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Gisborne clubbies part of exciting new event

A STACK of the district’s top young surf lifeguards will blow out the competitive cobwebs for the 2020-2021 season in two events at Whangamata this weekend. They will compete in the traditional Whangamata Classic interclub event tomorrow and will...

Three teams top the table

TONIGHT we find out who can bump, who can shoot and who can run. In Week 6 — the halfway point — of the Gisborne men’s club basketball league, defending champions City Lights take on the Dragons in a top-of-the-table clash at 5.30pm, open-court...

Whiteman too sharp for her old adversary

?The women’s section was played at Poverty Bay Bowling Club on Saurday, with 14 teams entered. Four 15-end games with a time limit of two hours were completed. The top eight teams based on wins and net total shots qualified for post-section play at...

Big games in C Grade tomorrow

These are big games. Tomorrow the Gisborne Boys’ High School Colts — unbeaten in the C Grade — play the Primary boys and Campion College meet Gisborne Girls’ High School in nine-a-side Twenty20 cricket.“They have some great young players...

Bridge results

FOUR players from Gisborne Contract Bridge Club had encouraging results at the Hawke’s Bay Bridge Congress in Napier. Beverley Evans, David Johnstone, Delwyn Arthur and Vincelle Marvin were the top-placed junior team in the intermediate/junior...

Mangapapa top points for interschool triathlon

Mangapapa School finished with the most points in the primary interschool triathlon run at Nelson Park last week. A total of 321 students from 15 schools took part in the run-bike-swim triathlon, which was organised by Mangapapa School. Points for the...

Traverse a family affair for many

The Waimata Traverse has turned into something of a family affair. Defending champion Craig Hoskin won the title again but the rest of the family did not simply turn up as support crew . . . they also conquered the 55-kilometre road bike...

BATTLE OF THE BAYS

THE visitors took the lion's share of honours in tightly fought Lucy May and Bays Bronze women's golf clashes between Poverty Bay and Hawke's Bay this week. Players from clubs throughout both provinces converged on Poverty Bay golf course on Monday...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, November 19 — Turanga Pairs 3North/South East/WestVicki Taylor, John Hudson 56.25 Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 69.58Diana Styche, Joy Marden 53.75 Jean Bennett, Robin Bennett 58.75Caroline Taylor, Sally Knight 51.25 Ann McCombe...

Gisborne girls in national success

?FOOTBALLTHREE Gisborne girls were in a team who won their division of a national tournament that ended in Wellington on Sunday. Leftback Dara Mulrooney, wide midfielder Grace Levy and attacking midfielder Tayla Broughton — all 13 — were in the...

Comeback win to golden girls

REIGNING champions YMP 1 flexed their muscle and Horouta Gold stormed home in the final quarter in premier netball at the YMCA on Saturday. YMP, unbeaten last year and yet to lose this season, dished out a 72-44 thrashing to Farmlands Ngatapa. Horout...

Extra coaching pays off,Richter runner-up in schoolgirls’ singles

BOWLSLytton High School’s Paige Richter finished runner-up of the Bowls New Zealand national secondary schools girls’ singles played at Auckland’s Carlton Cornwall Bowling Club this week. Richter turned in a fine performance in her first...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

It was an emotional time for Dawne Abraham when she presented the Joyce Boustead Tray to the winners of the RSA Women's Bowling Section Tournament. Dawne presented the tray to Kathy Carroll (skip), Joe Wimutu (director) and Ngawai Turipa (lead). They...

Exceptional performances in Hawke's Bay

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Turner and Sumner to be honoured

FORMER Gisborne City players Steve Sumner and Brian Turner will receive the Medal of Excellence from supporters group Friends of Football. The medals will be presented at a dinner at the Auckland Grammar Old Boys’ Pavilion, Epsom, on November...

Boys’ High win first half

They had control. Gisborne Boys’ High School head coach Mark Jefferson knows his side had the measure of St Peter’s College for 40 minutes at the Rectory field on Saturday. But St Peter’s won the match 35-17. Boys’ High led the Aucklanders...