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Fun day for motorbike riders

Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club will hold its annual fun day at Makorori Beach tomorrow. There will be no lap-scoring or points; it will be a fun-run event. Organisers say they are catering for all riders, from four-year-olds to baby boomers, and...

Lifesavers train for Advanced Lifeguard Award

FORMER Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club member Ashleigh Hurring casts a watchful eye over lifeguards learning how to jump out of helicopters and participate in major search and rescues involving emergency services. The lifeguards are training for the...

Open water gold to Scott at Oceania champs

A “super stoked” Matt Scott ended his Oceania championships campaign on a high with victory in the 5-kilometre open water race in Fiji at the weekend. Enterprise Cars Swim Team member Scott won the title in a thrilling sprint photo finish with...

Training hard, feeling good

Gisborne kayak paddlers Quaid Thompson and Alicia Hoskin are feeling well prepared for the canoe sprint world championships in Hungary next month. The two paddlers were named in Canoe Racing New Zealand’s squad this month and they’re putting in...

Indoor bowls news

The Poverty Bay-East Coast under-18 indoor bowls team won the Membrey Pearce Trophy in Hamilton. It was the third year in a row they had won it. After weeks of practice and fine-tuning with selector Malcolm Trowell, they came out firing and never let...

Showdown for young guns,‘It’s a game we’ll both be targeting’ — Gibbs

POVERTY Bay cricket captain Danny Gibbs says this weekend’s clash against Waikato Valley will be a battle between “two young sides each with a ton of potential”.“Clint Price, the Valley coach, has a good young side but so have we,” Gibbs...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Lorenzo Kaa (2NZ Rebels), Matt Reedy (Cossy DONE & Dusted) 2, Cris Kiri (2NZ Titans) 2, Glenn Higgins (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters).Best start (140): Brian Leach (Cossy DONE & Dusted), Matt Reedy (Cossy DONE & Dusted), Eri...

Gisborne trio in north-south mix

GISBORNE indoor bowlers Lois Lamont and Lyn Kay-Allen are in the North Island Academy squad to play their South Island counterparts at the national indoor bowls championships at Mt Maunganui next month. Another Gisborne bowler, David Lynn, is the...

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...

Poverty Bay look to use depth against North Otago

Out to break four-way deadlock for fourth place

Jo's plan coming together

“I love it when a plan comes together” is a quote made famous by actor George Peppard (Colonel John “Hannibal’ Smith) in the 1980s television series The A-Team. It’s also a line Gisborne umpire Jo Cumming could use after being appointed...

Waikohu, by a point

Waikohu tore up the form book when they beat Whangara Old Girls by a point in premier grade netball at the YMCA on Wednesday night. Claydens Waikohu (1) beat Whangara 46-45 in a game that had the “wow” factor. The quarter scores tell the...

Gold to YMP, Mareikura crews

GISBORNE clubs opened their medal accounts at the waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karapiro this morning. YMP Waka Ama’s Te Pahou crew won gold in a hotly contested midget boys’ W6 250 metres championship final. They posted 1 minute 24.20...

Bollywood Stars avenge cup loss

BOLLYWOOD Stars avenged their Doleman Cup loss, ended OBR’s unbeaten run in all competitions this season and regained the Challenge Trophy with a five-wicket win in DJ Barry Cup cricket at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Stars captain Sam Singh...