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Waikohu look to have the edge

Waikohu (1) will look to bounce back strongly tomorrrow when they take on Whangara Old Girls in their premier grade netball game at the YMCA. Both teams will want to start Round 3 of the Pak'nSave competition with a win, but the outcome looks more...

‘Big job ahead now’

EQUESTRIANNew Zealand showjumpers have qualified a team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after a hard-fought victory at the FEI Group G Qualifier in Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. The only clear rounds inside the time allowed over the two rounds came...

Three new life members

Promising start to hockey season

Gisborne cousins make history

Gisborne cousins Matthew Foster and Nathan Trowell made their own piece of sporting history last weekend. They are the first two Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowlers to have played in the same North Island representative team. They were in the North...

Golf Roundup - Division 1 men's stableford won by Brent Colbert

Poverty BayA PLAYER of his quality could look at it as the one that got away. William Brown prefers to focus on the positives. The Poverty Bay greenkeeper was in supreme form for 15 holes of his Sunday round of 5-under 67. Bogeys on the last three...

Great expectations for premier club rugby final

Plenty of promise in clash of Waikohu and YMP

Hot racing for karters

Meeting 5 of Eastland Kart Club’s Sunday racing was the hottest since the club was formed, with the temperature reaching 33 degrees. It was particularly trying for the drivers dressed in their race gear. A non-points-scoring meeting, this was the...

Poverty Bay East Coast Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkKUDOS to the Park women who took on the winter elements in club championship qualifying on Sunday. A small but hardy group chasing 2018 honours endured the drowned rat weather to sort out the seedings for the senior, intermediate and...

Gisborne district draws

CricketDJ Barry Cup, Round 2, SATURDAY, 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Pirates v Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys; HBR 2, Bain Construction OBR v Gisborne Boys’ High School. Hope Cup, Round 9, SATURDAY, 2pm: HBR 3, Bollywood Stars HSOB Presidents...

Around the Greens

Poverty BayTHE Poverty Bay Bowling Club women's open fours championship was won by Betty Herring (skip), Kathryn Flaugere (director), June Stichbury (two) and Jean Patterson (lead).In the final, they defeated Dawne Abraham (s), Kathy Carroll (d)...

Out the back

On the trail of legendsLegends. Gisborne continues to produce them, but where do they go after their prime and how have their attitudes changed over the years?These are questions I intend to ask some of the local surfing wise-men, but the real...

New coach, new captain - time for new legacy

ENTERPRISE Cars OBM coach Tom Solomon says it’s time his players made their own legacy. Solomon was the last OBM skipper to lift the Lee Bros Shield — in 2004, when they equalled the Old Boys record of five successive titles from 1977-81.“Some...

Five bring back crossfit medals from teen gathering

FIVE Gisborne teenagers brought home medals this month from Hastings, where they took part in the Teen Gauntlet Gathering for high-performing crossfit athletes. Eight Gisborne athletes from Crossfit Gisborne and Crossfit 4010 were among 38 who took...

Format change successful

COMET Swim Club's annual club championships had a slightly new format that proved a massive success. The changes restricted the number of events in which swimmers could take part, to focus on quality rather than quantity, which made for much more...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

TOP-four teams have been decided for A and B Grade playoffs in Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s Brezz’n Darts Club Tuesday night winter league. A Grade standings are: Ford Falcons 1, Tigers 2, Rhinos 3 and Pumas 4.B Grade standings are...

Reedy reproduces his Sunday best

TEARING apart your home course in a Sunday haggle with the boys is one thing. Reproducing that form among the country’s top over-40-year-old players on a foreign course hundreds of kilometres from your hood is another. And claiming the scalp of one...