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Gisborne drivers eye national title

SPEEDWAYNew Zealand stockcar champion Ethan Rees will be out to keep his national title this weekend but he will not be the only Gisborne Speedway Club driver with eyes on the prize. A field of 180 cars will line up at Baypark Speedway in Mount...

Awards a family affair

ALL-round sportswoman Rubi Perano was surprised and delighted to receive the James Mulligan Memorial Shield at Badminton Eastland’s awards night at Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club. The shield is awarded to the junior player showing qualities of...

Men on a mission in Week 4 of Heartland Championship

RUGBYPOVERTY Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast are both on the road, but facing different missions for week 4 of the Heartland Championship. The Bay, after winning their opening game but losing the next two, are looking to rejuvenate their campaign with...

Best result so far this season for Gisborne Girls’ High

GISBORNE Girls’ High School produced their best result of the hockey season to date when they defeated Paikea 2-1 in a tough match on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve last night. Girls’ High led 1-0 before Paikea equalised midway...

Swann’s focus never wavered

CricketThe good ones bounce back. Bollywood High School Old Boys Pups captain Hamish Swann and his seven players defended 108 against the Bollywood Stars in Round 3 of the six-week nine-a-side colts cricket league at Nelson Park after he, as No. 1...

Sports draws

Pacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Napier City Rovers Seconds; Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Taradale. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: CRR 1...

Performed well but outplayed on the day

There was no man more relieved after his first tee shot at the Freyberg Masters yesterday afternoon than Pete Stewart.“He let out a big sigh of relief after he smashed his drive on the first hole down the middle of the fairway,” Poverty Bay-East...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty BayTHERE’S a surfing phrase that relates perfectly to golf.“Ride the wave.”Momentum is huge in a sport where mistakes are mercilessly punished and failure comes regulary with the turf. Brad Morgan knows that too well but for the second...

Thistle come through tough test

GISBORNE Thistle proved a point at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Playing with 10 men for the last 16 minutes, they beat previously unbeaten Havelock North Wanderers 3-1 in Central Federation League football and jumped two places to third, on...

Schools gather for annual contest

Sixteen teams contested the 2018 primary interschool badminton competition at the Badminton Centre last Wednesday. A total of 66 students took part, in teams from Makauri, Te Wharau, Sonrise Christian, Waikirikiri, Muriwai and Ormond schools and Te...

Horrific crash mars racing,Night of drama at speedway

A SHOCKING crash in sidecars racing was one of several stunning incidents in a dramatic Christmas speedway meeting at Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night“It was a shocking crash, absolutely horrific,” Gisborne Speedway Club president Grant...

Schools in close contests

Nineteen local schools took part in an interschool netball tournament during Term 3 this year. Central School won Division 1 and Te Hapara, Division 2. Home and away games were played, usually at lunchtime on Fridays. This year Division 1 had nine...

Up for the challenge

For Amy Spence, Sam Manson and Clare Webber, the Coast to Coast was much more than a challenging solo pursuit. Spence, from Gisborne, had one of her best friends, Katie Edwards, as support crew, she had Stephen Sheldrake as coach and her family...

Strong show by GBHS can’t overcome Feilding

A spirited Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 lost 17-10 to Feilding Agricultural High School in an exhibition of skill and grit on Friday. The Super 8 competition, the team's major focus, is now just one pre-season game -— against Wellington's...

Future stars here for Super 8

SCHOOLS that have produced many of New Zealand’s current international stars will be in Gisborne next week for the Super 8 cricket tournament. Seven schools will take part in the four-day tournament — Rotorua Boys’ High have pulled out — at...

Maori tourney revived

AN open Maori hockey tournament being held in Gisborne on Queen’s Birthday Weekend was last held in 2003. The Hana Konewa, Hine Te Ariki and Taraipine Tutaki Maori Hockey Association — known to its members as Nannies Inc — will hold the...

No plans for the Buck to stop here

POVERTY Bay Hockey Association’s latest life Member Richard “Buck” Rogers has no plans to put away his goalkeeping gear. He sees himself involved in hockey for the rest of his life. The 54-years-young NZ Fruits Lytton Old Boys goalie received...

Out in the fields

Highlights of some of the weekend's clashes