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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’...

Fair Play award to Tama at Halberg Games

Black Ferns Renee Wickliffe, Ari Bayler and Alana Bremner took time during the Women's Rugby World Cup to support athletes at the Halberg Games North held at Kings College in Auckland over the weekend. The sports festival for young New Zealanders...

Team half ends PBEC’s Toro losing streak

THE wind and a tree conspired to deny Poverty Bay-East Coast a first team win in three years on day 3 of the Toro national men’s interprovincial at Invercargill yesterday. PBEC drew 2½ -all with hosts Southland — a result that ended a run of 19...

Top-two battle a warm-up for playoffs

WHANGARA Old Girls and YMP (1) take centre-stage tonight in their final round-robin game before the premier grade playoffs, and this one could go either way. A week from today, these two teams are likely to meet again in the 1 versus 2 top-four...

Masters start their 2018 campaign

BADMINTONEastland masters badminton team start their 2018 campaign in Rotorua this weekend. Victoria West (nee Lee) returns to the representative ranks after last playing for Eastland 25 years ago. Her sister Adrianne McLeod joins her. Both were...

World club medals

Waikanae surf lifesaver Casie Fyall raced to gold and silver in the interclub component of the world surf lifesaving championships in Adelaide last week, for her Australian club Kurrawa from Broadbeach in Queensland. The 21-year-old was part of the...

Gisborne Bridge Club results

Bay putting together a good run in tournament

The word is spreading like wildfire. Coach Graham Hudson's Poverty Bay team are playing great cricket at the Northern Districts senior secondary schools tournament. He and captain Thorn Parkes have marshalled the troops superbly since the home team...

Five teams, two titles

Two national titles and a second placing from five teams at national tournaments — that's the return that has Gisborne's Surf City Squash Club members buzzing. The titles were won at National SuperChamps tournaments around the country last...

OBR win DJ Barry Cup by slimmest of margins

CRICKETIT doesn’t get much closer than that. OBR won Gisborne cricket’s DJ Barry Cup on Saturday by the slimmest of margins — one point — and they were in danger of having the trophy slip from their grasp in the tense final moments of their...

Women's basketball draw

Women’s basketball drawThe draw for Gisborne Basketball Association women’s club competition games at the YMCA tonight is —5.45pm: Gisborne Girls’ High School v Paikea Nation. 6.45pm: YMCA Riverina v Campion College. 7.45pm: Ngati Porou v...

Longboard comp full of fun and action for Gisborne Boardriders

Gisborne Boardriders Club members got together last weekend for their annual club gathering longboard competition. With blue skies and beautiful waves on tap, surfers from around the region descended on Midway's Pipe for a day of fun but competitive...

HBPB women 12th at national interprovincials

Gisborne golfer Tessa McDonald and her Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay teammates had to settle for 12th at the national women’s interprovincial in Hawke’s Bay. HBPB were beaten 4-1 by Tasman in the positional playoff for 11th and 12th at Napier’s...

Zach attack

Talented teen raises eyebrows at Oligoi opener

Softball success for Gis Int

GISBORNE Intermediate won the girls’ division of the Bay of Plenty-Poverty Bay Intermediate Schools Softball Tournament last month. They beat Whakatane Intermediate 17-3 in the final of a competition that also included a team from Rotorua’s...

Milner repeats sudden-death heroics

The history-repeating moment was not lost on Dion Milner as Tolaga Bay booked their place in the final of the Poverty Bay-East Coast men’s interclub pennants. A wet and cold Milner, known to many as Coastie, won a sudden-death playoff at Gisborne...