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Tighter competition tipped for local champs

WAIKANAE will aim for five in a row when they defend their hold on the Ralph Morse Memorial Shield for Gisborne surf club supremacy at Midway Beach this weekend. But their head coach believes the competition will be tighter than in recent years. The...

Tour proves an eye-opener

Josh Adams takes another step on a football journey that he hopes will lead to an All Whites shirt when he plays for Napier City Rovers in the national under-19 tournament in Napier this weekend. Gisborne United Pacific Premiership striker Adams...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Steve Berezowski, Pat Bayley and Neville Wagner won the Owen Shield tournament hosted by Kahutia Bowling Club on Labour Weekend Monday. The Stonehaven Owen Shield annual competition was played in sunny weather and enjoyed by members of all clubs...

Ken Houkamau Most Valuable Player

THE Mr Consistent of Poverty Bay club rugby is the 2017 winner of the premier grade Most Valuable Player. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates skipper and No. 8 Ken Houkamau was a clear winner of the title and $1000 cash first prize. Houkamau has been playing...

Top four decided for semifinals

The top four teams in premier-grade netball were decided on Saturday. Whangara will play Waikohu, and YMP will play High School Old Girls to decide the championship finalists. Netballers in the PAK'nSAVE competition got a decent crack at their games...

Myah's golden smile

SHE’S known for smiling when she runs. And last weekend Gisborne girl Myah Houthuijzen was beaming from ear to ear after winning gold at the North Island cross-country championships. Adding to the history of success for Gisborne Harrier Club, Myah...

Ricardo Christie advances in Brazil

SURFINGTHERE’S a wall in front of Championship Tour surfer Ricardo Christie that he is determined to break through. He gets another chance in Brazil this week after advancing to the round of 32 at the Oi Rio Pro — the fifth contest on the World...

Final-day results from national surfing champs

Results from the final day of competition at the national surfing championships at Piha on Saturday —Open men, semifinals, Heat 1: Billy Stairmand (Raglan) 17, 1; Kehu Butler (Mt Maunganui) 14.9, 2; Dune Kennings (Piha) 14.45, 3; Conor McLennan...

Super vets travelling to Hamilton

EASTLAND will compete in the second round of the inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hamilton tomorrow. Team members are Ron Prebble, Annabel Riwaka and Ruth Ledger from the Patutahi club, Robert Cameron, Kevin...

Reaching new heights

If you reach your highest goal the only thing to do is to set a higher one, says Gisborne surf lifesaving rising star Olivia Corrin. Last year the teenager set herself the short-term goal of making a Black Fins open or junior team for the 2018...

Vette and Hovell fly the flag

SAFFI Vette and Sean Hovell kept the Gisborne flag flying at the national surfing championships at Piha yesterday. Vette won her under-18 girls’ semifinal heat. She had already qualified for the u16 final and open women’s semifinal. Hovell —...

Field of dreams, good and bad

Thistle snatch victory with three stoppage-time goals

Boys’ High fall to late comeback

SCOTS College fought back from a 30-16 deficit to draw 33-all in the Hurricanes Secondary Schools’ semifinal and eliminate Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 — five tries to three.“It was a bitter pill to swallow,” Ngati Porou Seafoods...

One change for the Coast

NGATI Porou East Coast coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor have been forced to make one change to the 22-man squad who came close to toppling Poverty Bay last week — for tomorrow’s Heartland Championship rugby game against Mid Canterbury at...

Trio off to Fiji for Coral Coast Sevens

THREE women from Gisborne will be part of a New Zealand-based rugby sevens side competing at a tournament in Fiji next week. Renee Holmes, Kaipo Olsen-Baker and Jade Stacey will play for the Rugby Vault International side at the Coral Coast...

Fitzsimon masters tricky course

Tegan Fitzsimon and Windermere Cappuccino bagged a perfectly timed win in the EvoEvents Horse Grand Prix at the Poverty Bay A&P Show but it wasn't without its challenges. Horses, riders and organisers had everything thrown at them with the saturated...