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Big turnout from Gisborne club

GISBORNE Gymnastics Club (GGC) members were out in force at their last competition for the year, a girls-only event in Whakatane this month. Head coach Nicola Ludwig said she had never seen so many GGC Step 1 entries in the 17 years she had been...

So we meet again

WHANGARA Old Girls have given themselves every chance of retaining the premier grade netball title tomorrow in the YMCA but grand final opponents YMP (1) have shown they will be tough to beat. YMP’s midcourt were sensational in their semifinal win...

Badminton action in Gisborne

EASTLAND will host the third round of the inter-association masters’ badminton competition this weekend. They will play Bay of Plenty (2) and Waitakere (4). Also playing in Gisborne will be Waikato (2).Eastland team members are Mark Beard, David...

Hawke’s Bay retain Challenge Trophy

Bowls Hawke’s Bay made no race of it against Bowls Gisborne East Coast in the annual intercentre fixture for the Challenge Trophy on Gisborne Bowling Club greens at the weekend. When the scores were added up after the end of play on Sunday...

Tough day at the office for PB boys

CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafPoverty Bay opened their Northern Districts junior secondary schoolboys cricket tournament with two T20 losses at Whangarei’s Kensington Oval yesterday. In Game 1, Bay of Plenty Coastlands batted first and made 194-5...

Carriage drivers go through paces

Carriage driving results from the Poverty Bay A&P Show last month (competitors from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —HARNESSCarriage DrivingBest turned out — Open: Kathie Shepard (Huntly) Misty Lea Cefiro, 1; Julie Coker, Swanhaven Boot'N All...

Gisborne Bridge Club results

Heavy metal thunder at the Speedway

THEY came, they floored, they kicked butt. Well, the Auckland Alleycats did on their way to winning the New Zealand stockcars teams’ championships in Gisborne on Saturday night. But our Gisborne Gladiators — the defending champions — flew the...

Teams named for octagonal tournament

THE Bowls Gisborne-East Coast representative teams have been named for the octagonal tournament in Manawatu from Friday to Sunday. The senior men’s team will comprise: David File (Te Karaka), Don Hoepo-Williams (Poverty Bay), July Hoepo (Te...

Masters ready for challenge

Eastland Masters will step up a division when they start their 2020 badminton season at North Harbour this weekend. They finished second in the North Island division 3 masters (over-35) inter-association competition last year and were invited to move...

Horouta celebrates success at Sprint Nationals

HOROUTA'S latest success at the 2016 Te Wananga o Aotearoa Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karapiro was the third in a row. Over six days of competition, 3000 paddlers from 71 clubs and associations contested 388 races. Horouta finished with 286...

Premier-grade club basketball league playoff full of highs and lows

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Trying hard but no winning joy yet

They are giving it their all. The Poverty Bay Year 7 cricket team in the B section at the Riverbend tournament yesterday lost to Taupo by six wickets in the morning and to Cambridge by 81 runs in the afternoon. But not for want of trying.“That...

THC turned the tables in thriller,THC snap YMP’s winning streak

THC turned the tables on YMP A on Saturday, inflicting the season’s first loss on the form team of the men’s competition. THC deservedly won 3-2 when the teams met on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The match was close, pretty much...

Building relationships

Schools and kura from Gisborne travelled to Ruatoria on Wednesday to take part in the Ngata Sevens. Ngata Sevens consists of rangatahi (youth) playing rugby and netball with the help of the Gisborne Netball Centre and Ngāti Porou East Coast...

YMP stay unbeaten, reclaim Richard Bruce Memorial Trophy

Rugby is more than a game to both YMP and High School Old Boys. Last week YMP rose to the occasion in dispatching Ngatapa 31-20 on Barry Park 1 in honour of (Nanny) Maude Brown. A week later at the same ground, they outscored HSOB nine tries to one...