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‘You win some, you lose some’

The New Zealand junior surfing team bowed out of the 2017 Vissla ISA World Junior Championships in Japan after the three team members still in the event came up short in their afternoon heats. Gisborne’s Saffi Vette contested two heats of the...

Good start for Akroyd

GOLFTAUPO’S Centennial golf course is familiar territory for long-time Poverty Bay-East Coast representative Tony Akroyd. That experience played its part as Akroyd fashioned an unbeaten record on Day 1 of the Freyberg Masters national...

Gisborne finish 14th in national netball champs

Gisborne finished in 14th place at the Netball New Zealand Open Championships in Palmerston North. They lost their last game, against Taranaki, 41-34. It was a close game but Gisborne could not bridge the gap after Taranaki edged ahead by five goals...

Dream a step closer for Te Ahiwaru Cirikidaveta

Six years ago he was just a kid playing rugby on the East Coast — now, after last weekend, his dream to play Super Rugby is one step closer. Te Ahiwaru Cirikidaveta was awarded MVP for his performance for the Tasman Mako in their 41-24 win over...

Two bridge players second in tourney

TWO Gisborne Contract Bridge Club players have finished second in a major event held last week. Elizabeth Jackson and Carolyn McMurray were competing in the Babich Wines New Zealand Wide Pairs. They recorded 74 percent and were runners-up to a pair...

Local sports news in brief

Local athletes in AIMS GamesGisborne students were involved in the first event of the week-long AIMS Games International Sporting Championships in the Bay of Plenty. The three-kilometre cross-country was held at Waipuna Park in Tauranga on...

Lytton win nail-biter,Game goes into double overtime

BASKETBALLIt doesn’t get too much better. Sport in extra overtime is a next-level event. Double overtime is — for the winning team — seventh heaven. As it is for Lytton High School, after beating Gizzy Gilahs 49-47 in the men’s B Grade 3 v 6...

Bay ref passes highest test yet

YOU can’t play rugby without them. Referees are often lightning rods for criticism but Poverty Bay’s Damien MacPherson is the toast of his local refs’ association after controlling the final at the national under-19 tournament in Taupo on...

Bridge results

MONDAY, August 21 — Woodward Chrisp Restricted Championship Pairs 2North/South East/WestAnn McCombe/Jeff Allen 70.14 Vicki Taylor/John Hudson 58.33John Rouse/Murray Owen 52.78 Katrine Matthews/Bette Parker 51.39WEDNESDAY, August 23 — Singles...

Golf roundup

Tolaga BayNEIL Hansen won’t win a second King of the Coast men’s open title this weekend, but watch out for him in the second 16. Hansen’s 6.9 handicap is too high to make the championship 16 for the Ray Scragg Motors (RSM) KoTCHe warmed up for...

U13 sides continue to sparkle

RUGBY by Ben O’Brien-LeafThe 82 points scored in a recent OBM-Pirates game was thought to be a one-off. But that remarkable 41-all result on June 15 was equalled for skills at speed by Eastland Vets Ngatapa’s 41-30 victory over OBM. Week 7 of the...

Queen Akayshia reigns supreme

And still the queen of Karapiro. A two-year wait to defend her premier women's W1 crown at the waka ama sprint nationals ended in glory for Akayshia Williams yesterday. The Self Storage Gisborne Horouta Waka Hoe superstar and reigning world champion...

Gisborne athletes in national squads,Local athletes make high-performance open squad

SURF LIFESAVINGSURF athletes from all three Gisborne clubs have been named in Surf Life Saving New Zealand high-performance squads following the national championships at Mount Maunganui last weekend. Included in the open squad are Dawson Building...

Sidecars in contention

SPEEDWAYTHE rescheduled New Zealand speedway sidecars title will be decided in Gisborne tomorrow. Eastland Group Raceway will be the scene of high drama as 24 combinations try to dethrone 1NZ driver David Gannon and swinger Daryl Pearce, of Kihikihi...

Back to go forward

POVERTY Bay cricket team are taking “a couple of steps backwards to go forward” says district manager Mohit Rao.“The team will be playing only one Fergus Hickey (two-day game) against Waikato in November but then it will be all one day games...

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