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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

Sports draws

Junior football, SATURDAYFirst Kicks 4v4 — 8.15am: Watson Park 2, Mangapapa Tornadoes v Te Wharau Kiwi; WP 4, Mangapapa Storm v Manutuke Rua; WP 7, Sonrise Wildcats v Makauri Dragons; WP 10, Bayleys Ngatapa Turtles v Manutuke Tahi; WP 9, Kaiti...

Gold, silver swansong for Briana

TALENTED Gisborne middle distance runner Briana Irving has had a great January on the track. The Gisborne Girls’ High School student won gold in the 14 years girls’ 800 metres and silver in the 1500m in her last year of eligibility for the North...

Some highlights in Gisborne Boys’ High defeat

Gisborne Boys’ High School captain Amos Roddick will do anything within the laws of rugby to win. And that includes mountain-climbing Hamilton’s rolling maul — as it drove from the 22 to within 10 metres of the GBHS goal-line four minutes into...

Festival atmosphere at SUP champs

CELEBRATION almost overrode competition at the 3rd Annual Tairawhiti Stand Up Paddle Surfing Champs. Thirty SUP enthusiasts converged on northern Makorori. While titles were a focus, the atmosphere pervading the day-long event was one of celebration...

Leaving with memories of good times

What can a good guy do?In terms of a sports team, a good guy can lift his teammates’ spirits after a bad performance; work at fitness and on skills with relish; bring spectators to their feet with a make-or-break act of daring; put smiles on...

Brown proves he can foot it with masters

Rookie Jace Brown proved he can foot it with the country’s top over-40-year-old players in his Freyberg Masters interprovincial debut yesterday. Brown went unrewarded on a tough day of matchplay for Poverty Bay-East Coast on Taupo’s Centennial...

YMP and Waikohu dominate at the ‘Y’

NETBALLGISBORNE Girls’ High School Senior A produced a strong first-half performance against YMP last night in the Gisborne YMCA, but the defending champions took charge in the second period to win well. YMP Sunshine Brewery ran out 63-52 winners...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

It may have been the weather or something in the water, but last Tuesday certainly brought joy and surprise to some players. While there were some surprise results, without question the match of the week was that between hosts Cossy Done & Dusted and...

‘No fuss’ and ‘just do it’ attitudes reap rewards

Swimming REPORT by IMerIt was refreshing to see our youth carrying on and doing the best they could under the restrictions implemented over the past four to five months.“No fuss” and “just do it” attitudes reaped a high percentage of...