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Around the greens: club bowls news

Poverty Bay Bowling Club's junior singles championships were held last week for players with bowls experience of up to three years and up to eight years. The two-life system was used and the games were played over two beautiful evenings starting at...

Champion of the Bays results

THE Eastland Port Champion of the Bays surf lifesaving carnival at Midway Beach ended with the Waikanae club retaining the Ralph Morse Memorial Shield, symbol of Gisborne surf club supremacy, by one point. Midway were second. Results featuring...

Performing on the international stage

THREE Gisborne surf lifesavers helped New Zealand to second place at an international competition in Japan this month. Midway Surf Life Saving Club’s Olivia Corrin (16) and Matt Scott (18), and Waikanae’s Casie Fyall (19) were in the 10-strong...

South Islanders win battle of the Coasts

The West Coast took advantage of the wind and rain to beat Ngati Porou East Coast 22-10 in Saturday’s Heartland rugby clash at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria. The visitors had a bunch of big hard-running forwards who gained plenty of possession and went...

Tricks a treat for spectators

It was a fantastic day in the sun for the Surely Shred Skate Competition at Alfred Cox Skate Park on Saturday. With 45 skateboarders entered, a bumper crowd of spectators witnessed a wide variety of gnarly and unique tricks. With the youngest...

From Durban to Gisborne

Two young South Africans will get their first taste of cricket in New Zealand when they make their debuts in the Doleman Cup 40-over competition that starts tomorrow at Harry Barker Reserve. Bruce Kerr and Matt Crampton will play for High School Old...

Historic day for women’s rugby

FORMER Gisborne Girls’ High student and 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup-winning Black Fern Charmaine McMenamin is among the 28 to become the first-ever 15s players to be offered Black Ferns contracts. Black Ferns head coach Glenn Moore said the...

Gisborne Boys' High School Courage Cup 15 years and under rugby competition

Team Charlie Ngatai player Maia Campbell is pictured above on his way to the tryline in week 1 of the inaugural Gisborne Boys' High School Courage Cup 15 years and under rugby competition yesterday. The cup, held at the Rectory fields, featured three...

Quarterfinal win books nationals berth for GBHS

Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior A team have qualified for the Basketball New Zealand AA National Championships. Their 75-72 win against St. Peter’s School of Cambridge in yesterday’s Zone 2 Premiership quarterfinal at Rotorua secured their...

Winning start for Bay

Poverty Bay have tipped over 2018 Meads Cup champions Thames Valley to make a winning start in rugby’s Heartland Championship. The Bay held on for a gutsy 17-15 win against the Swampfoxes in Paeroa on Saturday, with centre Andrew Tauatevalu scoring...

Weekly bridge round-up

Katrine Matthews, Glenys Evans 67.25 John Hudson, Mark Fleming 57.75Caroline Kirkpatrick, Ann McCombe 54.40 Louise Goodhue, Graham Maclaurin 53.26Joy Marden, Trish Corson 51.16 Eileen Lee, Sally Knight 48.73Pippa Williams, Elizabeth Jackson 56.55...

Hat-trick magic works for Lytton

FOOTBALLA HAT-TRICK to Cole Devonport earned Lytton High School a hard-fought victory over Gisborne Boys’ High School in Championship football at the Rectory on Saturday. Lytton won 3-1 after Boys’ High had taken the lead 10 minutes after...

SPORTS DRAWS

CyclingKonica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club races, SATURDAY — Club Ride (no racing)Club ride starting at 1.30pm from Nelson Rd Cemetery. New riders considering racing at some stage are very welcome to come have a group ride with the club. All...

OBR move into the lead

A five-wicket haul for Graham Hudson paved the way for Old Boys Rugby to take the lead in Poverty Bay cricket’s DJ Barry Cup competition. The South African quick took five for 27 off 13.5 overs, polishing off the tail of High School Old Boys, who...

Murdoch incident Kirky’s big regret

RUGBYThe sending home of All Black Keith Murdoch from the 1972-73 UK tour is “the greatest single regret’’ of Ian Kirkpatrick’s rugby career. In the foreword to the book Murdoch: The All Black Who Never Returned, by Ron Palenski and released...

Semifinalists decided on the Coast

TVC, Ruatoria City, Tokararangi and Tokomaru United were vying for two places in the semifinals of the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition when the whistles went at 2.30pm on Saturday. Eighty minutes of play later, TVC had secured third...