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Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: R Te Kira (Brezz’n Silver); J Noanoa (Rebels); K Arahanga 3 (Stallions); M Reeves (Outlaws); J Campbell-Ratapu, J Horua (Vikings); J Ahuriri (Spartans); M Evans (Spandangles); T Kaio (Done n Dusted). Highest start...

Anzac Champs racing tomorrow

Eastland Kart Club members will hold their Anzac Champs tomorrow. Racing starts at 10am. For weather updates, check the club Facebook page. To find the track, turn into Aerodrome Road off Awapuni Road

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Individual highlights 180s: Te Kotahi Kaio (Tigers). Highest start (140): Mihi Waihape 2 (Waihape Whanau). Highest finish (132): Ripeka Te Kira (Ruahine Tahi). Most tons, men (15): John Love (Falcons). Most tons, women (8): Mihi Awatere (Ruahine...

Parafed Gisborne Tairāwhiti team ‘attitude’ recognised

HALBERG GAMES Parafed Gisborne Tairāwhiti won the Team Spirit of the Games Award at the Halberg Games in Auckland this month. The award acknowledged the team’s positivity, encouragement, motivation, resilience and winning attitude throughout the...

Pairs title earns star for Rickard

by Horsey Seventeen-year-old Rachael Rickard has been awarded her silver star for winning five Poverty Bay-East Coast Centre indoor bowls titles. She was in top form, partnering Lois Lamont to win the centre women’s pairs event to earn her silver...

Thistle without several key players

Gisborne Thistle will be several men down when they play Central Federation League leaders Napier City Rovers Feds in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow. Centreback Matt Smith aggravated a calf injury in the 1-1 draw with Taradale last week, midfielder Cory...

Gisborne Giants superstock team to race in Auckland

The Gisborne Giants superstock team will be in action tomorrow night in the ‘Teams Nationals’ event held at the Waikaraka Raceway in Auckland. They go into the titles in red hot form after two great meetings racing at the Eastland Group Raceway...

Pennants head to Tolaga Bay

Tolaga Bay have a great chance of a bounceback performance when they hosts rounds 3 and 4 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants tomorrow. The Uawa club had a disastrous start to the 2023 series at Patutahi last weekend. They won just one of...

Tough task ahead for the YMP Bumbles

Sometimes a mean streak comes in handy. And tomorrow the YMP Bumbles under Tony Barbarich have an assignment requiring that they be ornery in excelsis. Hooker Keanu Barbarich and first five-eighth Reihana Wyllie will lead YMP away for their clash...

Young guns fire: Rolls and Gray show their potential

A couple of rising left-handers could be an important part of the future for Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golf. Zach Rolls, who turned 18 this week, has been steadily progressing since bursting on to the scene as a youngster. He has been...

Sports draws

RUGBY The rugby draw for SATURDAY. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay rugby, premier grade, Week 3. 2.45pm: Larsawn Ngatapa v East Coast Farm Vets YMP, Paddy’s Park 1, Patutahi. Referee: Ben Holt. GT Shearing Waikohu v Enterprise Cars OBM, Te...

Red leotards feature in Tri Star Comp

by Marilyn Callahan The red leotards of Gisborne Trampoline Club were again to the fore in all areas at the Tri Star Competition in Auckland this month. From a team of six athletes, each team member won at least one medal. They returned with a total...

Golf croquet titles to Humphreys and Elzen

Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s golf croquet club champs are done and dusted. The championships were split into open and intermediate sections, the latter for players with handicaps of nine and over. Unfortunately, entry numbers for both sections...

Winning start for Senior 1 new boys Uawa

The Senior 1 club rugby season is off to a rip-roaring start. Two-time defending champions Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic beat their hosts OBM 29-5, the Nuhaka V8s — team No. 3 in last year’s semifinals — beat Ngatapa Harvest Matawhero...

Swansong match for Uawa vet Mathias

He and his boy came in, did a job and did it well. Veteran tight-forward John Mathias — who is shortly to return to Otago after three seasons with Ngāti Porou East Coast club rugby titans Uawa — played for five different clubs down south over...

Fitting finale for Speedway season thanks to massive volunteer effort

The local speedway season ended on Saturday with a spectacular finale befitting the derring-do, never-say-die attitude of the Gisborne Speedway Club. An organisation built on enduring club spirit took on the uncertainties of the weather and won...

’Tahi 1 set pennants pace

Home-course team Patutahi (1) flexed their muscles with a near-perfect return in the opening rounds of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub golf pennants on Saturday. Patutahi’s four-man team beat Te Puia Springs 6-2 in Round 1 on the Patutahi course...

Honours shared in Jags’ Fed opener

Gisborne Thistle opened their Central Federation League football campaign with a 1-1 draw against Taradale in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Striker Jimmy Somerton scored seven minutes before halftime for ALH Thistle and former Jags rightback Brandon...