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Hawke’s Bay trip for super vets

BADMINTONEastland travel to Hawke’s Bay this weekend for the third round of the 2018 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition. The games will be played at the Meeanee Indoor Sports Centre near Napier tomorrow. After four...

Gisborne Thistle's under-19 football team relishing the challenge

Gisborne Thistle's under-19 team will come up against some of the best age-group football teams in the country this weekend. They are competing in the Napier City Rovers Under-19 National Tournament at Park Island, Napier. In the past two years...

Trophy to Taupo for Battle of Bays win

TAUPO Intermediate won the war at the Battle of the Bays triathlon in Gisborne on Friday. Taupo collected the overall school trophy, fending off the challenges of Ilminster and Gisborne Intermediate and a multitude of Bay of Plenty schools in the...

Club bowls news

Poverty BayRex Rigney Christmas MixedTriples TournamentForty-two members, many dressed in Christmas colours, entered this Ryman Healthcare-sponsored event featuring three one-hour games. At the end of play, the teams of Erin Sutherland (s), Marilyn...

McDonald loses at Women's National Interprovincial

GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald suffered a third consecutive loss at the Toro women's national interprovincial tournament in Ashburton this morning. McDonald, playing at No. 5 for Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay, lost her match in a 3-2 team loss to defending...

Putting best foot forward

Injury can be a great leveller. All premier-grade teams in Poverty Bay club rugby have had to do without key players at times this season. Ngatapa lock Dan Law (right wrist) and OBM loosehead prop Lance Dickson (right knee) come to mind. OBM are still...

In-form PB seek the equaliser

RUGBYPOVERTY Bay will be looking for a strong start to their Heartland season in their opening game this weekend against Wanganui. After five weeks of no rugby, the Civil Project Solutions team will be eager to retake the field and revenge last...

Reynolds steers Pirates into semis

PIRATES skipper Brad Reynolds led from the front with a five-wicket for 16 runs in the Buccaneers’ seven-wicket win against Coastal Ultrasound Horouta in Walker Shield T20 competition last night.“We knew we had to win to make the semifinals, now...

‘Powerhouse’ future in the offing

ONE of the top volleyball referees and coaches in the country says he has no doubt Gisborne could become a national powerhouse in the sport. Des Kerekere has played, coached or refereed volleyball almost his whole life. He has more than three...

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But taking Barry Cup off Waikohu a big task

Cool, calm gets it done

Experience told the story on Saturday when Claydens Waikohu and Whangara Old Girls cemented top four places in the Pak’nSave premier grade competition with wins over school teams. An exciting morning’s play at the YMCA featured a 53-46 win to...

Surf lifesaving regional results

SURF lifesaving results from the Eastern Regional Championships yesterday —Double skiOpen mixed: Mairangi Bay A (Samalulu Clifton/Travis Mitchell) 1, Whakatane Green (Campbell Reid/Carla Reid) 2, Mairangi Bay B (Jonathan Reshef/Stefanie Crncevic)...

Premier-grade cricket returns

Premier-grade cricket returns tomorrow with High School Old Boys playing Horouta and Gisborne Boys' High School playing OBR in the DJ Barry Cup 50-over competition. It will be the first time in three weeks that Coastal Concrete OBR and Siteworx Civil...

Tairawhiti women finish runners-up

HOCKEYTHE Tairawhiti women’s hockey team finished runners-up in the national Maori hockey tournament at the weekend, only the second time a Tairawhiti women’s team has made the final since the tournament began in the early 1990s. They went...

New player shines

Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s recent “have-a-go” days might have unearthed a new star. New player Robyn Chaffey nearly caused a few upsets in her first tournament at the club. Chaffey and playing partner Rob Hayes lost several games by only one...

Smoother waters ahead of rough Masters seas for PBEC

GOLFTHEY have been swimming in the deep end of the Freyberg Masters men’s golf interprovincial since Day 1 but Poverty Bay-East Coast remain afloat. PBEC suffered their fifth consecutive defeat at the over-40s matchplay tournament on Taupo’s...