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Bartlett hoping for big result for 60th match

VERDON Bartlett makes his 60th appearance for Ngati Porou East Coast tomorrow when the Coast host Heartland Championship leaders South Canterbury at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria.“Verdon’s been a model of consistency for us over a number of years now...

GBHS finish with win: team’s competitive spirit rewarded

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Rugby — Poverty Bay club, premier: Enterprise Cars OBM 60 GT Shearing Waikohu 22; Larsawn Ngatapa 25 YMP 19; HSOB 40 Pirates-GMC 21. Senior 1: Tapuae 13 Nuhaka 11; Ngatapa 27 HSOB 14; Waikohu 36 OBM 24; YMP beat Wairoa Athletic by default. East...

Premier club rugby results

Week 7: Second Round;Larsawn Ngatapa 31: Karl Hutchins-Mackie (2), Taylor Howatson, Nick Cave, Ihaia Kerr tries; Peter Livingston 3 con. East Coast Farm Vets Young Maori Party 50: Nehe Papuni (2), Taine Aupouri-Kaiwai (2), Andrew Tauatevalu (2)...

Leah on a mission

LEAH Scholefield is in her 10th year of competing in trampoline and has learned to cope with pressure situations. That will come in handy when she represents New Zealand at the Australian Gymnastics Championships next month. Scholefield, 15, will...

Toughest challenge yet for Wekas

Poverty Bay in Heartland Championship clash with Whanganui side tomorrow

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkMAHIA golfer Wade Wesche blazed his way to two titles at the East Coast Fire Brigades tournament on Sunday. Wesche won the Fire Service members’ gross with 2-over 74 — the 10-handicapper’s round featuring 14 pars, three bogeys and...

Classic clashes in an exciting Challenge Cup

It was sensational last Wednesday and round three of the Challenge Cup high school T20 competition at the Harry Barker Reserve promises excitement in spades today. The match-ups make for classic clashes: the Gisborne Boys’ High School Life Guards...

‘Agonisingly close’ for Gooch

Gisborne streetstocker Brenden Gooch, now 2NZ, went agonisingly close to retaining his New Zealand title at the Paradise Valley Raceway in Rotorua on Saturday night. He finished two points behind the winner. Gooch qualified for the final along with...

Toast of the gun club for a ‘possible’ and high gun

These guys hit the mark. Clayden Hope and Blake Marshall were the toast of the Gisborne Clay Target Club with their most recent exploits at the gun club grounds at Manutuke. Campion College Year 12 student Marshall won the points score with 60-60...

No winning 100th for HSOB stalwart

The result did not match the occasion for two members of the High School Old Boys team in Poverty Bay premier-grade rugby on Saturday. Hayden Walters-Stuart was having his 100th game for the club, and Tamanui Hill was having his 50th. But they had an...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Men's net: T Hill 61, R Grace 66, A Reedy 68. Twos: S Phillips, A Reedy 2. Approach: R Walford. Men's best second shot: A Reedy. Benson Cup women's pairs final: K Papuni/J Akuhata defB Walker/W Morrissey on the 17th. Men's stableford: G Hill 39. WEDNESDAY...

Evasive action

THC player Tei Mohi tries to leap out of the way of a shot by YMP A’s Heath Tupara as goalkeeper Kieran Irving watches in Poverty Bay men’s club hockey on Harry Barker Reserve’s LJ Hooker Turf on Saturday. YMP won 8-0

Jessie Smith fourth in Paris

BMXBMX rider Jessie Smith says her feelings were all over the place after she finished fourth in a women’s elite final in Paris.“I’m slowly accepting the fact I got fourth and it all wasn’t a dream,” she said. Smith, 18, formerly of...

T20 Challenge Cup: Bryant keen to get back into the fray

Kelan Bryant is a natural timer of the ball. And he got back into the swing of things in Round 1 of cricket's T20 Challenge Cup with a superb innings of 56. Bryant's was a match-winning turn for the Blues and Royals, who beat the Admiralty by four...

East Coast paddlers win against the odds

Clinching paddles for a spot in any final at the national secondary schools waka ama champs seemed like a stretch for the three teams from Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou. But they showed they had the passion and guts to win a race...