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RugbyPoverty Bay club, premier semifinal: YMP 21 GT Shearing Waikohu 19. Senior 1 semifinals: Nuhaka 46 Ngatapa 14; Tapuae 28 Waikohu 13. East Coast club competition: Hikurangi 13 Tokararangi 7; Tihirau Victory Club 43 Hicks Bay 15; Uawa 59 Tokomaru...

Bridge results

MONDAY, September 21 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 7North/South East/WestBrent Turnbull, Yvonne Waide 61.08 Joy Marden, Diana Styche 53.04Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 56.09 Raewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 50.75Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine...

Gisborne bowling teams take home shields

Bowls Gisborne-East Coast held its annual junior interclub Peck and Yelverton Tourney at Tolaga Bay Bowling Club's greens this month. Junior players are those with bowls experience covering a period of eight years or less. Only three teams — from...

NZ amateur a stepping stone to pro success

WHO would have thought it?That 14 years after five-putting the first hole on the Poverty Bay course during the New Zealand amateur, Michael Campbell would be holding up the 2005 US Open Trophy. Who would have thought the 1991 NZ amateur would be...

Top award to Imogen

IMOGEN Amor-Bendall received the Beth Meade Memorial Trophy as club swimmer of the year at the Comet Swimming Club annual prize-giving. She also won the award for outstanding female competitor. Jamie Joblin won the award for outstanding male...

YMP look to go unbeaten again

WITH the round-robin stage of the Pak’nSave Premier Netball Competition at the halfway mark, reigning champions YMP (1) are looking like they could make history by retaining their title with back-to-back unbeaten records. IMS High School Old Girls...

World Cup squad named

Gisborne’s McMenamin, Holmes named in Black Ferns

Chip-in win a story Jeune won’t forget

SIMON Jeune has had plenty of wins in his long and illustrious representative golf career. He’s unlikely, however, to forget his dramatic victory in a battle-of-the-bays day at the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial in Auckland...

Falcons take GCD Rose Bowl

THE Brezz’n Falcons team of Simon Koia, Harley Ngarangione, Sam Kirikino and Peter Tom won the Gisborne Club Darts Rose Bowl A-Grade competition at the Gisborne RSA last Sunday. After the ultimate graded Tuesday-night trophies, the Rose Bowl is the...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty BayBILL Allen ended a 23-round sub-90 drought in style on Saturday. Allen shot 86-21-65, for 43 points, to win the Division 2 men’s stableford by the length of the proverbial straight. The Sunday jackpot was struck not once, not twice, but...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

DARTSMANY of the matches were closer than expected in the Week 3 grading round at the Brezz’n Darts Club. Chalkers from both ends of the club were calling out the 180s and everyone who stepped up to the oche felt the vibe of an anticipated...

Captain’s knock sets up HSOB win

Captain Carl Shaw scored an unbeaten 81 as High School Old Boys defeated Horouta in the Walker Shield twenty20 competition playoff for third on Saturday. Bollywood Stars HSOB batted first and scored 173 for the loss of five wickets from their 20...

Sports draws

SENIOR A — Doleman Cup, SATURDAY, 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Horouta v Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys (umpire Stewart Patrick); HBR 2, Galaxy World Gisborne Boys' High School v Coastal Concrete OBR (Jason Trowill).Senior B — Hope Cup...

HSOB hungry to fill trophy cabinet

SCOTT Tallott knows only one way to play cricket . . . get on to the front foot and take the game to the opposition. The Bollywood High School Old Boys skipper has thrown down the gauntlet to his teammates as they prepare to play Gisborne Boys’...

Mapu betters 31-year-old mark

ATHLETICSSEVEN Mapu dominated the intermediate championship events at the Gisborne Boys’ High School athletics day on Monday. In the 200 metres he bettered a mark that had stood since 1988, when Scott Baistow ran the distance in 23.8 seconds. Mapu...

Briant sets hot pace in NZ champs

GISBORNE jetsprinter Blake Briant got his New Zealand championship campaign off to a perfect start in at the Meremere Sprint Bowl on Saturday. Briant and navigator Kate Hoogerbrug dominated round 1 of the six-round series to win and collect maximum...