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Seven new caps in Coast line-up

Ngati Porou East Coast rugby coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor have named seven new caps in their starting 15 to play King Country in Te Kuiti on Saturday. Hakarangi Tichborne (loan prop), Wyntah Riki (Uawa, hooker), Adaam Ross (loan lock), Jack...

Chance to tighten grip on top spot

Whangara Old Girls have the opportunity to tighten their grip on the top spot of the premier-grade points table tomorrow ahead of the playoffs. They head the premier Pak'nSave table on 36 points, four points clear of Taste One High School Old Girls...

Tough games for Gisborne sides in Pacific Premiership

GISBORNE Thistle coach Garrett Blair has been forced to make changes from the side who thumped Havelock North Wanderers Seconds 13-1 in Pacific Premiership football last week. Thistle play competition leaders Port Hill United in Napier...

Tairāwhiti midget teams record fastest time in semi

Two Tairāwhiti waka ama teams yesterday qualified for finals today at the national sprint championships at Lake Karapiro. The YMP Waka Ama crew Pipiwhakao recorded the fastest time of the semifinals in the Taitamahine (midget girls, six to 10 years)...

Taylor wins another round in ironman series

GISBORNE surf lifesaving athlete Cory Taylor has won again in the tough Nutri-Grain IronMan Series in Australia. The Dawson Building Midway lifeguard won his first ever round of the series last summer to join a select group of kiwis to have won races...

Around the Greens

GisborneVeterans were in top form when 48 bowlers turned out for the Gisborne Bowling Club’s Christmas triples last week. Rotational triples, in which each team member in turn plays lead, director and skip, kept the bowling festive but...

Three out of three for Tairawhiti women

Three matches, three wins — that was the record for Tairawhiti Women’s Cricket Club (TWCC) when they hosted a secondary school girls’ 11 from Waikato Valley on Friday and Saturday. In Game 1, on Friday afternoon, Waikato Valley (WV) won the...

Sport and study combined

Four Gisborne sports achievers recognised by Massey University in annual Blues Awards for their sporting excellence; canoe sprint champion Lisa Carrington named inaugural winner

Masters to raise curtain on nationals

The country's masters-aged surf lifeguards hit the water and sand at Midway Beach tomorrow to start the TSB New Zealand Surf Lifesaving Championships. Predicted metre-plus surf and cool southerly winds will make for a challenging day for the close to...

HSOG make the final

High School Old Girls qualified for the Gisborne premier-grade netball grand final when they scored a goal in the dying seconds to defeat defending champions YMP in a thrilling semifinal at the YMCA last night. Taste One HSOG won the match 44-43 and...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

180s: Thao Duncan (Roseland Say My Name), Matt Reedy (Cossy Done & Dusted), Jono Griffiths (RSA Men of Mayhem), Edward Brown (RSA Stallions), Joe Kiri (2NZ Kings), Glenn Higgins (Cossy 6-Shooters), Stacey Reeves (RSA Outlaws), Mikey Evans (Cossy...

Draft league resumes without missing a beat

The first post-Christmas event for any sportsperson is hard work. But such was the closeness of the scores in Week 3 of Gisborne Basketball Association's inaugural women's draft league at the YMCA on Tuesday that none of the four teams' fitness or...

Gooch out to defend his NZ title

Gisborne streetstock speedway racer Brenden Gooch will defend his 1NZ crown at the Paradise Valley Raceway in Rotorua this weekend, and he knows it will be tough. In Invercargill in January, the 36-year-old overcame staunch opposition to win his...

Suspended for part in scuffle

FOOTBALLA MAN identified as the spectator who threw a punch in an on-field scuffle at the end of a May 11 Pacific Premiership football match has been suspended from playing for six weeks. Representatives of the two clubs, Gisborne United and Gisborne...

Gisborne athletes do district proud at Oceans 18

ORGANISERS cancelled the final day of racing in the New Zealand Under-14 Surf Life Saving Championships scheduled for Orewa Beach yesterday. Mt Maunganui Lifeguard Service, points leaders at the end of Day 3, Saturday, were declared champion club...

Anderson turns corner

A WEEK of frustration for Pete Anderson turned a corner yesterday, while the David Solomann express roared on at the Freyberg Masters interprovincial golf tournament. The Poverty Bay-East Coast pair were unbeaten on the day — Anderson recording two...

Disappointment spurring on her efforts

GISBORNE’S top woman golfer is using disappointment as inspiration following her non-selection for the 2015 national interprovincial next month. Tessa McDonald admits she was a little surprised not to make the Waikato squad for the women’s...

Surfers with disabilities hit Gisborne's beaches

ADAPTIVE surfing for people with disabilities is growing and becoming visible as a worldwide movement, says paraplegic surfer Marcus Thompson. The Otaki man was in Gisborne at the weekend with another disabled surfer to compete in an adaptive heat of...