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Wairoa turns it on for Challenge

WAIROA turned on the weather and the community support for the Tairawhiti Secondary Schools Mountain Bike Challenge at Papa Paihikara Maunga, the Wairoa mountain bike park, on Thursday. The event was a cross-country event, which meant a mix of uphill...

McVey outstanding, on and off the ball

FOOTBALLMATT McVey was the beating heart of a Lytton High School team who defeated QRS Wairoa Athletic 4-1 in Eastern League Division 1 football at Lytton on Saturday. Central midfielder McVey was the standout player of the game, making his presence...

Legends love to play

The greats of the game came out to play on Saturday in a hard-fought game between Poverty Bay Legends and Ngati Porou East Coast Legends. Despite some grey hairs and ageing bodies, both teams put on a showcase of skill in a high-scoring affair won by...

Wka Ball challenge fun

Poverty Bay Kayak Club chart-toppers at Canoe Sprint Championships

Poverty Bay Kayak Club has topped the medal tally at this year's New Zealand and Oceania Canoe Sprint Championships. With 17 gold medals across the weekend of racing, the Gisborne club finished with one more gold medal than Arawa Canoe Club. Local...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

180s: C Waikawa (2NZ Tao Spartans); P Stewart 2 (Sugar & Spice); A Taukamo-Pohio 2, A Kaiwai (2NZ Tao Vikings); L Kaa (2NZ Rebels); J Witika (Cossy Eastland Asphalts); J Love, I Kaio-Wynyard 2, J White, T Kaio (Cossy Done n Dusted); T O'Neill (Sugar...

Deadly duo

GISBORNE shooter Aaron Manson was a man on a double mission as he prepared for the South Island International Practical Shooting Confederation championships in Dunedin. And it proved a case of mission accomplished when the North Island IPSC open...

Waikohu on the cusp of top four

CLAYDENS Waikohu are on the verge of making premier-grade netball’s top four after a 62-35 win against Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A on Saturday. The win, in what was Waikohu’s last points competition game of the Gisborne Pak’nSave...

Blind Foundation team celebrate success

BOWLSThe Gisborne Blind Foundation indoor bowls team came home with a New Zealand title from this year’s national championships. Nola Burgess, with guide Wendy Davies, won the women’s singles in the total blindness category. Every year in October...

Gisborne - East Coast sports draws

CyclingSATURDAY — Gisborne Cycling Club ride (no racing)1.30pm at Nelson Rd Cemetery for a group ride. All visitors very welcome. FootballSATURDAY — PACIFIC PREMIERSHIP, 2.30pm: CRR 1, Gisborne Thistle v Western Rangers. EASTERN LEAGUE DIVISION...

Solomann puts in a perfect performance

TWENTY-two years ago David Solomann etched his name into Poverty Bay-East Coast golfing history as a surprise winner of the 1995 Poverty Bay men’s open. Yesterday the now-41-year-old added another chapter — this time with a perfect performance on...

Summer championship results

GISBORNE club swimmers who placed in the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay summer championships at the Olympic Pool this month —(Enterprise): boys' 10-year 50-metre butterfly, third; 100m freestyle, third; 200m individual medley (10-and-under), first; 200m...

Speedway grand finale off

GISBORNE Speedway Club hopes to begin next season with the meeting it had planned as the grand finale of the 2019-20 season, as it abides by the Covid-19 restrictions. The club had scheduled a massive two-night meeting for early April.“We had 40...

New name and new game

GREENWOOD George Duncan would never be the same after he met Neil “Chopper” Summersby. He wouldn’t be called Greenwood by many, for a start. Chopper had a position of authority at Williams and Kettle, where the 16-year-old Duncan lad had started...

Draw for junior softball

Emerging Sox intermediate softball (Years 7 and 8) — 9am: D1, Horouta Tangaroa v Mighty Taua Batters; D2, Muriwai v Ilminster. Rookie Sox primary softball (Years 5 and 6) — 9am: D3, Horouta Tai Hura v Te Wharau Blue Sox; D4, Kaiti Rangatira v...

Brian Lochore ‘a genuine legend’

RUGBYWellington — New Zealand rugby is mourning the loss of All Black legend Brian Lochore, who has died aged 78. Lochore, who captained New Zealand in 18 tests during their golden era of the 1960s and coached the All Blacks to the inaugural Rugby...

Showjumping results

RESULTS from Day 1 of the Larsen Sawmilling Showjumping Championships in GisborneShowjumping, Australia versus New Zealand Young Rider: Australia (Mitchell Peulic, Jasmine Dennison, Madeline Sinderberry and Stephanie MacKillop) 1, New Zealand (Briar...

City Lights, Boys’ High win big

BASKETBALLIt was as expected. In Week 9 of the Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club competition, City Lights and Gisborne Boys’ High School Black beat Dragons (82-45) and SE Systems (71-32) respectively at the John McFarlane Memorial Sports...