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Capsize winners - crew tipped out, climbed back in and won the race

WAKA AMATHE Horouta premier women’s crew capsized but came back to win a marathon waka ama race around Rangitoto Island. They were leading the 42-kilometre race in the Takapuna Beach Cup open women’s race last weekend and tipped out about an hour...

Milestone result for Boys’ High

Never before. Gisborne Boys’ High School beat YMP Black 49-45 on Monday night, the first time that Boys’ High have beaten the Gisborne basketball league’s longest-running club. Whether known as the Vapours, Pure Sound, Auto Court, Rolling...

Suspended until next year for ‘king hit’

A Tapuae player in Poverty Bay rugby’s Senior 1 competition has been banned until next year for a “king hit” on an opposing player. The Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union’s judicial committee found Chayse Rurehe punched a High School Old Boys...

Visiting teams make their mark

SPORTS EXCHANGEIt’s important stuff. And Campion College Year 9 and 10 sports teams had two action-packed days of it as they took on Aquinas College of Tauranga here. The hosts won the girls’ futsal 10-2, lost a brilliant game of rugby 55-33 and...

On the end of a thumping

GISBORNE’S PJ Goodlett and George Andrew were on the receiving end of a 6-1 thumping when their Hawke’s Bay United team were beaten by the Wellington Phoenix Academy side in the opening game ofthe national youth league in Wellington at the...

Tokyo drift

HE swapped the land of the long white cloud for the land of the rising sun, and his international path will this month take former Poverty Bay player Michael Broadhurst to a career-pinnacle Rugby World Cup. Campion College old boy Broadhurst is in...

HoopNation success for Gizzy teams

They wanted to make the finals, and this time they did — the Gizzy Hoops boys under 16 team, girls u16s and boys u14s all won silver at the 10th annual HoopNation Classic basketball tournament in Tauranga over Labour Weekend. The Jackson...

Tough tournament day for Bay students

CRICKETGood sportsmen and women — competitors and champions — having received a bloody nose, pick themselves up and carry on. The Poverty Bay boys’ senior secondary schools cricket team led by Nathan Trowell and the Poverty Bay girls’...

Rugby battle of the coasts

NGATI Porou East Coast coach Troy Para says the inclusion of former All Black hooker Corey Flynn in the West Coast side for tomorrow’s Heartland Championship match is good and bad news.“Having former ABs in the competition is good for the...

Kaiti netballers win interschool trophy

KAITI won the Primary School Interschool Netball Tournament contested in Term 3. Sixteen local schools took part, with home and away games being played at Friday lunchtimes. Competition was in two divisions, with pool crossover games then being played...

Bring on Tokyo

BY Darcina Manuel’s calculations her Commonwealth Games bronze medal and competing at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil has cost $70,000 over the past 10 years. But when asked if it was worth it, the 24-year-old — who is based in Perth but still...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

RESULTS of Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s Tuesday night competition, Round 3, Game 1 —Individual highlights180s:? Jono Griffiths (4), Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, Te Kotahi Kaio (2), Stacey Reeves, Hunter Eyles, Tahuna Irwin (2), John Ahuriri...

Classy batsmen at Riverbend

You come across some pretty good batsmen at Riverbend. The Poverty Bay Year 8 team found that out in Game 1 of their campaign in Section B at the cricket camp yesterday. They lost a 35-over clash with Wellington club Karori by 76 runs. The draw has...

Bunce to be guest speaker

ALL Black great Frank Bunce will be the guest speaker at this year’s Logans Sporting Excellence Awards, which will also celebrate the past 25 years of local sporting achievement. The awards night, hosted by former TV3 sports reporter Hamish McKay...

Quietly confident

Poverty Bay-East Coast out to rack up elusive win

Hurricanes players join local JAB players for breakfast

HURRICANES players Ricky Riccitelli, Beauden Barrett, Ardie Savea and Carlos Price joined local JAB players for breakfast at the Emerald Hotel yesterday. JAB chairwoman Cara Haines said the youngsters “absolutely loved it”.“The Hurricanes...