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Kart club racing tomorrow

EASTLAND Kart Club will hold its seventh points meeting of the season tomorrow. All classes get three races each, and drivers will get a front, middle and back start during the day. Racing starts at 10am. Spectators can watch free of charge

Carnage at sea at the NZ surf lifesaving champs

The weather gods unleashed their fury on the national surf lifesaving championships over the weekend, resulting in plenty of carnage, particularly on Saturday. This Red Beach open women’s crew, in a boat named The Flying Heroes, copped it and they...

Ready to shred in quest for cash

Skateboarders from across the North Island are in Gisborne this weekend for the first annual Surely Shred competition at Alfred Cox Skate Park. With a $1000 cash first prize up for grabs in the male and female open divisions and every skater who...

Members for life

Gisborne Basketball Assoc honours four of its loyal contributors: Tamatea, Blumfield, Russell, O'Brien-Leaf

Gisborne Bridge Club competition

Women’s games close

BASKETBALLCome and see it for yourself. The Gisborne Basketball Association women’s club league is an amazing competition in 2019. Close games are the norm, and the skills and quality of play are remarkable. On Tuesday, new entrants YMCA Riverin...

Invisible 12th man a big factor

The wind blowing down the swimming pool pitch at Nelson Park and whipping the length of the Wainui ground was the unseen 12th man in Eastern League Division 1 football on Saturday. Thistle Youth were thrilled to hold Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne...

Season off to successful start

SPEEDWAYIT was not the grand opening to the season hoped for but the drivers and fans who went to the Gisborne Speedway Club’s opening day on Saturday had a great time. The two-hour race programme was watched by around 300 fans who social distanced...

Tairawhiti softball draws

FRIDAY — 6.15pm: D1, LB v Moana Toa. SATURDAY — 1pm: D1, Raptors v Young Gunnz; D2, Velociraptors v GGHS. SATURDAY, Waikirikiri ParkEmerging Sox intermediate softball (Year 7/8) —11am: D1, Ilminster Tahi v Tolaga Bay; D2, Ilminster Rua v...

HBPB out of wooden-spoon position

GOLF by Chris TaewaFORGET about it. Move on. That was Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay No. 1 Tessa McDonald’s reaction after her putter went Antarctic cold at the women’s national interprovincial golf tournament in Napier yesterday. McDonald lost 1-down...

Rookie Reedy no pushover

GOLFBEWARE of the rookie. Anaru Reedy, at the age of 47, will play in his first, and possibly last, Toro national interprovincial golf tournament in Christchurch next week. The opportunity to experience the award-winning Clearwater course and tick off...

Wellington trip brings medal haul

Jacobs' girls both come away with gold medals

Gutsy second half for Bay u20s

?RUGBYThey never stopped — Poverty Bay under-20s reserve loosehead prop Wirihana Raihania scored in the 72nd minute; his captain No. 8 Chase Sheridan, in the 80th. Horowhenua-Kapiti played good rugby in their visit here, beating the Bay 41-13 in...

Twelve from 12 for Jodiesha at Rotorua meet

COMET swimmer Jodiesha Kirkpatrick had a 100 percent record for her individual races in the Aquaknights zone competition of the New Zealand Junior Festival in Rotorua last weekend. Her efforts have her ranked as top 11-year-old girl in New Zealand...

Seven groups involved in shared services pilot programme

Sport Tairawhiti Gisborne's shared services hub pilot programme has been launched with exciting prospects. Seven groups are involved, with two more pending, and if things go according to plan there may be room for expansion as early as March next...

Injury-struck YMP waiting to ‘see who turns up’

YMP will be without Poverty Bay hooker Shayde Skudder for tomorrow’s crunch premier club rugby game against Waikohu at Manutuke. Skudder is the latest in a long list of injuries to hit Farmvets YMP this season but coach Reihana Wyllie refuses to...

Champion of the Bays results

Results of finals at the Eastland Port 2018 Champion of the Bays surf lifesaving contest at Midway Beach at the weekend (down to fifth) —Masters, men2km beach run: HUMPHERSON, Rex (Whakatane) 1; MILLER, Doug (Mt Maunganui) 2; DAVEY, Alan...

Champions again

Waikohu are the premier-grade rugby champions for the second time in three years. The GT Shearing-sponsored side defeated East Coast Farm Vets YMP 27-20 in a thrilling Civil Project Solutions premier-grade rugby final. Waikohu looked almost...