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Reeves back for crunch Heartland clash

Ethine Reeves is a surprise return to the Poverty Bay side for their crucial final round-robin Heartland Championship clash against Buller at Rugby Park tomorrow. The mercurial Reeves pulled out of the squad after week two of the eight-week...

Peringa United next up for winners of Central Federation Cup

The winners of the Central Federation Cup game between Gisborne Thistle and Gisborne United will play New Plymouth club Peringa United in a semifinal on August 27. Pitch conditions caused the postponement of the derby between the Gisborne teams...

HEARTS OF TOTARA

Four teams prepare to lay it all on the line

First round to LOB

Competition now split into top and bottom three

Sevens aim to end four-year drought

POVERTY Bay sevens coach Dwayne Russell says his side aims to end a four-year drought by qualfying for the national championships.“That’s something that hasn’t been achieved since I was last involved in 2014 when we were one of only two...

Coastlands too good for PB in rep year-ender

Poverty Bay boys’ primary cricket team lost their last representative game of 2017 to Bay of Plenty Coastlands by 109 runs on Sunday. On a high-bouncing artificial wicket at Nelson Park, the visitors made 209-6 in 35 overs. Opening batsmen Dylan...

Wekas out to keep flame alive

It's unlikely but Poverty Bay head to Greymouth with a whiff of making the playoffs in the last round-robin games of the Heartland Championship tomorrow. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas, sitting 10th on the table, face bottom-placed West...

Following in father’s paddlestrokes

Quaid Thompson is a few behind his father but he will never forget his first K1 1000-metre national kayaking title. The Gisborne 20-year-old took out the blue-ribbon race at the NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro on...

Gisborne-East Coast Vets Open golf draw

IF you want to play in the Gisborne-East Coast Vets Open men’s or women’s strokeplay competitions but haven’t got your entry in, don’t panic. Organiser John Fricker says anyone not in the men’s Sunday draw or women’s Monday draw for...

YMP Whanau take back-to-back wins

YMP Whanau went back to back in the Kathleen Henderson Memorial Tournament at Victoria Domain on Saturday, unbeaten in their four games. They repeated their A Grade result in the pre-season netball tournament from 2020. Arch-rivals Whangara Old Girls...

Midweek twists and turns for premier teams

THERE were more twists and turns in the Pak’nSave Gisborne premier netball competition on Wednesday night as Whangara snatched second place from IMS High School Old Girls and Clayden Waikohu’s charge for the playoffs faltered with an upset...

Sports draws

FootballPacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm, Harry Barker Reserve 1: Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Gisborne Thistle AFC. Eastern League men, division 1, 12.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Carpet Court Thistle Massive v Lytton High...

Coach big hit with Te Wharau

All Whites coach Fritz Schmid took Te Wharau School’s Year 5/6 football team for a training session on Thursday, courtesy of an online competition. Teresa Phillips, a Te Wharau pupil’s mother, put her son’s team, Te Wharau United, in the mix...

Quilter, Dawson in world record swims

GISBORNE surf lifesavers Laura Quilter and Chris Dawson featured in world record performances on the first day of the German Cup pool competition in Warendorf, Germany. Quilter, of the Wainui club, set a world record in winning the gold medal in the...

Rematch juicy prospect

HOCKEYTHE hockey round this weekend throws up some juicy prospects with several matches set to be tight, hard-fought affairs, none more so than the rematch between GMC Green and Paikea tomorrow afternoon. The two sides locked up at 4-4 two weeks ago...

PIRATES AND GMC TO FOLLOW THEIR OWN PATHS

PIRATES and GMC have gone their separate ways, ending their joint venture in Poverty Bay club rugby after just one season. The Pirates club is set to enter a side in the premier grade this season and, although the green of GMC won't be on the playing...