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YMP made to work

Defending women's champions YMP A were pressed hard by Ngatapa before opening their 2022 Poverty Bay club hockey campaign with victory at the weekend. In the men's competition, reigning champions Lytton Old Boys had an easier start to their season...

Attack-defence contest looms

The best attack against the best defence in the Pacific Premiership . . . that’s the top-of-the-table football match between Heavy Equipment Gisborne United and Napier City Rovers Seconds in Napier tomorrow. OK, so it’s only two games into the...

Pirates strong up front

But it's 'all about putting the pieces together, transferring that on to the field and playing good rugby' says Will Bolingford

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

The Roseland team this week hosted the Cossy Shakers and the match turned out to be a thriller. Roseland point pair John Kingsbeer and Mike Jones started convincingly and defeated Cossy Shakers’ Levi Tamihana and Rihara Moeke 2-0. Isaiah Leach...

Campion win their first women’s title

It all came down to the dying moments of the last game of the competition in Women's Eastern League football at Wainui on Sunday. A draw would give Gisborne Laundry Services Wainui Riverina the league title; only a win would do it for opponents...

Women’s basketball results

GISBORNE Basketball Association women’s club competition — Week 7 results from yesterday: Lytton High School 46 Rebels 33, Revolution Fitness New Zealand 47 Uawa 6, Ngati Porou 62 Gisborne Girls’ High School 45, Paikea Nation 49 Campion...

‘We’ll take it’

Mario Counsell broke the hearts of Ngati Porou East Coast players and supporters with a try deep into stoppage time to give Poverty Bay a bonus-point 26-19 win in their Heartland Championship rugby clash at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, on Saturday. With...

Gisborne’s Thomas a winner

Gisborne rider Angus Thomas won the mini motocross grade for seven-to-11-year-olds in the 2020 Dirt Guide Cross-country Series that concluded at Ohakuri, near Tokoroa, on Saturday. Thomas finished ahead of Fergus Fulton (Taupiri) and Zach Davey...

Ngatapa hard to beat

CRICKETMike Gibson’s Ngatapa were cool, calm and calculating on Saturday. The two-time Hope Cup champions of Senior B club cricket — having won the toss in their game against Campion College — then defended their total of 206-9 in 30 completed...

Bay of Plenty win annual shields fixture

Four Gisborne-East Coast teams travelled to the Ohope Bowling Club to play their Bay of Plenty counterparts in the annual fixture between the two centres on Sunday. Bay of Plenty won the overall points contest to retain the Waioeka Shield for senior...

Keeping big picture in view

Medals in 38 events at the waka ama national sprint championships can take attention from a bigger picture. So Horouta Waka Hoe Club president Walton Walker prefers to look beyond the 14 gold, 13 silver and 11 bronze medals his club won at Lake...

Drama to unfold on finals day

HOCKEYYMP A should take the premier men’s hockey championship tomorrow afternoon, but titles are up for grabs in the other three finals. Finals day starts on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve at 11am tomorrow with the game between GMC...

PB quartet in ’Canes Under-20s

Four Poverty Bay Under-20 players have been named in the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 team. Nehe Papuni (YMP), James Law (Ngatapa), Winston Folau (Pirates) and Genesis Bartlett-Tamatea (YMP) were named in the team, who are scheduled to play three...

Kiwi K4 u23 crew through to A Final

Two kayaking paddlers from the Poverty Bay club will be part of a Kiwi team of four competing in an A Final at the junior and under-23 canoe sprint world championships tomorrow morning. Alicia Hoskin and Britney Ford will team up with Danielle Watson...

Easter tourney to bring curtain down on season

THE Tairawhiti softball season finishes this weekend with a two-day Easter tournament. Two divisions of four teams each will take part in the tournament, which was designed to raise funds for the newly-formed Young Gunnz team. The aim of Young Gunnz...

Tackles aplenty for Gisborne Boys’ High

Gisborne Boys’ High School felt the force of a strong Feilding High School team in Hastings at the weekend. Feilding beat GBHS 31-0 at Elwood Park after leading 12-0 at halftime. Both head coaches — fifth-year man Justin Lock of Feilding and Duane...

Gisborne pack hold its own

The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 met the best school rugby team in the country head-on last week. Kelston Boys’ High — last season’s Auckland 1A champions — beat a spirited Gisborne outfit 40-0 with a crowd of 300 attending at Sister...

Teams' ambition: must do better

CRICKETAFTER their convincing win in Poverty Bay club cricket last weekend, Doleman Cup champions OBR will be looking to repeat the dose against High School Old Boys tomorrow. Landmark Homes OBR banked a win by eight wickets when the two sides...