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Games more intense as finals night approaches

The hour grows short for club basketball. Two weeks out from the biggest night of the year for men's premier grade, the women's competition and men's open hoops, the teams are steeling themselves to take things up a notch. The women's competition was...

Poverty Bay sides reach finals

POVERTY Bay under-13 boys’ and girls’ hockey sides both reached the finals of the Noel Morrow/Mini Tupara Tournament in Whakatane on Sunday. The boys lost to Tauranga A in their final, although the score at fulltime was 0-0. Tournament rules...

Sports draws

FootballCENTRAL Federation League — SUNDAY, 2pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle v Levin. Bailey Cup — SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Wainui, Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks v Gisborne Thistle Youth. Eastern League Division 2 —...

Games golden double

GISBORNE Athletics Club member Briana Irving continued her record of medal success at the 38th North Island Colgate Games held this year in Palmerston North. Middle distance runner Briana won the 13 years girls’ 1500 and 800 metres titles. Her time...

Sports and surf lifesaving achievements celebrated

GISBORNE will celebrate the surf lifesaving season and club members’ achievements at the 2016 Zespri Gisborne/Tairawhiti Awards of Excellence on July 8. Finalists have been named in lifesaving and sports categories. The awards will be held at...

No more than 10

Gatherings limit governs start date for club sport

Coach wants Bay to earn Shield respect

Poverty Bay coach Mana Otai wants his team to earn respect when they play Taranaki in a Ranfurly Shield challenge match at New Plymouth tomorrow.“We’re a team with guys who work for a living and who have to fit their rugby around work and family...

Golf Roundup

The fat lady was warming up her voice only for Dave Harrison and James Witika to mute her in a comeback for the Te Kanawa Cup ages on Saturday. Five-down with six holes to play in their men's pairs quarterfinal matchplay clash with Steve Webb and...

Clash of the sticks

Match reports in tomorrow’s Gisborne Herald

Oceania triathlon champs all go

AN Olympic Games carrot and Oceania glory have the Aussies planning a golden assault on the 2016 Sovereign TriGisborne Oceania Championships here in March.“We’ve been talking to Triathlon Australia and they told us they will probably bring...

Career highlights so far

Indoor bowls highlights for North Island team members Matthew Foster and Nathan Trowell —Matthew Foster — 2019: won New Zealand one-to-five-year (bowls experience) pairs; gold medal in North Island secondary schools singles; achieved silver star...

Last man standing

Malcolm Trowell was the last man standing when Bowls Gisborne-East Coast held the centre men's singles at Gisborne Bowling Club. He beat Steve Goldsbury 21-17 in a hard-fought final and took home another centre title, and the J.J. Martin CupA field...

Eight-minute spree decisive

Four goals in eight minutes decided the Central Federation League game at Childers Road Reserve yesterday. Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle lost by the odd goal to league leaders Massey University, but deserved at least a share of the...

Champs go back to back

NETBALLTHE YMCA erupted on Saturday afternoon as YMP hoisted the Jan Duncan Memorial Cup for Gisborne premier netball supremacy for the second year in a row.“We’ve done it,” an ecstatic YMP skipper Paku-Jane Skudder said while Ingrid Brown...

Growth blessings mixed

ROWINGGISBORNE Rowing Club is getting too big for its boats. And in a way, that’s a good thing. Rowing in Gisborne is going through a period of strong growth, says club president Peter Simmons.“We have doubled our number of athletes over the past...

Boys’ High School save best for last

RUGBYGISBORNE Boys’ High School under-15 sevens rugby team saved their best for last at the annual Sir Gordon Tietjens invitational tournament at Palmerston North. The Wiremu Kaa-coached team started slowly, losing their first two games, to...

Athletic win Wairoa derby

Athletic coach Jimmy Whaitiri said beating Tapuae in their premier division rugby game at Wairoa on Saturday was “a huge relief and a great moment for the players and supporters”.“We wanted to win a game in the first round and then hopefully...

Kapene and Smith win gold medals

Waikanae junior Chloe Kapene again showed her versatility as a surf athlete when she won a beach sprint gold medal at the Oceans 19 surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui yesterday. And persistence paid off for her clubmate Oska Smith, who...