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Forecast fee a sign of the timesSO, after 12 years of free reports and surf camera access, Surf 2 Surf is charging for the service — $5 per month or $50 per year will give you daily reports, a long range forecast and access to a live stream of 17...

HSOB end season with a win

What better way to mark your 50th club game than to win it?Tanielu Misikosi racked up a half-century of Poverty Bay premier matches for High School Old Boys on Saturday and his team paid tribute to that feat with a 40-5 win over Kevin Hollis Glass...

Exciting start predicted for netball premiership

The netball premiership race gets under way tonight with the opening games at the YMCA. The two matches promise a vibrant and exciting start. YMP (1) and Gillies Electrical Gisborne Girls' High School will step out on to the court for a 6pm start to...

Tough calls for coaches come with the territory

THE road to gold is paved with tough decisions. Horouta Junior 16 women’s waka ama coach Sharni Wainohu knows that only too well. Her Puhi Kaiariki team won gold in the V6 500 metres at the waka ama world sprint championships in Australia last...

Bay paddlers off to Australia

THREE of Poverty Bay’s top under-18 paddlers will represent New Zealand at the Oceania Championships in Sydney on February 9, 10 and 11. Alicia Hoskin, Alex Bermingham and Sam Ferkins will all wear the Silver Fern in the first international...

Around the greens: club bowls news

Poverty Bay Bowling Club's junior singles championships were held last week for players with bowls experience of up to three years and up to eight years. The two-life system was used and the games were played over two beautiful evenings starting at...

Champion of the Bays results

THE Eastland Port Champion of the Bays surf lifesaving carnival at Midway Beach ended with the Waikanae club retaining the Ralph Morse Memorial Shield, symbol of Gisborne surf club supremacy, by one point. Midway were second. Results featuring...

Performing on the international stage

THREE Gisborne surf lifesavers helped New Zealand to second place at an international competition in Japan this month. Midway Surf Life Saving Club’s Olivia Corrin (16) and Matt Scott (18), and Waikanae’s Casie Fyall (19) were in the 10-strong...

South Islanders win battle of the Coasts

The West Coast took advantage of the wind and rain to beat Ngati Porou East Coast 22-10 in Saturday’s Heartland rugby clash at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria. The visitors had a bunch of big hard-running forwards who gained plenty of possession and went...

Aotearoa-NZ crews crowd the podium

Aotearoa-New Zealand waka ama teams continued their domination of the podium at the Va'a World Sprint Championships overnight (NZ time).Tairawhiti paddlers who honed their skills with Mareikura and Horouta waka ama clubs feature heavily in the elite...

Do or die - East Coast club rugby semifinals

Hikurangi v TokararangiIn an unprecedented move, there will be a neutral venue for the Hikurangi-Tokararangi clash — Hatea a Rangi, the home ground to the United Sports Cub in Tokomaru Bay.“We’re happy to host anybody. We just love rugby,”...

Sports draws, November 11, 2015

BasketballSATURDAY — Miniball league, years 3/4, 10am: C1, Shakers Ballers v Mangapapa Iversons, (Cinta, Paddy, Kaipo, Lilly); C2, Mangapapa Griffins v Te Harpara, (Petra, O’Neil, Kellann, Char); C3, Awapuni Ballers v Wainui, (Harata, Xzavier...

Christie chasing big points in US Open of Surfing

SURFINGGISBORNE-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie is chasing vital Qualifying Series points in the United States in his quest to return to world surfing’s premier tour. Christie is in California for the QS 10,000-point US Open of Surfing at Huntington...

Lift off with the saloon car champs

THREE Gisborne drivers will line up tonight in the finals of the Eastlite Carriers New Zealand saloon car championships at the Eastland Group Raceway after action-packed qualifying. The three groups of cars in the 40-plus field produced breathtaking...

Quarterfinal win books nationals berth for GBHS

Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior A team have qualified for the Basketball New Zealand AA National Championships. Their 75-72 win against St. Peter’s School of Cambridge in yesterday’s Zone 2 Premiership quarterfinal at Rotorua secured their...

Winning start for Bay

Poverty Bay have tipped over 2018 Meads Cup champions Thames Valley to make a winning start in rugby’s Heartland Championship. The Bay held on for a gutsy 17-15 win against the Swampfoxes in Paeroa on Saturday, with centre Andrew Tauatevalu scoring...

Hat-trick magic works for Lytton

FOOTBALLA HAT-TRICK to Cole Devonport earned Lytton High School a hard-fought victory over Gisborne Boys’ High School in Championship football at the Rectory on Saturday. Lytton won 3-1 after Boys’ High had taken the lead 10 minutes after...

Weekly bridge round-up

Katrine Matthews, Glenys Evans 67.25 John Hudson, Mark Fleming 57.75Caroline Kirkpatrick, Ann McCombe 54.40 Louise Goodhue, Graham Maclaurin 53.26Joy Marden, Trish Corson 51.16 Eileen Lee, Sally Knight 48.73Pippa Williams, Elizabeth Jackson 56.55...