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Giants driver wins NZ title

GISBORNE Giants superstock driver Josh Prentice 5G won the Autumn Superstock New Zealand Championship held at Meeanee, Hawke's Bay, at the weekend. Wellington-based Prentice took a first and two seconds in the three-race final series to win...

Wairoa’s Reece Lister one to watch at NZ Cross-country Championships

MOTORSPORTWairoa motocross rider Reece Lister is one to watch in the fourth and final round of the New Zealand Cross-country Championships near Mosgiel tomorrow. Lister held the lead as the field came back into view at the end of the opening lap at...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Alf Cross (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters), Pete Archbold (Roseland Dilligaf), Mike Jones (Roseland).Best start (180): Alf Cross (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters), Pete Archbold (Roseland Dilligaf).Best finish: No high finish. Most high scores...

On familiar ground for the nationals

Karl Carpendale will make his first appearance at the national sidecar championships on the track where he watched his father Wayne compete. Karl lived in Gisborne until four years ago, when he moved to Napier. He used to watch his father Wayne...

Poverty Bay girls remain unbeaten at hockey tournament

Bay girls remain unbeatenPOVERTY Bay girls have continued their impressive run at the Rawleigh Trophy under-13 hockey tournament in Levin. Poverty Bay topped their pool after a 5-0 whitewash of Taranaki — Chloe Kapene scored four goals — and...

Tyson crowned Coast king,Tops one of the best fields in Tolaga Bay tourney’s history

HE didn’t need a dragon. Or an army. Tyson Tawera’s “swords” proved sharp enough to win a golfing Game of Thrones as the 2017 Ray Scragg Motors King of the Coast was crowned on a winter-blasted Tolaga Bay battlefield on...

Champion of champions singles and fours found

BOWLSKAHUTIA players made the most of home-green advantage in the junior divisions of the champion of champions singles bowling tournament this month. But Te Karaka made a clean sweep of the open competition, David File and Sarah Brown winning the...

No Gizzy glory at Nationals

GISBORNE does not have a national surfing champion for the first time in 31 years. Just four Gisborne surfers made it to Dunedin for the national surfing championships held at St Clair Beach last week. Maz Quinn, Jacob Kohn and Buck Woods competed in...

Waikanae's Chloe Kapene and Lachie Falloon win gold at NZ U-14 surf life saving champs

SURF LIFESAVINGChloe Kapene helped get Waikanae off to a good start by winning two gold medals at the New Zealand Under-14 Surf Life Saving Championships at Orewa Beach yesterday. Kapene won the u11 girls’ run-swim-run and board race. Clubmate...

From disaster to equestrian glory

FRASER Tombleson set the record straight with his classy double-clear victory in the Bayley’s Real Estate Premier League at the Larsen Sawmilling Gisborne Showjumping Championships. Riding his grey homebred mare Mea I, he beat nine other...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

180s: Jordan Ngarangione (Falcons), Willie Edwards (Tigers).Highest start (140): Te Kotahi Kaio (Assassins) 3, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Assassins), Mihi Awatere (Pounamu).Highest finish (110): Tahuna Irwin (Falcons).Most tons, men (35): Tahuna Irwin...

Boys’ High teams off to tournaments

RUGBYThey’re both a big deal. The Gisborne Boys’ High School u14s go to Palmerston North and the Boys’ High under-15s go to Wellington in New Zealand secondary school tournament week, which starts on Monday. The u14s, under head coach Duane...

Cairns hoping for quick return to rep top flight

Poverty Bay senior men’s cricket coach Lance Cairns says he hopes his side will be ready to return to playing Northern Districts top-flight competition — Fergus Hickey — next season. Poverty Bay Cricket Association made the decision to drop to...

Bridge prize-winners

Monday Open Championships: Stephen Francks, Amanda Matthews, 1; Anne McCombe, Eileen Lee, 2.•North/South East/WestEileen Lee, Anne McCombe Linda White, Graham MacLaurinWednesday Championships: Vicki Taylor, Anne McCombe,1; Glenys Evans, Katrine...

In-form Morgan, Middlemiss rule Bay tables

RIP Morgan and Dave Middlemiss ruled the tables in the Poverty Bay A and C grade championships held at the Cossie Club. Morgan defeated Campbell McFarlane 2-1 in the best-of-three-frames A grade final. The champion eliminated John Warren in the...

Renee Holmes one of 11 recipients of scholarship programme

Renee Holmes is a glass-half-full sort of young woman. She “wasn’t really big on school”, so she focused on lunchtime sport as something to look forward to each day. This week, at 18, she was named as one of 11 inaugural recipients of the Tani...

Top grade to have eight teams

Two teams have been promoted to the Premier Grade of Gisborne netball after grading committee deliberations. Tapuae and Claydens Waikohu (3) will go from Premier Reserve to Premier Grade following the Challenge Round of games at Victoria Domain on...

Sports draws

CricketTHURSDAY — Walker Shield t20 — Harry Barker Reserve 5.30pm: H4 GBHS (1) v Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates. H2 Landmark Homes Bain Construction OBR v Tamarind High School Old Boys. SATURDAY — DJ Barry Cup, 1pm: H2, Tamarind HSOB v GBHS (1); H1...