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Rain dashes opening weekend plans for Gisborne Speedway Club

SPEEDWAY by Murray RobertsonGisborne Speedway Club has had to rearrange its opening weekend plans again, this time because of the weather. It had been planned to run a race meeting tomorrow night featuring good-sized fields of superstocks and...

Corners prove Massive’s downfall,Riverina win Chris Moore Cup

THISTLE Massive mimicked Dracula on Saturday . . . they didn’t like crosses, or corners, to be precise. United beat Massive 3-2 in a Bailey Cup football semifinal at Childers Road Reserve, and all three of United’s goals came from corners. In the...

Intermediate school teams in decider

Gisborne Intermediate School host Ilminster in the Poverty Bay decider of the New Zealand Community Trust Cup cricket competition at Gisborne Intermediate tomorrow. Gisborne Intermediate principal and coach Glen Udall is looking for his team to...

Records tumble in a wild Comet Swimming Club competition

SWIMMINGONE Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay record and two club records were set at a Comet Swimming Club competition night this month. Fifty swimmers braved wild weather to swim some hot times. Rixon Skudder set a HBPB record in the 10-year boys’ 100m...

Nets take an 81-goal battering

HOCKEYMORE than 80 goals crashed into the back of the net in seven matches on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve last weekend and the women outscored the men nearly two to one. The women’s teams scored 53 goals, and the men, 28. The YMP...

Cream rises to the top

HOCKEYTHE top two senior women’s teams powered their way into the hockey premiership final at the weekend, and THC took no prisoners when they earned the right to join YMP A in the senior men’s final. An in-form YMP A women’s team emulated...

OBR’s focus now turns to DJ Barry Cup

Doleman Cup and Walker Shield champions Old Boys Rugby begin the quest for local cricket’s treble when they play Campion College in the opening game of the DJ Barry Cup at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow.“Our goal has always been the treble this...

Christophers ton leads OBR to victory

CRAIG Christophers still has what it takes. He showed that with a match-winning century for OBR against Gisborne Boys' High School in DJ Barry Cup premier club cricket at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Playing his first premier grade match this...

Gold, silver and bronze for Gisborne

SURF LIFESAVINGGOLD medals to the Wainui women in the surf canoe and to Waikanae sprinter Debbie Hutchings in her two events were highlights of the Gisborne clubs’ results in the New Zealand masters surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui...

Golf roundup

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One win, one loss

RUGBYNew Plymouth won at the Gully; Gisborne won at McNaught. The Gisborne Boys’ High School second 15 beat their New Plymouth Boys’ High counterparts 29-19 at McNaught Field, New Plymouth, on Saturday for their first win of the season. Gisborne...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Individual highlights180s: Matt Reedy (Cossy DONE & Dusted), Pete Archbold (Roseland Dilligaf), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again).Best start (180): Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again).Best finish (114): Mike Jones (Roseland).Most high scores...

A win and a loss for Poverty Bay

Well played, Harvey Reynolds. All-round cricketer Reynolds hit four sixes and carried his bat for 42 not out in Thermisol Poverty Bay’s nine-wicket win yesterday morning. The Bay beat Johnsonville in the first of two 30-over games on Day 2 at the...

Results from the Doleman Cup

GBHS 166/5 R Tallot 72, J Davenport 27, D Scott 21 beat OBR 72 I Loffler 19, R Nepe 3-14, R Tallot 3-17Horouta 154 B Forde 40, K Martin 20, N Torrie 4-32 beat Campion 49 M Brandso 5-25HSOB 210 R Majstrovic 86 defeated GBHS (2) 86-1

Junior day out

Netball New Zealand’s junior programme, futureFERNS, got the thumbs-up from visiting Silver Fern and Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic midcourter Sam Sinclair on Friday. Sinclair made her Silver Ferns debut in January 2017 against Australia, and has 34...

Fathers and sons on opposing sides

It's not often that John Stirton gets called a good chess player. Gisborne Boys' High School coach Sebastian Itman used the term to describe the Thistle Massive coach's handling of his forces in their Eastern League 1 football match at Childers Road...

SPORT in brief

Watene scored game’s last try

Bridge results

Monday, February 22 — Summer Pairs 3North/South East/WestStephen Francks, Amanda Matthews 60.76 Carolyn McMurray, George Maclachlan 58.33Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 58.33 Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 51.98Diana Styche, Joy Marden 53.47 Yvonne Waide...