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Coast final Hiku v TVC

Hikurangi 17 (Kris Palmer try; Palmer 4 pen)Uawa 15 (Leiman Davies, Hayden Pardoe tries; Te Ahu Baker pen, con).HT: 17-3.“Tough wet-weather rugby in a mudbath.”That’s how Hikurangi lock Te Rangi Matanuku Parata summed it up after leading the...

A day for calculators

It was a day for heavy scoring in Poverty Bay premier-grade rugby on Saturday. At the Oval, defending champions Waikohu beat Pirates 62-14 and OBM beat High School Old Boys 53-18. At Patutahi, YMP beat Ngatapa 50-31. Civil Project Solutions...

WINNING START TO THE SEASON

Gisborne teams Thistle and United had winning starts to their campaigns in out-of-town football competition on Saturday. In their first game back in the Central Federation League after a three-year absence, Waikanae Top Ten Thistle beat Whanganui...

SPORTS DRAWS

This is Week 1 of Round 3 of Gisborne senior netball. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put out bins: Ritana Senior A, Tyre General Ngatapa. 9am: 1, FarmCare HSOG v Claydens...

Club basketball results

SPORT IN BRIEF

NZ award to popular Barry Memorial

CROQUETBarry Memorial Croquet Club has been awarded the President’s Trophy for having the largest membership percentage increase of any croquet club in the country in the past 12 months. The Aberdeen Road club attracted 17 new-to-croquet members...

Two wins for Eastland in Rotorua

BADMINTONEASTLAND Masters had a successful start to a new badminton competition organised for this pandemic-affected year. Eastland beat Waitakere (4) 8-4 in the first tie and Auckland (3) 7-5 in the second on one competition day in Rotorua this...

Opportunities well earned

It's an opportunity they've earned. Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 captain and openside flanker Amos Roddick, 18, and his teammate, first five-eighth Nic Proffit, 17, have been selected to attend the New Zealand Barbarians-Hurricanes age-grade...

Tight interschool games

Whangara and Waikohu to clash in match of the day

Bridge results

Congratulations to Eileen Lee and Ann McCombe for their score of 71.73 in Gisborne Bridge Club play on Monday. Monday, March 28 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 2North/South East/WestDiana Styche, Joy Marden 61.31 Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe...

Waveski surfers to do battle for Turanganui title

A weekend of waveski surfing action is in the line-up for Gisborne from tomorrow. With the arrival of cyclone-generated ocean swell, with big gaps between sets, ideal conditions are expected for the Turanganui open waveski surfing championships on...

You're a winner

THE Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union is giving away a Poverty Bay jersey, replica 125, to a supporter each week. This week’s winner is the woman in the picture to the right. Gisborne Herald photographer Paul Rickard takes a photo of the crowd at...

Mercantile badminton

The fourth round of BIZminton 5 was completed last Wednesday night. GDC held on to beat Monday Madness 3 matches to 2, with one match drawn. Enterprise continued their winning streak, although some of the matches against Slammers were close, the...

Gisborne Pony Club Sports results

Results of the Gisborne Pony Club Sports this month were —Class 1, 70-centimetre, Introductory A1 Art 238 1.1: Cindy Kershaw (Brian Richard), Paula Newman (Tessa), Harriet Savage (Teekays Lone Ranger), Tyson Kamo (Rover), Rebecca Watson (Kilmac)...

Boys’ High trio picked for camp

RUGBYA TRIO of young Poverty Bay rugby players will be part of a Hurricanes age-group training camp next month. Loosehead prop Jordan McFarlane, the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 captain, will join fellow prop Sione Mafileo, flanker Khian...

Big win for Hikurangi

RUGBYIt was The Maunga’s moment in the sun. Hikurangi capped their centenary weekend — 100 years of one of the East Coast rugby competition’s great clubs — by eclipsing Tokomaru Bay United 87-5 on Saturday. Coach Doone Harrison’s side...