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Gisborne celebrates its sports men and women

THEME music from the movie Chariots of Fire, which centred on two athletes’ bid to compete in the 1924 Olympic Games, set the tone for the 2017 Sporting Excellence Awards held at the Showgrounds event centre last night. At 67 nominations the 2017...

Cup finalists to be decided

Campion College will play Gisborne United and Bohemians will take on Gisborne Girls' High School in women's football tomorrow to determine the Braybrook Cup finalists. Campion beat Gisborne Laundry Services Wainui Riverina 2-1 in one quarterfinal...

HSOB primed, ready to get on the grass

CRICKETGet off the grass is an expression of disbelief. But in a cricketing sense, the Isaac Hughes-led High School Old Boys Presidents are only too happy to be back on a quality turf wicket in Hope Cup cricket at Harry Barker Reserve...

New Zealand Speedway Awards tonight

THE annual New Zealand Speedway Awards will be handed out at the Brentwood Hotel in Wellington tonight

Four-goal Murrell stars in Thistle victory over rivals

THISTLE cemented their lead in the women’s football competition with an 11-0 victory over Marist on Sunday. Gisborne Laundry Services Thistle have ruled the roost in local women’s football for years. Their match-up in the last game of Round 1...

Lytton earn promotion for tournament A Grade

LYTTON Senior A achieved their major goal for the season by winning promotion to the A Grade for the 2018 Lower North Island secondary schools netball tournament, and coach Ronnie Martin is ecstatic about it. Lytton, fifth in the Gisborne...

Sports draws, October 21, 2015

CricketWEDNESDAY — Mercantile, Harry Barker Reserve, 5pm: 4, Sons of Hadlee v Earthwork Solutions; 5, Marist Rugby v Mayfair Dental; 6, Outlaws v Laser Electrical; 7, Maccas Rebels v AG First; 8, Wannabes v Mangapapa Garage. SATURDAY — Nines...

California Carving

Gisborne’s Saffi Vette was among the top-performing surfers in the New Zealand team at the world junior champs at Huntington Beach, California. She made it through to round 4 of the main draw — finishing fourth in her heat, then placing fourth in...

No hesitation

Nineteen-year-old Thorn Parkes did not hesitate before he accepted the captaincy of the Poverty Bay men's cricket side. Parkes will lead the team in a Northern Districts T20 tournament in Taupo starting tomorrow. He was surprised when he got a phone...

Lessons in defeat

GISBORNE rower James Brott and his New Zealand under-21 teammates couldn’t prevent Australia from retaining the Rusty Robertson Trophy on Lake Karapiro at the weekend. But Brott and the Kiwis did not go down without a fight in the second of two...

Honoured to be NZ captain

Surf lifesaver Cory Taylor is just hours away from his first competition as captain of the Black Fins. Gold Coast-based Taylor, from Gisborne, will lead the New Zealand team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in Durban, South Africa. The...

Tuteari aiming for podium at CrossFit World Games in Wisconsin

The crossfit prince of Tairawhiti is about to take on the world — again. Gisborne teenager Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont is counting down to the 2018 world CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin next week. From August 1 to 5, the pinnacle event of crossfit...

Sevens at Rectory

Napier Tech will begin the defence of their Poverty Bay Sevens rugby title with a game against Havelock North at the Rectory tomorrow. As well as local clubs YMP and High School Old Boys, Havelock North and MAC (Hawke’s Bay) are also...

It’s GBA semis time

The Gisborne Basketball Association club league semifinals and play-offs are tonight and will feature all 12 teams. The B-Grade game for fifth placing pits Gisborne Boys’ High School Red against East Coast at 5.45pm at the YMCA. That will be...

Jug stays at PB

Peter Kerekere is not sure if he will be back next year to try to add to his outstanding Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants record. Kerekere spearheaded the Poverty Bay (1) team to a 20th pennants victory at Gisborne Park on Sunday. The four-man...

Riverina and Girls’ High in Braybrook Cup thriller

FOOTBALLTWO hat-tricks featured in a thrilling Braybrook Cup women’s football final at Harry Barker Reserve on Sunday. Erin Sycamore, for Riverina, and Maddie Wilson, for Gisborne Girls’ High School, each scored three goals in a game that went to...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Tahuna Irwin 3 (Falcons); Te Kotahi Kaio, Monty Reedy (Young Guns); Sha Hohipa, John Love, (Done & Dusted); Thao Duncan (Dartaholicz); Tomm Hindmarsh (Knights).Highest start, men (180): Monty Reedy (Young Guns).Highest...

Adventure, mystery in Maunga to Moana race

MULTISPORTTHE military has tested the concept. Now the public can have a go. More than a multisport event, the Maunga to Moana on March 9 (Saturday next week) will be an adventure, with mystery tasks to complete along the way. The 50-kilometre race...