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Hawea makes age-group cut

GISBORNE golfer Tini Hawea comfortably made the cut for today’s final round of the New Zealand men’s age-group strokeplay on the Bridge Pa course at Hastings. In windy conditions yesterday, Hawea added 5-over 77 to his opening round of 78 for...

OBR go against Hope Cup form guide

CRICKETOne game went down to the wire, while the other wrapped up rather quickly. Old Boys Rugby (2) recorded their second win of the season in 29 overs of cricket’s 30-over Hope Cup competition at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. They beat Campion...

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...

Gisborne Speedway Club awards

Michie Family Trophy, ministocks battler: Hayley Durston. Bloomfield Trophy, production saloon battler: Ethan Rogers. La Partice Trophy, stockcar battler: James Clarke. Watene Waikare Trophy, streetstocks battler: Cody Gooch. Saloon battler: Paul...

‘Over the moon’: First IronWoman series podium for Olivia Corrin

Gisborne surf lifesaving athlete Olivia Corrin has claimed her maiden podium placing in Australia's premier ironman and ironwoman series. Corrin, from the Dawson Building Midway Club, finished second in the opening round of the Nutri-Grain IronMan...

Dream team make do

THINGS are coming along nicely. The Dream Team, who had hoped to flatten Hearty Ngati by more than 28 points, had to make do with a 78-73 win last night in the final round-robin game of the 2015 Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club...

DO OR DIE: Girls’ High, YMP in battle for grand final berth

A “PUMPED-UP” Gisborne Girls' High School face a “hungry” YMP in a do-or-die premier-grade netball semifinal tomorrow night. The YMCA will be a cauldron for netball fans with two great games in store. Grand finalists Claydens Waikohu (1) await...

Lytton, Ngati Porou last women standing

Defending champions Lytton High are back for Gisborne Basketball Association’s main event while Ngati Porou have the chance to regain No. 1 status in the women’s club final at the YMCA tomorrow. In a replay of last year’s final, the Jayd...

Gizzy grommets rip it up in Summer Slam

MAKO Fukushima and Rori Fukushima were the big winners at the Boardroom Summer Slam at the Pines on Sunday. The brothers went home with a LOST carbon wrap Quiver Killer surfboard, which retails at $1200.“Each year the board is awarded to a grommet...

Big day rolls around

SEPTEMBER 2 has been circled in the diaries of Alicia Hoskin and Alex Bermingham since November last year, when it was planned with coach Gergely Gyertyános that they would leave Gisborne and head to the 2016 Olympic Hopes regatta in...

Poverty Bay Year 6 boys’ cricket team stay in the contest

They're in every game. The Poverty Bay Year 6 boys' cricket team lost to the Eastern Suburbs Tornadoes by two wickets and Karori by nine runs at the Riverbend tournament in Hawke's Bay yesterday. They earned the respect of opposition coaches...