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Cook brothers keen to do better

SPEEDWAYTHE Cook brothers will look for better results this weekend when they take on the field in the New Zealand saloon car Grand Prix at Kihikihi Speedway in the Waikato. Ethan Cook, now 76G again, relinguished his 1NZ crown last weekend when he...

YMP on a roll in Premier Rugby

YMP are out to set things right with OBM. Only OBM and Waikohu have wins this season against the YMP side guided by Kahu Tamatea and assistant Mahe Lauti. Enterprise Cars OBM beat them 27-19 at the end of the first round of Civil Project Solutions...

Draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events — visitors and new cyclists welcome. Saturday — Club ride (no racing) from the Taruheru Cemetery in Nelson Road, starting at 1.30pm. Most rides are 90 minutes to three hours long, at a comfortable pace for...

Poverty Bay show promise in opener

Poverty Bay versus Clifton was an excellent game of cricket. Clifton won — by 28 runs — the first game in the Thermisol Poverty Bay team's Year 8 Black campaign at the Hawke's Bay (Riverbend) camp. Clifton hosted the fixture at their own ground...

Around the Greens

Poverty BayFour out of the 10 players from other city clubs won prizes at Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s progressive mixed triples tournament last Wednesday. For each of the four games of 10 ends or 90 minutes, teams changed around their team...

Campion make final in ‘upset of season’

MARK Naden propelled Campion College into the Hope Cup final (for the bottom three) with a magnificent 70 runs. He hit nine fours and a six as Campion caused the upset of the season, posting 183-5, then dismissing Coastal Ultrasound Horouta for...

Council to give pistol club shot in the arm

GISBORNE district councillors accept that relocation costs for Gisborne Pistol Club are too onerous and will pick up additional costs, including acting as a guarantor for the $50,000 resource consent bond. The club is moving from Gaddums Hill to...

Clark family members get among the goals

BAYLEYS clinched polo’s Kirkpatrick Cup by beating Ballance 4½ goals to 4 on Friday evening. A half-goal start on handicap proved decisive for the Bayleys side of Neville Clark, Berne McNeil, Rob Telfer, and Fern McIldowie and Jenny Shanks sharing...

Open heads into final stage

DAVID Solomann can't remember the last time he made the semifinals of the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay men's golf open. He suspects it was the year he won it . . . 1995. This morning the former Gisborne golfer teed off as one of the last four in...

Dolman and Kiwi Lansing on form

Gisborne rider Larina Dolman won the Harrison Lane North Island Pro Amateur Rider event at the Showjumping Auckland North Island Championship Show at the weekend. Dolman, riding Kiwi Lansing, held off the challenge of Mangatangi rider Tors Rattray...

Barry club’s corporate nights prove success

Barry Memorial Croquet Club has held the last of its Corporate Golf Croquet Challenge elimination nights. Eight teams made up of 42 non-croquet and new croquet players did battle. Some had never held a mallet before. One condition was that croquet...

Tamatea top of MVP series

FARMVETS YMP captain Willis Tamatea is leading the race for Poverty Bay premier club rugby’s Most Valuable Player award and with it a cash prize of $1000. But the 30-year-old is not getting carried away.“It’s a cliche but it’s one game at...

Holmes tackling new role

RUGBY SEVENSRENEE Holmes enjoyed winning the Northern Region Sevens title with her Waikato team and she hopes they can reproduce that form at the nationals. The Gisborne-raised 19-year-old was pleased with what the rugby sevens side did in Cambridge...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, April 9 — Harcourts Vicki Taylor Pairs 2 (Howell movement): Joy Marden, Trish Corson 67.71; Robyn Cheyne, Eilleen Lee 63.54; Elizabeth Jackson, John Hudson 60.19; Helen Kerisome, Vicki Nickerson 57.8. WEDNESDAY, April 10 — President’s...

NZ title reward for Walsh’s sacrifice

BODYBUILDINGIT was third time lucky for former Poverty Bay rugby player Tawhiri Walsh when he won a National Amateur Body-Builders’ Association New Zealand title in Palmerston North.“It was a nerve-racking time at the finals announcement, as my...

Golf roundup

If you have a story, tournament to promote or results you wish to have printed, please contact The Gisborne Herald: sports@gisborneherald. co. nzMahiaWhat do Mahia golf course and a great white shark have in common?Extra rows of teeth when the weather...