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New Zealand stockcar championships open in Gisborne tonight

The 159 cars to fight out the New Zealand stockcar championships in Gisborne from tonight were scrutineered today at the Railway Reserve in Grey Street. The championships start with qualifying at the Eastland Group Raceway. Six groups of cars will do...

A victory to love

It was a love affair that started at the Kaiti tennis courts in Rutene Road, produced three daughters and fuelled a passion for their sport that endures to this day. Stuart Robb, who turned 90 last month and wife Janette, 85, still play the game they...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

The Reg Cook Triples, sponsored by Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village, drew 42 players to the Gisborne Bowling Club’s pristine greens. Although it is still early in the bowling season, there was some excellent play. With good music from the ’60s...

Development officer nurturing local talent

NEW Tairawhiti Softball development officer Leesa Kingi says her role is challenging but she loves it.“It’s a challenge in that it’s completely different from my last job, as a leading hand at Juken,” said Kingi, who has been involved in the...

TK takes to the dirt track

TK has been riding motorbikes since he was four and last weekend he finished third overall in his division at the South Waikato Minicross Champs in Tokoroa. At the Interschools Motocross Challenge in Rotorua in March, TK represented Te Wharau School...

SPORTS DRAWS

This is Week 2 of Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball, and Week 4 of junior netball. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. All intermediate and secondary school teams are to umpire their own games. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches...

Gisborne surfers excited at Olympic opportunity

SURFING'S inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could provide exciting opportunities for top Gisborne surfers such as Ricardo Christie and Jasmine Smith. Speaking from her new base in Burleigh Heads on Australia’s Gold Coast, Smith said the news was...

Gisborne out of Federation Cup

GISBORNE United’s Central Federation Cup dreams are over for another year after they lost 5-2 to Palmerston North Marist Reserves at Napier on Saturday.“They were the better side and deserved to win,” said Heavy Equipment Services United...

And away we go!

Steve Morrow can’t put a number on it so his estimation of how many Gisborne Herald fun run and walks he has competed in is a very general “quite a few”.Yesterday the 43-year-old added another to the collection and achieved victory “five or...

Taming the Monster

MIDWAY club member Ella Sutton finished second in the Mini Monster surf lifeguard endurance event at Mount Maunganui on Saturday. Twelve-year-old Sutton was 43 seconds behind winner Elizabeth Brennan of the Orewa club. Sutton clocked 46 minutes 48...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

WILLIAM Brown completed the most predictable victory in the history of the Dodgshun Cup at the weekend with what could be its lowest-ever three-round gross total. Brown added a 3-over 75 to his 70 and 66 to give him a best-three-of-four-rounds total...

Football and frisbees for Holmes

GISBORNE student Renee Holmes says the New Zealand under-20 team to compete at the world junior ultimate (flying disc or frisbee) championships in Poland are “looking good”.“We beat Australia 2-1 in a three-test series in September and we have...

Willie Waitoa's coaching in the balance

“A STUPID mistake” could cost Willie Waitoa his job as coach of the Ngati Porou East Coast team for next season’s Heartland Championship. The Coast breached NZRU player eligibility rules when they fielded four loan players in the last game of...

Pairs favourites to the fore

It was another weekend for favourites at the Bowls Gisborne East Coast Centre Open Pairs. Gisborne club members Jamey Ferris and Steve Goldsbury won the men’s event and Kahutia’s Glenys Whiteman and Francie Adair claimed the women’s title. All...

Mallets at the ready for Poverty Bay Open

DOZENS of polo players will saddle up for this weekend's Poverty Bay Open at Bushmere Park. Fourteen teams will compete across three grades in the annual Harvest Transport Poverty Bay Polo Club Open Tournament on the outskirts of Gisborne. Immediate...

Can the OBR juggernaut be stopped?

Ngatapa are a good side but OBR are close to unbeatable. The latter won all eight 30-over games played in the Senior B club cricket competition for the Hope Cup before Christmas, while the former had won five from eight. The six-team race resumes...