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Gisborne teams vying for lead

FOOTBALLFour games from the finish, football’s Pacific Premiership looks like a two-team race . . . and both sides are from Gisborne. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United lead the league with 29 points from 12 matches — nine wins, two draws...

The 'E' factor

As the Poverty Bay premier club rugby competition heads into week 4, Waikohu back Ethine Reeves is already putting up his hand as its most influential player. Reeves was in a class of his own in GT Shearing Waikohu’s 34-10 win against Larsawn...

Local trio in NZ finals

A trio of Gisborne Speedway Club drivers came through a tough night of qualifying heats to make the finals of the Professional Fleet Maintenance New Zealand production saloon car championships. A field of 40 cars from throughout the country fought it...

United extend Eastern League lead

FOOTBALLGISBORNE United opened a four-point gap at the top of football’s Eastern League Division 1 with their 2-1 victory over second-placed Thistle Massive at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Thistle opened the scoring midway through the first...

Beginners and old hands show their cue skills

POOL/SNOOKERA SIX-WEEK course of coaching culminated in the inaugural Tairawhiti Secondary Schools 8-ball Pool Invitational Singles Tournament at Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club this week. Campion College students Rusty Jones and Michael Johansen...

Irving, Morrow head Gisborne title chase

TALENTED teenager Briana Irving and master-aged Steve Morrow led the local performance at the Athletics Hawke’s Bay Gisborne cross-country championships at Hexton on Saturday. In fine conditions on a testing course at the Tietjen property on Back...

Teams drawn from the hat for fours tournament

INDOOR BOWLSAKUHATA Keelan skipped the winning team in a Hibernian Indoor Bowling Club fours tournament at the club’s rooms at the Gisborne Intermediate School hall on Monday evening. A strong turnout of 32 bowlers took part, teams being drawn from...

Great day for Tairāwhiti

Women lead the field, men give it a shake-up

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), George Vaotu’ua (2NZ Bullz), Norm Shann (Cossy 2 PHL), Cris Kiri (2NZ Titans), Jesse Noa Noa (2NZ Rebels), Peter Archbold (Roseland Dilligaf).Best start (180): Peter Archbold...

Lytton hold out GGHS after first-half try blitz

A first-half try blitz laid the platform for Lytton High School’s second Ngati Porou East Coast Secondary School Girls’ rugby title. Lytton High School beat Gisborne Girls’ High School 31-24 in a thriller at the weekend. Horouta waka ama and...

Holt maintains his good form

Stockcar driver Ben Holt (4G) kept up his good form with three wins from four starts in Gisborne Speedway Club’s support programme at the Eastland Group Raceway on Friday night. Mason O’Dwyer (99G) was not far behind . . . he had four second...

Clean and green in the surf

CHRIS Vincent could have written a shopping list by the time he got to the end of this small but clean wave at Wainui’s Whales break. Vincent was competing in the Wainui Store Turanganui open waveski surfing titles. The event was part of the...

Life lessons taught,Underdogs don’t usually win through

IN life, the underdogs don’t always turn the tables; the favourites teach them hard lessons instead. The average winning margin in all three games of Week 4 of women’s club basketball was 35 points. Lytton High School were clinical against...

Prem teams turn on edge-of-the-seat thrillers

If last night’s tripleheader at the YMCA is anything to go on, the premier grade netball season proper is going to be a roller-coaster ride. Two games were one-goal thrillers while the defending champions were given a scare before finishing the...

Changes for Coast

RUGBYWell might they hunker down. With wet weather predicted, the Thames Valley Swampfoxes host a rapidly improving Ngati Porou East Coast tomorrow from 1pm at Paeroa Domain. The Coast are growing in confidence game by game three weeks into the Mitre...

Gold and silver for Gisborne judoka

Gisborne judoka Andrew Wall and Tom Mackenzie won gold and silver at the Sydney International Open this month. The Gisborne Judo Club members — both cadet blue belts — were among a strong New Zealand contingent competing alongside judoka from...