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CLASH OF THE TITANS

‘A great battle between the two top sides’

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RugbyTHE draw for Civil Project Solutions Senior Club Rugby on SATURDAY is —Premier grade, 2.45pm: Patutahi 1, Larsawn Ngatapa v East Coast Farm Vets YMP (M Greene, F Barwick, C Johnson); Oval 2, Contract Consultants High School Old Boys v GT...

Red-hot junior competition expected

Competition is expected to be red-hot when over 150 surf lifesavers take part in the Gisborne-Tairawhiti junior championships at Midway Beach this weekend. Athletes from Bay of Plenty clubs Omanu and Whakatane are coming to compete with Gisborne’s...

Singles tourney for new players a great success

CROQUETFRANCIS Yates won a singles golf croquet tournament that Barry Memorial Croquet Club held for new members and corporate challenge players. Yates beat Murray Woods 9-6 in the final of a keenly contested tournament. Twelve players — all new to...

Waikohu shooters on fire in one-goal win

A YMP whitewash and a one-goal thriller made for a contrasting two games of Pakn’Save premier netball at the YMCA on Saturday. Reigning champions YMP (1) continued their unbeaten run with a 74-48 win against Farmlands Ngatapa. The earlier game...

Victory without the pretty

A hat-trick by Josh Adams set up Gisborne United’s 4-2 victory over Eskview in Pacific Premiership football at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Despite the two-goal difference, Eskview were in this game to the closing stages, scoring two...

McMenamin returns from injury

Black Ferns loose forwards Kennedy Simon and former Gisborne Girls' High student Charmaine McMenamin will play their first test of the year after being named to start against Australia in Christchurch on Saturday night. The pair are both returning...

World va’a sprint champs cancelled

GISBORNE waka ama paddlers training for the world sprint championships in Hawaii have lost the event that was the focus of their efforts. The 2020 International Va'a Federation (IVF) World Elite and Club Sprint Championships have been cancelled. They...

Good field for winter series

BMXA wintry Sunday saw the Gisborne bmx club host their round of the Central Region Winter Series. A good field of riders from Hawke’s Bay, Tauranga and Taupo took on the local riders, with points scored going towards their club’s tally. These...

It’s quarter-finals time

It has come around quickly. Week 8 of the 12-team Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club league — the quarter-finals — tip 5.45pm today for both A Grade teams at the YMCA and B Grade competition in the John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre...

THC hand TMP year's first hockey defeat

THE hockey round this weekend produced a second sensational result when THC lowered the YMP A colours last night. THC took control in the second half of their senior men’s clash on the LJ Hooker Turf to hand YMP A their first loss of the season —...

Ngati Porou beat Lytton in final

Ngati Porou beat Lytton High School 56-40 in the final of the Gisborne women’s club basketball competition at the YMCA last night. A report will appear in The Herald tomorrow

Indoor bowling news

EIGHT of Poverty Bay-East Coast’s youngest indoor bowlers were in devastating form in Hamilton, winning the Membery-Pearce Shield under-18 representative event against Tauranga, Waikato, North Taranaki, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki for the second...

Decisive win keeps United top of table

FOOTBALLGisborne United remain top of the Pacific Premiership after thrashing mid-table Havelock North Wanderers Reserves 5-1 at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United are one point ahead of local rivals Thistle...

Tahitians rule but Horouta take trophy

WAKA AMAHOROUTA Waka Hoe won the trophy for top club at the IVF Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti, but the Tahitians showed they were the masters. That frank assessment came from Horouta club president Walton Walker. He attributed his...

Hometown hero

GISBORNE born and bred driver Daniel Corrin powered way to win the New Zealand saloon car championship here on Saturday night — a title he said “means the world” to him. The 22-year-old now races out of Mount Maunganui’s Baypark speedway but...