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Shield wins to HSOB and Pirates

HIGH School Old Boys won last night’s crucial Walker Shield T20 cricket match against OBR by nine wickets to claim second place on the table with two rounds left before the final. The former students lost only the wicket of Jak Rowe as they chased...

Learning from those who have come before

OFTEN in life — especially when young — we become fixated on the future, regarding the past as dull and unimportant. Surfers are no different. We are obsessed with the latest surfboards, wetsuits, wave pools, aerial manoeuvres — all flashing...

Napier festival next for Gisborne champs

St Mary’s are not resting on their laurels after winning the Gisborne inter-school years 5 and 6 hockey tournament last week. An 11-strong St Mary’s Wekas team are heading to Napier next week to compete at the Small Sticks hockey festival. They...

Mangapapa big winners

MANGAPAPA Hurricanes had a three-out-of three record in the primary school football competitions they entered this year. They won the Primary A Grade football league, the knockout cup and the primary school six-a-side competition. They played 13 games...

Getting down to brass tacks

It's time to get back to rugby. On Friday, April 22, a muster for women's rugby will be held at Rugby Park, and on April 23 the “Tiny” White Opening Day for premier-grade club rugby will be held at the Oval. The first round of the Senior 1 club...

Mangapapa to represent Bay, Russia

RIPPA RUGBYMangapapa School will represent their provincial team, Poverty Bay, and a Rugby World Cup participating country, Russia, when they play Rippa Rugby in Wellington from tomorrow. Fourteen primary school teams took part in the Gisborne...

McDonald in hunt for top 16

POVERTY Bay's sole female flagbearer was in the qualifying hunt but the six-strong home men's challenge were teetering on the edge of oblivion heading into day two of the New Zealand amateur in Gisborne. Tessa McDonald opened 36 holes of strokeplay...

Around the Poverty Bay bowling greens

Tolaga BayDIVISION 1 winners at Tolaga Bay Bowling Club’s annual two-day triples tournament were Mark Bain and Marilyn Knowles of the Poverty Bay club and John “Hone” Burema of Tolaga Bay. Burema is one of the new members the Tolaga Bay club...

Barefoot flair echoes Coast in a Whakarua Park touch

RUGBYSTEPPING past a defender and scoring a try for the Hurricanes against the Blues reminded Isaia Walker-Leawere of what it felt like playing rugby when he was a boy in Ruatoria.“It was kind of like when I was little at Whakarua Park, running...

Santa, sidecars, saloons and a demolition ramp race to end year

SPEEDWAYA DEMOLITION ramp race, best pairs sidecars, production saloon car championship and a visit from Santa will finish off the year at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night. Gisborne Speedway Club president Neil Gooch said the Jukes Carriers...

Three wins out of three for Bay girls

Poverty Bay won all three of their games in the Northern Districts secondary schoolgirls’ cricket tournament in Tauranga this week. With play rained off on Monday and Tuesday, all games were played on Wednesday. Teams played three games of 10 overs...

Training, sacrifice ‘validated’

Gisborne’s Campbell takes bronze in the ‘elite’ division

YMP strike gold, again

Fledgling club footing it with big guns in junior ranks

Final in the balance

It’s time to close the book on Twenty20 cricket for the season. Bain Construction Old Boys Rugby’s 1pm clash with Bollywood High School Old Boys on the rep wicket at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow will provide a fitting shorter-form finale for the...

OBM coach Tom Solomon feels nerves

NEW OBM coach Tom Solomon says he is more nervous than his players as they prepare for their first game in the 2018 premier rugby championship tomorrow. Enterprise OBM, who had the bye on the Tiny White Opening Day two weeks ago, play Tapuae at the...

Poverty Bay lose to Northland in 50-over opener

CRICKETPoverty Bay took six wickets off a strong Northland in the first round of 50-over games at the Northern Districts senior secondary schoolboys’ tournament here yesterday. The Graham Hudson-coached Bay made 150 and Northland replied with 152-6...