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Title race opens as ’18 finalists both defeated

RUGBY LEAGUEWAENGAPU Stallions tipped over the champion Paikea Whalers and Ngatapa Stags grabbed their first win in a round of rugby league that showed several teams are in the hunt to win the Gisborne-Tairawhiti title. The Stallions piled on more...

Reps on Bay of Plenty foray

The 2017/18 bowls season has just begun but four Gisborne-East Coast representative teams will be at the Ohope Bowling Club tomorrow to play their Bay of Plenty counterparts in the annual one-day intercentre fixture. Play gets under way at 9.30am...

Flynn holds off chasers

HAWKE'S Bay flyer Steve Flynn held off spirited challenges from Mount Maunganui drivers Chris Cowling and Peter Dickson to win the super saloon feature at Awapuni on Saturday night. The 20 big grunters turned on a power-packed display across three...

Perfection in TVC’s sight

Waiapu hungry to end title drought

Good night for Hawke’s Bay,Rollover and bike damage take toll in sidecar event

GISBORNE Gladiators were “mauled” by their Meeanee opponents in a stockcar teams clash at Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night. Hawke’s Bay also took the honours in the New Zealand sidecar teams’ event for the second year in a row with...

Poverty Bay made to work hard

POVERTY Bay brought Day 3 of Rawleigh Tournament hockey for under-13 girls to a close with a 2-0 win against Wairapapa. Unbeaten Poverty Bay were made to work for the three points by a determined Wairarapa, who needed to win the match to stay in the...

Tairawhiti shows strength in paddling

Tairawhiti schools filled three of the top five places in the medal table for the National Secondary School Waka Ama Championships at Lake Tikitapu, Rotorua, last week. Gisborne Boys’ High topped the medal table with four golds, one silver and one...

United give reigning champs a hiding

FOOTBALL by Jason TrowillTHIS was a season opener that reigning Pacific Premiership football champions Napier City Rovers Reserves will want to forget. They were demolished 9-1 by last year’s runners-up, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United, at...

Senior netball playoffs determine finalists

Competition was fierce in the senior netball playoffs at Victoria Domain on Saturday. Both Premier Reserve semifinals in the Pak'nSave competition were decided by a single goal. YMP Masters edged JT Contractors Horouta Taimana 25-24 in one game after...

Squash teams heading to national champs

Five Surf City Squash teams will head off around the country this week to compete for a national championship. The B Grade men's team go to Palmerston North, the C Grade men and women go to Napier, and the F Grade men and women go to Morrinsville. In...

Keen for more international experience

WADE Manson’s first international experience as a manager ended with a 7-1 loss for his New Zealand Presidents Invitation team in the final of the Oceania Challenge Cup in Suva, Fiji. But despite the scoreline, the regional sports director for...

GBHS 2nd XV set stage for resurgent firsts in 33-12 win against visitors

RUGBYThey set a grand stage. Gisborne Boys’ High School’s second 15 gave their flagship team a class act to follow in the form of a 33-12 win against St Edmund’s under-16s, of Canberra.“It’s a pretty good feeling to send the firsts out with...

League update for BIZminton4

Competition continues to be fierce in the BIZminton4 league being played at the Badminton Centre. Ties were not as close last Wednesday as in previous weeks but as the rallies got longer, the noise got louder. Final ties will be played next...

Action in junior games never lets up

If you're in for a penny with the GBA, you're in for a pound. The Gisborne Basketball Association committee under chairwoman Kylie Turuwhenua-Tapsell has been hard at work this month with the secondary schools' leagues — Division 1 at the John...

Poverty Bay - East Coast sports draws

CyclingSATURDAY — Gisborne Cycling Club ride, (no racing) starts at 1.30pm at Nelson Rd cemetery for a group ride. Sunday — Group ride at 8am from Avantiplus Maintrax. This is a friendly group ride for anyone wanting to ride with others. The...

One win away

THIS time last year High School Old Boys prop Jody Tuhaka was “heartbroken” after being named on the bench for the Poverty Bay premier club rugby final against Ngatapa. Tomorrow he will lead Woodbank High School Old Boys against Enterprise Cars...