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Beattie wins her 30th centre title

GISBORNE Bowling Club teams won the Gisborne-East Coast men’s and women’s centre open triples on their home greens at the weekend. Bobbie Beattie (skip), Tanya Harrison and Barbara Gibson took out the open women’s competition to win the Blair...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

DEEVON Gray showed he is a force to contend with as he advanced to the quarterfinals of the senior men’s club championships at the weekend. Among the matches played, Gray defeated last year’s runner-up Rodney Moore 2 and 1. To go any further...

Tumbling up the ranks

TRAMPOLININGWatching Lily Rolls tumble down the mats, her coach remarks on the talent and potential the teenager possesses. The 13-year-old cartwheeled her way down the mat with ease and poise beyond her years. Rolls recently travelled to Auckland to...

Bohemians’ rookies continue to improve

Gisborne Bohemians have long been at the bottom of the table but have continued to improve phenomenally in the women’s football league this season. They lost 3-2 to Campion College on Sunday but it did not feel like it, Bohs player Tami Gooch...

GBHS banking on the basics

RUGBYIt’s game 1. At 1pm tomorrow rugby fans will see the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 play their season opener at home against Lindisfarne College. GBHS head coach Mark Jefferson has as his team’s priorities the unchanging basics: “We...

Interest high for GBA Draft League

BASKETBALL by Ben O’Brien-LeafLife, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a constant drive to be better: the Gisborne Basketball Association strives to achieve these goals. And the sporting body whose administrators rarely rest are putting on...

Final shape of top four to be found tomorrow

THE final shape of Gisborne premier-grade netball's top four will be determined at the YMCA tomorrow night. One result is highly predictable; the other is not. YMP (1) sit unassailably on top of the table followed by the equally uncatchable Claydens...

OBR will rebound from setback

Be in no doubt that OBR will get back on track. And Craig Christophers’ Rawhiti Legal Old Boys Rugby — hitherto Senior B club cricket’s unbeaten competition leaders — will use tomorrow’s Round 14 clash with Siteworx Horouta to do so. OBR...

Hendrie and Bates shine

Nic Hendrie, Poverty Bay Cricket Association’s operations manager, who plays club cricket in Bay of Plenty, has helped his club win the Northern Districts (ND) club championship. His Tauranga club, Greerton, will represent ND in this year’s...

Indoor bowls news

Nathan Trowell and Matthew Foster, representing Gisborne Boys’ High School, are the 2018 North Island secondary schools’ indoor bowls pairs champions. It was one-way traffic from start to finish in the pairs, held at Mt Maunganui. Foster was on...

Getting it right for the young creates platform for adults

Sport New Zealand’s 2017 participation survey examined how much people take part in sport and why. Among the findings:— Young people spend on average 11 hours in 5.4 sports and activities a week while adults average 5.3 hours in 2.3 sports and...

Club bowls news

Poverty BayClose games were a feature of the Poverty Bay Bowling Club championship open pairs held at the weekend using the two-life system. The women’s final was won by Jan Powell (skip) and Kathryn Flaugere, who defeated Diane Christie (s) and...

Twilight League netball competition cancelled, options to be discussed

Gisborne Netball Centre has cancelled the scheduled Twilight League due to issues relating to competition management under current Covid alert levels.“Upon discussing the latest level announcements, we are gutted to say we will be cancelling the...

Cup generating a buzz

RUGBYThere’s a buzz about Wednesday. Two weeks in, rugby’s Courage Cup is generating excitement and enthusiasm amongst players, referees and supporters. Hundreds are turning out to these games. Team Charlie Ngatai and cup holders Team...

Hectic 48 hours . . .

They were the most hectic 48 hours in club basketball since opening night, 1998. The men on Monday and the women last night produced a head-spinning raft of close games. In the men’s A Grade, Gisborne Boys’ High School Black won their first game...

A good kind of crazy for Gisborne Thistle

Gisborne Thistle must be crazy if they think they can travel to Palmerston North, play on unfamiliar artificial turf and take at least a share of the points from the second-placed team in the league. That’d be a good kind of crazy, mind. Sports...

Weekend sports pics

Top teams have all lost once

All of the top three teams in Gisborne premier netball have now lost after YMP defeated previously unbeaten High School Old Girls at Victoria Domain on Saturday. YMP Sunshine Brewing produced their performance of the season so far in comprehensively...