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Challenge Cup final: Admiralty v Blues and Royals

A thrilling season of T20 Challenge Cup cricket is set to end on a high today at Harry Barker Reserve. It is an all-Gisborne Boys’ High School show in Week 6. From 3.30pm, Caleb Taewa’s unbeaten Admiralty and the Blues and Royals under Jett...

Close encounters of the rugby kind in Poverty Bay-EBoP exchange

Three close encounters, two cancellations and one blowout summed up the Poverty Bay club rugby preseason matches against Eastern Bay of Plenty teams in Gisborne on Saturday. Unfortunately, Poverty Bay reigning Premier champions YMP’s clash against...

‘Incredible weekend’ for Waikanae

Waikanae’s inflatable rescue boat crews finished a highly creditable third overall in the Surf Life Saving NZ national IRB championships at Waikouaiti Beach in Otago over the weekend. The four Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae crews came home with two gold...

Wainui Beach School rule the pool

The numbers were excellent and the man on the ground should know. Enterprise Cars Aquatic Centre founder Gary Martin, who has been involved with the sport for more than half a century, was one of 20-plus volunteers who helped Te Wharau School run...

Making the most of return of ‘pinnacle’ event

SHOWJUMPING AND SHOW HUNTER Equestrian competitors waited four years to compete at the Horse of the Year due to cancellations relating to Covid-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle. They certainly made the most of the opportunity at Hastings this month. The...

First PBEC centre title for teen Casey

Indoor bowlers got their season off to a bright start with a youthful look to the final of the Opening Trios this month. Four of the six players in the final were teenagers. Tournament organisers changed the format of the tournament, which was held...

BRIDGE RESULTS

Monday, March 18 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Village Pairs 3 (Howell movement) Bette Parker, Elizabeth Jackson 66.67 Sharon Kelman, Hans van der Kuijl 62.86 Helen Kerisome, Amanda Matthews 61.25 Vicki Taylor, Ann McCombe 56.19 Vicki Nickerson, Frank...

Gisborne family affair at champs

It’s Excitement-plus for speedway fans in Gisborne with news that current New Zealand champion Asher Rees will race with a G on his car this weekend in the North Island superstock championships. Just under 100 cars started the qualifying rounds of...

On the mats

by Corals The local indoor bowls 2024 season started with the Opening Trios competition at the Cosmopolitan Club on Sunday, March 10. Instead of the usual format where pre-formed teams enter the competition, this year a single-entry format was...

Golf roundup

Tolaga Bay A Scottish name topped the prize list on Ireland’s day at Tolaga Bay’s long-awaited opening day tournament. Gary McLean won the men’s stableford on a St Patricks’ Day when more beer than Guinness flowed on Tolaga Bay’s 19th at...

‘Kids showed a lot of promise’ during Primary Festival Day

Last Wednesday was a great one for youth cricket at Harry Barker Reserve. The reserve served as the venue for the Primary Festival Day on which 10 teams from nine schools played five fast-paced games of eight-a-side, eight-overs soft-ball cricket...

MacGregor fortunate to walk away from somersaulting crash

A spectacular rollover by TQ racer Dylan MacGregor left fans gasping at the Gisborne Speedway on Saturday night and he was fortunate to be able to walk away. It happened on the first lap in MacGregor’s first race of the night on board 17G as he...

‘I can’t get there on my own’

Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin likely to be member of K4 crew that will head to Paris Olympics.

Midway roar into second place

Midway produced a stunning effort on the last two days of the national surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui to finish runners-up to the host club at the weekend. The Mount amassed 133 points across the Alan Gardner Trophy club...

Campbell looking for dual-code titles

Waka ama paddlers preparing for world champs are among those who have been learning about kayaking on the Waimata River in the past few months. Gisborne Boys’ High School student Maia Campbell, who won the J19 men’s 250-metre dash at the Wak...

BRIDGE RESULTS

Monday, March 11 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Village Pairs 2 (Howell movement) Anne Roberts, Mark Fleming 58.93 Caroline Kirkpatrick, Raewynne Cook 55.36 Ann McCombe, Vicki Taylor 54.76 Bette Parker, Elizabeth Jackson 53.65 Caroline Taylor, Brent...

Boys’ High have dominating victory against Mount Maunganui

Yesterday the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 began their rugby season as they mean to go on. The Duane Hihi-coached side scored six tries in a 32-0 win at home on the occasion of their first-ever game against Mount Maunganui College. A crowd...

Golden form at the surf lifesaving nationals

Midway climb from seventh to fourth after a medal surge claiming gold, silver and bronze.