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Jimmy heading to Jack’s ... and excited about move to Queenstown

After almost 18 years of employment with the club, the Awapuni Links course superintendent is moving on. Course superintendent Jimmy Walker is leaving the Poverty Bay Golf Club course to become operations manager at the Jack's Point course in...

Tight race at the top

SURFINGThe penultimate day of the National Scholastic Surfing Championships ended with Bay of Plenty in familiar territory atop the team points table. The defending champions had nine of 12 surfers remaining in the event and held a slim lead over...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results — Round 2, Game 4. Tahuna Irwin, Jono Griffiths and Irie Eyles are having a close battle for individual stat honours. They are equal in 180 scores, each having 13 in the main round. Close behind is Renat...

Gisborne teen sets local pool record in Sydney champs

GISBORNE teenager Joshua Taylor-Martin set a Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay record in a tough opening two days of the Australian age group championships in Sydney. Taylor-Martin placed eighth in the 10-man final of the 16 years boys’ 100 metres...

Badminton Super 8 competition here this week

Gisborne Boys’ High School hosts the annual Super 8 Badminton Competition at the Badminton Centre (134 Roebuck Road) on Thursday from 8.30am to 6pm and Friday from 8.30am to 1pm. Super 8 competitions were formed in 1997/98 and incorporate eight...

Twin centuries for Sharp

A scintillating batting performance from Gisborne Boys' High School's Graham Sharp propelled his team to two easy victories in premier grade cricket's Walker Shield T20 competition. Opening the batting, Sharp scored centuries in wins against both...

Tairawhiti golf roundup

Te Puia SpringsThe East Coast Open last weekend had its winners, those who were thanked for coming and plenty in between on and off the course. Simon Jeune unoffically claimed the “overtime” award. While some played a round-robin as the worst of...

Mouth-watering fare in DJ Barry Cup

CRICKET to make your mouth water — that’s what the last round-robin games in the 40-over DJ Barry Cup competition have on offer at the Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates play Gisborne Boys’ High School, Bain Construction...

Dreams closer to reality

A pair of Gisborne brothers' dreams of becoming darts professionals moved a triple 20 closer in the deep south last weekend. Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, 11, won both Dart Players New Zealand junior ranking tournaments in Invercargill to leap to the top of...

Dressage results

EQUESTRIANKRISSY Hulme-Moir and My Pure Magic won the award for most points for a local combination in the Poverty Bay A&P Show dressage competition. Results (riders from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —Introductory, Test 0A: Sonia Gardner...

Tough start to season

THE athletes in the opening competition of the Gisborne surf lifesaving sport season put on a great show with some hard slog in almost flat surf at the weekend. Gisborne lifeguards from Dawson Building Midway and Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae were joined...

'Top two inches’ key says coach

RUGBYThey want performances. The Poverty Bay under-16s leave for Masterton tomorrow, to play three Division A games in the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council tournament against Wellington, Manawatu and (with the rest day on Wednesday) either of those...

FIRST AND SECOND

Gisborne's mixed under-14 Turanga Touch team were undefeated winners of their division at the Central Touch Provincial Grassroots Tournament. The mixed u12 and u14 teams travelled to Palmerston North for the competition. The u12s were second in their...

Determined effort at champs

THE Tairawhiti open team’s third place in the premier division highlighted a determined effort by all five Tairawhiti teams in the Aotearoa Maori Netball Championships in Gisborne at Easter. A mini tent-city sprang up around the fringes of Victori...

Gibbs impressed by next-level moves

Gisborne waveski surfer Steve Gibbs is back from the world championships in Spain, without a title but exhilarated by the competition and the conditions for the contest. Two-time world champion Gibbs, 63, got as far as the semifinals, finishing fifth...

Boys’ High Red dominate game against quality veterans

BASKETBALLBasketball is a team game. But outstanding performances deserve recognition, and the way in which Gisborne Boys’ High School Red dominated the second A Grade men’s club basketball league semifinal last night fits the bill. The defending...

Cairns NZSS assistant coach

GISBORNE Boys’ High School first 15 will want to celebrate coach Tom Cairns’s selection as assistant coach of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ (NZSS) team with a win against St Peter’s College of Auckland in an interschool clash on the...

Pups post 200 to beat Tairawhiti women’s club

CRICKETThere were three of them. Caleb Taewa's 73, No. 6 Malsha Mahabalage's 37 off 41 balls and Taye McGuinness's 36 off 30 balls from No. 7 were all unbeaten innings in the HSOB Pups' 79 run-win v TWCC. The Pups posted 200-4 in the first round of...