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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...

Poverty Bay - East Coast sports draws

CyclingSATURDAY — Gisborne Cycling Club ride, no racing, meet at 1.30pm at Nelson Rd cemetery for a group ride. SUNDAY — Group ride at 8am from Avantiplus Maintrax. This is a friendly group ride for anyone wanting to ride with others; approximate...

Dominant display from Ngatapa

RUGBY by Jack MalcolmNgatapa have secured their place in the Poverty Bay club rugby premier semifinals with a convincing 48-19 win against High School Old Boys. The Ngatapa forward pack were in strong form, pressuring the HSOB scrum and putting them...

Coach wants positive attitude from players

HOCKEYGISBORNE Boys’ High School face a tough challenge tonight when they take on YMP A in the opening match of this weekend’s senior hockey on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The students took a hammering last weekend at the hands of...

Christie's timing perfect

RICARDO Christie waited until the last minute of the open men’s final to post the best heat-score of the national surfing championships. A near-perfect ride of 9.93 out of 10 gave the Gisborne-Mahia surfer a two-wave total of 17.96 at Makorori...

Speedway action as drivers from the length of NZ race for the national open-wheeler title

SPEEDWAYUP to 20 cars can be expected for the Roseland Tavern New Zealand Six-shooter Open-wheeler Championships at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow and Saturday nights. The title race seems wide open. Cars and drivers are coming from as far away...

Butcher Boys put Bay to the sword

Wanganui were in a different class as they beat Poverty Bay 53-0 in a Heartland Championship match at Rugby Park on Saturday. The “Butcher Boys” carved up Poverty Bay in a dominant first-half display to lead 36-0 at the break. In the second half...

Golden day in Tahiti for Horouta crews

WAKA AMAHOROUTA Waka Hoe crews tasted gold and silver in V6 1000 metre finals on Day 7 of the Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti. Junior 16 women’s crew Puhi Kaiariki started Horouta’s multiple medal performance with gold, winning their...

Flashes of brilliance

OBM unable to stay with Waikohu in second half

Second-chance semis scheduled

NETBALLTHE top four teams of each of the other grades in Gisborne senior netball will play their “second-chance” semifinals tomorrow as they vie to join the teams who booked their place in the finals last weekend. The losers from Game 1 in each...