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GBHS team's development on display at Super 8 tournament

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Super vets travelling to Hamilton

EASTLAND will compete in the second round of the inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hamilton tomorrow. Team members are Ron Prebble, Annabel Riwaka and Ruth Ledger from the Patutahi club, Robert Cameron, Kevin...

Reaching new heights

If you reach your highest goal the only thing to do is to set a higher one, says Gisborne surf lifesaving rising star Olivia Corrin. Last year the teenager set herself the short-term goal of making a Black Fins open or junior team for the 2018...

Vette and Hovell fly the flag

SAFFI Vette and Sean Hovell kept the Gisborne flag flying at the national surfing championships at Piha yesterday. Vette won her under-18 girls’ semifinal heat. She had already qualified for the u16 final and open women’s semifinal. Hovell —...

Field of dreams, good and bad

Thistle snatch victory with three stoppage-time goals

Boys’ High fall to late comeback

SCOTS College fought back from a 30-16 deficit to draw 33-all in the Hurricanes Secondary Schools’ semifinal and eliminate Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 — five tries to three.“It was a bitter pill to swallow,” Ngati Porou Seafoods...

One change for the Coast

NGATI Porou East Coast coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor have been forced to make one change to the 22-man squad who came close to toppling Poverty Bay last week — for tomorrow’s Heartland Championship rugby game against Mid Canterbury at...

Trio off to Fiji for Coral Coast Sevens

THREE women from Gisborne will be part of a New Zealand-based rugby sevens side competing at a tournament in Fiji next week. Renee Holmes, Kaipo Olsen-Baker and Jade Stacey will play for the Rugby Vault International side at the Coral Coast...

Weekend finals

Aussies edge Black Fins

GISBORNE surf lifesavers played their part as New Zealand fell just short of upstaging Australia on their home beach in the International Surf Rescue Challenge yesterday. The Aussies won the third and final open test of the series at Maroochydore on...

Weighn attending Steven Adams' basketball camp

THIRTEEN-year-old Gisborne schoolboy Weighn Wilson was born with no fingers on his left hand but he will try most sports, and this week he will attend a Steven Adams Basketball Camp for players aged eight to 17. Weighn and his mother, Harriet...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkSHE fell at the final hurdle in last year’s Electrinet Park women’s shootout final . . . not this time. Pat Johansen added her name to the list of champions with victory in a 17-women field on Saturday. The 2018 runner-up had to do it...

Trampolinists score 100 percent medal haul

EASTLAND Port Gisborne Trampoline Club competitors continued their medal haul from recent events in winning 15 medals at the Auckland champs.“We took nine kids away and they all came home with medals,” said club coach Doug...

Tokararangi take care of business

Tokararangi had a job to do on Saturday and they did it. The defending champions of Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby beat seventh-placed Tokomaru Bay United 64-0, scoring 10 tries in the process. Left wing Hirau Grant opened the scoring at Te Araro...

Poverty Bay make the playoffs

. . . in game to decide first Bill Osborne Shield winners

First game of season for reps

Men's and women's cricket teams take to the field on Sunday