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OBR and Ngatapa the teams to beat as Hope Cup semis loom

CRICKETWhat wouldn't any cricket team do to have just one of them?Opening batsmen Craig Christophers and Thom Berry again laid the platform for victory at the Harry Barker Reserve in Round 14: two weeks out from the Hope Cup semi-finals, their club...

Set to be one of the best so far

NETBALLONE of the matches of the season so far — that’s the game between High School Old Girls and Whangara Old Girls at the YMCA tomorrow night. Taste One HSOG have emerged as title contenders after steadily improving in Pak’nSave premier...

Gisborne club receives award for Squash New Zealand Club of the Year

Surf City Squash 'deserves every accolade received'

Tallott and Mackay on attack

Scott Tallott and Baxter Mackay are great entertainers. Their match-winning partnership of 112 in pursuit of 120 saw Bollywood High School Old Boys beat Old Boys Rugby by nine wickets to stay at the top of the premier grade table two games into the...

Close games likely in women’s competition

HOCKEYTHE female component of the weekend hockey draw has “close call” written all over it. All four women’s matches are likely to be tight affairs in the most even-looking round so far this season. The pick of them will be the game between YMP...

Campbell twins have it all before them

TWINS Cory and Kodi Campbell are on the cusp of new beginnings. This weekend they contest the Waka Ama New Zealand long-distance nationals in Hawke’s Bay. As individuals they will compete in the Junior 19 women’s rudderless W1 10-kilometre race...

Scott makes it three wins from three

GISBORNE’S national 10-kilometre open swim champion Matt Scott held off a strong challenge from Rotorua’s David Boles to win the Legend of the Lake race at Rotorua’s Blue Lake at the weekend. Scott, now based in Auckland, was competing in the...

‘Another legend gone too soon’

NGATI Porou East Coast Rugby Football Union is among the many to have paid tribute to former player Willie Collins, who died in a diving incident in Wellington at the weekend. Wellington-based Collins, a cousin of All Black Jerry Collins who was...

Aims Games

SwimmingFinals — Jodiesha Kirkpatrick (Gis Int), 12yrs girls age group: 1st in 200 metres breaststroke; 2nd in 100 individual medley; 1st in 50m breaststroke; 3rd in 100m butterfly; 2nd in 200m IM; 8th in 200m freestyle; 1st in 100m breaststroke...

Badge marks '50' milestone for Whiteman and Jefferson

GLENYS Whiteman preferred tennis to bowls, but her husband Alex’s encouragement wore her down and she tried the game at Riverhead, near Kumeu north of Auckland, in the late 1970s. Almost 40 years later she has reached the milestone of 50 centre...

Gisborne judoka bring back 24 medals

Gisborne Judo Club members came away from the Western Bay of Plenty Area Judo Championships with nine gold, nine silver and six bronze medals. Twenty Gisborne athletes were represented in all fighting classes — from juniors to masters — in the...

Poverty Bay club hockey's golden day

“LET the Games begin” will ring out over Rio tomorrow when the 2016 Olympic Games are officially opened and it is fitting that Poverty Bay club hockey’s champions will be decided on the same day. The intensity, thrills, agony and ecstasy of...

‘Green Machine’ level playing field

GMC Green inflicted the first defeat of the season on defending champions YMP A in senior women’s hockey on Saturday. The “Green Machine” scored the only goal of the match. Hockey commentator Tony Scragg said the result was healthy for the...

Pardoe retains SUP Maori title

NGATI POROU surfer Geoff Pardoe, of Gisborne, retained his stand-up paddleboard (SUP) title and finished runner-up in the longboard at the Aotearoa Maori Surfing Titles at Waitara, Taranaki, over the weekend. And while Pardoe was the only Gisborne...

Poverty Bay win their second 30-over match at cricket camp

Poverty Bay have now tasted victory. The Jimmy Holden-coached Mixed Schools team won their second 30-over match at the Riverbend Year 8B cricket camp by 15 runs. The Bay achieved victory over Whanganui yesterday morning with a great performance but...

Poverty Bay players to debut new shirts in Napier

Poverty Bay players will be sporting newly designed uniforms for their Ranfurly Shield challenge tomorrow and a lot of thought has been put into it. The strips will still be the traditional scarlet in colour to stay true to the region but will also...

Cup games abandoned

ALL three Doleman Cup cricket games at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday were abandoned at 5.30pm. After rain delayed the start of the games, scheduled for 40 overs but reduced to 30, Pirates, Gisborne Boys’ High School and competition leaders OBR...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

The Roseland Tavern Drawn PairsOn Sunday, Gisborne Club Darts Association members gathered at the Roseland Tavern for the Drawn Pairs Association Trophy. This is a unique tournament where the pairings are given a handicap dependent on their make-up...