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Paddlers converge on Karapiro

Tairawhiti waka ama clubs will again feature at the national sprint championships on Lake Karapiro next week, although they have had to adjust to changes in the sporting landscape. Horouta Waka Hoe Club will have 220 paddlers at the championships...

Hikurangi take rugby grand final

HIKURANGI rule Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby defeated Uawa 18-16 in the grand final at Tolaga Bay on Saturday

Gisborne archers to take on world

ARCHERYA GROUP of Gisborne Archery Club (GAC) members are to take on the world in Wellington next year . . . at the IFAA World Indoor Archery Championships. Adding to its long and illustrious history, GAC held its first-ever New Zealand Field Archery...

On the mats — indoor bowls news

The Poverty Bay-East Coast under-18 indoor bowls representative team put all their practice to use in winning the Membery Pearce Shield for the fourth year running in Hamilton last Sunday. They outclassed Auckland, Waikato, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty...

Hogan seeded for world croquet champs

GISBORNE croquet player Joe Hogan has been awarded one of the ranking places for the world championships in Wellington next year. It means he is seeded for the event and does not have to play in preliminary tournaments to qualify. The Association...

Gisborne Boys’ High aim to end on a high

“If we can make it to the ground, we'll take the next chance — and the next — on and on until we win, or the chances are spent.”So said Jynn Erso in Rogue 1: a Star Wars story and so it is for the Gisborne Boys' High School first 15, 14...

Swap over should not be a problem in 'challenge' netball games

Big scores in the first round of the ‘Challenge' netball games on Wednesday night, strongly suggest the two premier grade teams should not be seriously troubled in the return games tomorrow at Victoria Domain. The Pakn'Save matches at the YMC...

Gisborne pairs take both titles

GISBORNE Bowling Club teams won both the men's and women's centre open pairs titles at the weekend. Lyn Trueman and Dianne Phillips won the women's competition, and Bob McIlroy and Charlie Ure won the men's. Fourteen teams started in the women's pairs...

Walker-Leawere's fantastic year gets better

GISBORNE Boys’ High School will defend the Poverty Bay club sevens title at Rugby Park and leading the charge will be skipper Isaia Walker-Leawere, who has been named in a New Zealand under-20 training squad.“Izzy’s had a fantastic season...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

PETE Kerekere is known for his tenacity. Mix that with talent and you have a formidable opponent as Peter Anderson found in the final of the senior men’s club championship on Sunday. Kerekere added the 2020 crown to his 2016 title with a 6 and 5 win...

Waikato victory features Gisborne connections

Gisborne players Kelsey Teneti and Gaibreill Wainohu featured for Waikato, who exacted their revenge in the Farah Palmer Cup final against Canterbury on Saturday. A year ago, Waikato were pipped for the title by Canterbury in the dying stages of the...

Jack leads Gisborne club charge at Colgate Games

ATHLETICSHUNDREDS of kilometres by foot and wheel went into Jack Sadler’s golden treble at the North Island Colgate Games children’s athletics championships in Hamilton. Jack was the stand-out performer of the eight-strong Gisborne Athletics...

Big day for the Coast

The thought of it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Week 12 looms as the biggest of the season so far: 2017 finalists Tihirau Victory Club (42 competition points) and Hikurangi cross swords at Whangaparaoa, Uawa host hard-as-nails...

Renouf scores 61-ball ton

Defending champions show good late-season form

Pickett, Corrin on Olympics long list

TWO Gisborne swimmers are on a Swimming NZ long list to compete at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Enterprise Cars Swim Team members Olivia Corrin and Michael Pickett are among the 33, which will be reduced to a squad of four boys and four...

‘A lot riding on it’

RUGBYA CRUNCH game at home — tomorrow may provide the best evidence yet of whether Poverty Bay have what it takes to be contenders in rugby’s Heartland Championship.“Almost must-win” is how Poverty Bay rugby captain Ken Houkamau...