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River Summer Series starts tomorrow

GISBORNE Harrier Club starts its popular River Summer Series tomorrow. It will feature weekly 2.5- and five-kilometre races on a traffic-free course alongside the city rivers. The series challenges runners to race regularly and see how much they can...

Some aspects reinstated

CRICKETMore of the summer game shall be played. The Cricket Championship begins at 3.15pm today at the Harry Barker Reserve. The Gisborne Boys' High School-based six-week competition features the Tairawhiti Women's Cricket Club Colts and three teams...

Injury blow - season over for Poverty Bay's top ref

RUGBYRISING Poverty Bay referee Damien Macpherson’s Heartland Championship season is over after just two games. The 32-year-old farmer— who started refereeing in 2015 and was named in a 15-strong New Zealand Rugby high performance referees squad...

Sports draws

Pacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Napier Marist Reserves. 3pm: Premier Hastings Sport Park 1, Maycenvale v Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United. Eastern League 1, 12.30pm: CRR 1...

Practice match

Campion College and Gisborne Girls’ High School this week had the first of two games organised to prepare them for tournament play. Girls’ High left-winger Emma Brownlie scored to give her side a 1-0 win. A return game will be played at the...

Trophy winners at Poverty Bay Golf Club

THE trophy winners from the Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Senior Men’s Open at Poverty Bay Golf Club this week enjoy their win

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

180s: Tahuna Irwin (5) (Falcons), T e Kotahi Kaio (2) Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Young guns), John White (2) (Done & Dusted), Tracey Te Kira (Tigers), Haimona Ratapu (Done & Dusted), Mihi Awatere (Manaaki), Sha Hohepa (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men...

Bay's effort augurs well

If Poverty Bay keep to the standard of play they set on Saturday, they will win plenty of rugby games. They played with spirit, intensity and enterprise at Rugby Park and led for most of the match against a strong North Otago side, who pipped them at...

Big change in fortunes for Waiapu

The year 2022 is one that Waiapu will not soon forget. Ten years after the Tripoli Poi-coached men's team won the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield, the women's team under Hugh Tibble beat the Hikurangi Mountain Maidens 36-5 to claim the Hamo Te Rangi...

Streetstock and saloons champs

SPEEDWAYGISBORNE speedway fans will have their eyes on the action at the Eastland Group Raceway and their ears on developments in the New Zealand Stockcar Teams Championship finals in Stratford tomorrow night. Gisborne Speedway Club will stage the...

Gisborne Giants reign supreme at Superstock Teams Nationals

SPEEDWAYGisborne Giants made it back-to-back titles at the Superstock Teams Nationals at Waikaraka Park Speedway in Auckland on Sunday night. The Giants won the title last year when they defeated Palmerston North Panthers in the final. They knocked...

Class act

Gisborne Girls’ High School were the A-Grade girls’ winners in the Jimmy Aupouri Memorial Softball Tournament for Tairawhiti Secondary Schools at the weekend. Gisborne Boys’ High School (1) were the A-Grade boys’ winners and GBHS (2), the...

Gudgeon earns pro card with Toronto bodybuilding win

BODYBUILDINGTHE lives of Ephraim and Arian Gudgeon just got a little more complicated. But they’re good complications. Ephraim Gudgeon, a wheelchair bodybuilder, has to work out with his wife how competing professionally will tie in with their other...

School basketball teams shine

BASKETBALLIt makes you think. Week 7 of the Gisborne Basketball Association club leagues produced results that would have been unimaginable on opening night, June 18. Yet the improvement of the Gisborne Boys’ High School teams Red and Black...

Bridge results

MONDAY, February 19 — Summer Pairs 3North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 64.24 Anne Maclaurin/Graham Maclaurin 68.25John Rouse/Murray Owen 54.17 Janet Joblin/Hans van der Kuijl 59.52Jean Turnbull/Robyn Cheyne 54.17 Jean...

Open triples winners anyone’s guess

Gisborne East Coast centre open triples titles go on the line at Kahutia Bowling Club this weekend. Six women's teams will play for the Judy Blair Cup while 10 men's teams contest the Terry Gardiner Memorial. In the women's competition, 2019 winners...

Irwin shows mettle in Kobe

GISBORNE darts player Tahuna Irwin featured in sudden-death drama during the World Darts Federation World Cup in Kobe, Japan, this month. Irwin, of Gisborne’s Brezz’n Darts Club, played a key role in New Zealand’s 9-8 team victory over...

Fed Cup action for Thistle, United

FOOTBALLclubs are in federation football knockout action tomorrow. Carpet Court Thistle Massive and Heavy Equipment Services United are competing in the Central Federation Cup, which is open to senior sides who do not compete in the Chatham Cup. Both...