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Horouta start season healthy

GREG Taylor says Horouta Cricket Club has had a busy off-season.“Chris Ng of Coastal Ultrasound has come on board as our sponsor, and winter fundraising has the club in a healthy state,” said Taylor, whose son Blake will captain the side. Mel...

Draw shows top four will be close

HOCKEYhonours were shared when Gisborne Girls’ High School and Ngatapa drew 1-1 in women’s club hockey last night. Their A Grade match opened the latest weekend round of competition on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker Reserve.“Amber Dental...

Gladiators waiting on a start, local meeting cancelled

SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Gladiators stockcar team hoped to go into action at last at midday today at the New Zealand teams championships in Stratford after rain cancelled qualifying last night. The organisers rescheduled the event to start at midday...

Party thrown to celebrate 16-year-old's appointment to Netball NZ Youth Board

When Dipasha Narayan found out she had been appointed to the Netball New Zealand Youth Board (NNZYB) she threw a party for her family. The 16-year-old Gisborne Girls' High School student moved to Gisborne less than a year ago and has already become...

Valuable experience gained as rain has last say

It's a trip they'll remember with feeling. Despite losing five games and their last match against Upper Hutt being abandoned because of the weather, the Poverty Bay boys Year 7 team gained valuable experience at the Riverbend cricket camp. Bay captain...

In a league of their own

The Cook brothers will be the drivers to beat when the Pit Stop Saloon Car Champion of Champions title goes on the line at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night, but they will not have it all their own way. About a dozen cars will line up, with...

Surf Ranch has waves but not mystique

ON WEDNESDAY evening, inspired by some of the day’s wavepool perfection over at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, I tried to put what I had just seen into practice on a few chunky Wainui right-handers. I am no Filipe Toledo, and barely made it around...

Hope Cup cricket results

Abbreviated scoreboards for Hope Cup 30-over Senior B club cricket games at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday —Horouta Te Waka 197-9 (Chaitanya Sambare 86, Grace Levy 30 not out, Billy Morse 28) beat Rawhiti Legal OBR 46 (Mana Taumaunu 13; Vinay...

Counting the days

SURFINGTHE district’s surfers will be waxing their boards and whetting their appetites for waves ahead of Tuesday’s switch to Alert Level 3 and the chance to go surfing again. Up-and-coming teenage surfer Saffi Vette, from Makorori, will be among...

Time running out for some

LEADING Ngati Porou East Coast senior rugby teams Uawa and Tokomaru United will play Hikurangi and Ruatoria City respectively at Whakarua Park on Saturday. City and Hiku are within easy reach of the top four, but time is rolling on and both need to...

WEKAS ON THE BOARD

The Bill Osborne Taonga and the Jeremy David Memorial Cup remain in their territory

All the finalists decided

THE YMP women qualified handsomely, GMC Green got through in a penalty shoot-out, and the YMP men's teams will meet in the hockey finals next weekend. YMP were clinical in the second half of their match against Paikea to seal one spot in the women's...

Vette a longshot chance

GISBORNE surfer Finn Vette is being tipped as having an outsider's chance of taking his division of the Billabong Grom Series this weekend. Six titles are on the line at the final event of the series, seing surfed today and tomorrow at Piha Beach...

Tokomaru Bay United show spirit

RUGBYThere was only one point in it. Tokomaru Bay United trailed East Coast club rugby titans Hikurangi 14-13 at halftime, but just couldn’t stay with the away team. Hikurangi won the closest game of Week 2 in Coast rugby, 41-13 at Wharekahika. In...

Draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events, visitors welcome. Saturday — Steve Wolter Plumbing/Barry Hyland Saturday Series Race 1. Sign-on: 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Manutuke School with a 2pm start. Course: Waingake Valley plus hill. Marshals: Francis...

Corrin in NZ team for World Games

MIDWAY Surf Life Saving Club member Olivia Corrin is in a 10-person New Zealand lifesaving team competing at the World Games in Poland this month. Corrin is the only Gisborne athlete in the team, who are a mixture of world champions, competitors with...

Parkes top run-scorer at tourney

Gisborne-born-and-bred Thorn Parkes is a young man on the move. Parkes was the leading run-scorer at the national under-19 cricket tournament in Lincoln this month. The 18-year-old left-handed batsman scored 379 runs at an average of 75 in his second...

Success at pool rescue champs

SURF LIFESAVINGGISBORNE surf lifeguards came home from the Surf Lifesaving New Zealand Pool Rescue Championships this month with a stack of medals, including multiple golds to Jack Keepa of the Wainui club. The Gisborne competitors won nine medals in...