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High scoring for opening night

Opening night of men's premier grade basketball at the YMCA was a mixed bag, as always. Three teams had sizeable wins in the non-competition round. Last year's champions Green Up beat SE Systems — their opponents in Gisborne Basketball Association's...

Plenty to work on for East Coast after valuable hit-out

RUGBYSomething had to change and it did. It was Thames Valley 28 Ngati Porou East Coast 0 at half-time on Saturday but the gutsy Coast came away from Waihi with two converted tries to show for their efforts. The Valley, well-led by experienced...

Twenty-five years in the sponsor's saddle

When the first horse heads into the ring at this week’s Larsen Sawmilling Show Jumping Championships it will mark a special occasion. It is the 25th show Larsen Sawmilling has sponsored and everyone concerned is celebrating. The event, which starts...

Competitive fire burning brightly

Ever since Ray Young teamed up with Bill Scott and Joe Lockwood to win a mercantile tournament at Kahutia Bowling Club, he knew he would return to bowls. He would have started earlier, but he had to have both hips replaced, and then one had to be...

Gisborne's Ethan Rees wins NZ title

New Zealand Superstock Grand Prix

Poverty Bay-East Coast braced for big effort

“SUCK it up and move on” is the attitude of exhausted but upbeat Poverty Bay-East Coast golfers as their Freyberg Masters voyage hit stormy waters yesterday. PBEC were outclassed 4-1 by third-placed North Harbour and 4½-½ by Bay of Plenty on...

Interschool primary athletics

Results of the interschool primary athletics day at Awapuni Stadium last Wednesday —Sprints — 80 and 100 metresGirls — Year 3: Honor Hei (Te Wharau) 1; Charlotte McDiarmid (Makauri), Liselle Duckworth (Mangapapa) equal 2. Year 4: Lilla Hain...

‘Sudden death’ for one team

HOCKEYTHE hockey season ends for either Paikea or Ngatapa on Saturday, and it would be a brave pundit who would predict how that might go. Matches between these sides have been extremely tight this season. JNL Paikea and Ben Holden Fencing Ngatap...

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...

Ireland beat New Zealand . . . again

DUBLIN — Ireland beat New Zealand 29-20 in a gripping contest featuring breathtaking defence embraced by a packed Lansdowne Road yesterday. The Irish couldn't beat New Zealand for 111 years. Now they have three precious wins in five years. Under...

Holden expected to complete GODZone race this morning

GISBORNE adventure racer Gerald Holden and his teammates were expected to cross the finish line at Te Anau this morning in the gruelling Godzone expedition event through Fiordland. Holden, 41, is captain of the four-man Lincoln Reunion team, who were...