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Bridge results

TUESDAY June 7 — Harcourts Vicki Taylor Pairs 2North/South East/WestTrish Corson/Glenys Evans 64.58 Graham MacLaurin/Robin Bennett 52.08Pippa Williams/David Johnstone 46.88 Anne MacLaurin/John Rouse 50.00WEDNESDAY June 8 — Jean Broadhurst Winter...

The Noogies, Uawa in final

NETBALLTHE Noogies men’s netball team last night kept their unbeaten record intact to advance to the men’s final as round-robin winners. They will play Uawa, who beat The Joops at the YMCA last night, to decide the men’s netball title. The final...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Eleven teams are entered in Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s winter league run by Brezz’n Darts Club. Competition started on Tuesday night, and the grading round over the next 11 weeks will determine the make-up of the A and B grades. The...

Third in a row for Clark, first for Owen

Whakatane’s Sam Clark made it three wins in a row while South African Robyn Owen claimed her first win in Saturday’s Kathmandu Coast to Coast World Championship Longest Day. The hyped women’s race lived up to expectations. Owen, who was second...

Tolaga Bay trio go the extra miles

THREE girls from Tolaga Bay went the extra miles to train for the waka ama world sprint championships in Australia. Shania Lee, Manutangirua Potaka and Chelsea Haami-Heron were in the Horouta Waka Hoe J16 squad who finished with two second placings...

Out to make visit to Tairawhiti memorable

Tairawhiti Softball Association will host the North Island Division 2 Secondary Schools Softball Championships this month. They will be held at Waikirikiri Park in Gisborne from March 26 to 29. Association president Walton Walker says that so far 20...

Corrin pleased to be at home

SURF LIFESAVINGMIDWAY clubbie and New Zealand representative Olivia Corrin had been hoping to be finishing off preparations for the Australian surf lifesaving championships about now, but then along came Covid-19. The 19-year-old came home to compete...

GOLF ROUNDUP

UMA Chambers started his 2022 golfing year by breaking 80 for the first time in over seven years. Chambers won the stableford on Sunday with 78-19-59 for a whopping 48 points. His previous foray into sub-80s territory was a 79 in November of...

Falcons take GCD Rose Bowl

THE Brezz’n Falcons team of Simon Koia, Harley Ngarangione, Sam Kirikino and Peter Tom won the Gisborne Club Darts Rose Bowl A-Grade competition at the Gisborne RSA last Sunday. After the ultimate graded Tuesday-night trophies, the Rose Bowl is the...

Injury no obstacle for Lauren

TEN-year-old Gisborne gymnast Lauren Chambers was back in action less than two months after a neck injury that required her to be taken to hospital by St John ambulance. Her first competition after the injury was the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Open...

Uawa seek emphatic victory

RUGBYWhat goes around has indeed come around. Uawa, defending champions of East Coast club rugby, are brilliant hosts with a keen sense of humour, although understandably the manner of their Round 1 loss to Hicks Bay at Wharekahika on April 27...

Wolfpack fight their way to victory

The Turanga Wolfpack under-11 girls’ team overcame injuries and a halftime deficit in the final to win a national Maori basketball tournament. Down four points in the big game against Muaupoko (Horowhenua), Turanganui a Kiwa went on a run in the...

Three teams each win opening two games

HIGH School Old Boys, OBR and Gisborne Boys’ High School all recorded two wins in the opening round of the Walker Shield Twenty20 cricket double-headers at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday,Bollywood HSOB beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates and Coastal...

Around the greens

Poverty BayHeavy rain, thunder and lightning curtailed play in the Graham Shield Mixed Graded Fours last Wednesday. The format for the Evans Funeral Services-sponsored event was four games of 12 ends or 90 minutes. Eleven teams — three of them from...

Captains’ role key

BASKETBALL

Waves for all, this is how Gizzy is meant to be

THE SUN has been shining, waves have been pumping. Gizzy is back in form and just in time for Christmas too. It was a beautiful sight on Tuesday as peaky, overhead A-frames unloaded up and down Wainui Beach, glistening with the light offshore and...

OLYMPIC EFFORTS

WORLD attention may be on the Tokyo Olympics but there was plenty of action happening on our own backyard on Saturday. The onfield action included a “local derby” netball game between Waikohu 1 and Waikohu 3 at the YMCA and an action-packed...

Baxter ton sets up High School Old Boys’ win

A heroic Dave Castle limped out to help High School Old Boys dash OBR's hopes of a monumental comeback in premier cricket on Saturday. Bollywood Stars HSOB, at 152-4 and needing only 13 runs to win, looked as if they would coast home. But Coastal...