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Ace round by Andy Higham

POVERTY Bay-East Coast representative Andrew Higham had a hole-in-one on his way to the lowest round by an amateur in the long and proud history of the Poverty Bay golf course yesterday. Painter-decorator Higham fired 8-under 64 — one better than...

YMP out to keep up winning streak

REIGNING premier netball champions YMP (1) will look to continue their winning ways and make it two from two in Round 2 of the Pak’nSave Gisborne Premier Netball Competition tomorrow. The champions went undefeated all season last year and have yet...

HSOG have edge in form over Whangara

The four top netball teams in Gisborne take the court at the YMCA tonight. One game should be decided on form, but the other could be close. In-form Taste One High School Old Girls play the rebuilding Whangara Old Girls (1) in Pak’nSave premier...

Around the Greens: club bowls news

On Saturday, May 14, Kahutia Bowling Club members had their closing day tournament. The Liquorland-sponsored tournament was played in perfect bowling conditions. Members played three games of three-bowl triples. Games lasted 10 ends or 75...

Second-intake applications sought

Applications for the second intake of the shared services programme Taupua Tairāwhiti close on Friday, February 18. The aim of the shared services initiative is to provide a fit-for-purpose entity that offers a range of services for the sporting...

Taking on teams at either end of table

Both Gisborne teams in football’s Pacific Premiership will be in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow to face opponents at either end of the league table. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle have a top-of-the-table clash with Havelock North Wanderers Reserves at...

Some good wins for Gisborne Rowing Club in the North Island Club Champs

The 2020 North Island Club Championships took place on Lake Karapiro in Cambridge from January 24 to January 27

Barry club members’ winning ways continue

Two of Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s association players carried on the Gisborne club’s winning ways in the Bay of Plenty and Hawke’s Bay last week. Barry club members won five of the eight prizes on offer at the Whakatane Golf Croquet Open...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Individual highlights180s: Mike Price (Cossy 2 PHL), Lee Tamihana (Cossy DONE & Dusted), Chris Giddens (2NZ McCann’ics).Best start (140): Junior Akurangi (Cossy DONE & Dusted), Lorenzo Kaa (2NZ Rebels), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again) 2...

Semifinal finish for Pickett at Olympics

GISBORNE swimmer Michael Pickett needed to break his own New Zealand age group record to make the final of the 50 metres freestyle at the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina this morning. The 16-year-old fell short, posting 22.98 seconds in placing...

Thistle do just enough

FOOTBALLGISBORNE Thistle made hard work of their 2-1 Pacific Premiership win against Napier City Rovers Reserves on Saturday. For the most part, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle set their shooting sights too high. When they did hit the target they...

YMP get their revenge in premier club rugby round robin

Tauatevalu scores over half the points

Gisborne connections strong

GISBORNE'S Malone and Vette families are to the fore in age-group competition at the national surfing championships finishing in Dunedin today. Chris Malone, national open men's champion in 1998 when he was based in Gisborne, has spent much of the...

Another NZ title to comeback kid Ney

JUST a couple of weeks after becoming the New Zealand schools under-20 duathlon champion, Gisborne’s Josiah Ney is going under the knife. Surgery to remove a metal plate and screws from his shoulder will be one of the final acts of a nine-month...

Heikell named top coach

FORMER Poverty Bay coach Grainger Heikell says he is “proud and humbled” to have been named best coach in Romanian domestic rugby for 2015.“I owe the award to the players,” the coach of Romania’s Superliga (Super League) champions...

Early-round success for local riders

THE National Scholastic Surfing Championships began yesterday and the Gisborne under-16 and u18 boys enjoyed some early-round success. Despite difficult conditions at Makorori Beach during the first round of the contest, all Gisborne’s surfers...