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Hockey NO SENIOR HOCKEY THIS WEEK. JUNIOR HOCKEY, YearS 1/2 Fun Sticks — Saturday: No play this week. YearS 3/4 Mini Sticks — FRIDAY: No play this week. Years 5/6 Kiwi Sticks — TODAY, 3.45pm: 1A, St Mary’s Wekas v Makaraka Gold (Girls’ High x...

Kemp, Ewart lead hot scoring at Bay

MATCHING 95s from Sue Kemp and Jan Ewart led scoring to match the warm spring weather at the LJ Hooker women’s open Christmas tournament on Wednesday. Twelve players posted stableford scores of 40 points or better on the Poverty Bay course. Kemp and...

Falcons take winter league lead

Ford Falcons took the lead in the Brezz’n Darts Club winter league, defeating Tigers 14-7 in Tuesday night competition. Falcons came out firing in the first set of singles, winning the first three games, T Irwin defeating T Ratapu 2-1, J...

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkANARU Reedy stamped his class on the Electrinet Park Welcome Open Tournament on Sunday. Reedy was a clear winner of the senior men’s gross, shooting 3-under 69. Even off the championship blue tees, the big-hitting Reedy made...

Clash of the schools could be a highlight

The interschool clash between Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A and Ritana Senior A from Lytton High School takes the spotlight in Pak’nSave netball grading tomorrow. Matches between YMP and Waikohu, and Taste One High School Old Girls and...

Big changes for Bay

They passed last week’s test but Poverty Bay have another tough assignment tomorrow — and this one is in front of the fans at home. Poverty Bay have also had to make wholesale changes to a winning rugby team — Jacob Leaf, normally a halfback...

A day of netball finals at domain

DEFENDING champions Tatapouri Sportsfit and newcomers IMS HSOG Masters will decide the A grade champions of Gisborne netball at the Victoria Domain courts on Saturday. The Masters, in their first season in the grade, booked a spot in the final with...

Sink or swim for the Bay

POVERTY Bay used their get-out-of-jail-free card last week when a try to Mario Counsell in stoppage time gave them a 26-19 win against Ngati Porou East Coast at Ruatoria. But it’s “sink or swim” for the Bay on Saturday when they play...

Sione Ngatu not finished yet

LEADERBRAND Poverty Bay prop Sione Ngatu has broken the 131-game record he shared with Robbie Newlands . . . and the good news for Bay fans is that Ngatu is keen to carry on playing.“I’ll take a good break over summer, spend time with my family...

United top of the table

The withdrawal of Hastings Hibernian has caused Central Football to revise the draw for the remainder of the Pacific Premiership. It means Gisborne Thistle’s scheduled game against Hibernian last Saturday, reported in the Herald on Monday as...

Stairmand beats Quinn in race to five

GISBORNE surfer Maz Quinn went for broke trying to peg back on-fire Billy Stairmand in the national championship final on Saturday. But Raglan’s Stairmand was unstoppable in the two-metre surf at Dunedin’s St Clair Beach, and his two-wave score...

Rugby venues change

POVERTY Bay Rugby Football Union's Tiny White Opening Day games today have been moved to Gisborne Boys' High School's Rectory ground and School Park at the end of School Road. All games start at 2.45pm. Refereeing appointments have not been changed. GT...

High School Old Girls-Lytton clash could go either way

PREMIER playoffs excitement will continue at the YMCA tomorrow as Claydens Waikohu fight it out with Horouta Gold in top-four Pak’nSave netball. In bottom-four competition, Lytton Senior A do battle with Taste One High School Old Girls. Both matches...

Crease is the word

POVERTY Bay coach/selector Lance Cairns has made three changes to the team who lost to Counties two weeks ago for this weekend’s Fergus Hickey game at Harry Barker Reserve. Medium-pace bowlers Jak Rowe (HSOB) and Sam Patterson (Campion College) and...

‘Clean bill of health’ for Bay after victory

RUGBYPOVERTY Bay came through Saturday’s opening Heartland Championship win against Wairarapa Bush with a clean bill of health. Bay No. 8 Ken Houkamau sat in the dressing room after the match with an ice pack on the lump on his head, while the rest...

Honours shared in Clash of the Associations

The late Stu (Blondie) Leach started something that has continued into its second year and shows every sign of becoming a local sporting fixture. Turanganui a Kiwa and Gisborne Club darts associations first contested The Clash of the Associations...