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Pre-season tournament to start action on the courts

NETBALLTHE Gisborne Netball Centre has confirmed dates for the start of the competition this year, with the Kathleen Henderson pre-season tournament to be staged on March 27. The senior competition begins on April 10, along with the youth competition...

Poverty Bay showing improvement

Jack Roberts is a solid individual. Two days into the Riverbend/Hawke’s Bay Year 6 White cricket tournament, the Poverty Bay captain is impressing as a student of the game who keeps things in perspective and leads by example. And that’s despite...

Both senior titles to Te Karaka

BOWLS by CrackerjackTE KARAKA teams won both the women’s and men’s senior champion of champions triples titles in Bowls Gisborne East Coast tournament play at Wairoa Bowling Club. Del Tamanui (skip), Mere Nepia (director) and Sarah Brown (lead)...

Staring at history

HISTORY-making driver Emma Gilmour has her eyes on another first when the New Zealand Rally Championship continues in Gisborne tomorrow. After becoming the first woman to win a New Zealand Rally Championship round — the Rally of Canterbury last...

Stars eye upset in first T15 Blast final

CRICKETThe end begins tonight. A huge chapter of the 2018-2019 cricket season will close at the Harry Barker Reserve from 5.15pm today, with the grand final of the inaugural Walker Shield T15 Blast between favourites the Smash Palace Bail-Breakers...

Looking forward and remembering the past

It's that time of year again, when bowlers start heading to the greens. Poverty Bay opened last weekend, and Gisborne, Kahutia and Tolaga Bay officially open this Saturday. With Covid-19 ending last season early, and a lot of club tournaments and the...

Kerr delivers

Century sets up first Bay victory of the season

Poverty Bay Heartland Championship rugby squad named

HEAD coach Mana Otai and assistant Dwayne Russell have named the Poverty Bay squad for the 2017 Heartland Rugby Championships. The squad has its first training tonight in preparation for a pre-season game against Wairarapa Bush on August 12 in...

Veterans shine on the greens: Awapuni Links course hosts Open, visitors enjoy great golf

A LOT of sun. A lot of fun. And a lot of good golf. That nicely summed up the 2021 Poverty Bay Veterans' Open, which ended with finals day on the Awapuni Links course yesterday. Fittingly, the Open Challenge Cup Group 1 matchplay final featured...

Wake-up call for Brock

GISBORNE-born boxer Shay Brock has kept his undefeated record after going blow for blow over eight rounds for a draw with the more experienced Gunnar Jackson. New Zealand super-welterweight champion Brock looked the goods for the first half of the...

Sobering experience

Sobering — the Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior A and Year 9-10 basketball teams had tough losses to Rotorua Boys’ High School in Gisborne on Sunday. The seniors lost 86-52, the juniors 72-64, but Y9-10 coach Ray Noble is pleased about his...

Sharks and Boys’ High big movers

FOOTBALLWAINUI and Gisborne Boys’ High School were the big movers in Eastern League 1 football last weekend. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks beat Carpet Court Thistle Massive 4-2 at Wainui, while Boys’ High beat Thistle Reserves 2-1 at Childers...

Thomsons triumph

TWO Gisborne married couples finished first and second in their section of the Morrinsville Golf Croquet Handicap Doubles Tournament. Ross and Betty Thomson played consistent croquet to win their section. Finishing second to them were fellow members...

Hot action on sand

Hot weather and even hotter action made Round 1 of Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach racing series a success. The track was so fast, engines blew up left, right and centre. In the senior open class, the sand flew as Graham Wedlake (Kawasaki...

Around the greens

Kahutia Bowling Club members had a double whammy for their Christmas Tournament. Cards were completed to decide placings for the Harold Powell Memorial Shield competition, while a lucky draw determined who got what in the Heavy Equipment...

First-timer Norris wins demo derby

DEMOLITION derby veteran Neil Gooch — in his 100th derby — was the “last man standing” at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night, but the winner was a woman. The 20 cars in the entertaining finale to Gisborne Speedway Club’s last...

Penalty shoot-out decides placing

GISBORNE Boys’ High School lost their playoff game in a penalty shoot-out at the Super 8 football tournament at Hastings last week. It meant they finished sixth of the eight North Island high school teams taking part. Since 1999, the highest...

Midway dominate at Gisborne-Tairawhiti junior champs

Midway Surf Life Saving Club rebounded from a disappointing Eastern Regional Championship showing by dominating the Gisborne-Tairawhiti junior champs at the weekend. The district's up-and-coming surf athletes produced a memorable carnival in which...