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New tiebreaker found

EASTLAND Kart Club organisers came up with a novel way of finding a winner from a three-way tie on Sunday: a piggyback race. It was the Gisborne Curtains best-pairs meeting, with 41 pairs taking part. Drivers were paired across different classes, so...

Larsen Sawmilling Show Jumping Champ results

Transtasman young rider test (final points after three days of competition): New Zealand 16, Australia 13. Series results, Equissage Open Horse Grand Prix: Olivia Robertson (Christchurch) DH’s Ceniki 1, Katie Laurie (Mystery Creek) Dunstan...

Park on Oligoi title mission

Electrinet Park will launch an attack from two fronts in a bid to end a 10-year title drought when the 2021 Oligoi Jug men's interclub pennants tees off tomorrow. Park have two teams entered in this year's series, which starts at Te Puia Springs —...

Coast finalists are found

RUGBYSemifinals are nerve-racking affairs . . . or blowouts. Uawa, the defending champions of East Coast club rugby, favoured the latter at home on Saturday. They beat Hicks Bay 51-3 in a 1 v 4 semifinal at Tolaga Bay. Uawa’s victory means they will...

Ensor expecting tough game from Waikohu

HIGH School Old Boys coach Wayne Ensor is taking nothing for granted as he prepares for tomorrow’s clash with Aon Waikohu at the Oval. Woodbank HSOB lead the premier rugby competition by 10 points, with five games to play before the semifinals. But...

It’s a Tokararangi-TVC final

Tokararangi will face TVC in the final of the Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition this weekend. Top qualifiers Tokararangi proved too good for Hicks Bay in their semifinal at Te Araroa on Saturday — a 34-12 victory sealing...

Trophy celebrates and honours sporting bonds

A shared love of cricket is what’s behind this. On Saturday, Campion College won the Naden-Taylor Trophy for competition against the Horouta Cricket Club for the first time in the trophy’s short history. Named for the Naden family, three...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Vern Marshall and Ngamiro Allen were in familiar territory when they won the Val Smith 2-4-2 Mixed Pairs Tournament over the weekend. Presenting the Evelyn Mills Trophy to them for winning the tournament, Trevor Mills said Marshall had won the...

Protest drama after semifinal rule breach

New Zealand Golf confirmed one spot. The other remained up in the air until Tuesday after the rule book was brought out to decide an Oligoi Jug men’s interclub semifinal at Electrinet Park course on Saturday. Defending champions Poverty Bay (1) will...

Close games at national tourney

BOWLS By CrackerjackThe 2021 National Interclub Sevens in Christchurch recently was a great four-day tournament. This year, Bowls Gisborne East-Coast men’s team was represented by Te Karaka Bowling Club and a composite Kahutia-Wairoa represented...

PBEC golfers share honours with Southland

POVERTY Bay-East Coast are on the board. The bottom-ranked province at the national men’s golf interprovincial in Invercargill pulled off a minor shock this morning in sharing the honours 2½-all with hosts Southland. PBEC No. 2 William Brown notched...

Canterbury champions

Canterbury yesterday claimed their first ever team title at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships. In a three-way battle with defending champions Bay of Plenty and Auckland, Canterbury triumphed after the lead switched several times...

Johnny Jones a gentleman who ‘led’ with distinction

ONE of the longest serving and most valued members of the Kahutia Bowling Club, John Raymond George (Johnny) Jones, passed away recently. Johnny was a real gentleman who loved his bowls but who always put his family first. He had a friendly...

Hikurangi set for big effort

They’re two big names in East Coast club rugby. The late Kath McLean and Jury Harrison, revered stalwarts of the game on the Coast, lent their names to the first and second-round memorial trophies. Uawa won the Kath McLean last Saturday; tomorrow...

United and Thistle pull away from the chasers

Both Gisborne teams in football’s Pacific Premiership pulled away from the Hawke’s Bay chasing group after Saturday’s round of games. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle are top of the table with 18 points after their 3-0 default win over Hastings...

McDonald golfing win saves whitewash

GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald is finding her groove after her late call-up for the Toro women’s national interprovincial in Ashburton. McDonald, playing at No. 5 for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay yesterday notched her first win of the teams’...