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Gisborne netball draw

PAK’nSAVE Gisborne Netball, Saturday —Senior Round 3, Week 4. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and take out bins: Lytton Senior B, Gisborne Girls’ High School Junior A. Duty team to control scorecard room for...

Midway, Waikanae win gold

SURF LIFESAVINGGOLD medals to Waikanae beach sprinter Chloe Kapene and Midway board rescuers Jack Lepper and Tyron Evans were Gisborne highlights from Day 1 of the Ocean Athletes New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui...

In the trenches, backs to the wall

Uawa just picked up their first win of the season — 28-27 against Ruatoria City on Saturday. The score at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park in Ruatoria was as true a measure of City's courageous match-effort as it was of Uawa's rugby nous and ability...

An outstanding year: Campion add Braybrook Cup to first league title

Campion College beat Bohemians 4-0 on Sunday to win the Braybrook Cup final and complete the double for Gisborne women's football. Campion had clinched their first women's Eastern League title with a late goal in the last game of the competition...

Composite side outgun Tairawhiti in opener

The National Maori hockey tournament started in Gisborne last night with a hard-fought and entertaining encounter between a Tairawhiti men’s team and a Nga Hau e Wha composite side. Nga Hau e Wha won 4-2. This is the first time the tournament has...

Introducing . . . the George Bridge Shield

Primary school rugby has a new trophy to play for — the George Bridge Shield. It is designed to be a smaller-schools counterpart to the Weka Ball, which is Poverty Bay primary school rugby's equivalent of the Ranfurly Shield. The inaugural game for...

Eastland in action at junior badminton nationals

EASTLAND had some close matches on Day 2 of the junior badminton nationals in Palmerston North. Competing in Division 3, Eastland lost to Manawatu (2) 10-6 and to Taranaki 15-1. Against Manawatu, it was 4-4 after the doubles. Manawatu dominated the...

Waikohu raring to go

RUGBYWAIKOHU are the Poverty Bay club rugby champions but they haven’t had a win on the park against their first 2019 opponents, High School Old Boys, in more than a year.“We can’t wait to play HSOB,” Waikohu premier coach Jason Tuapaw...

GOLF ROUNDUP

The clubhouse was nearly empty. The course was nearly in darkness. But two intrepid Barns-Graham Cup men's pairs were still plodding the fairways as 19th-hole glasses were stacked and stragglers headed to the carpark bound for their warm homes and...

Attitude the ‘big fix’

The attitude was a bit off. Defensive lapses and lack of physical ferocity had Poverty Bay on the back foot against South Canterbury, who stormed to a 37-8 lead before winning 40-29 at Rugby Park on Saturday.“A bit off the pace, mentally” was how...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, February 7 — Summer Pairs 2 (Howell movement): Elizabeth Jackson/Carolyn McMurray 61.67; Helen Kerisome/Pippa Williams 59.58; Joy Marden/Yvonne Key 57.92; Jean Bennett/Robin Bennett 54.17. WEDNESDAY, February 8 — Summer Pairs...

Gisborne district bridge results

MONDAY, April 9 — Harcourts Vicki Taylor Pairs 2North/South East/WestRaewynne Cook/Trish Corson 61.01 Jean Turnbull/Caroline Taylor 60.71Linda White/John Rouse 54.17 Bette Parker/Carolyn McMurray 59.82Glenys Evans/Hans van der Kuijl 53.87 Pamel...

YMP win battle royal

One point the margin until last few minutes

Second PB Open women's title won by Tess McDonald

THE No. 1 spot in the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty representative team is in the sights of Poverty Bay women’s open champion Tessa McDonald.“Hopefully I can be,” the 22-year-old told The Herald yesterday after earning her second Poverty Bay women’s...

Black Fins seek Euro double whammy

GISBORNE surf lifesaver Laura Quilter has history to inspire her heading into a double whammy of international action in Europe. Auckland-based Wainui club member Quilter and Gold Coast-based Midway clubbie Chris Dawson are in the seven-strong New...

Golf roundup

A tall mountain but not unconquerable. That's the attitude Rod Moore will take into the challenge of facing top qualifier and the district's lowest-handicapped player — Anaru Reedy — in the men's club championship finals on Sunday. Moore and Reedy...

Close racing in BMX summer series

RACING was close across most age-groups as 58 riders contested another round of Gisborne BMX Club’s summer series on Tuesday night. StridersZara Law and Sophie Foss led the pack over their five motos, with Tenzing McKinnon, Braden and Travis Foss...

PB Sevens team named this week

POVERTY Bay sevens coaches Dwyane Russell, Chris Neill and Brent Mokomoko will to name their team to compete at the Waikato Sevens tournament on November 25.“We’re close to naming a 14-man squad, which will be reduced to 12 for the regionals on...