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Celebrating culture/sport benefits

ALL five teams representing Turanganui-a-Kiwa in Rotorua at the annual National Maori Basketball Tournament achieved podium places. Three teams had gold-medal finishes, one team won silver and the other, bronze. This tournament celebrates how culture...

SPORTS DRAWS

Senior Round 2, Week 2. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put out bins: OBM Red Social, NUAM Hine Rikoriko. Duty club to control scorecard room for the day: Horouta. Year 5...

Sunday game in Napier for Turanga

Tūranga Mana Wāhine rugby squad are on the road again, this time heading to Napier to face Wairarapa Bush tomorrow. The Sunday game allows members of the team to play in Poverty Bay hockey and club netball finals today. Tūranga are looking to build...

Christie knocked out early in California

GISBORNE pro surfer Ricardo Christie’s quest for big points to boost his Qualifying Series campaign has lasted just one round. Gold Coast-based Christie was this morning (NZ time) eliminated in Round 2 of the US Open of Surfing QS 10,000 contest at...

Faulks forced to ring changes for Ngatapa

NGATAPA coach Will Faulks has been forced to make changes to his backline for tomorrow’s premier rugby clash with YMP at the Oval. Seddon Smith will make his premier debut at second five-eighth and Maka Lauti will play centre, replacing Anthony...

Tamatea coaching Koru basketball team

TURANGA Health Rising Suns basketball coach Dwayne Tamatea has been appointed coach of the New Zealand Koru under-18 girls’ team to compete in the Australian state championships in January. Tamatea will travel with two Gisborne players —...

De Souza added to list of champions for Piha

The inaugural Piha Pro has added another world champion to its ranks, with Brazilian Adriano De Souza today confirmed as an entrant. Following on from the announcements of Kelly Slater and Carissa Moore, De Souza's participation ensures that 16 world...

'Best for years' says Hutchings

SURF LIFESAVINGWAIKANAE surf lifesavers put in a national championship performance that head coach Cory Hutchings called the “best for years”.“It’s certainly by far the best while I have been involved with the club,” he said. Gisborne’s...

Sports draws

Round 1, Week 2, of Gisborne senior netball will be played on SATURDAY. PAK'nSAVE senior competition games will be held on Victoria Domain. All scorecards will be run from the tower. Duty team to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2)...

Bridge results

Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 69.05 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 63.81Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 59.58 Janet Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 56.19Margie McKee, Eileen Lee 58.33 Glenys Evans, Katrine Matthews 56.77Trish Corson, Elizabeth Jackson 55.95...

Hometown hopes high

Sand will fly and water will churn at Midway Beach tomorrow as more than 1000 athletes from around the country contest day 1 of the TSB New Zealand surf lifesaving championships. Individual and team titles in under-16, u19 and open age groups will...

Lytton show ‘awesome’ form in final

THEY are worthy champions. The Amoe Tarsau-coached Lytton High School beat Campion College 59-42 at the YMCA on Friday night to become the first school team in Gisborne Basketball Association history to win a women’s club title. They and 2008...

Super 8 starts with Palmerston

Get in early for Gisborne versus Palmerston. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 (12.30pm on Rectory ground No. 1), second 15 (11am on R1) and under 15s (11am on R2) begin their Super 8 campaign against Palmerston North BHS tomorrow. Scots...

Good first game: Ensor,East Coast go down to EBOP by 26-17

RUGBY“They’re going to be good this season.”So said Eastern Bay of Plenty coach Anthony Studer of Ngati Porou East Coast’s prospects in the Heartland Championship set to start on August 24. On Saturday, Studer’s powerful Eastern Bay crew...

Tokomaru test Uawa before pressure tells

UAWA came alive in the second half to beat Tokomaru United 34-14 in East Coast senior rugby at Uawa Domain on Saturday. The score doesn’t reflect how fast and tight the first 50 minutes were. The tussle between the forward packs began moments after...

Down but not out

HOROUTA skipper Blake Taylor has not given up on his team’s chances of making the Doleman Cup top four ahead of tomorrow’s final round-robin clash with High School Old Boys at Harry Barker Reserve. Coastal Ultrasound Horouta go into the match...

Brott wins gold, Aussies retain trophy

Gisborne's James Brott brought the curtain down on his national under-21 career with two gold medals in the annual transtasman regatta. But it wasn’t enough to stop Australia from retaining The Rusty Robinson Trophy. Twenty-year-old Brott, studying...