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Big turnout for fourth club night of season

They had Awapuni Stadium rocking. Following on from the primary school athletics sports meet attended by hundreds, the largest field of the season to date — 70-plus — turned out for the fourth Gisborne Athletics Club night. Cameron Alexander won...

Ended as she started

?Gisborne's Tessa McDonald finished the national women’s interprovincial golf tournament in Christchurch as she started it — victoriously. McDonald, at No. 1 in the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay team, racked up her fourth win in seven matches as HBPB...

SET TO MAKE A SPLASH

SCORES of paddlers from Tairawhiti are poised to make a splash at the waka ama sprint national championships next week. The champs at Lake Karapiro begin tomorrow, starting with a powhiri and the youngest competitors having their first races, before...

International final the incentive at GromSearch in Taranaki

SURFING by Ben KenningsTWO of the champions crowned at this weekend’s Rip Curl GromSearch in Taranaki will get an enormous boost to their careers. The winners of the under-17 boys’ and girls’ divisions qualify to represent New Zealand at the...

Schoolboy scrap in Hope Cup

CRICKETThere’s no getting away from it. Nelson Park No. 3 is the venue for tomorrow’s 30-over Hope Cup clash between Gisborne Boys’ High School and Campion College. The artificial wicket will test the capacity of cricketers reared on the Harry...

Whangara given a fright

Gisborne Girls’ High School gave Whangara Old Girls a right royal run for the money in a Pak’nSave premier-grade netball game at the YMCA on Saturday and grabbed a bonus point against one of the more fancied teams in the competition. Netball...

Ball wants more after rep debut

Gisborne teenager Ellen Ball got her first taste of representative women’s golf last weekend and is hungry for more. The 14-year-old made her Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay debut in an interprovincial matchplay fixture against Wellington held on two...

SPORTS DRAWS

RugbyTHE draw for local rugby at the weekend is —Civil Project Solutions Senior Club Rugby, SATURDAY —Premier grade, 2.45pm: Barry Park 1, East Coast Vets YMP v Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates; Te Karaka 1, GT Shearing Waikohu v High School Old Boys...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

This has been a challenging season but the calibre of darts has been superb, with great support for each other. Grading started on September 1 but came to a halt due to restrictions associated with Covid-19 Alert Level 2. Games were postponed until...

'Awesome' start to speedway season

GISBORNE Speedway Club started its 2015-2016 season with a brilliant Jukers Carriers Family Fireworks meeting on Saturday night — one of the best season-openers the club has seen. No-holds-barred racing and a breathtaking fireworks show will live...

Brown brothers on song as PBEC avoid wooden spoon

Poverty Bay-East Coast rookie Hukanui Brown is well known for his singing voice. On Thursday, he made sweet music on Christchurch’s Clearwater course as he and brother Eddie Brown junior produced a memorable duet at the Toro national...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Close winning margins are becoming a bit of a scarcity in Gisborne Club Darts Association Tuesday night competition and Tutu finds no joy in writing about one-sided contests. This week’s game worthy of a mention was that between 2NZ Rebels and 2NZ...

Scoreboard

FootballPacific Premiership: In Gisborne, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 2 Napier City Rovers seconds 2, Gisborne Thistle 2 Eskveiw 2. Eastern League, Division 1: Heavy Equipment Services United 4 Lytton High School 1, QRS Wairoa Athletic 2...

PBEC pipped by Canterbury at Masters

POVERTY Bay-East Coast were on the wrong end of a tight clash at the Freyberg Masters men’s golf interprovincial this morning. PBEC were beaten 3-2 by Canterbury in Round 6 of the over-40s matchplay tournament being held on the Paraparaumu Beach...

A dream-come-true final

TVC and Uawa in contest for title of Coast champions

Coaches drive Midway’s rise

MIDWAY Surf Life Saving Club is on the rise, thanks to the combined efforts of coaches Matt Sutton, Jared Phelps, Jess Blakeman and Oliva Corrin. The Dawson Building Midway team were convincing winners of the Gisborne Tairawhiti Junior Championships...

Surf lifesaving age group champions

WAIKANAE ran out clear winners of the Ralph Morse Shield Gisborne surf life saving championships on Saturday. The overall age group champions were spread across all three Gisborne clubs. Open females: Georgie Pitkethley (Waikanae), and Briana Irving...

HOROUTA 1-2-3

For the second year in a row, Horouta Waka Hoe completed a clean sweep of the W1 premier women's class at the national waka ama sprint championships on Lake Karapiro yesterday. In the last race of the fourth day of competition, the Self Storage...