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Cook a key man for OBR,HSOB skipper Tallott expects to field strong line-up

OLD Boys Rugby “workhorse” Matt Cook will be a key man when his treble-chasing side take on High School Old Boys in tomorrow’s DJ Barry Cup cricket game at Harry Barker Reserve. Opening swing bowler Jimmy Holden is unavailable and Bain...

Captains lead the way

BASKETBALL

Three-goal spurt does damage

Central yesterday lost their second game at the national under-21 hockey tournament at North Harbour. They lost 5-0 to Midlands, whose line-up included former Campion College player Lewis Smith. Midlands scored in the 13th minute but Central were...

Dressage results

EQUESTRIANKRISSY Hulme-Moir and My Pure Magic won the award for most points for a local combination in the Poverty Bay A&P Show dressage competition. Results (riders from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —Introductory, Test 0A: Sonia Gardner...

Tough start to season

THE athletes in the opening competition of the Gisborne surf lifesaving sport season put on a great show with some hard slog in almost flat surf at the weekend. Gisborne lifeguards from Dawson Building Midway and Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae were joined...

'Top two inches’ key says coach

RUGBYThey want performances. The Poverty Bay under-16s leave for Masterton tomorrow, to play three Division A games in the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council tournament against Wellington, Manawatu and (with the rest day on Wednesday) either of those...

FIRST AND SECOND

Gisborne's mixed under-14 Turanga Touch team were undefeated winners of their division at the Central Touch Provincial Grassroots Tournament. The mixed u12 and u14 teams travelled to Palmerston North for the competition. The u12s were second in their...

Determined effort at champs

THE Tairawhiti open team’s third place in the premier division highlighted a determined effort by all five Tairawhiti teams in the Aotearoa Maori Netball Championships in Gisborne at Easter. A mini tent-city sprang up around the fringes of Victori...

GBHS upset 2018 champs for first Super 8 pool win

BASKETBALLThe last time they did it? Last century. Not since Chris Andersen’s Gisborne Boys’ High School A team of 1999 under Frank Russell beat Hamilton 66-59 here at the YMCA, has a GBHS team won a Super 8 basketball game in such incredible...

Waikohu aiming to keep momentum going

Waikohu will continue their defence of the Barry Cup tomorrow when they take on Tokomaru Bay United at Te Karaka. Waikohu come off a strong 65-7 win against Matakaoa last weekend. Waikohu veteran Mario Counsell says they want to keep the momentum...

Simply red, simply the best

POVERTY Bay’s man of steel Sione Ngatu was reduced to tears following Saturday’s Heartland Championship clash against King Country at Rugby Park on Saturday. The 36-year-old held his emotions in check when presented with the Mauri Trophy and...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkONE point decided the Mitchell Cup mixed pairs stableford on Sunday. Blanche Walker and Ray Grace tallied 41 points to beat Di Webb and Willie Donnelly’s 40. Wiki Morrissey’s 83-16-67, for 42 points, was her best score in over 30...

Player of the 2016 Pennants

WHEN Peter Kerekere was named winner of the sportsman trophy for the 2016 Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants, no one in the clubhouse was surprised. Kerekere, at No. 2 in the pennants-winning Poverty Bay (1) side, completed a perfect record of...

Ready to take on NZ’s finest

GISBORNE’S top woman golfer is out to add to an impressive history at the national interprovincial tournament, which starts on Monday. Tessa McDonald is at No. 2 in the five-strong Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay team for the week-long matchplay event on...

Christie’s late charge not enough

RICARDO Christie’s late charge on the World Qualifying Series (QS) ended as he was knocked out in the quarterfinals of the Vans World Cup in Oahu, Hawaii. He needed to make it to the final to have a chance of requalifying for the Championship Tour...

Poverty Bay fall to Mavericks

. . . but coach happy with senior rep side’s first hit-out