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Rip-roaring start to weekend games

THE clash between GMC Green and Amber Dental Gisborne Girls’ High School on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve tonight will get the weekend hockey games off to a rip-roaring start. The Green Machine edged the students 4-3 last time they...

Time running out for premier cricket teams to make impact

Premier cricket teams have an ever-shortening runway to extend their season, with just two weeks of regular-season cricket remaining this summer. A changed DJ Barry Cup competition format means the second- and third-placed teams play off in...

Goal glut in local competition

THE goalscoring feats of Kohere Tupara, Brendon Lennane, Thomas Rutene, Mason O’Dwyer and Roschelle Koia featured in Gisborne weekend hockey. Tupara scored five in YMP’s 17-0 win against Lytton Old Boys Masters, with Lennane and Rutene each...

Surfing event-high heat score for Vette

GISBORNE surfer Saffi Vette posted the highest heat score of the event in winning the under-17 girls’ division of the first leg of the Billabong Grom Series, completed at Whangamata yesterday. Vette scored 17.6 out of a possible 20 points in the...

Kelston teams tough nuts to crack

No one ever said it would be easy. And it wasn’t. The four Gisborne Boys’ High School teams in yesterday’s rugby exchange were “swept” by their hosts Kelston Boys’ High School in Auckland. Kelston won the first 15s match 26-17; the second...

Home improvements

LEADERBRAND Poverty Bay coach Mana Otai has made two changes to the side who lost to Mid Canterbury for tomorrow’s Heartland Championship week 2 clash against Horwhenua Kapiti at Rugby Park. OBM captain Willy Grogan will start at halfback in place...

Competition for places

Thistle coach Garrett Blair has the headache all coaches love — who to leave out — for tomorrow’s Pacific Premiership football match against top-of-the-table Napier City Rovers Seconds at Childers Road Reserve at 2.30pm.“We have only one...

Judge breaks the deadlock

JETT Larby lost the final of his Boxing New Zealand National Championships Junior 54-kilogram bout in confusing circumstances. Patu Tahi boxer Larby won two of the three rounds in the judges' eyes. But with all five judges' scores tallied, the result...

Gisborne's Tess Clark and Sinatra II in NZ's senior showjumping team

EQUESTRIANGISBORNE rider Tess Clark has been named in the New Zealand senior showjumping team to compete against Australia as part of the Silver Fern Stakes at the Horse of the Year Show in Hastings this month. Clark (nee Williams) and Sinatra II are...

‘We’re showing we can compete’: Hihi

SUPPORTERS saw Gisborne Boys’ High School rugby courage in excelsis yesterday. Hastings first 15 beat their Gisborne counterparts 33-15 at the Rectory to retain the Norman McConnell Memorial Cup in a disrupted Game 4 of Gisborne’s Super 8...

Turnovers critical in thrill-a-minute game

NETBALLA turnover in the dying moments helped clinch a two-point win for Waikohu against Whangara Old Girls last night in one of the most exciting premier-grade games so far this season. The game went basically goal for goal throughout as the...

Bridge results

MONDAY, May 16 — President’s Pairs 4 (Howell Movement): Philip Beale/Michelle England 66.67; Carolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 58.93; John Hudson/Vicki Taylor 53.57. WEDNESDAY, May 18 — President’s Pairs 4North/South East/WestAnn...

Now for the Twenty20s

Teams turn attention to Walker Shield contests

Horouta close out midweek nail-biter

IT was a nail-biter between Horouta Gold and Gisborne Girls’ High School Snr A in a Pak’nSave Gisborne premier grade netball game this week. Horouta took out the game 46-42. They led by two after the first quarter but the students tied it up...

Poverty Bay - East Coast draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events — visitors welcome. Saturday — Club road race championships. Sign-on: 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Bushmere Arms. Start time: 2pm. Course: Lavenham Road, Patutahi quarry. Sunday — Group ride at 8am from Avantiplus...

Ngatapa rolling out big guns for HSOB

NGATAPA coach Will Faulks is rolling out the big guns for tomorrow’s premier rugby clash against competition leaders High School Old Boys at Rugby Park at 2.30pm. Faulks has strengthened his pack with the inclusion of Moses Ma’u and Alex...