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Feisty action at the oval

'A game of two distinct halves'

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

180: Jono Griffith 5 (RSA Men of Mayhem); Mel Ahuriri (2NZ Valkyries); Lance Cook 2NZ(3); Chris Giddens (2NZ TCL); Cris Kiri (2NZ Kings); Tahuna Irwin, Dudley Reeves (RSA Men of Mayhem); Te Kotahi Kaio (Cossy Done & Dusted).Highest legs (27): Tahun...

Testing an eye-opener for students

RUGBYThese boys are gluttons for punishment. Max Briant, Nik Patumaka, King Maxwell and Dylan Bronlund now know where they are in terms of strength, speed and physical condition among the 120 who underwent testing by Super Rugby staff at the...

Close basketball games coming up

IT HAS returned. Tonight the Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club league returns to the YMCA, with Pure Sound and Campion College opening proceedings. Pirates take on Brandon Paul’s East Coast, Gisborne Boys’ High School will look for...

Ngatapa thump champions

RUGBYCAMPBELL Chrisp followed up his Tiny White Medal-winning performance in the opening game of Gisborne’s premier club rugby competition with another man-of-the-match display on Saturday. His fired-up Ngatapa side demolished High School Old Boys...

Off to a flying start

Former Gisborne Speedway Club sidecar racer Rob Miller and his swinger “Red” George got their season’s campaign off to a flying start for their new contracted club, Palmerston North, on Saturday night. They won both their opening races at their...

Another team win to PBEC golfers

Poverty Bay-East Coast continued their memorable week at the national interprovincial golf tournament with a second team victory this morning. PBEC beat Aorangi 3-2 in Round 5 on the Omanu course at Mount Maunganui. Team No. 1 William Brown led the way...

Ihaka, 11, makes an impact

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Festive feel to track thrills

Sensational saloon racing, the skills of the youngsters in the youth ministocks, a first speedway win for Sammy Durston and a visit by Santa were highlights of Saturday night speedway. Gisborne Speedway Club put on a 31-race Christmas programme of...

Another top-10 finish for Tayler Reid

GISBORNE triathlete Tayler Reid has finished seventh in the elite race in the World Triathlon Championship Series final in Edmonton at the weekend. His performance put him in 13th place overall for the season. Olympic bronze medallist Hayden Wilde...

Tamatea Taranaki-bound

Captain and court general of local basketball's golden age to become network lead with Pinnacle Midlands Health

Junior paddlers getting race practice

SOME of the district’s most promising waka ama paddlers will be in action on city waterways on Monday, when Horouta Waka Hoe members host their annual race simulation day for junior paddlers. The aim is to give young paddlers race practice a week...

Chance for people to try petanque

PETANQUEA PETANQUE Open Day is being held at Kahutia Bowling Club’s five-lane petanque “terrain” tomorrow. Admission to the open day, at the club’s base in Cobden Street, will be free of charge. Open-day activities will run from 10am to 4pm...

Irwin to enter the snake pit

Gisborne's Tahuna Irwin has drawn colourful world No. 2 Peter “Snakebite” Wright in the first round of the Auckland Darts Masters, starting tonight. Irwin, 21, qualified for the tournament which features 16 players, including six of the world’s...

Biguns dominate in softball,Biguns dominate in softball

BIGUNS continued their domination of the women’s A-grade softball competition with a 9-2 defeat of their closest rivals Rovers at Barry Park on Saturday. In the women’s B-grade, Tolaga Bay Stingers (High School team) and Panthers played...

Junior clubbies to do battle at local champs

The district's up and coming surf athletes contest the Gisborne/Tairawhiti junior championships at Midway Beach from 5.30 tonight. Youngsters aged 7 to 14 years will be in action representing the Dawson Building Midway, Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae and...