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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

Coast lose gritty u18 clash

RUGBYIt was gritty. The Thames Valley under-18 rugby team beat their Ngati Porou East Coast opposites 19-12 yesterday, but left Whakarua Park in Ruatoria knowing they’d been in a fight.“We pinched lineout ball from them — as they did to us —...

Speedway has been cancelled,Gisborne meeting cancelled

SPEEDWAY by Murray RobertsonTHE Gisborne Speedway Club has been forced to cancel its next scheduled meeting for the season this Saturday night due to some drivers and cars not being available. Met Service forecasts showing rain and south-easterlies...

Last crack to be ‘King’

FATHER-and-son sidecar duo Deane and Rob Miller will ride again together this weekend in a one-off comeback at the Rosebank track in Auckland. The pair ended their nine-year racing career together with victory in the Auckland championships at...

Jefferson joins File and Whiteman in ‘50 club’

WAIROA was the venue for the Gisborne-East Coast champion of champions triples bowls events. Men’s and women’s club champions in open grade and in divisions for those with up to eight years of bowls experience turned out in force to contest the...

Netball challenge round starts with convincing results

HOROUTA Gold and Gisborne Girls' High School were big winners in the first of the challenge round netball games last night. Gillies Electrical GGHS Senior A defeated JT Contractors Horouta Taimana 60-43 in the first of two Pak'nSave competition games...

Gordon the fastest on muddy Motu Trail

CALLUM Gordon and Kendra Tate conquered extremely muddy conditions to take home the trophies in the Motu Special mountainbike races on Sunday. Gordon was men’s winner in the 50km Weka Special while Tate was women’s winner in the 25km Falcon...

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...

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Silver Ferns great coming to town

Bay women off to nationals

Poverty Bay women attended the Central Regional 7s rugby tournament in Levin at the weekend aiming to be the first Heartland women’s team to make it to the nationals . . . and they achieved that aim.“Being the only Heartland team in the...

Cycling events for weekend

Gisborne Cycling Club events — visitors and new cyclists welcome. Saturday — Club ride (group ride, no race): Group ride at 1.30pm from Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road. This is a friendly group ride, 90 minutes to three hours long. Sunday — Group...

Breakneck pace predicted

BASKETBALLIt’s meant to make your head spin. Game 1 of Week 9 in the Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club competition — High Flyers versus Lytton High School — will be played at breakneck pace. Lytton captain Genesis Bartlett-Tamate...

Netball teams eye premier level spots

Challenge Round club netball starts at the YMCA tomorrow night with two teams keen to prove they deserve to remain at Premier level. Round 1 grading games ended last weekend and the sides taking part in the Challenge Round emerged from these, pitting...

United teams see off rivals

Gisborne United Premiers lead football's Eastern League 1 after they beat Wainui Sharks 7-3 in a top-of-the-table match at Harry Barker Reserve. The score was 1-1 when Wainui goalkeeper — and last man — Matt Wotherspoon was sent off for bringing...

Loffler celebrates 40th birthday in style

OLD Boys Rugby club captain and No. 3 batsman Ian Loffler celebrated his midweek 40th birthday with an unbeaten 46 in his side’s eight-wicket win against Gisborne Boys’ High School in DJ Barry Cup 40-over cricket at Harry Barker Reserve on...