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BIZminton results, draws and reminders

WITH the final night looming, the BIZminton matches last Thursday were tougher. Rallies were longer and more smashes and amazing returns were seen. The improvement in play in the past four weeks has been fantastic. No countback situations applied...

IT’S ALL ON

THE sporting battlefields of Gisborne were busy again on Saturday, highlighted by the Poverty Bay premier club rugby final at Rugby Park. GT Shearing Waikohu emerged victorious from that with a 19-5 defeat of Enterprise Cars OBM to retain the Lee...

Triples kick off centre champ of champs tournaments

Wairoa hosts the Gisborne East Coast centre's first champ of champs event this weekend — the triples. Senior and under-8 years (experience) men's and women's teams will battle for club supremacy from 8.30am both days. With only six clubs operating...

Union history attracts wide interest

RUGBYAS preparations around Ruatoria ramp up this week for Ngati Porou East Coast Rugby Football Union’s centenary celebration, for one avid rugby fan, it’s been years in the making. Kevin Hare started writing NPEC History 1919-2020 three years...

‘Nati Nation’ to back 45-man squad

2022 Heartland Championship: NPEC aiming to lift the bar another level

United up against ‘wounded’ Port Hill

FOOTBALLA WOUNDED tiger is to be avoided in every circumstance, but wounded football teams are a different matter. They can’t always be avoided. When a meeting is inevitable, be on your guard for surprises, collect three points with as little fuss...

Weekend sports scoreboard

Senior 1 club rugby final —Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic 37 (Sean Taylor 2, Aaron Ioane, Angus Twigley, Jeffery Ismail, tries; Moss Doran 3 con, 2 pen).Turanga Pirates 21 (Moui Paongo, Mason Apanui, Trevor Edwards, tries; Henry-Troi Kepa 2...

WoK Sports still going strong

THE 107TH edition of the Waerenga-o-Kuri Sports was held at Tiniroto last weekend and there’s no sign of this famous event ending. If anything, it’s enjoying a revival in popularity. There were 384 entries this year compared with 301 in 2015. The...

Looked the goods but not getting the breaks

THIS week East Coast surfing powerhouse Ricardo Christie got his World Surf League Qualifying Series (QS) campaign under way at the Newcastle Surfest. With 6000 points offered at the event, a good result there would have set Christie up nicely in...

Hockey's grand finals day full of action

Poverty Bay club hockey’s grand finals day produced some thrilling action on the LJ Hooker Turf on Saturday. YMP celebrated a victory double. In the A-Grade men’s final, YMP A beat THC 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out after the teams finished normal...

Sanctions for officials who entered rugby field

A THREE-MAN Poverty Bay Rugby Union judiciary committee has imposed sanctions on four premier club officials — two from Pirates and two from Ngatapa — following an incident in last Friday night’s premier match at Rugby Park. But the sanctions...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkOPOTIKI earned a place on Rod Moore's favourite golf course list after achieving perfection on Saturday. Moore holed his tee shot on the 121-metre sixth hole for the second ace of his career. The first was at his home course in March...

High-flying YMP an acid test for Horouta

HOROUTA face a monumental challenge tomorrow night when they front up to the dangerously in-form YMP 1 in a mid-week premier-grade netball game in the Gisborne YMCA. The 6pm Pak'nSave premier clash between the two teams promises to be entertaining. JT...

Masters ready for their day in the sun

THE TSB New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships begin at Midway Beach tomorrow for the 240-plus athletes set to contest the masters side of the championships. Since masters competition began in the l990s, the over-30 component of the nationals has...

Top award to Destounis

STEFAN Destounis has been named Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union’s Paul Sceats Player of the Year at the union’s end-of-year prize-giving. The High School Old Boys loose forward’s selection for the Heartland 15 was the icing on the cake after...

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