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Bay in Lochore Cup semifinal

POVERTY Bay are through to the Lochore Cup semifinals after a sensational 35-34 win against Thames Valley in Heartland Championship rugby in Te Aroha on Saturday. The Bay went into the final round-robin game in ninth place, three points behind...

Masters named badminton team of the year

BADMINTONEastland masters received the award for team of the year at the Badminton Eastland annual awards evening at the Tatapouri Fishing Club. The team won all eight of their ties in Division 4 of the North Island masters’ competition and were...

Pennants glory to Bay boys

Poverty Bay Golf Club added to its illustrious Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants history with a cakewalk victory on its home fairways on Sunday. The host club’s No. 1 side outclassed Tolaga Bay 8-0 in the 36-matchplay final to usher in a new er...

Whiteman’s best saved for last race of meeting

FIFTEEN-year-old ministock driver Tara Whiteman won the last race of the day at Eastland Kart Club's fourth points meeting of the season. It was in the rotax class, and Whiteman was racing against the men. Some good, fast racing was on show at the...

Corrin takes trophy in saloon champs

GISBORNE born and bred saloon car racer Daniel Corrin hoisted the winner's trophy in the Eastlite Carriers New Zealand saloon championships at the Eastland Group Raceway last night and he was thrilled to win. The 22-year-old (24M) races out of the...

Double glory to Tolaga Bay bowlers

They don't do things by halves. Tolaga Bay Bowling Club members were in celebration mode on Sunday afternoon. Not only had the club's junior women got their hands on the Peck Shield, the junior men had grabbed hold of the Yelverton Shield to make it...

Hope Cup cricket: teams prepare to make their trophy run

FIVE rounds remain. With a 1 v 4 and 2 v 3 semifinal format for 30-over Hope Cup cricket on February 29, teams wanting to make the final four will want to make their move now. Today's Senior B matches pit Horouta against Campion College on Harry...

Jags to be mutually supportive

BOTH Gisborne Thistle travelling teams are away on Saturday, and playing close enough to supply reinforcements to each other. ALH Gisborne Thistle will play Napier City Rovers Feds at Bluewater Stadium, Park Island, in a Central Federation League...

Fogarty aims for clean sweep

HOLD on to your speedos as Round 2 of the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club beach racing series rips into action tomorrow. Senior 0-to-open-class racer Daniel Fogarty (Yamaha YZF450) will be hoping for a repeat of Round 1 with three more wins, but he...

Revised softball draw

SATURDAY — Waikirikiri Park, Emerging Sox, intermediate, years 7-8-9-10.11am: D1, Ilminstars v Tolaga Chargers; D2, Whatatutu v Mangatuna; D3, Fastpitch Lambs v Tolaga Trojans; D5, Horouta Wananga v Waikirikiri Toa. Bye: Fastpitch Angels. Rookie...

Entertaining games

The premier grade netball in the Gisborne YMCA last night produced plenty of entertainment with bonus points awarded in both games such was the closeness of the scoring. The first Pak'nSave premiership game was decided by five goals with GGHS Snr...

IPL-style hype for Gisborne

CRICKETA HUNDRED people experienced the thrill of IPL-style hype at the inaugural Poverty Bay Cricket auction on Thursday night. Smash Palace was the venue as PGG Wrightson stock agent Chris Hurlstone auctioned off 48 players for the four franchise...

No reward for good play

Central played well for no reward when they lost 3-0 to North Harbour in the national under-21 hockey tournament at North Harbour yesterday. Players for the team are drawn from an area that includes Gisborne, and former Gisborne players James Torrie...

Narrow loss for GEC seniors

BOWLS By CrackerjackBowls Gisborne-East Coast’s senior representative teams played their annual intercentre fixture against Bay of Plenty opponents at Kawerau Bowling Club. This year Gisborne-East Coast (GEC) narrowly lost to a Bowls Waiariki...

Heads down Horouta

CRICKETIt’s a big gut-check for Horouta. Since their 185-run win against the Gisborne Boys’ High School Colts in Round 3, “The Waka” have lost their last three games and their captain Heyan Ranasinghe — who belted seven sixes and 16 fours...

On the mats — Indoor bowls news

FOUR Gisborne Boys' High School students and eight Lytton High School students travelled to Mt Maunganui to contest the North Island secondary schools indoor bowls pairs and singles competitions. On Day 1, 24 pairs competed. The 12 qualifying pairs...