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All go for second Gizzy Movember Friendly charity mini cricket tournament

Summer must be on the way. Preparations have begun for the second Gizzy Movember Friendly charity mini cricket tournament. The tournament will be held at Harry Barker Reserve on November 21. Last season's inaugural match raised over $3000 for the...

Sharks on the fringe of title race

Wainui Sharks stay on the fringe of the title race after a hard-fought 3-0 win against Gisborne Boys’ High School in Eastern League Division 1 football at Wainui on Saturday. Damian Archdale now has a personal tally of six goals in six games after...

Talent aplenty at longboard champs

Surfers from the far reaches of the country travelled to Gisborne to compete in the Gizzy Longboard Championships hosted by Gisborne Boardriders Club. Well over 40 competitors took part in the event, held at Midway Beach at the weekend. Nathaniel Fitt...

Badminton masters win one, lose one

Eastland travelled to Waitakere for their second-round ties of the 2018 inter-association masters’ badminton competition. They beat North Harbour (4) seven matches to five, and lost to Waitakere (4) 7-5. Against North Harbour (4), Victoria West and...

Uawa's Puri Hauiti and Kerehama Blackman go out in style

No one is indispensable but some people leave a big hole. Rugby retirees Puri Hauiti and Kerehama Blackman are in that category. The pair, both 40, played their last game for Ngati Porou East Coast club champions Uawa on Saturday — Blackman starting...

Bridge results

Tuesday, February 8 — Summer Pairs 1North/South East/WestEileen Lee, Anne McCombe 60.32 Vicki Taylor, John Hudson 56.25Janet Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 55.95 Tracy Clayton, Katrina Duncan 55.13Caroline Kirkpatrick, Sally Knight 55.16 Anne Roberts...

Hawke’s Bay snooker player wins Gisborne tournament

SAM Martin showed on Sunday why the New Zealand snooker selectors have picked him to represent his country at under-21 level. The apprentice electrician from Hawke’s Bay beat local player Alan Scholes in the final of Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker...

Calling all future rippers

ALL Gisborne’s school-aged future rippers are invited to a surfing competition that aims to grow the sport in the district. The annual Boardroom Summer Slam is on Sunday at north Makorori Beach. The Boardroom has hosted the youth competition for the...

New teams in BIZminton4 add to interest

Two new teams joined the competition when BIZminton4 got under way at the Badminton Centre last Wednesday. Enthusiasm and hilarity marked the first week of the league. A few players not having played badminton before added to the fun of the night...

Ritana lift themselves up table

NETBALLRITANA Senior A moved off the bottom of the Pak’nSave premier grade netball points table with a solid victory over fellow tailenders Horouta Gold at the YMCA on Saturday. The Lytton High School team won the match 55-44. They led throughout...

Little between top two men’s teams

THE best gets kept to last in Poverty Bay club hockey tomorrow, with all eyes set to be on the rematch between THC and unbeaten YMP A in the men’s competition. YMP A won the first-round clash between the sides 4-2 in mid-June but have since gone on...

Looking good for clash

CRICKETOBR by eight wickets; OBR by 54 runs. These were the Senior B cricket pacesetters' margins of victory against Bollywood High School Old Boys Presidents. Heading into Round 14 and two weeks out from the semifinals, their third meeting...

Gisborne’s Berry third in yachting's Tanner Cup

AUCKLAND-based Josh Berry, representing Poverty Bay, gained third place in the Tanner Cup national interprovincial P Class championships in the Bay of Islands this week. Last week Berry, 14, was competing in Sydney, where he and fellow Auckland...

Grom Series’ final leg put on hold

The Billabong Grom Series' final leg, at Piha, finished prematurely over the weekend as news of Auckland re-entering lockdown forced organisers to put the event on hold. Local surfers and title hopefuls Asia Braithwaite and Finn Vette both advanced...

A deadly putter the difference

GOLF’s Major winners have been known to cuddle up in bed with the trophy following a long night of celebration. Andrew Higham didn’t do that after winning the Poverty Bay-East Coast version of a Masters or British Open on the Poverty Bay course...

Gisborne runners feature in cross-country

Gisborne runners featured in the junior divisions of the East Coast North Island Secondary School Cross-country Championships at Showgrounds Park last week. Le’Sharn Anderson, of Gisborne Girls’ High School, won the junior girls’...