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Close contests on the cards in women’s games

HOCKEYTHE hockey round this week promises to produce some enthralling contests and none more so than the round opener tonight between GMC Green and Ngatapa in the top four of the women’s competition. Several other games this weekend look set to be...

Nate Miller remembered

Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League starts this weekend, with the Nate Miller Memorial Tournament to celebrate the life of a talented and respected player. All six local teams will compete in a day-long tournament at Ngatapa rugby grounds at Patutahi...

School teams provide highlight

High school teams provided the highlight of premier-grade netball in Gisborne on Saturday. Gisborne Girls' High School beat Ritana Senior A from Lytton High 25-23 in a clash that lived up to expectations. Lytton led 6-4 at the end of the first quarter...

Bryant champion again

SurfingIt was a homecoming of sorts. Home to a surf spot down the road from where he lived, home to the scene of past victories and home to the peak of New Zealand waveski surfing. Nigel Bryant is national waveski surfing champion again, triumphing...

Point to prove for CL

They’ve put it all back on. The GBA men’s club basketball league is now the same size that it was last year — its biggest ever — with 12 teams in action at the YMCA and the John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre of Gisborne Boys’ High...

Big win for HSOG against Whangara

Defending premier grade champions High School Old Girls made short work of Whangara Old Girls in the match of the day in senior netball at Victoria Domain on Saturday. The other winners in PAK'nSAVE premier grade were Claydens Waikohu, YMP Sunshine...

Leach mixes it with the heavy hitters

GISBORNE man Stu Leach won’t forget his first taste of darts at the highest level. Brisbane-based Leach lost 6-0 to defending champion Adrian Lewis, of England, but by no means disgraced himself in the Auckland Masters at the Trusts Arena last...

Golf roundup

MahiaCHRIS “Gid” Pitman produced one of the top performances in the long history of the Fiordland Lobster Mahia Men’s Open tournament over the weekend. His rounds of 75 and 74 off a 12-handicap were justifiably rewarded with the premier title...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Kayne Arahanga 3, Tyson Eyles 2, Irie Eyles (2NZ Kings); Matt Reedy 2, Sha Hohipa (Cossy Done & Dusted); Darryle Nepe (Roseland Say My Name); John Collier (Roseland).Irie Eyles (2NZ Kings); Darryle Nepe (Roseland Say My Name).Hunter Eyles. Kayne...

Farewell to world tennis champion Matemauroa Mose Harvey

NGATI Porou world tennis champion Matemauroa Mose Harvey passed away on Sunday at the age of 82. Mr Harvey was the first New Zealander to win a world singles title when he won the International Tennis Federation World Super Seniors Tennis...

McDonald beaten on the 18th

GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald was beaten on the 18th hole as Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay halved with Otago at the national women’s interprovincial tournament in Napier this morning. McDonald, playing No. 1 for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay, lost 1-down...

Ball experiences top amateur competition

GOLFTHE representative career of Gisborne teenager Ellen Ball took a huge leap forward in her national women’s interprovincial debut in Napier yesterday. Gisborne Girls’ High School student Ball was brought in at No. 5 in the five-woman Hawke’s...

Brouwer has his feet planted

FORMER Gisborne Boys’ High School and Thistle midfielder Jarom Brouwer has been named in Team Wellington’s youth squad and the Miramar Rangers under-19 team. But this apprentice electrician, who has yet to turn 18, has his feet firmly on the...

Champions in rugby, netball

SUPER 11GISBORNE Intermediate have won the Super 11 open-weight rugby tournament for the first time. They beat Tauranga in golden-point extra time after levelling the scores with a late try in regulation time. The win was especially gratifying as...

Buller on top-four target

BULLER maintained their bid for a spot in the Heartland Championship top-four playoffs with a 54-17 win against Ngati Porou East Coast at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, on Saturday. The home side were no match for a Buller team who took advantage of...

Classic Maori league experience

SOME weekends you don’t forget in a hurry. Such was the case for Te Tairawhiti at the New Zealand Maori Rugby League National Tuakana Tournament in Rotorua.“Dan Taituha and I had the time of our lives and we’ve been involved in rugby league for...

On the mats: Indoor Bowls news

Nathan Trowell continued his great run of form, winning the zone final of the New Zealand Henselite Singles in Whakatane on his 16th birthday. He was in a league of his own, going through the day unbeaten with wins against Tauranga 16-10, Thames...

Storm-fed conditions perfect for surf champs

LOCAL favourites Ricardo Christie and Maz Quinn dominated Day 1 of the Health 2000 National Surfing Championships at Midway Beach, Gisborne, yesterday. Christie justified his early favourite tag by posting a 14.67-point total to move through to the...