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Hastings has three-year plan

GISBORNE Thistle coach Matt Hastings makes no secret of his desire to be a fulltime professional football coach. But Thistle fans can relax. Hastings is in no hurry to leave Gisborne.“I’ve got a great job with Mediaworks and I’ve committed to...

Players perform well

A Gisborne East Coast team showed they could foot it with the better lawn bowlers in New Zealand when they contested the Octagonal in Taranaki last weekend. A representative team of 10 women and 10 men travelled to Taranaki for matches against...

Oliver’s Galeforce blows ’em away

THE 16-year-old from Rotorua took on some tough combinations in the Country TV Pony Grand Prix at the Larsen Sawmilling Show Jumping Championships and responded by taking first and second placings on Redcliffs Galeforce and Delta JD. The...

Gisborne club bowls news

GisborneA big turnout for Gisborne Bowling Club’s closing day and prizegiving on Saturday capped a stellar year for the club. Three teams were unbeaten after 48 bowlers rounded off the season in a closely fought three-game triples contest. Two teams...

Sunday move a sign of the times

HARRIERSThe Gisborne Harrier Club winter season series starts on Sunday with a trail run at the Forest Enterprise Millmore Forest mountain bike tracks at Mander Road, off Waimata Valley Road. The 10am run will be the first event of a revamped...

Injury blow for Christie

A NASTY gash to his left leg brought Ricardo Christie's heat to a gutting end at the final Championship Tour contest of the year in Hawaii this morning. The Gisborne-Mahia surfer suffered the injury four minutes from the end of his elimination heat...

Nanai wins title with classy play

SNOOKERAlex Nanai was in a class of his own as he won Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club’s A Grade snooker title for 2018. Nanai did not lose a frame throughout the competition, putting an exclamation mark on his performance with a 2-0 win against Phil...

‘Exciting’ Coast team eye season opener

Heartland Championship-wide, by now everyone knows why they’re fizzing. But former All Black Zac Guildford is not playing in Ngati Porou East Coast’s first pre-season game. Rather, the Coast is set to play the Anthony Studer-coached Eastern Bay of...

Dream team and Boys’ High survive semifinals

ONE was a nail-biter; the other was a brilliant result for basketball. The nail-biter was the men’s club basketball league Top-four sudden-death semifinal between team No. 3, the Dream Team, and team No. 1, YMP Black. The Dream Team won 63-59. The...

No substitute for experience

Kaiya Huta says the experience from competing in his first World Age-Group Trampoline Championships will help him as he prepares to take on the best age-group competitors in St Petersburg, Russia, in November. The 16-year-old Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o...

Gisborne Cycling Club races

Race 3 of Gisborne Cycling Club’s Avantiplus Maintrax Series is on SATURDAY. Sign-on is from 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Bushmere Arms with a 2pm start. The race course is Lavenham Road plus Quarry — a distance of 49 kilometres. SUNDAY — The group ride...

Turanga back as new era kicks off

The Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League senior competition begins tomorrow at Awapuni Sports Stadium, signalling the start of a new era of the sport in the district. Six teams will battle for the Dave Ahu Memorial Trophy — an honour reigning champions...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Rowe Mason (2NZ Bullz), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Rio Edwards (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters), Ngata Monika (2NZ McCann’ics).Best start (180): Ngata Monika (2NZ McCann’ics).Best finish (132): Puna McRoberts (Cossy...

Two losses to Poverty Bay on first day of tournament

Hamilton, Bay of Plenty Coastlands and Counties Manukau were the unbeaten teams on day one of two Twenty20 fixtures in the Northern Districts Senior Secondary Schoolboys tournament that started in Gisborne yesterday. Poverty Bay suffered two losses...

Fyall vice-captain of NZ team

Waikanae club member Casie Fyall has been named vice-captain of the 10-strong New Zealand team to contest the 11th annual Sanyo Cup lifesaving carnival in Japan in three weeks. Midway club member Cory Taylor will captain the team. Fyall said she felt...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

180s: John White (Tigers) 3, Jordan Ngarangione (Falcons) 2, Te Kotahi Kaio (Assassins) 2, Glen Rangihuna-Atkins (Assassins) 2, Tahuna Irwin (Falcons), Willie Edwards (Tigers), Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Assassins), K Koka (Assassins).Highest start (180)...

A ‘must-win’ for East Coast

RUGBYSeven lean years are referenced in the good book. And Ngati Porou East Coast have endured seven hard ones since their epic comeback against Wanganui to be 2012 Meads Cup champions. On Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, the Coast came from 27-3 down...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Andrew Ball won the Poverty Bay Bowling Club men's junior singles championship for players with up to eight years of bowls experience. Ball defeated Dusty Miller 22-15 in the final, which club members watched with interest. This result was not...