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Pacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Napier City Rovers Reserves. 3pm: Marewa Park, Napier, Port Hill United v Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle. Eastern League 1, 12.30pm: Harry...

Poverty Bay secondary school girls’ cricket team in great form

These girls have taken Cambridge by storm. The Mel Knight-coached Poverty Bay secondary school girls’ cricket team today play their last round-robin match at the nine-a-side Northern Districts tournament in Cambridge. The Kayley Knight-led Bay were...

Turanga Tane too strong

Poverty Bay Rugby's development team Tūranga Tāne beat a spirited Tūranga Pasifika side in Gisborne last Saturday. The match was transferred to the Oval to preserve the Rugby Park surface for the Heartland game as rain was forecast. Despite the...

Hoskin and Thompson stand out

ALICIA Hoskin and Quaid Thompson gave standout performances at Blue Lakes 1, the first sprint kayaking regatta of the season. They dominated their races in both their own age group as well as older classes, and showed the benefits of solid base...

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkBART Watene won the men’s stableford with 41 points, one more than nearest rival Evan Morley. Sunday, (January 3) — men’s stableford: B Watene 41pts, E Morley 40pts, C Pipi 37pts. Twos: C Pipi. Approaches, nearest the pin: S...

Experienced teams shine

NETBALLTHE ability and experience of the higher-ranked premier-grade netball teams shone through at the YMCA last night with wins to the “Old Girls” teams. Whangara Old Girls trailed Tapuae after the first quarter but after that took charge to...

Final round for badminton masters

BADMINTONEastland masters will play their final round of the inter-association season at Gisborne’s Badminton Centre in Childers Road tomorrow. They will host Wellington (2), Horowhenua Kapiti (1), Horowhenua Kapiti (2) and Bay of Plenty...

Knight selected for U19 World Cup

Kayley Knight will long remember 2022. Poverty Bay and Northern Brave all-rounder Knight took her opportunities in India on the New Zealand women's cricket development tour last month and has earned selection for the NZ side to play in the inaugural...

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...

Winners learn from their losses

TENNISYOUNG tennis players who want to make it in the sport learn how to cope with losing and move on quickly to the next challenge, says long-time coach Noel Craft. Though the burn from losing is said to last longer than the satisfaction of winning...

Indoor arena to the rescue

The Show must go on . . . that was the mantra from riders, volunteers, supporters and judges when torrential rain fell on already sodden ground, creating a problem for the showjumpers. And that is where the Gisborne region really stands out...

Bridge results

Margie McKee, John Hudson 59.52 Vicki Nickerson, Hans van der Kuijl 58.33Caroline Kirkpatrick, Jeff Allen 53.57 Anne Roberts, Diana Styche 53.13Yvonne Waide, Eileen Lee 52.38 Delwyn Arthur, Murray Owen 51.19John Jones, Eileen Lee 64.55 Ann McCombe...

More equestrian results from Show

Results of equestrian competition at the Poverty Bay A&P Show —Jumping, Equissage Horse Grand Prix: Lily Tootill (Karaka) Ulysses NZPH 1; Maurice Beatson (Dannevirke) Mandalay Cove 2; Brooke Edgecombe (Waipukurau) LT Holst Andrea 3; Julie Davey...

Around the Greens

THE top two teams could not be separated when Poverty Bay Bowling Club held its first twilight triples tournament of the year last Thursday. The forecast heavy rain stayed away long enough for each of the teams to play two six-end games in the Star...

Silver Ferns test debut

It was not the winning start she was after but still a proud moment for Kimiora Poi and her whanau when she made her Silver Ferns test debut in a 54-41 loss to England in Liverpool yesterday. The 21-year-old Canterbury Tactix midcourter is pictured...

Picking up sticks week after next

HOCKEYTHE district’s senior hockey players have started training again as they prepare for their semifinals, which have been scheduled now to be played the week after next. Poverty Bay Hockey operations manager Louise Teneti said that providing the...

First loss of season for GBHS

OBR handed Gisborne Boys' High School their first defeat of the season in Doleman Cup cricket on Saturday. The victory was a team effort for Coastal Concrete OBR, whose batsmen, bowlers and fielders all chipped in. Galaxy World GBHS batted first and...

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkWAIKOHU’S Marg Tuapawa picked an appropriate event to burn up the course — the East Coast fire brigades tournament on Sunday. Tuapawa had not broken 100 since a round of 95 at the Hauraki course in October of 2014. She well and...