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Poverty BayTHE top seeds survived, the defending champions did not as the Barns-Graham Cup men’s pairs produced its usual anthology of agony and ecstasy over the weekend. The contenders are down to 16 duos following a doubleheader featuring...

YMP win game but GMC top women’s table

GMC Green lost to YMP A last night but still finished on top of the table in Gisborne women’s hockey. YMP A won the exciting final round-robin match 2-0 on the LJ Hooker Turf, in front of a large crowd at Harry Barker Reserve.“YMP really dug deep...

International clash a feature at Showjumping Championships

THE Aussies are coming and the Kiwis will be waiting for them at the Larsen Sawmilling Showjumping Championships in Gisborne this weekend. Horses, ponies, riders and support crews are travelling from as far away as Hokitika in the south and Hikurangi...

Making her mark

Kayley Knight creating a stir with bat and ball

Kelsey Teneti on world 7s stage

RUGBY SEVENSGISBORNE 16-year-old Kelsey Teneti is looking forward to playing rugby sevens for New Zealand in an international schools tournament next week. She has been named in the New Zealand under-18 squad for the World School Sevens event in...

SMITH CLAIMS GOLD

Gisborne's Oska Smith takes out the beach sprint in youth competition of the Lifesaving World Champs in Italy

Game ends early after ankle break

A WOMEN'S football game ended early after an ankle break landed a Bohemians player in Gisborne Hospital’s emergency department on Sunday. Bohemians were trailing Gisborne Girls’ High School 6-0 when Jade Moore fell after a tackle and cracked her...

Club bowls news

JAN Powell and Robin Jefferson won Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s 2x4x2 mixed pairs tournament on Saturday. The format for the Sunshine Brewery-sponsored event was for each team to have four games of either 10 ends or 90 minutes. A late no-show by one...

Senior club championship results

SURF LIFESAVINGWAIKANAE Surf Life Saving Club retained the Ralph Morse Memorial Shield for overall points in the Gisborne/Tairawhiti senior surf lifesaving club championships. Results —Double SkiOpen men: Waikanae A (Quaid Thompson/Jordan McLarin)...

Sports draws

SoftballTairawhiti senior competition, Waikirikiri ParkWomen — SATURDAY1pm: Diamond 1, Gisborne Girls’ High v Tolaga Magic. 3pm: D2, Rovers v Lytton Gems. Bye: Uawa Scorpions. Men — FRIDAY, 6pm: D1, Spartans v GBHS 2. SATURDAY, 3pm: D1, Rovers v...

Lee Bros Shield club rugby final

THERE’S a “quiet confidence” in the High School Old Boys camp ahead of tomorrow’s Lee Bros Shield grand final at Rugby Park while their opponents Waikohu have a totally positive attitude as well ahead of their first premier final. HSOB are...

Match of the day . . .

Once seen, you can’t unsee it . . . and there’s no getting away from it. That’s East Coast rugby, in this Week 3 of the second round of club competition. Uawa play Hikurangi at the Domain in Tolaga Bay, Tokomaru Bay United are at home to Tihirau...

Chance for players to impress

RUGBY SEVENSTOMORROW’S Turanga Sevens event is a chance for players to put their hand up for Poverty Bay selection. The men’s and women’s Poverty Bay rugby sevens teams are expected to be named soon after the tournament at Rugby Park. Men’s...

A MUDDY GOOD TIME

Gisborne Harrier Club’s annual winter mud run drew a field of around 400, with family fun the predominant theme. The under-7s and u8s got the event started, followed by runners and walkers. Plenty of people got into the costume theme of “M” or...

Big challenge to attract horses here

THE placing of the Citrus Grove development into receivership will have no effect at all on the Poverty Bay Turf Club, which is continuing to work to get more race days at Makaraka, says president Alan Davidson. The club sold the racecourse land to...

Ton for Christophers,Loffler chimes in with brisk knock of 85

“Old dogs” Craig Christophers and Ian Loffler showed they still had plenty of life left in them as they put on 221 runs for the second OBR wicket against Pirates in Doleman Cup cricket on Saturday. The partnership set up a 201-run win against...