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To greener fairways

HALF his life ago, Te Raumati “Tini” Hawea was a little fullah smacking balls down the Poverty Bay Golf Club practice fairway at Sunday morning junior sessions. He didn’t know where this would take him. He didn’t care. He just enjoyed this...

Horouta, Mareikura and YMP waka ama paddlers ready for World Sprints in Tahiti

WAKA AMATAIRAWHITI waka ama paddlers are to the forefront of the New Zealand challenge at the IVF Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti this month. The New Zealand contingent is the largest in the competition at 560 paddlers, and in terms of...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Ten scores of 180 were thrown in Brezz’n Darts Club’s Tuesday night winter league this week. Seven of them came from the match between two of the club’s top-end teams, Ford Falcons and Rhinos. It was tight for much of the match, but Falcons put...

Cream of our crop chasing rep team spots

SURF lifesavers from the three Gisborne clubs have been training together as a squad, vying for places in BDO Gisborne/Tairawhiti representative teams. Athletes from the Midway, Waikanae and Wainui surf lifesaving clubs are out to impress selectors...

Women's basketball draw

THE Gisborne women’s basketball league draw for TONIGHT at the YMCA is —5.30pm: Lytton High School v Campion College. 6.30pm: Uawa v Gisborne Girls’ High School. 7.30pm: RFNZ v Paikea Nation. 8.30pm: Ngati Porou v Rebels

Gisborne gymnasts take place on NZ podium

SIX Gisborne gymnasts competed in the New Zealand National GymSports Championships at the Trusts Arena in Henderson, Auckland. Artistic gymnastics, power tumbling, aerobics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining were all represented. Over 930 athletes...

Next generation on centre stage

NEW Zealand's next generation of surfing talent took centre stage at the national surfing championships in Dunedin yesterday and Gisborne's Finn Vette continued his strong form. Vette breezed into the final eight in the under-16 boys' division...

Pair ready for world’s best

MIDWAY’S Cory Taylor and Olivia Corrin and their world champion International Surf Rescue Challenge Black Fins teammates will take on some of the world’s top lifesavers at Mt Maunganui in two weeks. Australia-based Taylor will compete in the open...

President’s hard to beat

CRICKETHigh School Old Boys won it convincingly. The Isaac Hughes-led blue and whites beat a good Campion College side by seven wickets at Harry Barker Reserve in the closest game of cricket played in the Hope Cup on Saturday. Bollywood HSOB made no...

Other netball award winners

THE Gisborne Netball Centre awarded a range of other awards and trophies after Saturday's thrilling premier grade grand final at the YMCA. Grand final winners YMP (1) featured in those other awards as well, winning the trophy for the highest goal...

Giants second in epic contest

THE Gisborne Giants finished runners-up in an epic contest in the ENZED Superstock Teams Championships in Palmerston North at the weekend. The Palmerston North Panthers limped across the finish line first to end a brutal final in front of a capacity...

Four-goal bag to Humphreys the highlight

FOUR goals to winger Jaime Humphreys provided the highlight in Ben Holden Fencing Ngatapa’s 7-0 victory over Te Aowera on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve last night. It was another strong performance from the country girls.“It was not...

Jags, United set for derby drama

Tomorrow is derby day — Thistle and United, two sides who once combined forces in Team Gisborne, now take the field as opponents in the Pacific Premiership. Heavy Equipment Services United come off a sensational first-round 9-1 home win against...

SPORTS DRAWS

TOMORROW, 6.30pm: INA Contracting GMC Green v Ngatapa (umpires YMP A, Jo Cumming).FRIDAY, 6pm: Paikea v YMP A (GMC Green, Ngatapa).FRIDAY, 7.30pm:YMP B v Te Aowera (GGHS, Kowhai).SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Amber Dental Gisborne Girls' High School v GMC...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkA COOL head when it counted most came up trumps for Jacque Akuhata-Nickerson in the final of Gisborne Park’s women’s shootout on Saturday. Akuhata-Nickerson won a putt-off against Pat Johansen on the 18th hole to earn the...

Parkes punt pays off,Sam’s the man to lead Sky Blues

NGATI Porou East Coast co-coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor took a gamble when they appointed Sam Parkes to captain the team in this season’s Heartland Championship. And the 22-year-old former Gisborne Boys’ High School halfback rewarded their...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Due to Covid-19 Alert Level 2 restrictions, the Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association winter league is now being played across two nights — Thursday and Friday — to ensure the club is operating within the rules. The B Grade plays on Thursday night...

Swimmers relish opportunity to race

Comet Swimming Club members produced a string of gold, silver and bronze medal-winning performances in the Greendale Spring Meet in Flaxmere, Hawke's Bay, at the weekend. Coach Anneleen Van Damme said it was a long-awaited racing opportunity for the...