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Whangara-Girls’ High clash proves to be the day’s best

Top seeds High School Old Girls, YMP and Whangara Old Girls kept their unbeaten records at Victoria Domain on Saturday. The Whangara-Gisborne Girls' High School clash was the game of the day. Whangara led all the way against Girls' High Senior A but...

Now for top four

Waikohu added the second round cup to the trophy cabinet and warmed up for Saturday’s Lee Bros Shield top four playoffs against OBM with a 45-14 win over their semifinal opponents at Te Karaka on Saturday. Second-placed YMP meet Ngatapa (third) in...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS from Tuesday180s: Matt Reedy (Cossie 2 PHL), Sha Hohipa (Cossie 2 PHL).Best start (141): Moana Brown (2NZ Diamonds).Best finish (160): Lorenzo Kaa (2NZ Rebels 2).Most high scores (15): Jesse Noanoa (RSA Liquorland), Wayne...

Camp life highlight for rowers

Eight Gisborne rowers took part in a four-day training camp at Mangakino — and came home with some silverware. Sebastian Solomann, Thom Simmons, Joshua Kelly, Oscar Ruston, Hannah Veitch, Emily Smith and Phoebe Naske attended a training camp run by...

Sports draws November 18

BasketballSATURDAY — Miniball league, years 3/4, 10am: C1, Maui Tinihanga v Mangapapa Iversons (Cinta, Paddy, Kaipo, Lilly): C2, Mangapapa Griffins v Wainui, (Petra, O’Neil, Kellann, Char); C3, Awapuni Ballers v Manutuke, (Harata, Xzavier...

Ngatapa door open

Healthy competition for places in premier team

OBR hold their nerve in Doleman Cup thriller

OBR won the Doleman Cup for the third year in a row after surviving a huge scare from Pirates who were rolled for 82 in 26.1 of the 50-overs final at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Bain Construction OBR lost eight wickets before reaching their...

Heartland Championship: two taonga on the line

Defending the Bill Osborne and Jeremy David Memorial

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...

Tough conditions suit Gisborne clubs

TOUGH conditions were a feature of the Oceans 18 junior surf lifesaving carnival at Orewa Beach for Waikanae coach Cory Hutchings.“But our small team didn’t disappoint,” he said.“We came away as seventh club overall (on 22 points) in the...

Perfection in defeat

A matchplay cloud had a golden lining for Hamish Harris in the form of golf's perfect shot. Harris now belongs to a club some of the district's most famous golfers have yet to join with a hole-in-one during club championships at his home Patutahi...

Club Bowls news

COSSYGisborne Cosmopolitan Club’s outdoor bowling adjunct held a members-only tournament on the Poverty Bay club greens last week. Four rounds of eight-end games were played, with 14 teams of triples enjoying the day’s play. Judy Taylor, Alic...

Horouta and Waikohu stay in prems

Horouta Gold and Claydens Waikohu swept aside their A Grade challengers in the swap-over challenge games at Victoria Domain on Saturday, and both teams will remain in the Pak’nSave competition’s premier grade this season. Waikohu beat IMS High...