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'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...

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...

Gibbs impressed by next-level moves

Gisborne waveski surfer Steve Gibbs is back from the world championships in Spain, without a title but exhilarated by the competition and the conditions for the contest. Two-time world champion Gibbs, 63, got as far as the semifinals, finishing fifth...

Boys’ High Red dominate game against quality veterans

BASKETBALLBasketball is a team game. But outstanding performances deserve recognition, and the way in which Gisborne Boys’ High School Red dominated the second A Grade men’s club basketball league semifinal last night fits the bill. The defending...

Cairns NZSS assistant coach

GISBORNE Boys’ High School first 15 will want to celebrate coach Tom Cairns’s selection as assistant coach of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ (NZSS) team with a win against St Peter’s College of Auckland in an interschool clash on the...

Pups post 200 to beat Tairawhiti women’s club

CRICKETThere were three of them. Caleb Taewa's 73, No. 6 Malsha Mahabalage's 37 off 41 balls and Taye McGuinness's 36 off 30 balls from No. 7 were all unbeaten innings in the HSOB Pups' 79 run-win v TWCC. The Pups posted 200-4 in the first round of...

GOLF ROUNDUP

Wynne MacLellan and Ross Nichol were clearcut winners in the men's net competition on Sunday. Both returned net 65s, MacLellan winning the senior division by two shots and Nichol five clear in the junior division. SUNDAY — Men's net, senior...

‘Driving mojo’ rediscovered

THE return of Tony Akroyd’s “driving mojo” and an encouraging debut by Rod Moore were the positives as Poverty Bay-East Coast battled on at the Freyberg Masters in Hamilton yesterday. PBEC lost 4-1 to North Harbour in round 5 of the over-40s...

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

Challenge Cup at stake in Super 8 clash

RUGBYSuper 8 rugby kicks off tomorrow. And for Ryan Tapsell-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 — whose opening game is away to Napier Boys’ High for the Football Challenge Cup — it is their first true test.“Our whole pre-season was...

Reece Lister gets first NZ podium

GISBORNE driver Reece Lister clinched his first podium finish in a New Zealand speedway event when he placed third in the six-shooter national championships on Saturday, but it could have been even better. Lister qualified on Grid 4 for the Roseland...

Gladiators up for challenge

THE Gisborne Gladiators face a tough challenge this weekend to successfully defend again their New Zealand stockcar teams title but, in the words of durable team captain Peter Rees, “They are up for it!”The Gladiators team members are Rees, his...

Now for the semis

THE order of the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby top four and who will play who in the semifinals was confirmed in the last round-robin games on Saturday. Hikurangi beat Waiapu 27-7 at Whakarua Park, Tikirau Victory Club (TVC) won by default over...

Basketball champions

Match reports on Monday

Eastland Kart Club night of nights

GUEST speaker Greg Murphy kept a 170-strong crowd entertained at Eastland Kart Club’s prize-giving at the Emerald Hotel last Saturday night. Four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Murphy talked about his racing career — from karts to V8 Supercars to...