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Women starting to fire

The women’s league is firing up. Week 8 of the Gisborne Basketball Association club competition had defending champions Lytton High School beating Campion College 52-37, Uawa beating Gisborne Girls’ High School by default, Paikea Nation and...

Trans-Tasman show-jumping goes New Zealand's way

New Zealand drew first blood on the first day of the Trans-Tasman Young Rider clash at the Larsen Sawmilling North Island Jumping and Show Hunter Championships in Gisborne. All riders are on borrowed horses. The first round ended with the hosts on 12...

Activ8ed on skates

FROM sandcastles to skating, the second Activators event moved up a gear over the weekend. The Activators programme is run by Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti. The first of three public events was at Waikanae Beach last week. The second event ActivSk8, was...

Rebels out to foil perfect-record bid

One week of the grading round remains, and any changes in team placements will be only minor. A-Grade qualifiers have been comfortably settled. Done & Dusted own the overall bragging rights, having secured the grading-round trophy with a game in...

Knights keen to train with local young

CRICKETTHE Northern Knights are coming to town and want local children to join them at Harry Barker Reserve.“The Knights are here on September 25, preparing for a three-day trial game against Auckland Aces on September 26, 27 and 28,” Poverty...

New champions likely in Coast Duathlon

Weather? The Coast Duathlon hardly knows the meaning of the word and its 27th edition will head north on Gladstone Road early tomorrow on a promise of a clearing sky and a race temperature climbing to 19 degrees. Could it be more perfect?Surely the...

Ostler crowns NZ visit with club title

CROQUETBarry Memorial Croquet Club has a new golf croquet club champion. British player Charles Ostler — who has been visiting Gisborne over the warmer months — is better known in the association form of the game but showed he was flexible in his...

Teams to decide their fate

Who does — and who doesn’t — make the top-four playoffs in Gisborne premier-grade netball will be decided in two games at the YMCA tomorrow morning. The 9am match between Claydens Waikohu and Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A should be an...

Vaka Eiva success for Horouta

WAKA AMAA SQUAD of 10 paddlers from Horouta waka Hoe won two long-distance races at the week-long Vaka Eiva festival at Rarotonga last month. This annual event — run this year for the 15th time — attracts outrigger canoeing crews from all around...

Another big scalp to GGHS

NETBALLGisborne Girls’ High senior A netballers pulled off another sensational premier grade upset when they knocked over in-form High School Old Girls in the YMCA last night. As they did in beating top-of-the-table YMP (1) last week, Girls’ High...

Ngatapa top of the table

Ngatapa are now top of the heap. The Grant Walsh-led Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps beat previously unbeaten Senior B Grade club cricket competition leaders Rawhiti Legal OBR by one wicket in the top-of-the-table clash at Harry Barker...

Red-hot round awaits

A RED-HOT fourth round of hockey competition opens tonight on the LJ Hooker Turf with some tantalising match-ups ahead of the game of the round — Lytton Old Boys A against YMP A — at 4.30pm on Saturday.“YMP go in as slight favourites but LOB...

Bridge results

Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 60.48 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 60.48Bette Parker, Trish Corson 56.25 John Rouse, Murray Owen 55.24Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee 54.17 Caroline Taylor, Jean Turnbull 51.67North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray, Sue Minot...

Gisborne swimmers in NZ teams for Pan Pacs, Youth Olympics

Gisborne swimmer Matt Scott is to compete for his country at the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo next month. The Enterprise Cars Swim Team member is one of five selected by Swimming New Zealand following the New Zealand Open championships in...

Draws

Hockey NO SENIOR HOCKEY THIS WEEK. JUNIOR HOCKEY, YearS 1/2 Fun Sticks — Saturday: No play this week. YearS 3/4 Mini Sticks — FRIDAY: No play this week. Years 5/6 Kiwi Sticks — TODAY, 3.45pm: 1A, St Mary’s Wekas v Makaraka Gold (Girls’ High x...

Kemp, Ewart lead hot scoring at Bay

MATCHING 95s from Sue Kemp and Jan Ewart led scoring to match the warm spring weather at the LJ Hooker women’s open Christmas tournament on Wednesday. Twelve players posted stableford scores of 40 points or better on the Poverty Bay course. Kemp and...

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkANARU Reedy stamped his class on the Electrinet Park Welcome Open Tournament on Sunday. Reedy was a clear winner of the senior men’s gross, shooting 3-under 69. Even off the championship blue tees, the big-hitting Reedy made...

Falcons take winter league lead

Ford Falcons took the lead in the Brezz’n Darts Club winter league, defeating Tigers 14-7 in Tuesday night competition. Falcons came out firing in the first set of singles, winning the first three games, T Irwin defeating T Ratapu 2-1, J...