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footballPacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Fujitsu Maycenvale United AFC Premiers. 3pm: St Leonards 1, Hastings, Western Rangers Premiers v Heavy Equipment United. Eastern League 1...

Gisborne racers in South Island foray

SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants superstock team lost to the Christchurch team at that track last weekend and at the same meeting 1NZ streetstocker Brenden Gooch from Gisborne scored a win, a fourth placing and a fifth in a 20-car field. The Giants raced...

Golf roundup

The finals of the men's and women's shootouts on Saturday will be played with a tinge of sadness. But that's not what Chic Brown would have wanted. Chic passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74 and will be dearly missed by his Park clubmates. If...

BIZminton4 rallies getting longer

TEAMS had lots of fun and some used a little bit of deceptive play to win points in Week 2 of BIZminton4. Serving has improved, and rallies have got longer. Teams are now divided into two round robins — the Championship Group, made up of all the...

Cory Taylor's success hailed

Surf Life Saving New Zealand sport manager Mike Lord describes Cory Taylor’s win in the fifth round of the Nutri-Grain Ironman Series at Surfers Paradise on Saturday as a “huge achievement” and says everyone in the New Zealand surf lifesaving...

YMP win with late surge

RUGBY - TWO tries with less than eight minutes on the clock had YMP fans jumping for joy as their team snatched victory from Ngatapa. The 31-27 win for East Coast Farm Vets YMP was a bitter pill to swallow for Larsawn Ngatapa, who had led from the...

Sports briefs

Mercantile badmintonBIZminton 2 started last Wednesday night, with enthusiasm and a lot of laughs. Many of the teams had played in BIZminton in August. Some close matches had only a point separating the teams, but some mismatches were also...

Scoreboard

RugbyHeartland Championship: North Otago 34 Contract Consultants Poverty Bay 30; Thames Valley 43 Ngati Porou East Coast 15. Hurricanes under-18s: Poverty Bay 20 Hawke’s Bay Saracens 10; Wanganui 40 Ngati Porou East Coast 14U16s pre-season: Bay of...

Aerial acrobatics at NZ Motocross

DAREDEVILS at work at Eastland Group Raceway at the weekend

Midway top club at local junior champs

SURF LIFESAVINGMIDWAY won the points competition by a big margin in the Gisborne/Tairawhiti junior surf lifesaving championships at Midway Beach on Friday and Saturday. They accumulated 380 points, with Wainui second on 170 and Waikanae third on...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty BayIF bouncing back from adversity is a a reflection of character, Darren Patumaka and Deevon Gray showed plenty of it in the Enterprise Motor Warehouse men’s open foursomes on Saturday . . . or perhaps they were simply beyond caring...

Country club comes to town

Te Karaka Taekwon Do members had their own tournament at Kaiti School last weekend. The Taekwondo calendar had been so busy, with so much travelling, that instructors Kevin and Sally Cale, and Rebekha Upston decided to run a tournament in Gisborne so...

Prize-giving celebrates achievement

FAMILIES featured at Eastland Kart Club's end-of-season prize-giving at the Cosmopolitan Club last Sunday. Shanan Gooch won the Rotax class and his son Koby won the Junior KTs. Conrad Gooch won the Rookie class, Nixon Gooch was third in the same...

Golf roundup

BRIAN “BJ” Morrissey teed his ball up on the 10th, banged it down the middle, put his second shot to three feet from the pin and slotted the putt for birdie. It was his first hole of the day and set the tone for the veteran as he added another...

Latest from the Freyberg Masters

POVERTY Bay-East Coast suffered their third consecutive defeat at the Freyberg Masters interprovincial golf tournament in New Plymouth this morning. PBEC went down 4-1 to Bay of Plenty at the over-40s matchplay event on the Ngamotu course. Their only...

Back to business for OBR

Horouta had a cricket game last week so they got to blow out some of the cobwebs. Their opponents, OBR, are coming off a long break. OBR tomorrow play their first match in Poverty Bay club cricket's DJ Barry Cup competition this season. The competition...