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Comet overall junior runners-up

COMET Swimming Club finished a close second in the overall junior club competition at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Winter Championships in Hastings last weekend. Napier Aquahawks were the overall junior club competition winners. Over 200 swimmers...

Opportunity for school sides

IT'S unrelenting pressure. The three college teams — Lytton High School, Campion College and Gisborne Boys’ High School — each have once-in-a-season opportunities in Week 8 of Gisborne men’s club basketball tonight. For Lytton, it’s a chance...

Ngati Porou and Turanga to face off in final

THEY were semi-finals to remember. The Gisborne Basketball Association women's club final next Monday will feature three-time defending champions Ngati Porou and Turanga. Ngati Porou standouts Bronya McMenamin and Ata Mangu were held to 12 points each...

Grand final in Stella's sights

Gisborne teenager Stella Smith is into the main event final of the women’s surfing division at the ISA SUP and Paddleboard World Championship in Wanning, China. Smith, 16, placed second in her round 3 heat to advance to what is a two-life heat...

Draft League ‘a roaring success’

Any questions about the new Gisborne Basketball Association Draft League were asked and answered last night. Week 1 of five in the post-club basketball league at the YMCA was a roaring success. TEAM REG beat TEAM TOM 74-68 in Game 1, and TEAM KEENAN...

End-to-end thriller

Round 3 in the Pak’nSave premier grade netball competition got off to a fine start on Saturday when Waikohu and Girls’ High put on a 60-57 end-to-end thriller. Claydens Waikohu 1 won it but Gisborne Girls’ High School senior A made them dig...

Gisborne surfers shine in BoP

FIVE surfers from Gisborne Boardriders Club contested the New Zealand Longboard and SUP Open at Papamoa Beach over the weekend. The standout Gisborne performer was 14-year-old Stella Smith, who dominated the open women’s stand-up paddleboard...

Local results from secondary school football tournaments

Gisborne results from New Zealand Secondary School Football winter tournamentsSchoolboys — Trident Tournament, Palmerston North, Monday: Lytton High School 7 Palmerston North Boys’ High Development 0, Lytton 1 Wairarapa College 3. Tuesday: Lytton...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, April 2 — Harcourts Vicki Taylor Pairs 1North/South East/WestMurray Owen, Gretchen Ivess 62.50 Joy Marden, Trish Corson 62.08Ann McCombe, Philip Beale 57.08 Eileen Lee, Herman Koenders 56.25Elizabeth Jackson, John Hudson 52.92 Robin...

Sports draws

FootballTONIGHT —Women, Braybrook Cup, quarterfinal, 6pm: CRR2, DJ Mac Panel & Paint Bohemians v Heavy Equipment Services United. Saturday — Men, Bailey Cup, 2.30pm: CRR1, Wainui Sharks v Carpet Court Thistle Reserves. Bye: Thistle Massive, GBHS...

Engines give up the ghost at Makorori

The weather was great and the action even better at Round 2 of the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club beach racing series at Makorori Beach last Saturday. The racing was fierce, riders pushing it so hard that three engines destroyed themselves that...

Jack be quick

JACK Keepa’s first New Zealand short course championships in 2017 resulted in no medals, a few top 10 placings and some personal best times. The Enterprise Cars Swim Team member returned from the champs in Auckland “determined to train harder and...

Kayak gold rush for PB

KAYAKINGBOTH the weather and competition were scorching but Poverty Bay kayakers shone at the national championships. Quaid Thompson and Sam Ferkins stood out in the individual men’s events. Thompson won the open 1000 and 5000 metres, as well as the...

Potential for growth ‘endless’

Ario Rewi could do great things for Ngāti Porou East Coast rugby on and off the field. Rewi, 29, of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Manawa and Tuhoe descent with affiliations to Te Whānau a Takimoana of Rangitukia, will continue as an outdoor experience tutor...

HSOB Pressies out to trump consistent OBR

Both clubs will be up for it when OBR take on HSOB Presidents in Hope Cup club cricket at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow. And while the Craig Christophers-led Rawhiti Legal Old Boys Rugby are unbeaten and lead the six-team Senior B competition with 18...

A successful swimming enterprise

TEAM first. That’s the motto of Enterprise Cars Swim Team who clinched the President’s Cup for top overall club points at the Hawke’s Bay Poverty Bay summer champs here last weekend.“It’s very much a team situation for us,” said head...