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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...

SPORTS DRAWS

This is Week 3 of Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball, and Week 5 of junior netball. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. All intermediate and secondary teams are to umpire their own games. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1...

Teamwork the key

NETBALLHIGH School Old Girls and Waikohu (1) were a class above their opponents in premier grade netball at the Gisborne YMCA on Saturday. F45 HSOG defeated Horouta Gold 60-39 and Claydens Waikohu (1) beat Tapuae from Wairoa 57-38 in Pak’nSave...

Jags line-up changes: Injury, illness and suspension bite

Football was never meant to be like this. Players never got sick. They never went into isolation. They went to training with a cold and if they passed it on, too bad. Feeling a bit under the weather? Put on another layer and sweat it out. Gisborne...

Coombs there or thereabouts . . .

SNOOKERIT could be third time lucky for Nathan Coombs if he contests the Burnie Hart Memorial open snooker tournament next month. Coombs has had to settle for runner-up honours in two Cossie Club snooker events in recent weeks. He lost to Larry...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

180s: Tracey (Potz) Te Kira 5 (Tigers); John White (Whanau Magic); Jury Reedy (Waihape Whanau); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, Corey Kaio (Kid’z n Him’z); Cyn Tupene, Mihi Awatere (Ruahine Tahi); Wayne (Ursh) Heurea (Ruahine Rua); Willy Te Kira, Chris Te...

Getting down to it

Cobwebs shaken off and the heat turned up

Whangara, Girls’ High in big clash

NETBALLTHE match-up between Whangara Old Girls and Gisborne Girls’ High School looms as game of the round in premier-grade netball tomorrow. Top teams Taste One High School Old Girls, Whangara and YMP Sunshine Brewing go into the third round with...

OBR in nine-wicket win, still team to beat

CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafOBR’s vice-like grip on Senior B club cricket tightened on Saturday. Round 9 in the 18-week quest for the Hope Cup at the Harry Barker Reserve produced an OBR win over Siteworx Horouta by nine wickets, with the Civil...

Park to the fore

Oligoi Jug men’s interclub champions surge to victory in matchplay final