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TVC and Opotiki battle to draw

TVC versus Opotiki Sports was a brilliant game of rugby. A crowd of 300-plus — roughly 100 of them Tihirau Victory Club fans — gathered at the Princess Street Reserve in Opotiki on Saturday and witnessed a five-try thriller. Last season's East...

YMP advance straight through to final

YMP A made it three wins from three games against arch-rivals Lytton Old Boys in their hockey semifinal on Friday night to advance straight through to the men's championship final. In another big result, the YMP women scored a psychological boost...

City Lights and Ngati Porou set the bar high

Iconic clubs City Lights and Ngāti Porou have proved that class is permanent in Gisborne Basketball Association competition. And the Setting Suns brought the 450 fans in attendance to their feet three times on finals night at the YMCA. Matt Tong's...

Boys’ High, OBR meet in decider

CRICKETTHE last week of Gisborne’s summer of cricket is here, with the final of the DJ Barry Cup between OBR and Gisborne Boys’ High School. Coastal Concrete OBR and Galaxy World GBHS have been the two in-form teams all season. Each of them has...

GOLF ROUNDUP

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Te Wharau, Cobham in Weka Ball action

They had their day in the sun. Cobham may not have taken the Weka Ball — Poverty Bay primary school rugby’s equivalent of the Ranfurly Shield — off Te Wharau, but a marvellous mix of speed, skill and camaraderie ensured everyone had a good...

SPORTS DRAWS

CyclingKonica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club races, SATURDAY — Club ride (no racing), starting at 1.30pm from Nelson Rd cemetery. New riders considering racing at some stage are welcome to have a group ride with club. Tuesday — Indoor windtrainer...

Basketball results and draw

RESULTS from Week 2 of men's club basketball, and the draw for Week 3 of the women's and men's competitons —A Grade, YMCAGreen Up 78 (Tyrese Tuwairua-Brown 30, Psalm Taylor 13, Paora Dewes 11) GISBORNE BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL 59 (Ethan Pearson 18, Daley...

Seven new caps in Coast line-up

Ngati Porou East Coast rugby coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor have named seven new caps in their starting 15 to play King Country in Te Kuiti on Saturday. Hakarangi Tichborne (loan prop), Wyntah Riki (Uawa, hooker), Adaam Ross (loan lock), Jack...

Chance to tighten grip on top spot

Whangara Old Girls have the opportunity to tighten their grip on the top spot of the premier-grade points table tomorrow ahead of the playoffs. They head the premier Pak'nSave table on 36 points, four points clear of Taste One High School Old Girls...

Tough games for Gisborne sides in Pacific Premiership

GISBORNE Thistle coach Garrett Blair has been forced to make changes from the side who thumped Havelock North Wanderers Seconds 13-1 in Pacific Premiership football last week. Thistle play competition leaders Port Hill United in Napier...

Tairāwhiti midget teams record fastest time in semi

Two Tairāwhiti waka ama teams yesterday qualified for finals today at the national sprint championships at Lake Karapiro. The YMP Waka Ama crew Pipiwhakao recorded the fastest time of the semifinals in the Taitamahine (midget girls, six to 10 years)...

Taylor wins another round in ironman series

GISBORNE surf lifesaving athlete Cory Taylor has won again in the tough Nutri-Grain IronMan Series in Australia. The Dawson Building Midway lifeguard won his first ever round of the series last summer to join a select group of kiwis to have won races...

Around the Greens

GisborneVeterans were in top form when 48 bowlers turned out for the Gisborne Bowling Club’s Christmas triples last week. Rotational triples, in which each team member in turn plays lead, director and skip, kept the bowling festive but...

Three out of three for Tairawhiti women

Three matches, three wins — that was the record for Tairawhiti Women’s Cricket Club (TWCC) when they hosted a secondary school girls’ 11 from Waikato Valley on Friday and Saturday. In Game 1, on Friday afternoon, Waikato Valley (WV) won the...

Sport and study combined

Four Gisborne sports achievers recognised by Massey University in annual Blues Awards for their sporting excellence; canoe sprint champion Lisa Carrington named inaugural winner