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Mangapapa Hurricanes are double winners

Mangapapa Hurricanes completed the double at Watson Park last Saturday. They beat Wainui Thunder 4-0 to add the Primary School Cup to their league success. In the Primary A Grade competition, the Hurricanes played 10, won 10, scored 100 goals and...

Big boats ready to rumble

OFFSHORE POWERBOATINGCROWD favourites Fairview from Auckland and Outboard Pro from Whangarei will thunder across Poverty Bay tomorrow afternoon as Round 2 of the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Series comes to town. Fairview was untouchable in winning...

Coast Kids Surfing Day proves a hit

Gisborne Boardriders Club members and coaches are still riding the feelgood wave of giving back to the community over the weekend. On Saturday, 55 children from Hicks Bay to Tolaga Bay travelled to Gisborne for an East Coast Kids Surfing Day, and on...

Hat-trick for Borrie but HSOB inflict first loss of season

Ngatapa medium-pace bowler Zac Borrie took a hat-trick against High School Old Boys Presidents in Hope Cup cricket on Saturday. HSOB won the game, though, handing the Senior B Grade competition leaders their first loss of the season. Borrie took 5-37...

Double for High School Old Boys

Bollywood Stars HSOB too good for Horouta at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday

Tahuna Irwin and Juanita Reeves singles champs

DARTSTAHUNA Irwin retained his Hawke’s Bay-East Coast club darts men’s singles crown at 2NZEF in Gisborne last weekend. Juanita Reeves won the women’s title. Both she and Irwin were representing the Brezz’n club. Gisborne players figured...

Giants aim to clip Eagles' wings

SUPERSTOCK teams racing returns to the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night and Gisborne Giants team captain Peter Rees predicts a battle royal against the Glen Eagles team from Christchurch. This will be the Giants first outing this season fresh...

PB men's open entries sold out

GOLFGISBORNE faces an invasion of golfers chasing glory at a “sellout” 2019 Emerre & Hathaway Poverty Bay men’s open this month. All 112 spots in the field have been filled well in advance of the district’s premier men’s tournament. Nearly...

THC earn right to take on YMP

THC have joined YMP A in the premier men’s hockey final after they defeated Lytton Old Boys A 4-1 on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve last night. Dave Gooch Spray and Signs LOB A were unable to hang on after they grabbed an early lead. THC...

Nominations open for Tairawhiti sporting excellence awards

SPORTS AWARDSNOMINATIONS for the Tairawhiti annual sports awards have opened. The Bronwyn Kay Agency Sporting Excellence Awards are designed to celebrate the region’s sporting elite while acknowledging the contribution of people who help make sport...

Masterful display as Ngati Porou women reascend

They are back on top. Ngati Porou, who for three years set the gold standard for Gisborne women’s club basketball, are once again No. 1. They beat defending champions Lytton High School 79-59 in a masterful display, as fans were treated to a dominant...

Sports briefs

Masters badminton results: Eastland defeated Hawke’s Bay (2) 5-4, Eastland def Hutt Valley (1) 6-3, Hawke’s Bay (2) def Oroua 8-1, Hutt Valley (1) def Oroua 8-1. The Gisborne club basketball draw is —TONIGHT, women, YMCA5.30pm: Ritana Toa v...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, July 23 — Woodward Chrisp Restricted Championship Pairs 4 (Howell movement): Vincelle Marvin, Eileen Lee 68.75; Graham Maclaurin, Anne Maclaurin 56.25; Rosemary Rowell, Glenys Evans 55.00; Janet Joblin, Bette Parker 52.50. WEDNESDAY, July...

Cook wins saloon GP

GISBORNE saloon car racer Ethan Cook (76G) achieved a career-high win when he took out the New Zealand Saloon Grand Prix at the Eastern States Speedway in Blenheim on Tuesday night. The gutsy 23-year-old, who loves to drive the outside line, headed...

Gisborne athletes do well at the Mount

Falloon, Proctor in top team at invitational event

Golf roundup

Gisborne Park“Come and beat me at my course.”He didn’t put it in those exact words but Joe Lincoln and his Tolaga Bay cohorts put out the invitation to head up the Coast this weekend to help emulate Gisborne Park’s successful Christmas...