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Juniors chasing lifesaving

Medal chances beckon for nearly 60 Gisborne junior surf athletes at Mount Maunganui, where Oceans 19 starts tomorrow. The New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships have attracted more than 850 athletes aged 10 to 14 years from across the...

Thanks sport

IF absence makes the heart grow fonder, when we emerge on the other side of Covid-19, there will be bear hugs, sloppy kisses and waterfall tears at the reunion with my lifelong mate — sport. We were pretty tight before the world went viral. Cricket...

Record four GBHS teams

He has returned with legions. Gisborne Boys’ High School head coach Dwayne Tamatea’s campaign to get GBHS back to the national championships for the first time in 27 years resumes tonight at the YMCA. Last season, for the first time in the history...

Local scoreboard

FootballEastern League, Division 1: Played on Wednesday, Thistle Massive 3 Gisborne Boys’ High School 1. On Saturday, Heavy Equipment Services United defeated Shipwreck Bohemians by default, Wainui Sharks v Carpet Court Thistle Reserves cancelled...

A volleyball grand slam

THE rain eased on Sunday for the Tourism Eastland New Zealand Circuit Grand Slam beach volleyball event next to the Olympic Pool. Julia Tilley and Shaunna Polley won the women’s division from Danielle Quigley and Francesca Kirwan second and Meliss...

BAY VERSUS COAST

Paenga Memorial Shield, Bill Osborne Taonga on the line

Doing it tough

Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie competes (above) in the seeding heats of the MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro at Supertubos, Peniche. Christie placed third in his heat to drop into the elimination round of the penultimate contest on the 2019 World...

Community and students get in touch

TOUCHSTUDENTS got out of the classroom and mixed with the community in a mixed touch rugby tournament run by EIT yesterday. Teams such as the Gisborne Fire Service and a combined Gisborne Police and Te Karaka School side competed against various...

Local trampolinists picked for world championship tilt

KAIYA Huta and Finn Vette have become the first Gisborne trampolinists to be picked for the New Zealand team — to compete at the world championships in Denmark in December — since 2007.“The last Gisborne trampolinists competing at the worlds...

Winning knock puts Morley into semis

FORMER Poverty Bay representative cricketer Glenn Morley knows all about clutch situations. So when he was down and facing the prospect of being bowled out of the Poverty Bay men's open yesterday afternoon he produced a match-winning knock. The BDO...

Centre players of year named

DAYVINIA Mills was a clear winner of the Gisborne-East Coast centre award for women’s bowler of the year. Locally, Mills had wins in the open singles, open fours and Ella Gibson Trophy, and nationally she won the New Zealand club championship...

Depleted Eskview give United first-half scare

Gisborne United twice came from behind in their Pacific Premiership football match against Eskview, then scored two second-half goals to win 4-2 at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Eskview had nearly pulled the pin on the match on Friday. Eight...

Reid cops abuse for staying off the front at Commonwealth Games

GOLD COAST — One of New Zealand’s early success stories at the Commonwealth Games has revealed how he was abused by competitors mid-race over the strategy that almost saw him pull off a massive upset in the men’s triathlon. Tayler Reid, 20...

Win secures Grom Series title for Vette

A last-gasp ride earned Gisborne surfer Finn Vette victory in the under-16 boys' division of the King and Queen of the Point competition at Manu Bay, Raglan. The ride, in the last 10 seconds of the final, earned Vette 6.5 points and an overall score...

Now it’s just for fun

Angling amid snow, gales and tiger snakes was one wild way for Cory Scott to bow out from top-echelon competitive fly fishing. Scott, from Gisborne, is a three-time national champion and he competed at the world championships in Tasmania this month...

Bridge results

MONDAY, July 27 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 6North/South East/WestRobin Bennett, Jean Bennett 61.57 Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 56.48Stephen Francks, Amanda Matthews 57.64 Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 55.79Diana Styche, Joy...

Hurricane warning

WHEN I turned up at Rugby Park yesterday for the Hurricanes open training session I thought I was at the wrong ground. All I could hear and see at one part of the pitch was a lot of laughing, yelling and players having fun playing games. Head coach...

Gisborne's Tyler Finau on fire at NZ National Age Group Champs

Gisborne swimmer Tyler Finau has been one of the stars so far at the New Zealand National Age Group Championships in Auckland. The Enterprise Cars Swim Team member yesterday racked up her third and fourth titles in the girls’ 12-13 years age group...