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Teams set for playoffs ‘practice run’

The top four teams in the Gisborne Tairawhiti rugby league competition will get a practice run at finals footy on Saturday. As the playoffs near, the well-organised Waengapu Stallions will play the dangerous Manutuke Mustangs at 1pm and last year’s...

Playoffs give everyone a chance

The playoffs begin tomorrow to choose which teams will face off this month to decide the Gisborne netball championships, and YMP look to be in the box seat. But due to the structure of the playoffs this year all eight teams still have a chance to...

Bridge results

Monday, June 13 — Harcourts Vicki Taylor Pairs 3 (Howell movement): Eileen Lee/Herman Koenders 70.83; Trish Corson/Glenys Evans 62.50; David Johnstone/Pippa Williams 61.46. Wednesday, June 15 — Jean Broadhurst Winters Pairs 3North/South...

Grants benefit East Coast union

RUGBYTHE Ngati Porou East Coast Rugby Union has been awarded over $100,000 for representative uniforms, travel expenses and salaries in the latest round of New Zealand Community Trust grants. Union chief executive Cushla Tangaere-Manuel said the...

GBHS old boys battling for Canes’ No.8 jersey

THREE former Gisborne Boys’ High School players have been named in the Hurricanes squad to play the Crusaders in the Taranaki town of Waverley tomorrow afternoon. Toa Halafihi and Blade Thomson will be battling for the No. 8 jersey. Halafihi will...

Heikell's team makes history

FORMER Poverty Bay rugby coach Grainger Heikell and his Timisoara Saracens team made history when they won the Romanian Cup for the third year in a row and became the first Romanian team to qualify for the European Challenge Cup...

Gisborne rowers into A finals

Gisborne Rowing Club members have qualified for four A finals of the NZ Rowing Championships to be raced tomorrow. Finalists are the men's senior four of Oscar Ruston, Sacha Dewancker, Alex Hyland and James Brott, men's senior pair of Hyland and...

Hicks Bay confidence high . . .

. . . but Ruatoria City aim to put a spanner in the works

Manson gunning for IPSC treble

PISTOL SHOOTINGNORTH Island International Practical Shooting Confederation IPSC title . . . tick. South Island IPSC title . . . tickAnd now for the big one — the International Practical Shooting Confederation New Zealand crown. Gisborne shooter...

Not enough to end the drought

ONE of the best individual performances in Poverty Bay-East Coast masters history was not enough to lift them off the bottom of the ladder at the Freyberg over-40s interprovincial this week. PBEC were beaten 3½-1½ by Tasman at New Plymouth’s...

Last dance

NETBALLTHE season will be over for either High School Old Girls or Waikohu at the end of their premier-grade netball sudden-death semifinal at the YMCA tomorrow. Whoever wins will go on to play YMP Sunshine Brewery in Wednesday night’s final...

Paikea in comeback

BASKETBALLThe late game is either a non-event or goes down to the wire. Game 4 of Week 7 in the Gisborne Basketball Association women’s club competition was the latter. Paikea Nation — who trailed Campion College by 10 points throughout the first...

Around the greens — bowling club news

KAHUTIAFor the first time in six years the Kahutia Bowling Club took out the Bill Edwards Tankard. On their home greens last Wednesday, the Kahutia bowlers triumphed by 15 points to 9. The Gisborne Bowling Club had won the trophy for the past five...

Chatham Islands team-building tour generates interest

Athletic Rugby Football Club has come up with a novel way to recruit players for the upcoming 2020 season — a tour to the Chatham Islands. Club players old and new have been fundraising — crutching sheep, splitting firewood, and cooking up kai...

Goals galore in Eastern League fare

STRIKER Josh Blair scored a second-half hat-trick in Gisborne Boys’ High School’s 7-0 win against QRS Wairoa Athletic in Eastern League football at the Rectory field on Saturday. Meanwhile, player-coach Stu Cranswick scored four goals as Heavy...

Scoreboard

Civil Project Solutions Premier grade GT Shearing Wakohu 62: Kelvin Smith (3), KC Wilson (2), Jacob Leaf, Jarryd Broughton, Adrian Wyrill, Kupu Lloyd, Matekairoa McGuire tries; Smith 5 conversions. Larswn Ngatapa 17: Peter Livingston, Karl...

One meeting - 30 races

SPEEDWAYTHE Eastland Group Raceway hosts its biggest meeting of the season tomorrow night. Thirty races will be run, ranging from demolition derby, stockcar and sidecar teams events to saloon champion of champions, youth ministock and TQ best pairs...

Sports draws

CricketDRAWS for Poverty Bay Cricket Association competition —Senior A, Doleman Cup, Round 4, SATURDAY, 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Horouta v Galaxy World Gisborne Boys' High School (umpire Jason Trowill); HBR 2, Coastal Concrete OBR v Bollywood...