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Girls’ High into the final

Gisborne Girls’ High School made the final of the upper North Island secondary schools D Grade netball tournament in Tauranga today after finishing top of their pool. They beat Glenfield 52-10 and Dargaville 32-22 yesterday, and beat Onewhero 41-26...

It’s down to the wire

FOOTBALLThe “bad” news is that either Gisborne United or Gisborne Thistle will finish second in football’s Pacific Premiership. The good news is the other team will be crowned champions. The best news is that the winners will be from...

City Lights back on track

Sport grounds us all. And in Week 8 of men’s club basketball at the YMCA — following the High Flyers’ 58-34 win against East Coast — two much-improved Gisborne Boys’ High School teams did it hard. Defending champions City Lights avenged...

Round-of-96 exit for Christie

GISBORNE-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie suffered an early exit from the Ballito Pro Qualifying Series 10,000 contest at KawaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Christie finished fourth in his round-of-96 heat from which the top two advanced. He scored 10.66...

Braithwaite and Gunness win Boardriders comp

Gisborne Boardriders Club had its third competition on Sunday, held at the Whales break at Wainui. Competitors had to battle each other and conditions as the waves deteriorated throughout the day. In the women's open, Asia Braithwaite dominated Ruby...

Te Wharau School the toast of Heartland rugby

TE WHARAU School rippa rugby coach Duane Hihi took his team to the national championships in Wellington “hoping to win a couple of games”.They returned home yesterday as champions, going through the two-day tournament unbeaten including a 25-20...

District sports draws

CricketPoverty Bay club cricket, Doleman Cup:Saturday 1pm, Landmark Homes OBR v Horouta premier 11, Harry Barker Reserve rep wicket. Hope Cup: Saturday 2pm: Ngatapa v Campion College, Harry Barker Reserve 3; Coastal Ultrasound Horouta second 11 v...

Battle of the Bays brings schools together in sport

SCHOOL CHALLENGEGISBORNE Intermediate won the Year 7 girls’ section of the Battle of the Bays beach challenge and triathlon last week. Ilminster Intermediate were second in the Year 8 boys’ section of the beach challenge. Gisborne and Ilminster...

Game bridges generation gaps,Competitive fire burning brightly,Personal challenge of player and bowl a stimulating mix,‘Relaxing’ sport just the ticket,Ron’s spikes not required on green

BOWLS stories by John GilliesGO to any bowling club’s junior championships and you might see a bowler in his 20s in earnest competition with an opponent in his 70s. Bowls is like that . . . young, old and in between on the same green. You can play...

Horouta girls win gold

The youngest crews from Tairawhiti are among those who have got off to a flying start at the waka ama sprint nationals at Lake Karapiro. This morning, Horouta girls' crew of six Hinekahurangi-Ariki claimed gold in the 250 metres in the Midgets...

One more chance to post a win at Freyburg Masters

IT’S last chance saloon for Poverty Bay-East Coast in their Holy Grail-like quest for a team win at the Freyberg Masters interprovincial in New Plymouth. Defeats to Hawke’s Bay (4½-½) and North Harbour (5-0) on the penultimate day of the...

Kathleen Henderson Memorial netball tournament attracts 21 teams

The Kathleen Henderson Memorial netball tournament this Saturday has attracted 19 women’s teams and two mens teams.“It will be great to have a bit of an exhibition match between the men’s teams,” Gisborne Netball Centre manager Allisa Hall...

Girls’ High test reigning champions Ngati Porou

TOUGHNESS mixed with magic — that’s what Week 6 of the Gisborne Basketball Association women’s club league at the YMCA was all about last night. Twice-champions Ngati Porou subdued Gisborne Girls’ High School 30-24, Campion College held off...

CHAMPIONS LEADING BY EXAMPLE

Horouta Waka Hoe champion crews know what it takes to win world titles. Club administrators plan to take a leaf out of their book in a bid to have waka ama sheds built near Gisborne's Marina Park boat ramps. Waka ama are stored on the ground or in...

Solid field for final of NZ league series

It's a four-way battle for top honours in the FEI World Cup New Zealand League Series, with the final tomorrow at the Golden Grove Stud Central and Southern Hawke's Bay Jumping Show in Dannevirke. Tegan Fitzsimon (Christchurch) has a six-point buffer...

Thistle and United impress in victory

Gisborne teams Thistle and United had impressive wins in Pacific Premiership football in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle came from a goal down to beat Port Hill 3-1 at Marewa Park, Napier. Meanwhile, Josh Adams scored...

Races show future in good hands

OUT-of-town drivers stole the thunder in the Heavy Equipment Services Eastland Ministocks 100 at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night and the production saloons again emphasised the emergence of that class. Todd Hemingway (88M) from Mt...

Second in Clubs NZ tourney

A TEAM from Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club finished second in the Clubs New Zealand North Island Women’s Outdoor Bowls Tournament in Tokoroa last week. Glenys Whiteman (skip), Carol Hawes (3), Judy Taylor (2) and Lesley McIntosh (lead) lost the grand...