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Mixed pairs, positions for final tournament

The last Bowls Gisborne East Coast Centre tournament of the 2018-19 season, the 2-4-2 Mixed Pairs, takes place at the Gisborne Bowling Club this weekend starting at 8.30am tomorrow and finishing on Sunday afternoon. The event was scheduled to be...

RUGBY SCOREBOARD

Poverty Bay club rugby, premier: GT Shearing Waikohu 19 Farm Vets Young Maori Party 38. HT: 21-14 (YMP).Larsawn Ngatapa 38 High School Old Boys 12. HT: Ngatapa 21-5. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates v Enterprise Cars OBM deferred. Most Valuable Player...

Doleman Cup cricket final tomorrow

FORMER Poverty Bay batsman Carl Carmody roared with laughter when it was put to him that he could be the man who stops Pirates from winning their third successive Doleman Cup cricket final, at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow.“I’ve only been back...

Preparing to be elite athletes

RISING LEGENDS

Sharks start slowly for victory

SHARKS beat Stallions by five games in the Brezz N Darts Competition, although Stallions struck first in the singles. Stallions’ Kayne Arahanga defeated Ken Lewis 2-0 but Lewis’s teammates responded smartly. For Sharks, Nikki-Jean Stevenson...

Whangara back on winning track,Waikohu blitz in final quarter puts away golden girls

WHANGARA Old Girls bounced back from an inconsistent start to round 2 of the Pak’nSave Gisborne premier competition in style with a win over IMS High School Old Girls on Saturday. In the pick of the two games at the YMCA on Saturday, Whangara beat...

Kaui and Dixon share honours in comeback

LOOSIE Tulsa Kaui and No. 8 Tapu Dixon shared the match honours as Aon Waikohu stormed back from 22-8 down at halftime to beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates in a thriller at Rugby Park on Saturday. Tries to prop Dan Tutauha, first five-eighth Jordan...

Thistle are back in the hunt

United return to winning ways against Napier

Around the greens

KahutiaKAHUTIA Bowling Club wound up its 2015/2016 season with the Liquorland sponsored Classic Fours on Saturday. Sixty-four players, including a good representation from the Gisborne and Poverty Bay clubs, took the greens. Sixteen teams of four...

Support for national ki o rahi tourney ‘a win-win’

Tairawhiti ki o rahi athletes will showcase their skills on home soil this year when the region hosts the New Zealand Secondary School Ki o Rahi National Tournament this month. To help make the event happen, the tournament organising committee...

Nineteenth ‘top team’ award in 30 years

Enterprise Swim Team won the award for top club overall at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships in Hastings. This was the club’s 19th overall team title in the past 30 years at this meet. Club member Tyler Finau, 15, swam the...

Open pairs title theirs now too

LAWN BOWLS by StarweedThe Centre Open Mixed Pairs was completed late Sunday afternoon. With 22 entries the top 16 qualifiers went through to post-section Sunday. The others went to a consolation. After qualifying, the teams were seeded with top...

Pirates-GMC taking the field

RUGBYA NEW club eager to expand their footprint in Poverty Bay rugby take the field when the new season kicks off on Saturday. Pirates-GMC are an amalgam of the Buccaneers, who could not field a team last season because of work commitments, and GMC...

Second-place hopes take a hit

GISBORNE Thistle’s hopes of a second-place finish took a hit when they lost 2-1 to Havelock North Wanderers in Central Federation League football at Guthrie Park, Havelock North, on Saturday. Taranaki lead the competition with 31 points from 11...

Bowls Gisborne East-Coast teams all set to play Hawke’s Bay

The men's and women's junior teams from Bowls Gisborne East-Coast will play their annual Waitangi Day junior intercentre fixture against their Hawke's Bay counterparts at Wairoa Bowling Club on Monday. Both centres agreed to include junior players...

SHOOTING STAR

Silver Ferns great coming to town