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Campion athletes set seven records

BONNIE Mason lowered the Campion College record for the Year 7 girls' 3000 metres by 3 minutes 25.27 seconds at the school's annual athletics meet. Year 7 girls' athletics champion Mason ran the distance in 12m 55.96s. The previous mark, 16m 21.23s...

Consistency, depth the keys to surf lifesaving supremacy

SURF LIFESAVINGA FOURTH straight Gisborne senior surf lifesaving championship was built on consistency and depth across all disciplines, says Waikanae head coach Cory Hutchings. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae racked up 355 points to retain the Ralph Morse...

Weekend sport is back

Rugby is back in Tairawhiti

Bring on Clearwater 2018

THE star of Poverty Bay-East Coast’s men’s national interprovincial campaign last week didn’t think twice when asked about his availability for 2018. William Brown, about 360 days out from the next edition, said he planned to be back next...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

DARTSRHINOS turned up the heat against Tigers in Brezz’n Darts Club’s Tuesday night competition. In the first set of singles, Tigers won the first two games. Toby Ratapu defeated Kayne Arahanga 2-0 and Axel Campbell defeated Junior Akurangi...

Basketball action back from break

Basketball makes the place shake. After a two-week break, men’s A grade action in the Gisborne club league returns to the YMCA tonight. At 5.45pm, Gisborne Boys’ High School Black and SE Systems will open Week 7, GBHS Red v City Lights tips at...

Woods to surf in multisport challenge

FORMER Gisborne surfer Bucky Woods will next week compete with other members of a New Zealand team in the annual “Rockyman” multisport challenge in Brazil. The 24-year-old former Wainui boardrider has spent five years in Mt Maunganui, where he...

Narrow loss for Poverty Bay

Consistency may have been the watchword for Poverty Bay last week but what they delivered was Jekyll and Hyde. And it was almost enough. The rugby side found themselves down 26-0 against Wairarapa Bush in Masterton on Saturday and then they threatened...

Skate jam ‘goes big’

A FORMER national skateboarding champion from Gisborne “went big” at the East Coast Skate Jam but it was the next generation who ruled, with a 17-year-old Aucklander taking honours. Hundreds of skateboarding fans packed into Alfred Cox Skate Park...

PB face wooden spoon playoff

POVERTY Bay will play the Northern Districts Invitation team in the wooden spoon game of the Northern Districts senior secondary schooolboys tournament here today after the home side produced their worst batting display of the week. Looking for their...

Scene set for classic derby,Mistakes continue to cost Coast

NGATI Porou East Coast produced their best performance of the season but it wasn’t enough to stop West Coast winning their Heartland Championship rugby game 32-19 at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria on Saturday. With LeaderBrand Poverty Bay pushing...

Gisborne harriers looking forward to 75th anniversary

GISBORNE Harriers Club will commemorate their 75th anniversary with a weekend of celebration at the end of this month. Festivities start with a sunrise run on Friday morning and end with the club's final trial run on their 2021 calendar on Sunday...

Top rounds from McDonald, Brown at Tairawhiti tournament

KAREN McDonald produced her best round since February of last year to earn top honours at the Tairawhiti Maori Golf Tournament at Gisborne Park. Home-course player McDonald won the women’s 0-18 gross with 3-over 76. An eagle-2 on the 295-metre 12th...

Major titles for Irwin, Tamihana

Tahuna Irwin and Errol Tamihana brought back two of the major titles from the Clubs New Zealand Darts Association 50th jubilee national tournament. Irwin, 20, won the men’s open singles title, contested since 1968, and Tamihana, 15, won the junior...

Junior colts to give it a whack

Just like in the Big Bash League or the IPL, young cricketers will don coloured clothing and return to the field next week to give the ball a good whack. The junior colts competition for Year 9 and 10 students resumes on Wednesday and Poverty Bay...

Scott 11th at Pan Pacs

New Zealand champion Matt Scott placed 11th in the men’s 10-kilometre open water swim at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo this week. Enterprise Cars Swim Team member Scott was fourth after the first of the five laps of the Hojo Beach...

Swimming was the winner — Martin

SUCCESSFUL coaches will often say “it was team effort” and Enterprise Swim team head coach Gary Martin wasn’t about to break with tradition after his club won the Seniors Cup (14 years and over age group) at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay...

Around the Greens - Club bowls news

THE four clubs were well represented when 42 players competed in the McInnes Driver Training Ltd Single Entry Tournament on Sunday. The popular Bowls 3/5 format was played with one power play a game. Bowlers were pleased to have sunshade shelter at...