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Under-15s being noticed

RUGBYPeople sat up and began taking notice quite some time ago. The Duane Hihi-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School under-15s have shone so far this rugby season. They beat Rotorua Boys’ High 29-19 at the Rectory and were the only GBHS team to win...

Tokomaru Bay United carrying Ronnie Babbington's photo

A hard worker and a champion for her team

Ruby Sadler representing Gisborne Athletics Club

Gisborne Athletics Club will send only one athlete to this year's Colgate Games, with the club struggling to retain members. Ruby Sadler will compete in the 100 metres, 200m and 400m races. Over 1000 athletes, aged seven to 14, from 79 clubs will...

Wily rooster faces spring chickens at Eastland Group Raceway

FIREWORKS in the air will be matched by explosive action on the track tomorrow night when the 2017-18 speedway season opens at Eastland Group Raceway. Several young guns are stepping up to the big time while one of the track’s older sharpshooters...

Sports draws

CricketWALKER SHIELD, T20, Thursday — 5.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Coastal Ultrasound Horouta v Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates; H2, Bain Construction OBR v GBHS. Doleman cup playoffs, SATURDAY — 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve 4, OBR v Horouta; Rep...

HSOG fired up by midweek loss

NETBALLHIGH School Old Girls will take the YMCA court with extra fire in their bellies tomorrow as they look to bounce back from Wednesday’s loss to Gisborne Girls’ High School, and Waikohu will be on the receiving end. The Girls’ High victory...

Surf City Squash Club players win four out of five divisions

Surf City Squash Club teams have won four out of the five divisions they entered at the Eastern District Eliminations held in Hastings last weekend. The divisional wins give the successful teams the right to move on to Superchamps in September. The E...

On track for the NZ champs

Gisborne Speedway Club members have their final preparations under way ahead of the Professional Fleet Maintenance New Zealand production saloon car championships at the Eastland Group Raceway on Friday and Saturday nights.“We have been doing some...

Comeback win to Toka

Saturday, June 27: The second-placed visitors came from 16-0 down to win 22-16. Although possession was even, Waiapu, helped by a moderate-strength wind, piled on unanswered points in the first half. Their heavier pack got the majority of scrum ball...

Welcome aboard

One of the largest groups for lesson sessions in years has boosted the ranks of bridge players for Gisborne. Nineteen new players received their certificates after a 10-week course run by Gisborne Bridge Club stalwart Jean Bennett with the assistance...

Win ends 52-year drought

The last time a Gisborne golfer won the national veterans championship Anaru Reedy wasn't born. Fifty-two years later, Reedy ended that drought with an all-the-way victory in the Dunlop 65 Trophy senior division final of the 66th running of the...

Hard sand good for beach racing

A HARD surface at Makorori Beach made for some top-class action in the third and final points round of Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach-racing series. The season placings will be announced at the club’s prize-giving at the end of the...

United excited about Pacific Premiership football league

FOOTBALLHEAVY Equipment Gisborne United will make their debut in Pacific Premiership football when they play Maycenvale in Hastings tomorrow. But player-coach Corey Adams will have plenty of premiership experience to call on as he leads the side into...

Gisborne equestrians get competition under their belts

Local showjumping and showhunter riders got their first competition under their belts at the Eastern Bay Showjumping and Showhunter event at Te Teko Racecourse on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Isobel Jayne Bevitt, riding Kaycee Montego, was placed...

Gisborne Boys’ High on a mission

They're up for it. The Ryan Tapsell-coached Gisborne Boys' High School first 15, who have yet to win a game this season, left home on a mission yesterday. They play New Plymouth BHS at their famous Gully ground tomorrow at 11am. GBHS could have beaten...

Gisborne-East Coast reclaim bowls trophy

FOR the first time in eight years, Gisborne-East Coast bowlers won the Challenge Trophy for competition against Hawke’s Bay. Gisborne-East Coast ran out the winners by 30 matches to 26. The 16 men and 16 women must be congratulated on their dogged...

Scoreboard

RugbyPoverty Bay club, premier semifinal: YMP 21 GT Shearing Waikohu 19. Senior 1 semifinals: Nuhaka 46 Ngatapa 14; Tapuae 28 Waikohu 13. East Coast club competition: Hikurangi 13 Tokararangi 7; Tihirau Victory Club 43 Hicks Bay 15; Uawa 59 Tokomaru...

Bridge results

MONDAY, September 21 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 7North/South East/WestBrent Turnbull, Yvonne Waide 61.08 Joy Marden, Diana Styche 53.04Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 56.09 Raewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 50.75Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine...