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Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty BayTHE importance of a referee for the big occasion was underlined as Andrew Higham claimed a sixth Poverty Bay senior men’s club championship crown on Saturday afternoon. Higham defeated top qualifier William Brown 1-up in a 36-hole...

Uphill battles: North End, Taradale away will be tough

Gisborne Thistle's top two football teams face tough challenges away from home tomorrow. ALH Gisborne Thistle play Manawatu club North End at Memorial Park in Palmerston North at 2.45pm tomorrow. North End had their first Central Federation League win...

Angus and Jodiesha have resounding start to winter

COMET 10-year-old swimming machines Angus Blair and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick have started the winter season with a ferocious roar that has been heard all across the Central North Island. In the space of two swim meets, between them they scooped up 41...

Surf’s up for two comps

TWO national surfing events descend on Gisborne from tomorrow with the Primary School Champs and the Scholastic Champs taking place over seven days. The two-day Sticky Johnson Primary School Champs presented by Skullcandy kicks off the action...

McDonald ends on a winning high

She started the week with a win. She finished the week with a win. Gisborne's Tessa McDonald played a major part in Hawke's Bay-Poverty redeeming themselves at the national women's matchplay interprovincial tournament in Auckland. HBPB fell just short...

Emerging talent recognised

Poverty Bay women’s cricket representatives Tayla Hollis and Kayley Knight will play for the Northern Spirit’s A team against their Auckland countertparts in a 50-over cricket game in Auckland tomorrow. Hollis, who plays for Kevin Hollis Glass...

‘Amazing game’ ends tied

YMP and Waikohu could not be separated in Pak’nSave Gisborne premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night. They drew 44-all amid wild crowd support for both teams. Claydens Waikohu held a one-goal lead after the first quarter and still led by one...

Golf Roundup

PatutahiFORMER Poverty Bay and Waikato first class rugby player Chris Humble made his holiday home a successful one on his parents’ golf course. Humble, the son of Patutahi members Gordon and Helen, won the junior men’s net on Christmas Eve...

Coast look sharp for first game

Ngati Porou East Coast are primed to perform in Game 1. Hosea Gear's Sky Blues will host Horowhenua-Kapiti in the Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Rugby Championship season opener at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, at 2.30pm tomorrow. In the...

Gisborne 1-2 at waka ama world sprints

GISBORNE paddlers ended the elite and club sprint world championships as they started it, with golden performances in Australia on Sunday. The Horouta junior 16 and junior 19 women’s crews continued Gisborne’s powerful performance in those age...

Bridge results

Trish Corson, Bette Parker 55.95= Janet Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 60.71Beverley Evans, Glenys Evans 55.95= Margie McKee, Nigel Pollock 59.23Diana Styche, Joy Marden 55.65 Raewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 54.76Bette Parker, Robin Corson 59.05 Bobby Thomson...

Sports draws

CricketMercantile cricket is on at Harry Barker Reserve at 5.30pm TONIGHT. Senior men, Harry Barker Reserve, SATURDAY, 1pm: HBR1, OBR v Pirates; HBR3, Campion v Horouta; HBR4, Gisborne Boys’ High School v High School Old Boys. Junior cricket...

Coast’s player of the year

Jack Richardson couldn’t believe it when he was named Ngati Porou East Coast’s player of the year at the end-of-season prize-giving in the Tokomaru Bay clubrooms.“Mate, I had no idea. I thought it would be someone like Sammy Parkes (halfback)...

Murph’s keys to success,Right place, right time, right people

IT’S a story four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy has told maybe a hundred times, and he tells it as if he’d be happy to tell it a thousand more. And, no, it’s not about his “Lap of the Gods” record at Mount Panorama. He told it before...

No 'favourites' tag for Pirates

PIRATES skipper Brad Reynolds laughed when told his High School Old Boys opposite Scott Tallott had claimed the underdogs tag heading into tomorrow’s Doleman Cup semifinal at Harry Barker Reserve.“Mate, I always think we’re favourites, no...

YMP shooting for both men’s and women’s A Grade hockey titles

Big weekend in store for hockey fans

World campions: Horouta retain award for club with most points

Horouta Waka Hoe won the award for club with most points at the Va'a World Sprint Championships at Dorney Lake, Windsor, near London. Six gold-medal-winning performances on the last day of the championships put an exclamation mark alongside the...

YMP earn title shot

YMP have stormed into the final of Poverty Bay rugby’s premier club competition but Waikohu gave them one hell of a workout in an epic encounter that went to extra time. Even after 100 minutes, the drama was not over at Rugby Park on Saturday. Down...