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Bay of Plenty win annual shields fixture

Four Gisborne-East Coast teams travelled to the Ohope Bowling Club to play their Bay of Plenty counterparts in the annual fixture between the two centres on Sunday. Bay of Plenty won the overall points contest to retain the Waioeka Shield for senior...

Keeping big picture in view

Medals in 38 events at the waka ama national sprint championships can take attention from a bigger picture. So Horouta Waka Hoe Club president Walton Walker prefers to look beyond the 14 gold, 13 silver and 11 bronze medals his club won at Lake...

Drama to unfold on finals day

HOCKEYYMP A should take the premier men’s hockey championship tomorrow afternoon, but titles are up for grabs in the other three finals. Finals day starts on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve at 11am tomorrow with the game between GMC...

PB quartet in ’Canes Under-20s

Four Poverty Bay Under-20 players have been named in the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 team. Nehe Papuni (YMP), James Law (Ngatapa), Winston Folau (Pirates) and Genesis Bartlett-Tamatea (YMP) were named in the team, who are scheduled to play three...

Kiwi K4 u23 crew through to A Final

Two kayaking paddlers from the Poverty Bay club will be part of a Kiwi team of four competing in an A Final at the junior and under-23 canoe sprint world championships tomorrow morning. Alicia Hoskin and Britney Ford will team up with Danielle Watson...

Easter tourney to bring curtain down on season

THE Tairawhiti softball season finishes this weekend with a two-day Easter tournament. Two divisions of four teams each will take part in the tournament, which was designed to raise funds for the newly-formed Young Gunnz team. The aim of Young Gunnz...

Tackles aplenty for Gisborne Boys’ High

Gisborne Boys’ High School felt the force of a strong Feilding High School team in Hastings at the weekend. Feilding beat GBHS 31-0 at Elwood Park after leading 12-0 at halftime. Both head coaches — fifth-year man Justin Lock of Feilding and Duane...

Gisborne pack hold its own

The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 met the best school rugby team in the country head-on last week. Kelston Boys’ High — last season’s Auckland 1A champions — beat a spirited Gisborne outfit 40-0 with a crowd of 300 attending at Sister...

Golf roundup

Anaru Reedy is a Game of Thrones fan. He's read the books and watched the epic TV series. With similar mercilessness to Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon dealing it to King's Landing in the climactic GOT battle, Reedy roared to a first senior men's...

Giants force way on to the podium

SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants superstock team fought their way on to the podium at the ENZED teams championships in Palmerston North at the weekend, and they did it the hard way. Gisborne’s Giants finished third after two nights of stunning...

Competitive athletics under way

The tape measure and stop-watch made their first appearance of the season last night. After two Wednesday fun nights without distance and time being recorded at Awapuni Stadium, Gisborne Athletics got serious. The rain stayed away, kids seven and...

Walker-Leawere one of Canes’ young guns

Former Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 players Isaia Walker-Leawere and Whetu Douglas have been named in the Hurricanes and Crusaders Super Rugby squads respectively for the 2019 season. The 1.97-metre, 122-kilogram Poneke lock Walker-Leawere...

Weekend scoreboard

Poverty Bay premier club rugby; Waikohu: 31 v OBM: 20. Ngatapa: 52 v Pirates: 0. YMP: 80 v HSOB: 0. Taste 1 Most Valuable Player Awards: Rikki Terekia (OBM), Tane McGuire (Waikohu), Niue Niue (Pirates), Taylor Howatson (Ngatapa), Andrew Tauatevalu...

Down to the nitty-gritty

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Irwin-Ahlers in NZ team

Tahuna Irwin-Ahlers has been named in the New Zealand team for the second year running. The Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association and Brezz’n Darts Club No. 1 will represent New Zealand in the WDF Asia-Pacific Cup in Seoul, South Korea. His naming in...

Trophy feels at home

Horouta win most-points award for ninth time