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Gisborne club hosts regatta for first time

Gisborne Rowing Club celebrated hosting the LVA Regatta for the first time by winning the LVA Shield last weekend. The Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne rowing club have contested the LVA Shield since 1905. As well as being the first time the LVA Regatta had...

Tyler Finau to represent New Zealand

Tyler Finau, an Enterprise Cars Swim Team member with a swag of national age-group titles and Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay records, will represent New Zealand in Australia. Finau, 14, is among 35 swimmers selected in a Swimming New Zealand...

Vette starts Grom Series in style

THE Vette siblings shone while another member of the Smith family emerged as a rising force in the opening leg of the Grom Series in Whangamata at the weekend. Gisborne surfing development manager Kelly Ryan took an 11-strong Gisborne team to the...

Taking on Australia's best trampolinists

LEAH Scholefield has a good chance of making the final in her age group at the Australian national gymnastics championships in Melbourne later this month, says Eastland Port Gisborne Trampoline Club coach Doug Callahan.“You never want to put too...

Holden hits the target in bowl-off

It was the inevitable anti-climax, but one that the Smash Palace Bail-breakers profited from. They won last night’s six-a-side “bowl-off” against the Eastland Broncos to decide who would face the Bollywood Stars in next Friday’s grand final...

Personal challenge of player and bowl a stimulating mix,Personal challenge of player and bowl a stimulating mix

Jeff Davis has been playing bowls for 11 years, having had his appetite whetted by his Mitre 10 team “Jeff, Joy and Cally”, who competed in mercantile bowls at the Poverty Bay club. He and wife Joy (who started club bowls two years after Jeff...

Horomia still making an impact

RUGBYAN AUSTRALIAN rugby player with strong Gisborne links continues to make an impact in the women’s game across the Tasman. Evelyn Horomia is the starting tighthead prop for the New South Wales team in the Buildcorp Super W interstate rugby...

Green to play YMP A

HOCKEYTHE Green Machine qualified for the premier women’s hockey final — in a canter — when they defeated Paikea in the sudden-death semifinal at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. GMC Green won the match against JNL Paikea 7-1 on the LJ Hooker...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

A GradeIndividual highlights180s: Tahuna Irwin (Falcons) 3, Jordan Ngarangione (Falcons) 2, Willie Edwards (Tigers), John White (Tigers), Boyso Awatere (Pounamu).Highest start (180): Tahuna Irwin (Falcons), Boyso Awatere (Pounamu).Highest double...

Shaw leads the way with a century

HIGH School Old Boys skipper Carl Shaw scored an unbeaten ton yesterday and his team will almost certainly meet Horouta in Poverty Bay cricket's DJ Barry Cup final. HSOB were in a dominant position against OBR, scoring 279 for two in 45 overs, but...

Jostling for semifinal seedings

THE top four places in the premier rugby competition have been decided after OBM’s win against Ngatapa on Saturday. But the only thing certain about the match-ups is that GT Shearing Waikohu will meet the fourth-ranked team on July 14 . . . at...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

BRENT Colbert has not been close to a par round in well over 18 months. But he made it look easy in winning the division 1 men’s stableford on Sunday with 72-8-64, for 44 points. Former Poverty Bay-East Coast representative Colbert’s round —...

Gooch guided resurgence

Travis Gooch has been coaching rugby in Far North Queensland for the past three years and in that time has helped put the Port Douglas Reef Raiders back on the rugby map. The former OBM and Poverty Bay halfback has handed over the reins at the...

Scoreless draws under threat

FOOTBALLWHERE have all the goalless draws gone?Once upon a time you could turn on the wireless for the British football results and hear five different ways to read out a nil-all draw. Not any more. Scoreless draws are rare. Have we sacrificed the...

Waikohu amping for action

Waikohu coach Jason Tuapawa has thrown down the gauntlet to his players ahead of their premier club rugby match against Ngatapa at Te Karaka tomorrow. Unbeaten after seven games and assured of a spot in the top-four playoffs, Tuapawa wants his...