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Golf Roundup

Tolaga BayPETE Kerekere took the throne while several other players earned royal honours at the King of the Coast men’s open tournament over the weekend. Kerekere raised the Poverty Bay club flag over the nine-hole course after defeating...

East Coast raring to go

Ngati Porou East Coast cast their rugby net nationwide and dig deep to be competitiveAnd their head coach, Hosea Gear, will take tomorrow's clash for the Anaru “Skip” Paenga Memorial Tropy in from his couch on the Sunshine Coast . . . if he's...

T15 blast-off

CRICKETFORMER Black Caps test cricketer Lance Cairns knows all about limited-overs cricket. He played 78 one-day internationals for New Zealand, as well as 43 tests. His advice to players taking part in tomorrow night’s opening round of the Walker...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Round 2 of Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s winter competition was completed with Game 5 on Tuesday night. The third and final round of the association’s season starts on Tuesday night. Individual highlights180s:? Tahuna Irwin (2), Antonio...

Nothing between top teams,And Pure Sound bringing on the next generation

There is nothing between them. Defending champions City Lights and the larger-than-life Old School tied last night’s top-of-the-table thriller 53-all. Week 7 of the men’s club basketball league will wrap up at 6.30pm tonight with the...

Bridge results

Congratulations this week to Elizabeth Jackson and Eileen Lee for scoring 70.83 percent on Friday. Tuesday, October 25 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 9 (Howell movement)Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 65.10 Sue Minot, Joy Marden...

Four competitors earn 12 placings

MARTIAL ARTSFOUR members of the Turanganui-Gisborne Kyokushin Karate Club competed in the 49th International Kyokushin Karate Nationals in Hawke’s Bay, and all returned with top-three placings — 12 in all. In the junior division high grade...

On the mats — indoor bowls news

Twelve-year-old Adam Rickard won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls Handicap Singles final 12-11 against Marise Raklander in a close final. Rickard, on a four-point start, and Raklander, on a five-point start, went bowl for bowl in the nine-end...

Local sports draws

CyclingSATURDAY — Konica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club Bushmere Arms Series, Race 4, sign on 1.30pm to 1.50pm, with 2pm start. Open grades: 48 kilometres, Gentle Annie rise plus Brunton Road Loop–Bloomfield Road, ­Tiniroto Road, ­GA Rise...

Around the Greens

The inaugural tournament for the Eric Craill Shield was held on a beautiful autumn Queens Birthday Saturday, at the Poverty Bay Bowling Club. The greens were full, with 48 players competing. The format was a modified Bowls3Five, the format for lawn...

Gisborne win Rosebowl

Gisborne Archery Club's team won the annual Rosebowl Shoot against stiff competition to round off a successful 2020 season. The Gisborne team of Matt Jackson and father-daughter combination Chloe and Chris Underdown finished just ahead of the hosts...

Results alert teams to Barry club ‘threat’

FOUR players from Gisborne’s Barry Memorial Croquet Club competed with distinction at the Whakatane Golf Croquet Tournament. John Wilson cleaned up Block B of the golf croquet handicap doubles partnered with Rob Hayes, and the following day was...

Lightning too late to save Bay

CRICKETThe thunder and lightning came 30 seconds too late to save Poverty Bay from a five-wicket loss to Hamilton at the Northern Districts boys’ primary cricket tournament in Hamilton yesterday. Poverty Bay captain Te-Reimana Gray won the toss and...

Awards hat-trick

PRO triathlete Tayler Reid is determined to add his name to the list of Gisborne Olympians. Last night he joined an elite list of another sort — Gisborne Tairawhiti’s overall sportsperson of the year. In front of a sell-out crowd at Showgrounds...

Blade-heart

A brilliant bloke, a comeback story and a fine character who understands the value of where he comes from — that’s former Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 rugby player Blade Thomson, who has been named in the Scotland squad for next...

Rangers take all six points

IT wasn’t pretty or perfect, but New Plymouth Rangers beat Gisborne Thistle 3-2 in a ripsnorting Central Federation League football match at Childers Road Reserve yesterday. The game was worth six points to the winners in a makeweight arrangement...