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Pirate Hollis eyeing rare feat

TAYLA Hollis will become only the second female to win a top-flight Poverty Bay men’s club championship title if Pirates beat OBR in the Walker Shield Twenty20 final at Harry Barker Reserve. If successful, Hollis will join Poverty Bay women’s...

Passing on the knowledge

Northern Districts cricket coaches were in Gisborne coaching promising junior cricketers last Friday

Touch Tairawhiti senior touch finals

Athleticism and competitive spirit were on show when Touch Tairawhiti held its senior touch finals at Waikirikiri Reserve on Thursday. Mixed Troopers beat Free Stylers in the Supa 6, Kumaraz beat Waikohu by a point in the A Grade, and Kunekunes beat...

Cup a batting assembly line

The Challenge Cup produces class batsmen. Top of the pops last Wednesday evening was tall all-rounder Johnathan Gray, with his unbeaten innings of 66 off 45 balls from No. 3 in Sonrise-Lytton High School's seven-wicket win against the Gisborne Boys'...

Off and running

THE Year 5 boys fly off the start line at the Ormond School cross-country held at the school yesterday

Gisborne Boys’ High face tough test in Tauranga

THEY'RE back in the game. Poverty Bay qualifiers Gisborne Boys’ High School cricket colts will play Bay of Plenty’s no. 1 team Tauranga Boys’ College at their Nicholson Field tomorrow in the New Zealand Community Trust Year 9-10 National...

Kumar snares eight for HSOB

CRICKETAN eight-wicket haul for Ajay Kumar put High School Old Boys in the box seat against Pirates in Poverty Bay club cricket. The medium-pacer trundled in for 16.3 consecutive overs and had the ball shaping in nicely at Harry Barker Reserve’s...

ESNZ chief handinig over the reins

Former Gisborne woman Dana Kirkpatrick is calling time as chief executive of Equestrian Sports New Zealand.“I have loved this job, the challenges it has posed and the successes we have all celebrated together,” said Kirkpatrick, who is now based...

Ilminster play with spirit in third Cup win

CRICKETThey deserved to win. The Ilminster Intermediate first 11 cricket team outplayed Gisborne Intermediate School in only their third win against Gisborne in the National Primary School Cup since its inception in 1999. Co-captains Alex Shanks and...

Club bowls news

Poverty BayThirty players took part in the RSA (women’s section) optional triples tournament on the Poverty Bay club’s green on Friday, March 15. Allan Cameron, representing the RSA, spoke to the gathering before play. The winners were Jan Powell...

Gisborne - East Coast bridge club results

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Tahuna Irwin-Ahlers will represent Darts Players New Zealand (DPNZ) Youth in the World Youth Championship in England in November. Irwin-Ahlers, No. 1 player with Brezz’n Darts Club, travelled the country competing in DPNZ tournaments last year, and...

Wolfpack too good on defence for Old Surfers

Bar the last two games at the John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre, Week 2 of the Gisborne Basketball Association’s 2019 men’s club basketball league produced close contests. Game 1 at the Boys’ High sports centre saw Lytton High School beat...

Oceania Gold

GISBORNE teenager Alicia Hoskin overcame injury to dominate her age group at the Oceania sprint kayaking Grand Prix 2 championships in Sydney over the weekend. The Poverty Bay Kayak Club member won gold in the under-18 women’s K1 200 and 500...

Senior club cricket draws

Poverty Bay club cricket — DJ Barry Cup, Saturday, 1pm: Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys v Landmark Homes OBR, Harry Barker Reserve rep wicket. Hope Cup, Saturday 2pm: Gisborne Boys' High School Colts v Campion College, Harry Barker 1; Coastal...

Narrow miss for Pickett’s NZ team at Youth Olympic Games

GISBORNE swimmer Michael Pickett has had his first taste of competition at the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Pickett, 16, led off the New Zealand team in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay. He clocked 50.77 seconds for his leg as the team...

Hard going on court

FOUR hard-as-nails games shook the YMCA in Week 3 of Gisborne men’s club basketball last night. Campion recorded their first win of the season, 34-27, in withstanding a fearsome late rally from newcomers the 9ers. Old School pipped East Coast 40-37...

City Lights have six double-figure scorers

City Lights and the Raiders are tough cookies. On Tuesday night the emphasis was on ball, not bruises, as veterans rolled back the years and rookies took their game up a cog in Gisborne club basketball's 1 v 4 semifinal. City Lights beat Willie...