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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...

Invasion of the title snatchers

Excitement has built to fever pitch in Gisborne Speedway Club’s production saloon fraternity as they prepare to drive their way to the podium in the Professional Fleet Maintenance national championships this weekend. A field of 42 cars and drivers...

All on the line

Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls will produce a spectacle of fast, free-flowing netball in the YMCA tomorrow as they fight for the right to call themselves 2019 Gisborne premier-grade champions. The Pak’nSave competition finale starts...

Chasing hoops and dreams

It is enormous and the Gizzy Hoops academy are there. Four teams — under-16 boys development, u14 boys, u14 girls and u14 girls development— are competing under the Gizzy Hoops banner at the fourth annual HoopNation Event in Tauranga. A party of...

Wairoa clinch Eastern League Division 3 title

WAIROA Athletic clinched the Eastern League Division 3 football title with a 3-0 victory over Gisborne Boys’ High School (3) at the Rectory field on Saturday. Meanwhile, runners-up Smash Palace Shockers had another setback, this time a 5-3 loss to...

Giants through to semifinals

THE Gisborne Giants superstock team won their way through to tonight’s semifinals of the national teams event at Waikaraka Park speedway in Auckland, but they face a tough challenge to make the final. The Giants were beaten in their first...

Poverty Bay bolstered

CRICKETFRESH off a hundred, Thorn Parkes will wear the Poverty Bay cricket colours tomorrow. The 19-year-old batting prodigy fits in matches for Poverty Bay when he can but Northern Districts A and age-group cricket have often prevented it. Parkes is...

Waiting game for Quinn in quest for fifth crown

GISBORNE surfer Maz Quinn will compete for a record-equalling fifth open men’s title at the national championships in Dunedin tomorrow. The event was on hold this morning due to onshore winds producing a lack of swell. It is forecast to pick up...

Poverty Bay district golf roundup

Gisborne ParkTHE top qualifiers and the defending champions face potentially hazardous challenges in their round of 16 clashes of the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs this weekend. Top seeds Brad Reynolds and Tony Leggett and 2017 winners Geoff Hill and...

Barry Cup held in tough game against Ngatapa

RUGBYIt was neither stroll nor cakewalk, but Barry Cup holders Waikohu nevertheless beat hardy challengers Ngatapa 32-19 in their second defence of the five-game sub-union rugby season on Sunday.“That was a tough game for the boys,” Waikohu...