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Seven golds to Gisborne at qualifiers

Gisborne Trampoline Club athletes brought back 11 medals from a North Island qualifying meet in Auckland last weekend. Seven athletes from the club travelled north and won seven gold medals, three silver and one bronze. Kaiya Huta competed with a cut...

W1 gold to Paenga-Morgan

Gisborne Boys’ High student Anaru Paenga-Morgan reaffirmed his status as the top junior 16 W1 paddler in the country at the National Secondary School Waka Ama Championships yesterday. Reigning J16 New Zealand champion Paenga-Morgan won the under16...

Winning start for Christie as he chases return to top tier

A PULSING swell gave Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie the waves he needed to win his first heat in the Pantin Classic Galicia Pro in Spain. On the second day of competition, the northern Atlantic started producing three-to-five foot surf, with...

Wright first time

THERE was ecstasy for Fraser Wright on Saturday night when he took out the inaugural New Zealand Production Saloons Grand Prix at Eastland Group Raceway. A thrilled Wright, in his 44G car, said it felt “so good” to win his first New Zealand...

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Football draw

Big game as OBM eye top four

OBM will open a nine-point lead on fifth-placed High School Old Boys in the premier division if they beat Athletic at the Oval tomorrow.“It’s a big game for us,” said Enterprise Cars OBM co-coach Keith Henderson. “A win would set us up for...

Northern Districts tournament results

Day 3 results of the Northern Districts senior secondary schoolboys’ cricket tournament at Harry Barker Reserve —Poverty Bay 150 (R Schwass 30, P Stewart 28; K Bird 2-2, C Gordon 2-13, N Parkes 2-23) Northland 152-6 (S Webb 52, A Poore 29; J...

Mid Canterbury v Poverty Bay clash shaping up to be a make-or-break game

Poverty Bay have their work cut out for them against Mid Canterbury in what is shaping up to be a make-or-break game for their playoff dreams. The team will be hoping to ride the momentum of their strong bounce-back performance last weekend against...

Gomm sets record at fun meeting held by Eastland Kart Club

Robert Gomm set a lap record at a fun meeting held by Eastland Kart Club at its Aerodrome Road track yesterday. Driving his Rotax kart, Gomm set a lap time of 19.384 seconds. Daniel Taylor had the meeting’s highest lap count — 96 in total

Big turnaround for Bay U18s

AN incredible turnaround — that’s what the Fulton Hogan Poverty Bay under-18s achieved with a 34-12 win against a quality Thames Valley side at Rugby Park last night. The Valley, who beat Northland 12-0 in Whangarei and Taranaki 26-24 to open...

Ngati Porou East Coast look to do even better this time round

Ngati Porou East Coast last Saturday came agonisingly close to beating Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay in Gisborne. The Hosea Gear-coached Coast came within three points of their first win against the Bay since the 26-8 win at Whakarua Park in...

Girls’ High make big improvement

High School Old Girls outplayed Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A in premier-grade netball on Saturday, but the students made them work hard for the win. Taste One High School Old Girls won the Pak’nSave competition game at the YMCA 62-50. It was...

Rivalry resumed

MOUNT Maunganui and Waikanae resume their surf lifesaving rivalry at Midway Beach this weekend. The Eastland Port Champion of the Bays carnival this weekend has attracted competitors from a dozen North Island clubs. But much of the attention will...

Schools’ Gymnastics Festival a hit

AS students took to various apparatuses and scorecards began to turn, judges scoured the room for pointed toes, straight arms and legs, a clean dismount, and most importantly, a smile. Among the judging panel at today’s event was national gymnastic...

Championship pairs won by Nanai, Morgan

SNOOKERALEX Nanai and Rip Morgan won the Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s Ray Swann Championship Pairs last Saturday. Nanai and Morgan beat Neil Robinson and Tony Cleaver two frames to nil in the best-of-three final. Eight pairs took part in the...

Netball ‘challenge’ games to begin tonight

The “challenge” games in Gisborne netball begin tonight at the YMCA with the first of the premier-grade deciders. At 6pm in Pak'nSave Gisborne netball competition, Gisborne Girls' High School Senior A take on JT Contractors Horouta Taimana. At...

Dream to make PGA Tour

HE dresses like Rickie Fowler, stands on the same side of the ball as Phil Mickelson and shares a Christian name with two-time major winner Zach Johnson. And if all goes to plan, and it’s a highly ambitious one, Gisborne’s Zach Rolls will one day...

United present bona vides

Adams scores two in bright team performance