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It’s a Tokararangi-TVC final

Tokararangi will face TVC in the final of the Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition this weekend. Top qualifiers Tokararangi proved too good for Hicks Bay in their semifinal at Te Araroa on Saturday — a 34-12 victory sealing...

Trophy celebrates and honours sporting bonds

A shared love of cricket is what’s behind this. On Saturday, Campion College won the Naden-Taylor Trophy for competition against the Horouta Cricket Club for the first time in the trophy’s short history. Named for the Naden family, three...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Vern Marshall and Ngamiro Allen were in familiar territory when they won the Val Smith 2-4-2 Mixed Pairs Tournament over the weekend. Presenting the Evelyn Mills Trophy to them for winning the tournament, Trevor Mills said Marshall had won the...

Naki boys too good for GBHS

A FIGHTING skipper’s knock was the sole highlight as Gisborne Boys’ High School suffered another heavy loss at the Super 8 secondary schools tournament here yesterday. Captain Robbie Tallott scored 82 of GBHS’s 116-all out in a 50-over clash...

Kart drivers shine in the Eastland sun

“THIS is our happy place” was one description of Eastland Kart Club's fun meeting on Sunday. Te Aroha Dirt Kart Club brothers Chris and Shane Grey would vouch for that after bringing over machines they built themselves. Racing in the rotax class...

Waikohu power to the fore

Match ends early ‘for reasons of player safety’

Tough but rewarding day for Gisborne

BASKETBALLDay 1 was both tough and enormously rewarding. The Thomas Tindale-Adam Tapsell-coached Gisborne under-15 girls’ basketball team at the Aon National Tournament in Takanini, South Auckland, lost 65-50 to last year’s national champions and...

‘We’ve left no stone unturned’

WHATEVER happens in the 2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championships, Gisborne’s Blake Briant is certain of one thing — he could not be more ready. Two years of preparation come down to two days of performing when Briant hits the water tomorrow in the...

Tears as event cut short

SURF LIFESAVINGby Murray RobertsonThere was disappointment and some tears for Gisborne junior athletes yesterday when after three days oftough competition in sizeable surf, they were denied a chance to race in finals due to Covid-19. The change back...

Hikurangi set for big effort

They’re two big names in East Coast club rugby. The late Kath McLean and Jury Harrison, revered stalwarts of the game on the Coast, lent their names to the first and second-round memorial trophies. Uawa won the Kath McLean last Saturday; tomorrow...

United and Thistle pull away from the chasers

Both Gisborne teams in football’s Pacific Premiership pulled away from the Hawke’s Bay chasing group after Saturday’s round of games. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle are top of the table with 18 points after their 3-0 default win over Hastings...

McDonald golfing win saves whitewash

GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald is finding her groove after her late call-up for the Toro women’s national interprovincial in Ashburton. McDonald, playing at No. 5 for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay yesterday notched her first win of the teams’...

Second Olympic Games for Church

HOCKEYGISBORNE’s international hockey umpire Amber Church has been selected to officiate at her second Olympic Games and the appointment has thrilled her. The 31-year-old schoolteacher obtained her international umpiring qualification in 2010 at...

SEASON: PERFECT

RUGBYTokararangi completed their perfect seven-game season in front of at least 100 adoring fans on Saturday. Te Araroa Domain was a joyful mishmash of red and black as the hosts beat Tihirau Victory Club 13-12 in the 2020 Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou...

PLAYERS KEEN TO RETURN

THE region’s netballers cannot wait to get back out on the court. They have fingers crossed for a swift transition from Covid-19 Alert Level 3 down to Level 2 and on to Level 1 so they can play. Hopes remain high that they will see some competition...

Another thriller on the way

NETBALLJUST two goals separated the finalists in Gisborne’s premier netball championship last time they met this season and Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls can be relied upon to repeat that performance tomorrow. They meet at the YMC...

Another loss for champs

Defending premier netball champions YMP suffered their second defeat in a row on Saturday, this time at the hands of High School Old Girls. The match was again decided by a substantial margin. In the previous weekend’s Pak’nSave Gisborne netball...

Gisborne Thistle Reserves field players having second game of day

Gisborne Thistle Reserves had to use players who had already played that day to field a full team for their Pacific Premiership game against Maycenvale on Saturday. With the first team playing at the same time on the other pitch at Childers Road...