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Kennedy pockets singles title

KEVIN Kennedy marvels at the skill of the best snooker players in the world. But he’s not a bad exponent with the cue himself. It was not exactly the sort of performance Englishman Mark Selby turned on to win the world championship at snooker’s...

Number 1: YMP retain title in women’s A-grade club hockey

YMP reigned supreme in Poverty Bay women's A-grade club hockey in another chapter of their long-time rivalry with GMC Green. The “Black Beauties” beat “The Green Machine” 3-2 in a penalty shootout in the final on the blue turf at Harry Barker...

Gisborne their new home

Zimbabwean family cherish welcome they received

Rain dampens drivers' spirits in Stratford

THE five Gisborne drivers who made the finals of the New Zealand streetstock championship in Stratford at the weekend came home disappointed after the meeting was called off because of rain. Father and son Trevor and Ben McArthur, brothers Brenden...

Camp a good team bonding experience

EIGHT up-and-coming Gisborne female judo players travelled with their coach from Gisborne for a training camp in Wellington. Gisborne Judo Club coach Jason King has coached at the camp for the last four years and had taken a contingent of local...

Came home to play with ‘big bro and the brothers’

AFTER 22 years, Kareti Palmer has finally got one over on big brother Kris. The Hikurangi hooker was named Ngati Porou East Coast Heartland player of the year at the end-of-season prize-giving.“For as long as I can remember, I have been in the...

YMP now team to beat

HOCHEYYMP A are now the team to beat in senior men’s hockey after they defeated previous high-flyers THC 5-2 at the weekend. THC went into the match as favourites, but the result gives the defending men’s champions plenty to ponder. The men’s...

Bright star of the track

Gisborne speedway fraternity mourns stalwart member

Top guns here to mentor Ocean Warriors

SURF LIFESAVING

Uphill for Horouta cricket after DJ Barry Cup semis

A MAN-of-the-match performance from OBR medium-pace bowler Jimmy Holden has almost certainly ended Horouta’s hopes of a place in the DJ Barry Cup semifinals after the penultimate game in the round-robin format at the weekend. Horouta went into the...

Lower grades set for playoffs fight

The top-four match-ups across the senior grades in Gisborne netball tomorrow have quality and excitement written all over them. Game 1 in each grade will be the match between first and second seeds, and the winners go direct to their finals on August...

First centre title to Gisborne's Davy

BEVERLY Davy celebrated her breakthrough open centre title when she combined with Robin Jefferson in the Gisborne-East Coast 2-4-2 mixed pairs championship on the Gisborne club greens. Gisborne club captain Davy and centre president Jefferson did...

GOLF ROUNDUP

GOLF-loving teachers are making the most of their last days of summer holidays. Central School principal Andy Hayward celebrated a career-first hole-in-one on Sunday while fellow teacher Stefan Andreassen made his 10th round of golf for 2020 one he...

Still the champions

Gisborne United retained the Eastern League division 1 title with a 5-2 win against Gisborne Boys’ High School at the Rectory field on Saturday. Two goals to player-coach Stu Cranswick and one each to strike partner Aubrey Yates and midfielders...

Last big event of year a success

Tairawhiti secondary school sport's last major event of the year was a resounding success, tournament organisers say. Schools from across Gisborne came together to compete in the Quick Rip Festival, run by the Poverty Bay Rugby Football...

Gave it a crack, now he's back

ETHINE Reeves makes his first Heartland Championship appearance of the season when Poverty Bay host North Otago in a crucial clash at Rugby Park tomorrow (2.30pm kick-off).Reeves, who has not worn the red jersey since the Bay’s Queen’s Birthday...

Personal-best times for Gisborne athletes

ALL Gisborne athletes competing in the North Island Colgate Games this month produced personal-best efforts. The 40th-anniversary Games were held in Auckland and, for the South Island, in Timaru. At the North Island meet, Evelyn Busher, Jack Sadler...

Lots of fun on steep downhill

CORRINNE Smit took it easy going downhill as she won the women’s 50-kilometre Weka Special in the Motu Special mountainbike race on Sunday.“I was thinking, ‘I’m not falling off before China’,” she said. In a week, Smit heads off to Chin...