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Fourteen tries in drawn game

RUGBYIt sounds like fantasy. But after 60 minutes, OBM and Pirates had drawn 41-all in a remarkable game of rugby in the under-13 weight-restricted grade on Waikirikiri Park ground No. 1, while on No. 2 a strong Horouta side beat Eastland Vets Ngatap...

Golf Roundup

Poverty BayWHEN Tuki Sweeney teed off last Thursday, it had been a long time between 19th-hole drinks that he had felt the sub-80 love at Poverty Bay. Eighteen holes and 76 shots later, not only was he savouring the sweet taste of form, he was to...

Social summer fun on the courts

The call is out for anyone who wants to play social summer netball, starting next week at Gisborne Netball Centre's courts. The league is run by the GNC youth activation group and will be a Fast5 format. Teams have five players on the court at a time...

Young players show their skills

A FIRECRACKER of a game kicked off the second week of the Fulton Hogan secondary school rugby competition on Wednesday. Gisborne Boys’ High School under-15 colts beat the first 15 of Campion College 19-5 in a senior competition game under lights at...

Good starts for Poverty Bay

POVERTY Bay teams have made successful starts to under-13 hockey tournaments in Stratford and Levin. The PB boys’ team have had two wins at the Curtis Cup tournament in Stratford. They beat Manawatu 2-1, with goals to Noah Torrance-Cribb and William...

U13 softballers step up to the plate

It was all helmets, balls and plates at the weekend

Bay clubs in beach battle

NEARLY 300 athletes will converge on Midway Beach this weekend for the combined Gisborne and Bay of Plenty senior surf lifesaving championships. The Eastland Port 2018 Champion of the Bays will draw on the best of the best from local and visiting...

PBEC show grit

Poverty Bay-East Coast put up a gritty fight without reward in their final clash at the national interprovincial golf tournament in Auckland on Friday. PBEC lost 5-0 to Southland on the Whitford Park course but all five of the matches were close. PBEC...

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...

Youngsters set for top coaching

BASKETBALLThey’re bursting. For 300 youngsters, Pettigrew Green Arena at Taradale, Napier — the venue for NBA centre Steven Adams’s camp today — is the centre of everything. Weighn Wilson, selected as the Meadow Fresh winner for Adams’s...

All welcome at the oche this weekend

DARTSTHE Mad on Darts tour comes to Gisborne this weekend, with competition at Brezz’n Darts Club’s base in Derby Street tomorrow and on Sunday. Mad on Darts was started to introduce new players to the sport, says tour organiser Craig Dunn.“We...

Big results on East Coast

RUGBYWeek 6 can be like that. Most years at this stage of the season, Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby produces unexpected results and clear indicators. Unbeaten competition leaders Hicks Bay have now won five games straight and amassed 25...

Gisborne Park win battle of the bays

GISBORNE Park women’s golf team’s short trip down the road ended in a district title on Monday, and it could ultimately reap national glory. The Park crew of Jean Foot, Carney Pipi, Blanche Walker and Wiki Morrissey won the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty...