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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...

Saracens avenge one-point loss

RUGBYA capable Hawke’s Bay Saracens team avenged their 32-31 loss to Poverty Bay in 2017 by beating the Bay 62-12, outscoring them 10 tries to two at Tremain Field in Napier on Saturday. Second five-eighth Anthony Karauria scored for Poverty Bay in...

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...

Big win in first Barry Cup defence of year

RUGBYWaikohu won game one of the 2019 Barry Cup season v Ruatoria 80-5 and the broadest shoulders in local rugby made the biggest impact. Waikohu titan tighthead prop Jarryd Broughton — a giant dwarfing even the visitors’ heftiest forwards —...