (L) 10-4Game 3 NSWRL Outback v Woodbridge Cup\u00a0(W) 12-0Qualifying Final- (L) NSWRL Outback 10- NRL WA 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW rugby League Co-ordinator for League and Club Brooke Mallison says Western Plains women\u2019s players were stars of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-191210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}