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Back to back victories for Woodbank HSOB

FOR club, for team, for coach, and for history. Woodbank HSOB had no shortage of inspiration as they achieved back-to-back Poverty Bay premier club rugby titles with a dominant 16-2 win over Enterprise Cars OBM at Rugby Park on Saturday. It was the...

Exciting times for club

Gisborne Rowing Club had an outstanding weekend of results at the 2020 Karapiro Christmas Regatta. The club had 40 rowers there — the biggest team the club had taken to any regatta in years. Gisborne Rowing Club assistant coach Peter Simmons said it...

Racing ‘sensational’ for champs

Sensational racing lit up the Eastland Kart Club's track in Aerodrome Road for the club championships on Sunday. All drivers had three eight-lap races, and received a start in the front, in the middle and at the back of the grid over the day's...

There to serve surf community

Gisborne's Charmaine Clark hopes her appointment as a board member of Surfing New Zealand will let her serve the wider surfing community. Clark has quietly helped establish several things over the years, mostly funding apps or core docs.“I would...

In to win premiership

FOOTBALLBoth Gisborne teams in football’s Pacific Premiership are fit, strong and raring to go in the opening round tomorrow. Heavy Equipment Services United play reigning champions Napier City Rovers seconds at Harry Barker Reserve at 2.30pm...

Tayler Reid wins spot in Commonwealth Games team

FOR Gisborne’s newest Commonwealth Games representative, thriathlete Tayler Reid, telling his family was the best part of his selection. But, like his family, he was sworn to secrecy for a couple of days until the New Zealand triathlon squad for...

NZDC Junior/Youth Dart Championships

GISBORNE had nine youth and three junior dart players at the New Zealand Darts Council Junior/Youth Dart Championships in Porirua this month. They brought home 22 medals, with gold going to the junior boys’ pair of Te Kotahi (TK) Kaio and Hunter...

Scorpions by one . . . Falcons by lots

Pumas and Scorpions went head-to-head during the Brezz N Tuesday night league in a clash highlighted by some hard-fought opening singles games. Pumas captain Ike Te Ahorangi lost 2-0 to John Lynch but teammates Mark Bollingford and Cory Timothy...

Sports draws

Rugby leagueThe draw for the Gisborne Tairawhiti rugby league competition on Saturday is —1pm: Manutuke Mustangs v Waengapu Stallions. 2.30pm: Paikea Whalers v Seeka Falcons. Bye: Turanga Panthers, Ngatapa Stags. FootballGISBORNE CHAMPIONSHIP —...

Jags could rise to top

A win at Childers Road Reserve tomorrow will take Gisborne Thistle to the top of football’s Pacific Premiership. But the team they must beat, Eskview United, proved one of their bogey teams last year. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle lost to them...

Place in grand final at stake

IT'S PLAY off time in the senior mens hockey competition this round and a place in the mens’ grand final is at stake in tonight’s top of the table clash between THC and YMP A. The two most exciting teams in the mens’ competition will take to...

Halberg nomination for Smith

BMX world junior champion Jessie Smith, formerly of Gisborne, is among the nominees for the Halberg Awards. She is in the emerging-talent category. Now living in Hamilton, Smith won the junior elite world title in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, in July. She...

Lamont and Conway among the medals

MASTERS GAMESThere were more medals for Gisborne veteran athletes at the 30th New Zealand Masters Games in Whanganui this week — notably a 16-medal haul across five sports by multisporter Pete Lamont. He opened with a triathlon bronze in the...

Predict at your peril

WHO will win this year’s Lee Bros Shield Poverty Bay premier club rugby final? That’s easy. The Wayne Ensor-coached Woodbank High School Old Boys. They collected the Premier Trophy as first-round winners, the Lion Cup as second and third-round...

Coach wants good show for fans

Gisborne United player-coach Corey Adams wants his team to put on a good show when they host Havelock North Wanderers Seconds in Pacific Premiership football at Harry Barker Reserve at 3pm tomorrow.“We owe the supporters a good game after our last...

Gis Int cricketers face off before New Zealand Cup clash

CRICKETThere’s a big game to be played on Monday — and every Gisborne Intermediate School cricketer worth his salt wants in. But before the New Zealand Cup opener between Gis Int and Ilminster Intermediate at Ilminster next Monday comes Gis...

Have-a-go event gets them on the greens

BOWLSTHIRTY students from Lytton High School and Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Horouta Wananga took part in the Tairawhiti Secondary School Lawn Bowls Have-a-go Day held at the Gisborne Bowling Club greens yesterday. The focus was on learning how to play...

Promise shown in u20 series

RUGBYPOVERTY Bay’s under-20 rugby side had three losses in a Hurricanes regional series but showed promise and could be well placed for a stronger showing next year. Up to a dozen players are in line to be back in 2020. Poverty Bay had their moments...