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Swimmers set National and HBPB records

ENTERPRISE Cars Swim Team competitors set two New Zealand and 16 Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay records at the national short-course swimming championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Auckland this month. Michael Pickett set national records for the...

Team trophies to Enterprise, Comet

ENTERPRISE Cars Swim Team won the Herald Aggregate Cup Presidents Cup (most points in the 14 years and over age group, including relays) in the final day of the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay summer championships at the Olympic Pool yesterday. In one of...

Jags set sights on second

GISBORNE Thistle cemented third place in the Central Federation League with a 2-1 win against Palmerston North Marist Reserves in Palmerston North last week. But Jags co-coach Liam Ryan says his side have their sights set on closing the gap on...

Double loss for PBEC at Toro

THEY were always expecting a steep climb but Poverty Bay-East Coast were a little shocked by the gradient of the opening day’s challenge at the Toro men’s national interprovincial tournament yesterday. Invercargill turned on a day to match the...

Goal is to keep them playing

Community consultation held to stimulate feedback about how best to promote junior game

Bay avoid wooden spoon

POVERTY Bay avoided the wooden spoon when they beat the Northern Districts Invitation team in the game for seventh and eighth place at the Northern Districts senior secondary schoolboys’ cricket tournament, which finished at Harry Barker Reserve...

Christie pulls out big move when it counts

SurfingONE move proved the difference as Ricardo Christie survived a cut-throat heat of the 2019 Championship Tour-opening Gold Coast Pro yesterday. Christie, battling for survival in a three-man Round 2 heat at Gold Coast, Queensland, placed second...

It’s a Toka, Uawa final

Uawa will play Tokararangi in the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby final after two stellar semifinals at the weekend. Uawa beat 2017 champions Tihirau Victory Club 31-29 in Tolaga Bay while Tokararangi defeated top qualifiers Hikurangi 31-24 in...

Golden day for Aotearoa,Elite title haul at sprint world championships still sinking in

A GOLDEN day for Gisborne paddlers at the world waka ama sprint championships in Australia has yet to sink in for Aotearoa elite women’s coach and crew member Kiwi Campbell.“Maybe later in the week this will become reality,” a jubilant and...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

180s: Craig Watson, Ora Pohio, Bob Fraider, Tyson Eyles 2, Kayne Arahanga, Irie Eyles, Dudley Reeves, Charlie Reiri, Jesse Noanoa, Ihaka Wynyard-Kaio. Highest start (180): Craig Watson. Highest finish (135): Ihaka Wynyard-Kaio.(P = pairs won. S =...

A win and three losses for Gisborne at Netball NZ Open Champs

Gisborne had a win and three losses in pool play at the Netball New Zealand Open Championships in Palmerston North this week. On Tuesday they lost 55-36 to Waitakere and beat Hawke's Bay 42-36. Yesterday they lost 60-39 to Manawatu A and 52-20 to...

Corrin coming home for super saloon series

THE Burger King Pro Dirt super saloon series comes to the Eastland Group raceway on Friday and Saturday and among the field will be Daniel Corrin. Corrin started his speedway career at the Gisborne track and while now based in Tauranga, he still...

Golf Roundup

ANTHONY Pahina highlighted eight consecutive days of golf with an excellent 1-over 73-6-66, for 41 points on Saturday. The round featured birdies on the eighth, ninth, 11th and 12th holes and won him the men’s stableford. Pahina teed off 2022 with...

Baylee and Hannah shine in gymnastics

GISBORNE Gymnastics Club’s Baylee Crago was second overall in Level 7 boys’ competition at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay open championships in Hawke’s Bay at the weekend. Baylee was first on rings, vault and high bar, and second on floor...

New model aims to increase JAB player numbers

POVERTY Bay Rugby Football Union JAB chairwoman and board member Cara Haines says the new board’s main focus is to increase participation in all rugby.“There is strong rugby participation in Gisborne, with approximately 2050 playing, but in the...

Christie falls to Igarashi again

Japanese hotshot Kanoa Igarashi brought down Ricardo Christie for the second consecutive contest of the World Surf League’s Championship Tour. Gisborne-Mahia surfer Christie was once again eliminated in the round of 32 — this time at the Oi Rio...