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Bridge results

MONDAY, September 25 – Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 8 (Howell movement) Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 62.92 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 62.38 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 57.14 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 57.14 Diana Styche, Joy Marden...

Surf City women’s F Grade take away national superchamps title

SQUASH Surf City Squash Club achieved one championship, two runners-up spots and two top-four placings in the national superchamps week held around the country. The women’s F Grade team won their tournament in New Plymouth, beating Geyser City...

Rub of the green impacts season

Gisborne Thistle had the second-best scoring record in Central Football’s Federation League, and the worst defensive record. Their goals for couldn’t keep pace with their goals against and so they finished second-last in a five-team competition...

ON THE MATS

Andrew Rickard, son Adam and daughter Rachael have won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls Centre Closing Trios in a one-sided final. They beat Malcolm Trowell, Lois Lamont and Mike Foster 11-5. After four ends of nine, the Rickards were in...

McKenzie Shield won by Gis Bowling Club

The advantages of an artificial green were evident again when play in the McKenzie Shield Open Mixed Triples was able to go ahead at Poverty Bay Bowling Club on a sunny day after heavy overnight rain. Three games of 90 minutes were played in the...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Tuesday night league INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: A Taukamo-Pohio 2 (2NZEF TAO Vikings); K Arahanga 2 (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); J Ahuriri, T Ratapu (2NZEF TAO Spartans); H Woollett (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach (RSA Outlaws); M Evans (RS...

Bay take on table-toppers

Poverty Bay have their toughest game of the season when they take on undefeated South Canterbury at Paddy’s Park, Patutahi, tomorrow. And unless things go their way, it could also be their last game of the year. The final round-robin matches of...

Charity tourney tees off on Sunday at PB

The Eagles Golfing Society of Gisborne Charity Golf Tournament is at the Poverty Bay course on Sunday. There is a two-tee start from 9am to 10.45am. Format is gross, net and stableford in men’s and women’s divisions; also a 9-hole section and...

Win or lose ‘It’s that simple’

The must-win game of the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi Sky Blues’ season is upon them. NPEC travel to Rugby Park, Waihi, to play the Thames Valley Swamp Foxes at 2pm tomorrow. The fourth-placed Coast — like Thames Valley and Whanganui — have...

Gisborne high schoolers selected for cluster development camp

Waikato-Bay of Plenty Zone has named a stack of Gisborne netball players for the Magic in the Making development camps. The Gisborne players have been named in the third cluster of four, to attend a selection session in Tauranga at the city’s...

Bay end losing streak to keep Lochore Cup hopes alive

Away from home, on the brink of being out of Lochore Cup contention and on a five-game losing streak . . . Poverty Bay were up against a lot of factors in Week 7 of the Heartland Championship. They responded with a 31-17 win over Horowhenua Kapiti...

Open win to Smith in all-BoP final

They’ll be back. The two men who carried out a Bay of Plenty takeover of the 2023 Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open are likely to return to the scene of their domination in six weeks time. Mark Smith, of Rotorua golf club Springfield...

First surfing comp for many

Raglan surfers Luca Thompson and Alani Morse won the two major titles at the primary school surfing championships that finished at Makorori Beach yesterday. Morse retained the Year 7 and 8 girls’ division title she’d won the previous year. For...

Gisborne Club Darts results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: F Waihape, P Waihape (2NZEF TAO Spartans); K Arahanga, H Ngarangione (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach, T Reeves (RSA Outlaws); C Reiri, G Vaotu’ua 2 (2NZEF Rebels); A Taukamo-Pohio...

Gisborne teen into PB Open semis

Zach Rolls was happy enough just to have qualified for the top 16 at the Poverty Bay Open. This morning he teed off as one of the last four in the title hunt. The 18-year-old local pulled off two of the biggest wins in his budding career yesterday -...

BoP boys serve notice

Bay of Plenty’s Mark Smith and Craig Van Der Nagel came to town to scope out the Awapuni Links course for the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial in November. They liked what they saw. Both men perhaps predictably qualified for the Keiha Cup...

Gisborne athletes on global stage

Individual wins to Midway’s Cory Taylor and Olivia Corrin and Waikanae’s Briana Irving and Michael Hanna highlighted the Kiwi effort on days 1 and 2 of the International Surf Rescue Challenge in the United States. The event is being held at...

Everyone’s a winner at Poverty Bay

Members of all bowling clubs had an opportunity to play in the Abraham Plate Mixed Open Fours on Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s new artificial green. On a beautiful sunny day, the winning team of John Kora (skip), Dawson Owen (director), Joan Gledhill...