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Batsmanship a big factor in results

We're almost there. It was the penultimate Saturday of the 30-over, nine-a-side Junior League at Nelson Park. The Tairawhiti Women's Cricket Club Hortigro Colts beat the Bollywood Stars by 19 runs, the Bollywood High School Old Boys' Pups were 15-run...

Close second in skiff for Gisborne's Lucy Millar

Open skiff sailor Lucy Millar from Gisborne finished a close second in the female division of the national championships sailed at Naval Point Yacht Club in Lyttelton over the weekend. The event attracted 41 entries in two divisions raced over three...

Gisborne’s McDonald blows away Aorangi No.1

Gisborne's Tessa McDonald added another No. 1 scalp to her list at the national women’s national interprovincial in Christchurch yesterday. McDonald, playing at the top of the order for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay, blew away Aorangi counterpart and...

Langford knock one of the best

CRICKETWhat a way to end the season. Gareth Langford played one of the best innings in the nine-year history of Gisborne Intermediate School’s syndicate cricket series when he scored 83 not out off 38 balls yesterday. Batting at No. 1, Langford...

Fireworks expected as second round starts

BASKETBALL - Everybody now knows the lay of the land. And six weeks into the Gisborne Basketball Association club season, the second meeting of men's premier teams at the YMCA tomorrow night should produce fireworks. Green Up and Gisborne Boys' High...

Just like George Bridge

In the first picture in the gallery above, Te Wharau School’s Compton Pari does a mean George Bridge impression as he spectacularly avoids the tackle attempt of a Riverdale player at the Primary Interschool 7s tournament on what was renamed...

Grade finals expected to be tight contests

THE other senior netball finals tomorrow will complete what looks set to be a thrilling finale to the season. The A Grade final at 12 midday pits Claydens Waikohu Masters against IMS High School Old Girls Masters, which will be a replay of the 2019...

On the mats — indoor bowls news

FIFTEEN-year-old Akuhata Keelan has won his first Poverty Bay-East Coast Centre indoor bowls title — the Sutherland Automotive Tom Duffin Fours — with teammates Lois Lamont, Nathan Trowell and David Lynn. Keelan, playing lead, played great draw...

Open heads into final stage

DAVID Solomann can't remember the last time he made the semifinals of the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay men's golf open. He suspects it was the year he won it . . . 1995. This morning the former Gisborne golfer teed off as one of the last four in...

Sports draws

TouchShakers Touch Module, juniors, 4pm: F1A, Awapuni Thunders v Waikirikiri Y1/2; F1B, Makaraka Y1/2 team 1 v Te Hapara Salties; F2A, Central Chasers v Wainui Moana; F2B Kaiti Kiwa Tahi v St Mary’s Rippers; F3A, Central Scorers v Makaraka Y3/4...

Next generation starting bowls young

BOWLSEAGER to try their hand at bowls in school or encouraged by relatives, five young Gisborne bowlers haven’t looked back. A trio of teens — Angela Gibson-Sam, Ashli Ferris and Paige Richter — are competing in the national secondary schools...

DAWSON WINS SILVER IN POOL

GISBORNE surf lifesaver Chris Dawson won silver in the pool for the New Zealand Black Fins at the Lifesaving World Championships at Riccione in Italy overnight. Dawson, from Dawson Building Midway Surf Life Saving Club, won his medal in the open...

Visiting instructor spreads the fun

AUCKLAND-based relief teacher Brendan Doogan came to Gisborne to teach classes not in the everyday school curriculum. His leisure-time passion is taekwon-do, and he agreed to visit Gisborne to teach students of Te Karaka Taekwon-Do about rarely used...

Gisborne pair join Magpies

RUGBYBrendon O’Connor, who led the Hawke’s Bay rugby team to victory in their last successful Ranfurly Shield challenge, will be back in Magpies colours this season. The Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union today announced the return of loosie O’Connor...

Top sailors chasing historic trophy in Poverty Bay waters

GISBORNE Yacht Club is hosting the 2018 Sanders Cup interprovincial javelin championships and the event has attracted seven of the country’s top boats. It starts with an invitation race and race one of the series tomorrow afternoon. Phil McNeil and...

Last-minute try foils Hikurangi

A MUCH-needed win eluded Hikurangi when they travelled to Te Araroa Domain to play Tokararangi in the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition on Saturday. They came close to a draw, but were pipped at the post by a last-minute Toka try. The...

Donnelly is chasing his pro dream

SQUASHAUCKLAND is known as the “City of Sails”.But for Gisborne Boys’ High School leaver William “Willz” Donnelly, it is the “City of Dreams” as he pursues his goal of becoming one of the top 10 squash players in the world. The...

Tense club day on Coast

NGATI Porou East Coast club rugby will be tense on Saturday as the competition’s top clubs, Uawa and Tokomaru United, battle it out at Tolaga Bay Domain, and the next five teams clamber over each other to secure semifinal places. Uawa’s club day...