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CLUB SALUTES ITS OWN

SPEEDWAYPRODUCTION saloon racer Seth McKay was named Competitor of the Year at Gisborne Speedway Club’s annual awards on Saturday night. The 17-year-old featured heavily on podiums in many championships across the summer but his crowning...

Former Wairoa riders in the frame

MOTORSPORT by Andy McGechan, www. BikesportNZ. comFORMER Wairoa riders Tommy Watts and Reece Lister are among the contenders for the national cross-country motorcycling championship series, which wraps up in the South Island this weekend. Both are now...

Jim Doherty’s goal celebration has Kevin Fallon steaming

YOU can’t beat going directly to the source, which is what I should have done before I wrote about Jim Doherty’s first goal celebration for Gisborne City. While my version conveyed the general picture, Jim’s version differs on a few points and...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

August 13 results, Round 2, Game 2 —Individual highlights180s: Tahuna Irwin, Sam Kirikino, Irie Eyles (2), Joe Kiri, Tyson Eyles, Renata Leach (3), Dudley Reeves, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (3).Most tons (31): Dudley Reeves. Highest start (170): Ihak...

Rough Riders East Coast dedicate victory to Jaymee Watson

HORSE SPORTSA Hicks Bay-founded horse sports team has taken out the top prize at one of the pinnacle events on the horse sports calendar. The Rough Riders East Coast Horse Sports Club were overall winners at the Peggy McDonald Horse Sports...

Corinn and Scott win at Eastern Region Senior Championships

YOUTH was to the fore in Gisborne surf lifesaving clubs’ campaigns at the Eastern Region Senior Championships at Mt Maunganui on Saturday and Sunday. Midway duo Olivia Corrin and Matt Scott had comparable double success at age-group level in...

Uawa top second round too

RUGBYThey have all the cards. Defending champions of East Coast club rugby Uawa added the Jury Harrison Memorial Trophy to the Kath McLean Memorial Trophy as winners of both the first and second rounds with their 59-5 win against Tokomaru Bay United...

Bridge results

MONDAY, November 13 — Turanga Pairs 2North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 65.28 Ann McCombe/Trish Corson 54.17Katrine Matthews/Hans van der Kuijl 47.22 Sally Knight/Beverley Evans 50.69WEDNESDAY, November 15 — Turanga Pairs 2...

GOLF ROUNDUP

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Under-18 team finish their programme with win

They were just getting started. The Fulton Hogan Poverty Bay under-18 rugby team finished their five-game season with a 24-7 win against East Coast at Rugby Park last Saturday. Lock Sione Kinuia, blindside flanker Wiremu King-Taufa and No. 8 Billy...

Innes and Lincoln the champions

SPEEDWAYGISBORNE sidecar swinger Callum Innes and Hawke’s Bay driver Justin Lincoln (26B) won the Stubbs Contractors Gisborne Sidecars Champion of Champions title at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night. Four rounds of qualifying races...

OBM settle for ugly win,Ngatapa score 70 and coach not happy

IT wasn’t pretty but OBM got the job done with a 16-8 win against YMP in their premier rugby match at the Oval on Saturday.“Who would be a coach,” lamented Enterprise Cars OBM coach Stu Blair, whose side dominated the first 40 minutes but went...

Obituary: Carol Cranch

Educator and surfer supreme remembered

Singh scores top ton

A MAGNIFICENT unbeaten 101 from High School Old Boys opener Sam Singh yesterday kept his side’s hopes of a Doleman Cup top-four playoff spot alive. Rolled for 36 on Saturday by Horouta, who replied with 37-4, Tamarind HSOB responded by chasing down...

Youngsters given big jamboree opportunity

BASKETBALLThis is absolutely incredible. Twelve of Gisborne Basketball Association’s keenest under-12 players — Jerome Tamatea, Felix Sparks, Wirihana Papuni, Jack John Maurirere, Oakley Brown-Terekia, Kingi Rakuraku, Dominique Wilson, Quaydon...

Big games on the cards

Matches between arch-rivals GMC Green and YMP A in the women’s division and Gisborne Boys’ High and Lytton Old Boys in the men’s competition are shaping up as the games of the round in Poverty Bay club hockey. The INA Contracting GMC Green and...