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Close games provide highlights

HOCKEYTHE Masters’ close win against YMP B in the men’s competition and hard-fought wins to GMC Green and YMP B in the women’s games were highlights of local hockey at the weekend. Lytton Old Boys Masters and YMP B were locked up 1-1 in the...

On the mats - Indoor bowls news

SIXTEEN-year-old Gisborne Boys' High School student Nathan Trowell is the North Island secondary schools' indoor bowls singles champion for 2021. Trowell beat his cousin and fellow Gisborne Boys' High student Matthew Foster 12-7 in the 12-end final...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

180s: S Gooch (Sugar Spandangles); K Arahanga 2 (Sugar Stallions); L Cook (2NZ3).Highest start (140): J Griffith (Sugar Men of Mayhem); S Gooch (Sugar Spandangles).Highest finish (104): K Unuwai (Sugar Stallions).(P = pairs won. S = singles won. T =...

Hutana makes BoP training squad

Gisborne netballer Manaia Hutana has been selected for the Waikato-Bay of Plenty off-season training squad for next year’s national netball league. Her selection follows the Waikato-Bay of Plenty national netball league open trials last weekend. The...

HSOB through to face OBR in Hope Cup final

CRICKETOBR hammered certain cricketing truths home on Saturday when they beat Horouta by 10 wickets in the 1 v 4 semi-final to confirm their status as white-hot favourites heading into next weekend’s Senior B Hope Cup club final. The Bollywood High...

Skipper’s six wins game

. . . and High School Old Boys cruise to victory

GBHS first 11 turn victory corner

CRICKETThey’ve turned a corner. Gisborne Boys’ High School’s first 11 showed signs of improvement in their 32-run loss in a 30-over cricket game against Napier Boys’ High School in Gisborne on Monday. Yesterday, as the Poverty Bay...

Under-15s gather steam

The Gisborne Boys' High School under-15 rugby team have momentum. But despite their 52-36 win against a Whakatane High School mixed side at the Rectory a fortnight ago, the Trevor Crosby-coached crew have to keep pushing. At Rugby Park, Whakatane, at...

Super vets on their last trip for the season

BADMINTONEastland travel to Auckland this weekend for the playoffs of the 2019 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2B badminton competition. After two weekends of competition, Eastland were placed third in their group, so in the morning they...

Walker-Leawere to start in Maori ABs

Former Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 captain Isaia Walker-Leawere has earned a run-on debut for the Maori All Blacks against the USA Eagles in Chicago tomorrow. Walker-Leawere, 21, is a 1.97-metre, 122-kilogram lock with club side Poneke. He...

On the mats

LEIGHTON Shanks will represent Poverty Bay-East Coast at the New Zealand Under-18 singles finals in Wellington in late August. He defeated Jareth Gaskin 12-6 in the local final. A record 21 junior u18 bowlers took park in the event. The eight bowlers...

Gisborne surf lifesavers in form at Grom Challenge

GISBORNE surf lifesavers Jack Keepa, Lachie Falloon and Jack Leeper were in top form at the inaugural Grom Challenge at Mount Maunganui. Wainui’s Keepa was first overall in the under-14 division, with Midway’s Falloon third. Leeper (Waikanae) was...

Tee-time: finals day at Gisborne East Coast vets open

Pistols at dawn became drivers at 9am this morning as George Brown and Tene Goldsmith teed off on finals day of the Gisborne East Coast veterans' open tournament. The pair emerged triumphant from semifinal battles yesterday on their home Awapuni...

Doleman Cup results

Pirates 99, Olly Tilley 37, lost to OBR 100/4, Ian Loffler 39. GHHS (1) 77, Clarence Campbell 3-7, lost to Horouta 80-1, Marty Brandos 26no. Campion 197-6, James Torrie 98no, beat HSOB 181, A Kumar 68, Patrick Mathers 5-45, Caleb Greaves 3-16

Strong Gisborne entry for regionals

WAIKANAE, Midway and Wainui surf lifesavers will be among over 800 athletes from 31 clubs taking part in the Eastern regional championships at Mt Maunganui this weekend. Among those competing are Olympians, Black Fins and New Zealand representative...

KIRK CUP WINNERS

CRICKETTo think that Poverty Bay’s Kirk Cup win against Hawke’s Bay on Sunday was a thrashing would be a mistake. It was cricket on a knife-edge. While the margin was eight wickets, the best way to describe Bollywood Poverty Bay’s first game...