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Bridge results

SATURDAY, September 7 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Open 8B TournamentSESSION 1North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 69.05 Janet Joblin, Pamela Goss 61.31Ann McCombe, Vicki Taylor 66.96 Eileen Lee, Robyn Cheyne 53.57Caroline Taylor...

Sky clearing for 25th Motu Challenge

MultisportGisborne endurance athletes have been looking at the sky as they get ready to face the roads, bush and river tomorrow in the 25th Motu Challenge multisport race . . . in an ever-changing weather picture. For a quarter-century, Opotiki has...

Rankin closing in on No.400

BREAKING your age is among the ultimate achievements in amateur golf but for Peter Rankin it's par for the course. The 79-year-old Wellingtonian top-qualified for the first 16 on the opening day of the New Zealand 66th National Veteran Championship...

Uawa firepower on show

RUGBYIn came the big guns. Uawa came off their opening-day bye like a blue tank in Week 2, winning their away game against Ruatoria City 75-15. The Tolaga Bay-based team outscored City by 10 tries to two. Second five-eighth Jordan Birch scored two...

'Horse of a lifetime': Edgecombe wins final, Fitzsimon clinches series

Tegan Fitzsimon and Brooke Edgecombe showed their class once again as they topped the FEI World Cup New Zealand League in Dannevirke yesterday. Christchurch rider Fitzsimon, on Windermere Cappuccino, clinched back-to-back series wins by finishing...

Sports briefs

Eastland Kart Club tomorrow runs its sixth points meeting of the season. Racing starts at 10am and is free to view. The track is in Aerodrome Road, off Awapuni Road. The 2021 NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships have been rescheduled to take...

Tarsau top-scores in tough game

YMP v Lytton juniorsFull force — that’s what YMP’s Amoe Tarsau hit the Lytton High School juniors with in women’s basketball at the YMCA last night. Tarsau led all scorers with 19 points in YMP’s 35-23 win. Her quick hands in defence were...

Gisborne - East Coast Golf roundup

Gisborne ParkLIFTING a trophy with a long and illustrious history was extra special for Bo Huhu on Sunday. Huhu and Pete Koorey beat Cliff Nepe and Johnny Collier in the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs handicap matchplay final — a first Te K success...

Softball draws

Draws for Tairawhiti junior softball games at Waikirikiri Park on SATURDAY — finals, prize-giving to follow —Junior Sox, (Year 9-10), 11am: D1, GBHS Black v Apitihanga (boys' division title); D2, GGHS v Lytton (girls' div title).Emerging Sox...

Around the Greens

THE Bill Edwards Tankard at stake in the annual challenge between Gisborne and Kahutia bowling clubs changed hands last Wednesday afternoon. It was fitting that Jamey Ferris, greenkeeper for both clubs, received the trophy on behalf of the winners...

Giving softball its best shot

GROW the kids . . . grow the sport is the winning formula adopted by Tairawhiti Softball Association, whose numbers have increased from eight adult teams in 2009 to 17 teams competing in the women’s (10 teams), seven in the men and 37 in the...

Poverty Bay results from nationals

POVERTY Bay Kayak Club results from the second and third days of the NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro, on Saturday and Sunday —SATURDAYTyros women’s K1 500 metres: Jayha Egan (fourth).Tyros men’s K1 500m: William...

Ritana playoff hopes live on

Ritana Senior A from Lytton High School kept their premier-grade netball playoff hopes alive when they produced a strong team performance to defeat Horouta Gold by 24 goals. The school team led throughout this Pak’nSave competition game to win...

Final countdown

Some fantastic games are on the cards at Victoria Domain tomorrow as the Pak’nSave senior competition culminates with finals day through the grades. All of the games will be rematches of the initial semifinals played on August 3.“All of the teams...

Golf Roundup

Poverty BayCLUTCH putts on the last two holes earned Brian Morrissey membership to an exclusive club at Poverty Bay on Sunday. The 74-year-old carded 73-11-62 to break his age for the first time on the Poverty Bay track. Morrissey has achieved the...

Two-league move bearing fruit

Poverty Bay Cricket’s two-league colts initiative bore spectacular fruit at the weekend. The aim was to give Year 7 to 10 players more games in the form of a 15-over competition on Wednesday afternoons and 30-over matches on Saturday mornings. In...