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Fast and the furious

It was another busy day of Saturday sport in the district including these three battles — YMP versus Ngatapa in premier club rugby at Barry Park; Waituhi v YMP in Poverty Bay women's hockey at the turf at Harry Barker Reserve; and Whangara Old...

Night of close margins in summer league

DARTSIt was a night of close margins in the 2NZEF Association Summer Darts League. Dart stalwarts Stu and Ange Leach, back from over “the ditch”, 2NZ 6 Shooters winter league captain Alf Cross and 2NZ Say My Name team member Aimee Collier this...

Basketball match-up expected be a thriller

The men have been separated from the boys — now to find the cream of the crop. It has taken seven weeks but the where-were-you-when-it-happened moment of the 2017 men’s club basketball league has arrived. In Game 4 tonight, Scott Muncaster’s...

Hitting the ground running,Son got Dad to switch from league to bat and ball

AUCKLAND’S loss is Gisborne’s gain, says Tairawhiti Softball Association committee member Ray Noble, on the appointment of Roy Timoti as the new development officer for junior softball.“Roy hasn’t been in the district long but already the...

Coast u15 girls and Boys’ High u14s do well

The Ngati Porou East Coast under-15 girls' rugby team have had two superb days. Coaches David Newton and Laman Davies and manager Frankie Tihore are thrilled with their team's performance at the Hurricanes tournament in Levin. The Coast lost 30-14 to...

Ever-present for 30 regattas

Mareikura paddlers were there at the start of the waka ama national sprint championships in New Zealand in 1990 and have been at every one of the annual regattas since. Members celebrated their club’s attendance at all of the sprint nationals by...

Improvers go head to head

Claydens Waikohu take on arch-rivals Horouta Gold in a game that could go either way

Gisborne netballers win final

THE Gisborne under-15 netballers won their final against Trust Waikato Hamilton City Netball Centre Year 9 Blue in the North Island championships in New Plymouth to finish third in the C Grade of the tournament. The Gisborne girls dominated the final...

Around the greens

Poverty BayABRAHAM PLATE — Wednesday, September 20, sponsored by Ryman Healthcare. The format was mixed graded fours played over four games of 90 minutes. The winning team — Jeff and Joy Davis, Dave Hooper and Trish Leach — were unbeaten. They...

Old School in final,Second semi to be played next week

WE have found our first men’s finalists. Gisborne club basketball’s No. 1-seeded Old School beat fourth-placed East Coast 70-32 at the YMCA last night to advance to the club grand final on Saturday week (September 16).The Coast could not repeat...

Thistle draw, United win again

Gisborne Thistle got their first point in Pacific Premiership football this season with a 1-1 draw against Napier Marist in Gisborne on Saturday. Meanwhile, in Hawke’s Bay, a Josh Adams hat-trick propelled Gisborne United to a 6-2 victory over...

Super vets end season with win and loss

Eastland had a win and a loss in the final rounds of the 2019 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Auckland. They lost to Auckland (2) 5 matches to 4 and beat Hawke’s Bay 6-3. Eastland team members were Kevin Lee...

Tumbling on air

Gisborne Trampoline Club’s power tumblers will get their first taste of competitive action on a new air floor at the North Island Championships at Electrinet Sports Centre in Gisborne, starting on Friday.“We’ve had the floor, bought with the...

Early exit in Portugal a blow to Christie’s bid

GISBORNE/Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie has suffered a tough Round 3 loss overnight in the EDP Billabong Pro Cascais in Portugal. Surfing in messy, overhead waves, Christie had a difficult time finding the right waves and could put together a score of...

Turanganui a Kiwa darts

JONO Griffiths threw three 180s in Round 7 of grading in Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association play on Tuesday night. Griffiths, of Te Kuzzyz, threw the trio of 180s in his team’s 10-5 victory over the Tigers. Teammates Errol Tamihana and Toby Ratapu...

Striped marlin on the hook

A Napier boat and crew landed a 119kg striped marlin in the New Zealand Sports Fishing Competition being held this week. Fishing off Wahoo, Pete Draper caught the marlin east of Penguin Rocks and it took an hour to get the fish into the boat. The boat...

Te Kanawa Cup glory to Leggett, Reynolds

Been there, done that. And the plan is to do it again and again and again after Tony Leggett and Brad Reynolds became the 2018 Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs champions at Gisborne Park Golf Club on Sunday. Leggett and Reynolds defeated gallant lone...

Goldsbury, Whiteman top players

STEVE Goldsbury has won his fifth Bowls Gisborne-East Coast player of the year award, and Glenys Whiteman has won the women’s award a third time. These awards were presented at the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast annual prize-giving function. These awards...