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Gisborne links in All Whites

TWO key members of coach Anthony Hudson’s All Whites squad for the World Cup football playoff against Peru have strong Gisborne links. Rory Fallon, younger son of former Gisborne City player and coach Kevin Fallon and his wife Mere (nee Sadlier)...

Start your engines for the Gisborne Speedway Club season

A NON-STOP programme of 24 races for double club points, interspersed with a $10,000 fireworks show, will make for a monumental opening meeting of the Gisborne Speedway Club season tomorrow night — the Jukes Carriers Gisborne Guy Fawkes Fireworks...

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...

Pups break their drought with last-ball run

CRICKETIt couldn’t last forever. The T15 drought broke for the High School Old Boys’ Pups cricket team on Wednesday night. Lukas Fry showed remarkable composure in a superb last-ball finish to “drop and run” off the bowling of paceman Peter...

‘Genuine competition for places this season’,Robbie Tallott not the only T15 threat

CRICKETHIGH School Old Boys co-captain Jak Rowe is fired up and ready to reclaim his place in the Poverty Bay team.“I feel that there’s some genuine competition for places in the team this season and that I have to prove myself,” said Rowe...

Sports results

Netball Lower North Island Tournament, New Plymouth, A grade, playoff for 31st/32nd: Gisborne Girls’ High 32 Iona College 26.A grade winners: Manukura (Palmerston North).B grade, playoff for 3rd/4th: Lytton High 44 Wairoa College 24. Playoff for...

Bronwyn Kay Sporting Excellence Awards to be held online

The Bronwyn Kay Sporting Excellence Awards to be held on Friday, February 11, has been shifted to an online format. Following the announcement of New Zealand moving into the red setting under the Covid-19 Protection Framework, Sport Gisborne...

Men's grade could be run for first time at tournament

Entries close on Friday for the annual pre-season netball hit-out, the Kathleen Henderson Memorial, and this year for the first time a men’s grade could be run.“Fingers crossed we get enough entries to make it happen,” Gisborne Netball Centre...

Chance for redemption

Poverty Bay premier club players turn their attention to time-based cricket tomorrow with the start of the DJ Barry Cup at Harry Barker Reserve. It's an early chance for redemption for Coastal Concrete OBR and Horouta as they take on Galaxy World...

Around the Greens

GisborneWHAT a difference a day makes. Gisborne’s bowlers said an emphatic “yes” to Saturday afternoon play when they turned out in numbers to the weekend’s club-only triples tournament. It was the biggest turnout this season and a showing...

Milestone game for Fairlie

RUGBYIT will be Te Peehi Fairlie’s 50th game in YMP colours when he runs out at Rugby Park this afternoon. Fairlie has been a YMP man since he was seven years old, and he said he couldn’t imagine being at any other club.“It’s a whanau club...