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Week keeps looking up

Sawyer, Gisby and Malone win national titles

Campaign ends: Jags face uncertain relegation fate

Gisborne Thistle ended their Central Federation League campaign with a 2-0 loss to competition runners-up Palmerston North Marist on Saturday. The loss meant Thistle were the last-placed team in the eight-strong league. Levin’s goal difference was...

Ngatapa win thriller

HOCKEYNGATAPA and Gisborne Girls’ High School fought out the toughest match in the opening round of the Gisborne hockey competition at the weekend. Close behind in the excitement stakes were the Lytton Old Boys-Waituhi and LOB (2)-YMP B games in...

Prems to play outdoors

Grading eliminated, but semis and finals still a possibility

Spirit enshrined in etiquette

OPINIONAs the Chief-of-Cricket of Gisborne Boys’ High School during this eventful year, I’d like to venture an opinion on the game’s etiquette and protocol, and urge all clubs and our Poverty Bay citizenry to take an interest in it. The Laws of...

Waikohu takes memorial shield

Waikohu (1) hoisted the Kathleen Henderson Memorial Shield at Victoria Domain on Saturday, breaking the winning run of defending champions YMP Whanau. Both Claydens Waikohu (1) and YMP Whanau suffered a loss in their five games in the Sutherland...

Pennants title to Wairoa women

GOLFWAIROA are the 2021 Poverty Bay women’s pennants champions after a series that was in the balance to the final round. The seven-round series came to a fittingly tight conclusion at Electrinet Park on Saturday. Four clubs went into the round...

Conditions tricky for club’s latest meeting

Eastland Kart Club held its latest points meeting in tricky conditions. With conditions hot and windy, the track was watered before every race. That made for an excellent grippy surface, which allowed some great outside passing. The feature race at...

One win to them, one to us

Honours were shared when Poverty Bay took on Bay of Plenty in their annual inter-district women’s challenge at Gisborne Park this week. The visitors won the silver division 7½ to 4½ while the home side took the bronze honours 8½ to 3½.The...

Michael Pickett's 2020 vision

GISBORNE’S Michael Pickett has wasted no time in making his mark on the Australian swimming scene. Pickett, a successful product of Gisborne’s Enterprise Cars Swim Team, won the 15 years boys’ 50 metres freestyle and 50m butterfly titles at the...

Ready for CEO challenge

JOSH Willoughby is “excited and looking forward to the challenges” after being appointed Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union’s chief executive.“Heartland rugby is facing a number of challenges, particularly with attracting new players...

Weekend sports draws

FootballSATURDAY, men, Central Federation League —3.30pm: Wembley 1 (Whanganui), Whanganui Athletic v ALH Gisborne Thistle. Pacific Premiership —3pm: Hastings Sports Park 1, Maycenvale United v ALH Thistle Reserves. Eastern League 1 —2.30pm...

Nathan Trowell makes history winning the PBEC NZ Henselite Singles

THIRTEEN-year-old Gisborne Boys’ High School student Nathan Trowell made history by being the youngest bowler in the Poverty Bay-East Coast region to win the local final of the NZ Henselite Singles indoor bowls tournament. Trowell, also a classy...

Watch out for jellyfish

Did everyone manage to get a few waves at some point this week? Because the swell is forecast to be pretty tiny this weekend. We should see waves in the one-foot range and offshore north-west winds early on both days, but north-east onshore winds on...

Comet wins ‘top junior club’ award

COMET Swimming Club won the award for top junior club at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships in Flaxmere this month. A Comet team of 36 swimmers finished third overall. Three Comet relay teams — the 12-and-under boys, and...

Junior softball draw

Emerging Sox intermediate softball (Years 7 and 8), 9am: D1, Horouta Tangaroa v Mighty Taua Batters Mana; D2, Muriwai v Ilminster. Rookie Sox primary softball (Years 5 and 6), 9am: D3, Mangapapa Black v Kaiti Rangatira; D4, Awapuni Yellow Hawks v Te...