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YMP’s long wait ends

YMP v WaikohuYMP ended a two-year wait for a win on their home ground at Manutuke with a 20-14 victory over Waikohu in Poverty Bay premier rugby on Saturday. The three-tries-to-two win also opened a five-point gap between fourth-placed Farmvets YMP...

Damage costs Giants place in teams final

SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants qualified fourth for the semifinals of the New Zealand superstock teams in Palmerston North on Sunday night but suffered engine and gearbox damage that cost them a place in the final. The Giants beat the Wellington...

Gisborne team commanding respect of their opponents

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Anton’s teammates motivated

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Beaten but ‘not disgraced’

SOFTBALLTAIRAWHITI under-18 boys’ softball team failed to win a game in the two-day North Island men’s tournament in Hastings. But tournament organiser Craig Waterhouse said Tairawhiti were not disgraced. At the tournament were two current Black...

Woolf back on NZ waves

FORMER Gisborne surfer Kai Woolf won the under-18 girls’ division in the Billabong Grom Series event at Whangamata yesterday. Woolf recently returned to New Zealand from her native South Africa for her last year of school, and is now based in...

Maori tournament returns tomorrow

CLUB senior hockey makes way this weekend for the Hana Konewa, Hine Te Ariki and Taraipine Tutaki Open Maori Hockey Tournament, which gets under way tomorrow morning. The two-day event has attracted 12 teams — 10 senior and two of primary-school...

HSOB rise to the top

High School Old Boys have ended OBR's winning run in Doleman Cup cricket finals, triumphing in this year's absorbing decider by 18 runs. Landmark Homes OBR were seeking their fifth consecutive title in the Poverty Bay clubs' 40-over competition and...

Ava heading in right direction

Murray Robertson continues his series of profiles on up-and-coming surf lifesaving athletes . . .Wainui board paddler Ava Smith ticked off one of her goals this summer when she won the under-16 women’s board race at the Tairawhiti/Gisborne Eastern...

SPORT IN BRIEF: Gisborne club basketball draw

TONIGHT — Women's competition, Round 1, Week 3, YMCA —5.30pm: Nameless v Ritana. 6.30pm: Turanga v Manu Toa. 7.30pm: Masters of the Universe v Ngati Porou. Turanga Health beat SE Systems by default. Men's competition, boys' secondary schools...

Gisborne/Tairawhiti team named for regional rep event

SURF LIFESAVINGThe 2019 BDO Gisborne/Tairawhiti Representative Challenge surf lifesaving team has been announced for the regional teams event at Midway Beach on Auckland Anniversary Day (Monday next week).They will compete against other regional...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, February 12 — Summer Pairs 2North/South East/WestDiana Styche, Joy Marden 67.86 Caroline Kirkpatrick, John Rouse 57.92Vicki Taylor, John Hudson 54.29 Hans van der Kuijl, Glenys Evans 56.25Trish Corson, Bette Parker 53.93 Ann McCombe...

Demolition man

EASTLAND championship titles go on the line tomorrow night in all classes at Gisborne Speedway Club’s last meeting for the year but the highlight could well be Neil Gooch competing in his 100th demolition derby. The Mangapapa Garage Novus Auto...

Nuhaka keen to turn tables

RUGBYTHE Nuhaka Senior 1 rugby team hope to turn the tables on Ngatapa in their semifinal on Saturday. Last year, Ngatapa were the hosts at Patutahi and they beat Nuhaka in a tight semifinal, before going on to lose the Lew Patterson Cup final...

Bragging rights — and more — at stake in final

OBM senior one coach Clint Pirihi’s new-look side are one win away from bragging rights in the clubrooms after their premier team lost last week’s Lee Bros Shield semifinal against Waikohu. OBM play Ngatapa in the senior one final, the...

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