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Hiku in danger of missing semis

CONTENDERS for the Ngati Porou East Coast senior club rugby semifinals are emerging, with Saturday marking the start of the final six rounds. The big question is whether regular champions Hikurangi will make the top four this year. Uawa, Tokararangi...

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Heavy losses for GBHS

Gisborne Boys' High School suffered two big defeats to their Palmerston North in their Super 8 secondary school rugby competition matches at the weekend. Gisborne's first 15 went down 54-10 in Palmerston North after trailing 23-5 at the break. Their...

Coaches encouraged by performances

THE Poverty Bay men’s and women’s teams may not have qualified for the national rugby sevens tournament in January but team officials were happy with the performances at the central region tournament in Levin.“There were a lot of positives...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Charlie Reiri (2NZ Rebels).Best start (147): Faenza Hewett (2NZ 3).Best finish (111): Jesse Noa Noa (2NZ Rebels).Most high scores (15): Thao Duncan (2NZ Say My Name Again).All games won in the match: Matt Reedy (Cossy DONE...

Out-bowled by some of the best at intercentres

Both Bowls Gisborne East Coast teams finished last in their qualifying sections at the Bowls NZ National Intercentre tournament played in Auckland over the weekend. Out of a total of 45 points available over the five rounds played, the men’s team...

Tough pill for Ngati Porou East Coast to swallow as West Coast plays best game of season

Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship

Traditional games off

Great institutions adapt and endure. The Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 is such an institution — principal Andrew Turner has confirmed that traditional rugby fixtures against Kelston Boys' High School, St Paul's Collegiate, Sacred Heart...

GP win caps Blundell’s day of firsts

IT WAS a day of firsts for the winner of the Bayleys Real Estate Horse Grand Prix at the Larsen Sawmilling Showjumping Championships. Daniel Blundell (Ocean Beach) won his first horse grand prix, with Lavello. The 11-year-old gelding, owned by the...

Brown escapes carnage

IF William Brown today wins his second Poverty Bay Open title on the course he helped groom, he won’t forget a shot of survival from yesterday. The Poverty Bay greenkeeper is one of three former champions who advanced to the Keiha Cup championship...

Sports in brief

GGHS in playoff for third/fourthGisborne Girls’ High School fell just short of making the final at the Jenny Hair Cup secondary schoolgirls’ hockey tournament in Carterton yesterday. GGHS were beaten 1-0 by Wellington Girls’ College, the goal...

Just like the finals

NETBALLGAMES as thrilling as finals netball ended in wins for Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls at the YMCA last night. Whangara nudged Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A 52-50. The students trailed by one, 13-12, at the end of the first...

Firefighters feel the heat at tournament

The irony of playing golf on a day where the mercury passed 35 degrees was not lost on those who teed up in the East Coast Fire Brigades tournament. They have battled far hotter, but firefighters in the field still felt the burn of summer at...

Wainui do the double

Wainui Sharks and Gisborne United face off in Bailey Cup final

Champ of champs title to Kerr

Jo Kerr was delighted and a little surprised to win the senior gross title at the Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay women’s champion of champions at tlhe Bridge Pa golf course in Hastings. Gisborne Park member Kerr shot 87, 82 to win the 36-hole...

England, Orotaunga players of year

HOCKEYTHEY had to settle for second-best in the grand finals but Amy England and Piri Orotaunga collected the top individual awards for the Poverty Bay club hockey season. GMC Green’s England was named Female Player of the Year while THC’s...

Hayes hits half-ton

THOMAS Hayes continued his good representative form this season when he top-scored for the Poverty Bay/Northern Districts cricket team against the Sri Lankan under-19 team in a 40-over game at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Hayes scored 53 off 73...

Damage dashes Gooch’s NZ double hopes

A BROKEN axle in one race and a broken CV joint in another cost Gisborne’s 1NZ Brenden Gooch any chance of doing the double in an action-packed New Zealand Streetstock Grand Prix at the weekend. Gooch, who won the New Zealand Streetstock...