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Horouta champions of u13 weight-restricted grade

Horouta: champions in 2019. The Rob Kora-coached Horouta are the under-13 weight-restricted club rugby champions of Poverty Bay this year. They scored 11 tries for a bonus-point 61-0 victory over Pirates to win the grade. Horouta finished the season...

Eagle finish for McDonald

Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay No. 1 Tessa McDonald is taking it one hole at a time at golf’s national women’s interprovincial in Christchurch. But after two fine comeback victories, she will never forget one particular hole on the opening day of the...

‘Leading thoroughbred’ award for Untouchable

EQUESTRIANUNTOUCHABLE, ridden and owned by Gisborne’s Merran Hain, was named leading thoroughbred of the Glistening Waters Show in Masterton at the weekend. Held at Solway Showgrounds, the Glistening Waters Jumping and ESNZ Series Final Show ran...

AIMS Games gold to Aidan

Ilminster Intermediate student Aidan Hailes added to Gisborne’s history of success in winning the indoor bowls singles title at the AIMS Games this week. Aidan defeated Otumoetai Intermediate student Jake Stott 7-3, 7-2 in the gold medal...

Winning start by Poverty Bay boys

It reads like the review for a Hollywood blockbuster. Poverty Bay Year 9 and 10 boys began their Hawke’s Bay cricket camp games with a 112-run victory over a Cornwall club side at Cornwall Park yesterday. Poverty Bay captain, No. 4 batsman and man of...

YMP click as a team

YMP produced a magnificent team effort to comprehensively defeat Ritana Senior A from Lytton High School in Gisborne premier grade netball at the YMCA on Saturday. The Sunshine Brewery-sponsored side won this Pak’nSave competition game 64-35. They...

Things to know about Prada Cup

After months of drama, controversy and preparation, racing for the America's Cup is finally set to kick off with the start of the Prada Cup. Organised by the Challenger of Record, the Prada Cup Challenger Selection Series will be held in Auckland...

Both skippers seeking complete performance

OBR versus Horouta will be either a humdinger or a fizzer. It would be improbable for Horouta to do anything close to what they did a fortnight ago, when they put up 381-7 in 50 overs and beat Nick Greeks's Coastal Concrete OBR by 275 runs. For the...

Cup a batting assembly line

The Challenge Cup produces class batsmen. Top of the pops last Wednesday evening was tall all-rounder Johnathan Gray, with his unbeaten innings of 66 off 45 balls from No. 3 in Sonrise-Lytton High School's seven-wicket win against the Gisborne Boys'...

Off and running

THE Year 5 boys fly off the start line at the Ormond School cross-country held at the school yesterday

Gisborne Boys’ High face tough test in Tauranga

THEY'RE back in the game. Poverty Bay qualifiers Gisborne Boys’ High School cricket colts will play Bay of Plenty’s no. 1 team Tauranga Boys’ College at their Nicholson Field tomorrow in the New Zealand Community Trust Year 9-10 National...

Kumar snares eight for HSOB

CRICKETAN eight-wicket haul for Ajay Kumar put High School Old Boys in the box seat against Pirates in Poverty Bay club cricket. The medium-pacer trundled in for 16.3 consecutive overs and had the ball shaping in nicely at Harry Barker Reserve’s...

Ilminster play with spirit in third Cup win

CRICKETThey deserved to win. The Ilminster Intermediate first 11 cricket team outplayed Gisborne Intermediate School in only their third win against Gisborne in the National Primary School Cup since its inception in 1999. Co-captains Alex Shanks and...

ESNZ chief handinig over the reins

Former Gisborne woman Dana Kirkpatrick is calling time as chief executive of Equestrian Sports New Zealand.“I have loved this job, the challenges it has posed and the successes we have all celebrated together,” said Kirkpatrick, who is now based...

Whangara unbeaten

Round 2 of netball grading at Victoria Domain on Saturday produced a fascinating series of premier results highlighted by another win for unbeaten Whangara Old Girls and a storming victory to Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A. Whangara remain...

Bowlers have a field day as wickets tumble

It was a day for the bowlers when Horouta took on OBR in their DJ Barry Cup club cricket match at the weekend. Twenty-five wickets fell in the space of 67 overs at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday and OBR claimed first-innings points, even though...