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Country 1-0 up

Glimpses of potential were there for all to see as some of Poverty Bay’s best rugby players clashed in Town against Country. PGG Wrightson Country prevailed 26-21 at MoreFM Rugby Park in Gisborne on Saturday but needed a late surge to get the...

Bell leads Bay to pennants victory

POVERTY Bay were the big movers in round 2 of the women's interclub pennants at Te Puia Springs on Saturday. The round was held as part of the Te Puia women's open opening day tournament. Viv Bell led the city club assault as Poverty Bay claimed the...

Vette tops her repechage heat

GISBORNE surfer Saffi Vette won her first repechage heat at the 2017 Vissla ISA World Junior Championships in Japan yesterday. Vette topped her heat with a 10.37 two-wave total, overcoming her three competitors from South Africa, Guam and Italy. The...

‘Kaimanawa Bill’ makes his mark

Just three and a bit years ago, Redcliffs Bill was running wild with the rest of his Kaimanawa herd. This year, it’s likely he will be lining up in the prestigious Pony of the Year class with his rather besotted owner Georgia Bouzaid. The Cambridge...

Nga Whetu o Matariki Awards 2020 function off in Tamaki Makaurau

The Nga Whetu o Matariki Awards 2020 function, to be held in Auckland, has been cancelled as we know it. The face-to-face component of the awards, scheduled for this weekend, was scrapped last night after the Prime Minister announced a return to...

Gisborne’s Colin Walker recalls Leeds United great, Norman Hunter, as his Barnsley boss

Former Gisborne City striker Colin Walker recalled a key moment in his football career when he learned of the death of Leeds United great Norman Hunter last week. Walker posted the picture at right on Facebook, saying he was proud of it because it...

Silver finish for Mareikura paddlers in 18km waka ama race at Takapuna

WAKA AMATHE vagaries of open-water waka ama racing paid a visit to Mareikura Waka Ama Club’s Tairawhiti crew in the Takapuna Beach Cup last month. The team finished second in the open mixed division of the 18-kilometre race for six-person teams...

Ormond Te Wharau, Hinemoana win tournament

Ormond Te Wharau won the boys' round robin and Hinemoana (Horouta Wananga) won the girls' at the 2022 Primary School Interschool Badminton Competition held at the Badminton Centre this month. Schools taking part were Te Wharau, Waikirikiri, Te Kur...

Big weekend for Marist Thistle

GISBORNE had a successful Marist football tournament in Birkenhead, Auckland, at the weekend. Tatapouri Marist Thistle won the cup for the social competition and a shield for being “most social team”, Hollie Murrell and Kerry Tomlinson were...

Everything on line in points scramble

It was a great Gizzy day at Round 3 of the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach racing series. Riders put it all on the line to get extra points for the final round. In the senior open class, it was good to see Warren Martin back beach racing on...

Eight titles decided

EIGHT titles were awarded at the national surfing championships in one-metre swell at Piha yesterday. The premier open men’s and women’s titles are likely to be decided in expected bigger conditions on the final two days of the event, which ends...

Rollicking finish to week for PBEC

YEARS from now, Auckland No. 1 Brent Patterson probably won’t remember all the players he beat as his side won the Freyberg Masters interprovincial golf title on home soil yesterday. But it is highly likely he won’t have forgotten the one he lost...

Visitors do well in exchanges

It’s a fair old battle. And in 2019, Taradale came out on top in their winter sports exchange with Ilminster Intermediate School. Under the exchange, which began in 2005, both schools travel and host. This year, Taradale won five events and lost...

GBHS old boy to face ABs

Former Gisborne Boys High School first 15 winger Penikolo Latu will start for Tonga against the All Blacks tonight. Latu played first 15 rugby for GBHS from 2009 to 2011. In 2010 he was selected in the New Zealand under-17 squad. The following year he...

Shock upset OBM’s mission

RUGBYIt would take a series of upsets for the points table to change in the last Saturday of the regular season of the Poverty Bay premier club rugby competition. But in these strange times it seems nothing is impossible, including the potential...

New handicap system kicks in

GOLFA Gisborne golfer’s mission to return to single-figure handicap status has been accomplished without swinging a club in anger on the course. The player turned up to his home Poverty Bay fairways on Sunday for his first 18-hole round in more...