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Bay youngsters have their moments

Poverty Bay age-group cricket teams fight to be competitive. The need to do so breeds character, and despite losing their first two T20 games in Pool B at the Northern Districts boys’ senior secondary schools’ tournament in Rotorua yesterday, the...

Opportunity knocks: Somerton to play soccer for Napier City Rovers

GISBORNE Thistle striker Jimmy Somerton has signed for Hawke’s Bay football powerhouse Napier City Rovers. Somerton, who turns 17 on December 20, is in the midst of Year 12 exams but a return to Gisborne Boys’ High School is not in his plans for...

Beach league fun curtain-raiser to netball season

THE hard courts of Victoria Domain will be traded for the sand of Midway Beach. And singlets, sunglasses and hats will be part of team uniforms when Gisborne Netball Centre presents a fun and social curtain-raiser to its 2017 schedule. From February...

Performances ‘superb’

CRICKETYou just had to be there. Round 4 of the Colts T15 nine-a-side cricket league yesterday produced superb performances in all three matches at Nelson Park. In Gisborne Girls’ High School’s eight-wicket win against the Dnature Dragons, seamers...

Gisborne-East Coast teams to take on Waiariki

Bowls Gisborne East-Coast has named its senior rep teams to play Bowls Waiariki at Ohope Bowling Club on Saturday and Bay of Plenty's senior rep team at Whakatane Bowling Club on Sunday. Senior men: Charlie Ure, Tim Sherriff and Steve Goldsbury...

Sprint nationals off

Local clubs looking at alternative regattas

Gisborne clubs shine

SWIMMINGGISBORNE swimming clubs Enterprise and Comet had a successful meet at the 2020 Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Summer Championships. Over 100 local athletes competed across the weekend in the final competitive event to be hosted by Gisborne’s...

Uawa relish prospect of season

Fifty-four kilometres from Gisborne on State Highway 35, dwell blue giants. And for Uawa — East Coast club rugby champions of the past two years and Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield holders — July 4 and Week 1 of the season can't come soon...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

A GradeINDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Tahuna Irwin 5, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Tracey Te Kira, Willie Edwards (Tigers); Te Kotahi Kaio 3 (Young Guns); Sha Hohipa (Done & Dusted).Highest start, women (160): Cynthia Tupene (Wehi).Highest start, men (180)...

Another grand master title to Manson

PISTOL SHOOTINGGISBORNE pistol shooter Aaron Manson made it six successive International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) North Island title wins at the Wanganui Pistol Club. His partner, Natalie Hawes, aiming for her third straight women’s...

Golf roundup

TahungaSPENCER Butt was a relieved man after dethroning Mark Steele as two men’s club champions were decided at the weekend. Butt was 6-up on Steele at one stage of their senior men’s 36-hole matchplay final. The reigning champion fought back and...

Saffi Vette Gisborne club surfer of the year

Gisborne Boardriders Club rounded off a year of success with their end-of-year prize-giving last weekend. Saffi Vette won surfer of the year, the award acknowledging her national championship title at the start of the year having just turned 19. It's...

Jags score best goal

But Marist take hard-won ‘away’ victory

Thistle struggle to make most of opportunities

FOOTBALLGISBORNE United and Wainui Sharks have opened a gap to the rest of the field in football’s Eastern League 1 competition. Heavy Equipment Services United sit atop the table on 19 points from six wins, one draw and one loss. Sunshine Brewing...

Good 'hit-out' to start season

SURF LIFESAVINGFLAT sea conditions made for a testing start to the 2018-19 season for Gisborne surf lifesavers who took part in the annual Whangamata Classic at the weekend. Waikanae had the biggest Gisborne contingent there with 17 competitors...

Bounceback win lifts OBM to second

OBM bounced back from last week’s Poverty Bay premier club rugby loss to HSOB with a bonus-point 26-22 win over YMP at Manutuke on Saturday. The win leapfrogged Enterprise Cars OBM over Farmvets YMP into second on the table headed by Woodbank HSOB...