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Late charge gives Waikohu fright

NETBALLTATAPOURI Sportsfit gave premier netball team Claydens Waikohu a fright when a late charge nearly won them their challenge game in the YMCA last night. Up 25-16 at halftime, Waikohu looked in control of the Pak’nSave netball challenge match...

Students show grit

FIGHTING performances by the high school teams and a win at last for Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits highlighted club hockey on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. GMC Green were pushed hard by Amber Dental Gisborne Girls’ High in the women’s...

Bridge results

MONDAY, December 3 — Closing Session 1 (Howell movement): Vicki Taylor, John Hudson 66.67; Glenys Evans, Diana Styche 61.11; Vincelle Marvin, Delwyn Arthur 56.94; Trish Corson, Ann McCombe 56.94. WEDNESDAY, December 5 — Singles 3North/South...

Courage Cup feedback encouraging

It has fast become important to rugby. Week 4 games of the inaugural Gisborne Boys' High School Courage Cup competition, now based at Barry Park, will be played at 3.15pm today. The players are thriving.“I love being able to play rugby again, with...

Adams scores hat-trick in win

A Josh Adams hat-trick helped Gisborne United to a 4-2 win against Eskview in Federation Cup football in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Heavy Equipment Gisborne United will play a semifinal against yet-to-be-confirmed opponents on August 24. Adams opened...

Gisborne sports draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events, SATURDAY — Steve Wolter Plumbing Series, Race 3: Kaimoe Road to Doneraille bridge and return. Sign in from 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Kaimoe Road. Race starts at 2pm. HockeySENIORS — FRIDAY — 6pm: GBHS v LOB...

Thistle get back on course

Gisborne teams Thistle and United won their matches in football’s Pacific Premiership on Saturday. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle had a hard time beating a fired-up Maycenvale 3-2 at Childers Road Reserve, while Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne...

Lewis was always going to be a Hiku man

IT WASN'T hard for Horace Lewis to decide on a rugby club on the East Coast. His No. 1 supporter — his mother Millie (née Tuhura) — is from Hikurangi headquarters at Hiruharama Marae south of Ruatoria, and once Hiku get their hands on someone...

Big weekend of local competitions

TANGAROA is still refusing to come to the East Coast surf party, despite two Gisborne surfing competitions being staged this weekend. The Tauawhi No Violence Longboard Classic and the penultimate event in the Gisborne Boardriders Club shortboard...

Thistle show grit

But North End do enough to take the points

Local riders shine at out-of-town events

Gisborne riders Merran Hain and Larina Dolman were among the local riders to shine at outside equestrian events in the past two months. Many showjumpers and show hunters travelled outside the district to compete in the two months leading up to...

Horouta champions again

TAIRAWHITI paddlers continued their dominant showing at the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karapiro on Saturday. Horouta Waka Hoe Club won the points trophy for the fifth year in a row, and for the seventh time in the eight years it has been...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

TahungaHukanui Brown increased the list of Tahunga men’s course recordholders with an outstanding performance at another popular edition of the annual men’s open on Saturday. Patutahi member Brown, who recently made his first East Coast Open...

District's golf roundup

Poverty BayTHE sponsor of the 2018 men’s shootout competition is on his way to qualifying for it himself. Andy Abrahams posted his best round of the year — 80-15-65 — to win the division 2 men’s stableford with 43 points on Saturday, and his...

Honours shared as forces collide

RUGBYWhen an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the irresistible force usually comes out on top. On Saturday, at Te Kura Mana Maori o Whangaparaoa, home team Tihirau Victory Club and visitors Hikurangi had both in equal measures to the...

Bygone days recalled

RUGBYTHE Ngatapa rugby captain from 1957 now has a rare “Invincibles” club jersey from a 90th birthday celebration he described as “awesome”.More than 200 people attended the party for Bill Maxwell at Torere Marae near Opotiki on March 30...

Scoreboard

RugbyPoverty Bay club rugby, premier grade: Aon Waikohu 36 Enterprise Cars OBM 26, Larsawn Ngatapa 16 Woodbank HSOB 10, Farmvets YMP 46 Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 16. Senior 1: OBM 37 Horouta 31, Nuhaka 27 YMP 0, Tapuae 53 Ngatapa 5, Wairoa Athletic...

Community the focus for Ngati Porou East Coast coach Hosea Gear

CONCERN for the community far outweighed concerns about the cancellation of the Heartland Rugby Championships this year for Ngati Porou East Coast rugby coach Hosea Gear. Gear was to take over the reins of East Coast representative rugby this season...