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Gisborne Girls’ High School’s annual athletics sports days is both a competitive and social occasion with plenty of colour thrown in . . . and this year’s was no different. This year’s champions were Hannay Veitch (junior), Briana Irving...

A test of strength

RUGBYTHE depth and fitness of two of the best teams in Poverty Bay club rugby will be tested when they meet at the Oval tomorrow. OBM and High School Old Boys are first and third on the Lee Bros Shield ladder and both have put away Round 1 winners...

Around the greens - club bowls news

KahutiaGreat weather continues for the latter part of the season at Kahutia Bowling Club’s greens. The mufti apparel afternoon bowls tournaments are popular. Last Wednesday, 48 bowlers entered the M E Jukes & Son Single-entry Triples Tournament. Play...

Semifinals at the YMCA . . . without a crowd

Teams that can re-establish their links through court the best will have an advantage tonight when Gisborne's premier grade netball semifinals are played at the YMCA tonight. The four teams still standing at the business end of the premier grade...

Fightback too little too late from Pirates

Pirates had a tough assignment, away from home against top-of-the-table Waikohu in premier-grade rugby on Saturday. The Civil Projects Premier League game had a resurgent fightback from the underdog Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates, but it was too little...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, May 21 — President’s Pairs 4 (Howell movement): Jean Bennett, Robin Bennett 59.58; Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 58.75; Bette Parker, Trish Corson 55.56; Sally Knight, Beverley Evans 54.17. WEDNESDAY, May 22 — Nan Muir Salver...

That makes three

EAST Coast Open champion. King of the Coast champion. And now Poverty Bay Open champion. Anaru Reedy completed a historic calendar-year “triple crown” of Tairawhiti men's golf with a gritty victory in the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay men's open...

Records and personal-best times set

SWIMMINGJamie Joblin set Comet Swimming Club records in the 50-metre breaststroke and 100m individual medley when he competed at the New Zealand short-course championships in Auckland. He already held both records, but bettered his previous marks...

Ruatoria City savour hard-won success

Uawa fought back to pip Ruatoria City a fortnight ago. City coach Ian Logan and everyone in the club knew they'd had a win against the champions there for the taking but let it go. And that is what made Ruatoria City's 26-20 victory over Hikurangi at...

Outstanding contribution to netball recognised

GISBORNE netball stalwarts Sherrill Beale and Julie Hansen have received service awards from Netball New Zealand for outstanding contribution to the game. Former Silver Fern captain Sandra Edge, formerly of Gisborne and now living in Wellington, also...

Nail-biting kart racing a challenge for officials

THE weather held off and Eastland Kart Club members held their fourth points meeting of the season. Some of the racing was so close that officials had to check their timing system to see who had won. In the juniors, Pyper Irvine came away with all...

Ryan takes over from Robertson at Thistle

RIGHTBACK Liam Ryan has replaced Fred Robertson as coach of Gisborne Thistle for the remaining five games in the Central Federation League. Ryan’s first job tomorrow, when the Jags host Red Sox Manawatu at Childers Road Reserve, will be to rebuild...

Tuhaka scores winning try as Uawa beat Hikuarangi 17-15

RUGBY by Ben O’Brief-LeafVETERAN hooker Richard Tuhaka completed a player of the day performance with the winning try as Uawa beat Hikurangi 17-15 in Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby on Saturday. The Tolaga Bay-based side passed a stern...

Lytton keen to make most of opportunities

IF Lytton Senior A can step up the way they did against Farmlands Ngatapa last Saturday, their match against Horouta Gold at the YMCA tonight could be a game to watch. The students were five goals short of an upset over Ngatapa and only the wiser...

Boys’ High stay in the hunt for top-two spot

GISBORNE Boys' High School have recorded a dominant 115-run win against Horouta to stay within arm's reach of premier cricket's DJ Barry Cup final. Both teams had one win coming into this game and were looking to go into the last rounds of the...

GMC Gold win first of finals after extended shoot-out

EMERRE and Hathaway GMC Gold beat Te Aowera in the first of the hockey finals last night after an extended penalty shoot-out. The match was played in torrential rain on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve. GMC Gold and TA were locked up at...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty BayIT was the sort of putt that would have produced a roar and that trademark fist pump had he been Tiger Woods. Ewan Atherton chose not to emulate Tiger on the 18th green after slotting a 40-foot downhill putt for par to force extra holes in...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

No drop in the calibre of darts thrown was experienced in Game 1 of Round 2 in Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s Tuesday night competition run by Brezz’n Sports Club. Individual highlights180s:? J Ngarangione (3), H Ngarangione, Te Kotahi...