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Club cock-a-hoop with dramatic win over Wellington at North Island champs

ROWINGGISBORNE Rowing Club's men's coxed eight pulled off a dramatic victory at the North Island Club Championships, beating the Wellington Rowing Club crew by 0.24 of a second to win gold. Gisborne coach Peter Simmons said the two clubs were neck...

Around the Greens: club bowls news.

AN entry of 42 windswept bowlers enjoyed an afternoon of three one-hour games for the Gisborne Bowling Club Closing Day before the club prizegiving to end the season. It was not easy going but some managed to show their skills despite the...

Colbert win proves crucial for PB 2

GOLFBRENT Colbert was the toast of the Poverty Bay (2) team last weekend as they scraped into the top-four playoffs of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants. Colbert produced the only win for PB (2) in a 10-2 loss to host club Tolaga Bay in Round...

PB boys to ‘play without fear’

It's time to fire up. The Nicholas Hendrie-coached Poverty Bay team is Rotorua-bound for the Northern Districts boys' senior secondary schools cricket tournament.“Our goal is to grow and develop a number of cricketers who, as Year 11s, will be...

Brave Waiapu out of running

IT WAS do-or-die for the home team, and the game reflected that. But a valiant Waiapu, fifth in the East Coast club rugby competition, couldn’t hang on and Ruatoria City, team No. 3, beat them 29-21. Waiapu cannot now make the semifinals in two...

Halberg Awards . . . winners and finalists

HALBERG AWARDSTom Walsh has claimed New Zealand’s top sports honours for 2018 at the 56th ISPS Handa Halberg Awards during a ceremony at Spark Arena in Auckland last night. The shot-putter was named the Sportsman of the Year for the second...

Honours to Reid in thrilling finish to elite tri race

GISBORNE'S Tayler Reid held off one of New Zealand’s best triathlete runners to win the second race of the national elite triathlon series at Takapuna Beach at the weekend. Reid and fellow Triathlon NZ high performance squad teammate Dan Hoy had...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty Bay“SEEDINGS mean nothing.”“There’s no I in team but there is in win.”“Next!”Those were some of the quotes international media would have wanted from Larry “Steros” Foster after he and Robin Wells sent the top qualifiers...

‘Green Machine’ roars

HOCKEYIT was ecstasy for the “Green Machine” on Saturday when they wrapped up the shoot-out needed to win the A Grade women’s hockey crown for the first time in six years. The group hug and wild celebrations on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve...

Giving more than promised

Poverty Bay Year 7s record their third win in five matches

Jimmy Aupouri Memorial

ENTRIES are being sought for the Jimmy Aupouri Memorial Secondary Schools Softball Tournament. It will be held at Ngata Memorial College at Ruatoria on Saturday, September 17. The tournament is open to all Tairawhiti secondary schools or schools with...

Gisborne cyclists meet challenge of Taupo

A cross-section of distances and race times were achieved by 24 Gisborne cyclists at the 41st Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge last weekend. Fifteen completed the iconic 160-kilometre lap of the lake, the keynote road ride in the country’s biggest...

New season, new challenge

A King Country Rams side inspired by a century of rugby is the challenge awaiting Poverty Bay Wekas when they kick off the 2022 Heartland Championship in Te Kuiti tomorrow. The game kicks off at 2.30pm at Rugby Park in Te Kuiti and marks milestones...

Crossing swords

GISBORNE Girls’ High student Briana Irving is looking forward to taking on her biggest rival in the North Island cross-country championships at Taupo this weekend. Irving was second to Waikato’s Charli Miller at the New Zealand Secondary Schools...

Golden double

Two Gisborne weightlifters have again won gold medals at the national secondary schools competition and, this year, they went one better. Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont and Kitini Taihuka, representing Gisborne Boys’ High School, took out the teams title...

Weather, but not city, disappointed Sri Lankans

THE Sri Lankan under-19 cricket team did not have the best of weather in Gisborne for their preparation for the world cup, which starts on Saturday. But manager Mahinda Halangoda, a former Sri Lanka A and B left-arm medium-fast bowler and left-hand...