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Indoor bowlers beat big guns for Division 2 spot

Poverty Bay-East Coast's Top 8 indoor bowlers received accolades from bowlers throughout the country when they toppled Bay of Plenty, Hawke's Bay and heavyweights Tauranga in the Patterson Top 8 challenge event in Tauranga. Their efforts gained them...

BIG-BANGS END TO THE SEASON

THE finale of the Gisborne Speedway Club season on Saturday night was sensational with a second night of great racing and a fireworks show to end the season. Spectators at Eastland Group Raceway were wowed by a fireworks display that one fan...

BMX rider's uphill battle to make it to the Olympics may be all for naught

Chances of heading to Tokyo getting slimmer for Gisborne-raised Jessie Smith

Honours to Napier's Blues in Colts clash

Napier Boys' High School Blues proved too strong for Gisborne Boys' High Colts in a 40-overs cricket fixture at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. The Blues beat GBHS by 159 runs after captain Joseph Hay-Mackenzie won the toss and chose to...

Dreamers to play Butter Fingers in final

The grand finalists are now known. Dreamers held off Brick Layers 32-28 in the 1 v 4 semifinal of the inaugural Gisborne Basketball Association women’s draft league and the competition’s No. 2 team Butter Fingers beat Hoops I Did it Again 53-42...

United win top-of-the-table clash in Eastern League women’s football

UNITED beat Riverina 2-0 in a top-of-the-table clash in Eastern League women's football at Harry Barker Reserve on Sunday. Riverina were stunned by a United goal three minutes in. A long, looping throw-in from right winger Kayley Knight bounced over...

Golf Roundup

Less than two months ago the famous bridge hole at Tahunga was underwater after the Hangaroa River rose dramatically during heavy rain and flooding that hammered the district. On Saturday, the remnants of the damage were still evident on the green...

Horouta on top

Day 3 of the waka ama sprint nationals

Red light stops the action at Awapuni

SPEEDWAYGisborne Speedway Club has cancelled its next scheduled meeting on December 11 due to the restrictions imposed by the “traffic light” system around limits for gatherings. The saloon car champion of champions event and the Bruce Ellmers...

Campion in two-goal fightback

FOOTBALLCAMPION College came from 2-0 down to force their cup final against Gisborne Boys’ High School (3) to penalties. Campion won the shoot-out 4-3 to take the Emerre & Hathaway Cup at Harry Barker Reserve last Saturday. Boys’ High went 1-0 up...

Whiteman, Trowell the winning skips in Bowls Gisborne East Coast Centre triples

The Bowls Gisborne East Coast Centre triples winners have been found. In the women's competition, the Kahutia team of Glenys Whiteman, Marie Wright and Paige Richter came through with a better differential than Te Karaka trio Sarah Brown, Del Tamanui...

Golf Roundup

Poverty BayPETE Kerekere and William “Wi” Brown reigned supreme at the Enterprise Motor Group men’s open foursomes on Saturday. But they had to come from behind to do it. Postman Kerekere and greenkeeper Brown overcame a two-shot deficit to win...

Barry Cup holders ready for Wairoa challenge

WAIROA are the latest sub-union to get a shot at wresting the Barry Cup off holders Waikohu at Te Karaka Domain tomorrow. Fronting with the best possible team is a mark of admiration by defenders and challengers alike and that's what Wairoa coach Sid...

Reid burns up the course

Tayler Reid turned in one of the performances of the day despite New Zealand finishing well out of the medals in the World Triathlon Mixed Relay in England. Gisborne triathlete Reid posted the second-fastest time for the Nottingham-based race, which...

Last school hurrah as Sam sets new course

CAMPION College’s loss will be Pirates’ gain as Sam Patterson prepares to play his last game for the school tomorrow. Poverty Bay medium pace bowler Patterson will farewell his teammates when Campion take on Bollywood Stars High School Old Boy in...

Out to get ‘job done’ at AIMS Games

GISBORNE athletes are among the thousands of students competing in the massively popular AIMS Games International Sporting Championships in the Bay of Plenty. This year’s Games have attracted 10,000 middle school students from 302 schools...

National positions

Mackey and Tangaere-Manuel bring wealth of experience to new governance roles in New Zealand Rugby

Results of Gisborne Speedway Club racing

RESULTS of Gisborne Speedway Club’s meeting at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night —Stockcars — Race 1: James Kirk (31G) 1, James Clarke (29G) 2, Jordon Fleetwood (16G) 3. Race 2: Clarke 1, Kirk 2, Jason Lovell (67G) 3. Race 3: Lovell...