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Ball and Berezowski ‘the masters’

BRUCE Ball and Steve Berezowski won the masters’ 60-and-over optional pairs tournament held at Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s greens last week. The entry was only 12 teams, the hot weather possibly putting off some who might otherwise have entered. To...

PADDLES TO THE MEDALS

Tairawhiti crews dug deep in some tight races on day three at the waka ama sprint nationals in testing conditions on Lake Karapiro yesterday. The first final of the day was the closest. Horouta Waka Hoe crew Mairangi's Tanes beat Mareikura Waka Am...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Cris Kiri (Cossie Titans), Sha Hohipa (Cossie DONE & Dusted), Mike Jones (Roseland).Best start (156): Gary Grant (RSA Rose and Thorns).Best finish (145): Tom Irwin (2NZ Bulls).Most high scores (15): Lorenzo Kaa (2NZ...

Play the long game

THE first New Zealander to play professionally in softball’s United States Fastpitch league, Lara Andrews understands the pressures faced by young athletes. She has experienced them. She is studying them. The White Sox infielder and top-class batter...

On the mats

ARNOLD Hutchins and John Harvey won the David Moore Pharmacy Centre Open Pairs 11-5 against David Lynn and Lois Lamont. In the nine-end final, the score was 6-3 after four ends, with three-time national champion Hutchins playing superbly. Lynn managed...

Bridge, McMenamin families on hand

RUGBYGEORGE Bridge’s family got a good view of his try for the All Blacks on Saturday night.“It happened right in front of us,” his mother Chick Bridge said.“We were pretty much on the try-line.“That certainly got us out of our...

Opening action on two courts

BASKETBALL by Ben O’Brien-LeafSome call it “a feeling-out process”. Others refer to it as blowing away the cobwebs. Opening night in the 2018 Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club league threw up these results: at the John McFarlane...

Stars of the future on show

The future of the district's surf lifesaving strength will be on show this weekend when over 400 youngsters line up for the Eastland Port Eastern Regional Junior Surf Life Saving Championships at Midway Beach. They will compete tomorrow from 8am and...

Sevens Wekas celebrate their win

The team, a combination of current Boys’ High players, Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast Heartland players, beat Brothers, from Napier, 52-5. Poverty Bay sevens coach Brent Mokomoko and assistant coach, former All Black and NZ Olympic sevens...

Horouta, Waikohu to face acid test

NETBALLTHE second batch of premier games in the Pak’nSave netball championship at the YMCA tomorrow morning will provide a good gauge on how well Horouta Gold and Claydens Waikohu have got their game together. Both sides finished grading with...

United’s home run ends

Premiership title still in play, Challenge Cup lost

Dixon has plenty of incentive

WAIKOHU are out of contention for a place in the premier rugby playoffs heading into tomorrow’s final round-robin clash against Pirates at the Oval. But Aon Waikohu’s goalkicking No. 8, Tapu Dixon, has 1000 reasons to produce a man-of-the-match...

Mareikura looks ahead to Tahiti

THE word “pilgrimage” might overstate Mareikura Waka Ama Club’s approach to the world sprint championships in Tahiti this year. But not by much.“Competing in Tahiti is very special for our club,” said Raipoia Brightwell, whose husband...

No further punishment for Poverty Bay captain

POVERTY Bay and OBM captain Murray Hewson has avoided further penalty after appearing before the judicial committee following a red card for punching an HSOB opponent during a premier rugby match. Hewson admitted punching an opponent in the face...

The big ones in the Bay Bonanza

GISBORNE electrician Craig Sutton had plenty to celebrate on Sunday night after winning the $20,000 lucky angler draw at Gisborne Tatapouri Sport Fishing Club’s Enterprise Motor Group Autosure New Zealand Bay Bonanza. The winner was selected...

Boys’ High refine attack as they go

The best thing the Duane Hihi-coached Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 can do now is stick to what they do best. Last Saturday they beat Wellington College 33-24 in Round 1 of the Tranzit Coachlines First 15 Rugby Festival at Porirua Park. Their...