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Belts on the line

TWO belts will be up for grabs when East Coast boxer Shaye Walker-Brock fights Canterbury’s Bowyn Morgan on June 22. Gisborne-born Walker-Brock intends to be the one holding the New Zealand Professional Boxing Association and International Boxing...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

T Irwin (4), J White, T Kaio, I Kaio-Wynyard, C Kerr. T Irwin. T Irwin, H Ngarangione. H Ngarangione. T Irwin 180 (4), 140 (5), 123, 121, 100 (14); S Kirikino 140, 123, 122, 100 (9); H Ngarangione 180, 140 (4), 125, 123 (2), 120, 100 (8); C Kerr 180...

Gisborne - East Coast bridge club results

Fred Williams: Tolaga Bay’s national heavyweight champion

A GRANDDAUGHTER of Fred Williams, Tolaga Bay's New Zealand heavyweight boxing champion of 1913, has contacted The Gisborne Herald with information about him. Laura Knight's grandfather was one of the boxers mentioned in a Herald article last week...

Interclub bound for Tolaga Bay

The junior interclub challenge heads to Tolaga Bay tomorrow, with matches running from 8.30am. This competition is for those with less than eight years of bowls experience. Three Gisborne-East Coast centre clubs entered teams in both genders. Teams are...

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Ruatoria to ‘scratch the chassis’

Ruatoria City is a proud club in its 100th year. And the Ian Logan-coached City are far too proud to allow even defending champions and Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield holders Pango Productions Uawa, to just roll in and out of Ngati Porou East Coast...

A big ask in battle for survival

AON Waikohu coach Tahi Hiroki says his players will “give it everything we’ve got” when they take on OBM tomorrow in the penultimate points game of the premier club competition. Tall order for Waikohu to make playoffs“We have to win and hope...

Batsmanship a feature of games

CRICKETThe batsmanship in Round 1 of Challenge Cup cricket was superb. Both Gisborne Boys’ High School teams — the Sebastian Wilson-led Blues and Royals, and The Admiralty under Noah Torrance-Cribb — won their T20 matches at Nelson Park. The...

More tough results for Bay and Coast

IT was another bad weekend for Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast in the Heartland Championship, with both sides losing. LeaderBrand Poverty Bay lost 36-14 to Buller in Westport while the Coast were beaten 50-32 by competition leaders Mid...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Matt Reedy (Cossie DONE & Dusted) 2, Brian Leach (Cossie DONE & Dusted), Sha Hohipa (Cossie DONE & Dusted), Cris Kiri (Cossie Titans), Colin Edwards (2NZ RUNVS).Best start (180): Brian Leach (Cossie DONE & Dusted), Sh...

Around the greens

Poverty BayLEX Kennedy and his team of Marilyn Knowles and Wes Baillie won Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s McKenzie Shield for mixed eight-point triples last Wednesday. The Ballance Street Village Butchery-sponsored event had a format of four 90-minute...

Top-of-the-table stoush in store

CRICKETFor the third weekend in a row, premier-grade cricket in the Doleman Cup will feature a top-of-the-table clash. Coastal Concrete OBR will hope to extend their win streak to three games when they face Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys, while...

Super vets start with two losses

BADMINTON Eastland super veterans returned from the first round of their 2016 super veterans’ inter-association Division 2 competition in Rotorua with two losses. In the team were local players Linda White and Annabel Riwaka from the Patutahi club...

Susie back in the NZ saddle

TINIROTO’s Susie Hamilton has received the recall she didn’t think would happen . . . she’s back in the New Zealand women’s polo team. Hamilton, 31, broke her leg playing polo in Australia three years ago and thought she would never be back...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

DARTSPlayoffs were held on Sunday for the men’s and women’s teams to represent Gisborne’s Region 7 at the New Zealand Darts Council Nationals from August 5 to 10 in Rotorua. Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association (TAKDA) and Gisborne Club Darts...

Gruelling endurance ahead

The Mount Monster looms large for more than a dozen of Gisborne's surf athletes this weekend as they prepare to tackle the most prestigious surf lifesaving endurance race in New Zealand. This will be the 10th year of the gruelling run, swim, ski and...

Rugby league draw

Rugby league drawTHE Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League draw for Saturday is —1pm: Paikea Whalers v Ngatapa Stags. 2.30pm: Waengapu Stallions v Turanga Panthers. Bye: Falcons, Mustangs. Both games to be played at Awapuni Stadium