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It’s in the genes of Motu Special champ

MOUNTAINBIKINGTHERE was double glory for the Gordon family in the Motu Special mountainbike event last weekend. Professional road cyclist Callum Gordon successfully defended the 50-kilometre PGG Wrightson Weka Special race. And his mother Steferl led...

Thistle open gate for chasers

FOOTBALL by John GilliesGISBORNE Thistle opened the gate for the chasers when they beat league leaders Napier City Rovers Seconds 1-0 in Pacific Premiership football at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Central midfielder Olly Tilley rose at the far...

Four players cited from premier brawl

RUGBYFOUR players — two from OBM and two from YMP —have been cited following the brawl that marred the Poverty Bay premier club game between the teams at Rugby Park on Saturday. Te Peehi Fairlie (YMP winger), Ngahiwi Manuel (OBM No. 8) and Jacob...

It’s a YMP, Waikohu premier final

A Reihana Wyllie-inspired YMP produced the comeback of the season to book their place in Saturday’s Lee Bros Shield premier club final, where they will meet last year’s runners-up Waikohu. East Coast Farm Vets YMP came from 26-7 down at halftime...

Gisborne teens to compete on national stage

Three Gisborne teenagers are keen to put their best feet forward on a new athletics track at the national champs in Christchurch. Briana Irving, Maddie Wilson and Le’Sharn Anderson will represent Hawke’s Bay/Gisborne at the New Zealand Track and...

Records, endurance features of GBHS athletics day

Records, determination and a spirit of endurance were features of Gisborne Boys' High School's athletic sports day this month. Seven Mapu set a record in the senior 200 metres, beating by 0.01 of a second the time set 25 years before by Colin...

Club bowls news

GisborneThe old firm are back in business. Gisborne Bowling Club’s first division women’s team dominated the Gisborne-East Coast leg of the Bowls New Zealand National inter-club championships at Poverty Bay on Saturday. After dipping out...

More tributes for Henry Maxwell

More tributes have been paid to former Maori All Black Henry Maxwell, who as a coach turned Pirates into a major force in Poverty Bay premier rugby, and who has died after a long period of ill health. Maxwell had played over 100 first class games for...

Big day for Waikanae

TSB New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships

McDonald backing Bay women

POVERTY Bay women’s cricket coach David McDonald rates his team’s chances of winning the Northern Districts T20 trophy as “reasonably high”.“The ND T20 trophy has eluded us in recent years but we’ve got a strong team, a good blend of...

GOLF ROUNDUP

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Making history

RUGBYWAIKOHU will be chasing back-to-back Lee Bros Shield final appearances while OBM will be desperate to make their first final since 2004 . . . they meet in a semifinal at Rugby Park tomorrow (kick-off 3pm).GT Shearing Waikohu lost last year’s...

World titles to Stephen Sheldrake

GISBORNE’S Stephen Sheldrake has added more international successes to his competitive career list, this time at the ITU Multisport World Championships Festival in Canada. Sheldrake collected age group titles in the aquathlon and the aquabike at...

Chances to put hand up

RUGBYA TRIP to Rotorua tomorrow presents another chance for Poverty Bay players to push their claims for selection as the Heartland campaign draws near. They’re playing a pre-season game against Central Bay of Plenty and Poverty Bay coach Tom...

Medals for local quartet at festival

FOUR Gisborne swimmers earned medals at the Aquaknights Junior Festival held in Hamilton last weekend. Comet Swim Club's Celia Willoughby won silver in the 10-and-under 50-metre freestyle, while Enterprise Swim Club had three medallists across...

Last hit-out for reps

RUGBYSame time, same place. Tomorrow’s 2.30pm clash between Poverty Bay and the Hawke’s Bay Saracens at Tremain Field, Napier, is an important game: the last before the Bay play Wairarapa-Bush in the Heartland Championship season-opener in...

True to his origins

GOLFONCE Gisborne, always Gisborne. David Solomann would agree with that. The Poverty Bay-East Coast “player of origin” chalked up another impressive victory for the province in a narrow team loss on Day 3 of the Freyberg Masters men’s...

Waka ama paddlers, supporters to gather for race simulation day

Not the real thing . . . but close