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Centre players of year named

DAYVINIA Mills was a clear winner of the Gisborne-East Coast centre award for women’s bowler of the year. Locally, Mills had wins in the open singles, open fours and Ella Gibson Trophy, and nationally she won the New Zealand club championship...

Depleted Eskview give United first-half scare

Gisborne United twice came from behind in their Pacific Premiership football match against Eskview, then scored two second-half goals to win 4-2 at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Eskview had nearly pulled the pin on the match on Friday. Eight...

Reid cops abuse for staying off the front at Commonwealth Games

GOLD COAST — One of New Zealand’s early success stories at the Commonwealth Games has revealed how he was abused by competitors mid-race over the strategy that almost saw him pull off a massive upset in the men’s triathlon. Tayler Reid, 20...

Win secures Grom Series title for Vette

A last-gasp ride earned Gisborne surfer Finn Vette victory in the under-16 boys' division of the King and Queen of the Point competition at Manu Bay, Raglan. The ride, in the last 10 seconds of the final, earned Vette 6.5 points and an overall score...

Now it’s just for fun

Angling amid snow, gales and tiger snakes was one wild way for Cory Scott to bow out from top-echelon competitive fly fishing. Scott, from Gisborne, is a three-time national champion and he competed at the world championships in Tasmania this month...

Bridge results

MONDAY, July 27 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 6North/South East/WestRobin Bennett, Jean Bennett 61.57 Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 56.48Stephen Francks, Amanda Matthews 57.64 Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 55.79Diana Styche, Joy...

Hurricane warning

WHEN I turned up at Rugby Park yesterday for the Hurricanes open training session I thought I was at the wrong ground. All I could hear and see at one part of the pitch was a lot of laughing, yelling and players having fun playing games. Head coach...

Gisborne's Tyler Finau on fire at NZ National Age Group Champs

Gisborne swimmer Tyler Finau has been one of the stars so far at the New Zealand National Age Group Championships in Auckland. The Enterprise Cars Swim Team member yesterday racked up her third and fourth titles in the girls’ 12-13 years age group...

Uphill battles: North End, Taradale away will be tough

Gisborne Thistle's top two football teams face tough challenges away from home tomorrow. ALH Gisborne Thistle play Manawatu club North End at Memorial Park in Palmerston North at 2.45pm tomorrow. North End had their first Central Federation League win...

Angus and Jodiesha have resounding start to winter

COMET 10-year-old swimming machines Angus Blair and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick have started the winter season with a ferocious roar that has been heard all across the Central North Island. In the space of two swim meets, between them they scooped up 41...

Surf’s up for two comps

TWO national surfing events descend on Gisborne from tomorrow with the Primary School Champs and the Scholastic Champs taking place over seven days. The two-day Sticky Johnson Primary School Champs presented by Skullcandy kicks off the action...

McDonald ends on a winning high

She started the week with a win. She finished the week with a win. Gisborne's Tessa McDonald played a major part in Hawke's Bay-Poverty redeeming themselves at the national women's matchplay interprovincial tournament in Auckland. HBPB fell just short...

Emerging talent recognised

Poverty Bay women’s cricket representatives Tayla Hollis and Kayley Knight will play for the Northern Spirit’s A team against their Auckland countertparts in a 50-over cricket game in Auckland tomorrow. Hollis, who plays for Kevin Hollis Glass...

‘Amazing game’ ends tied

YMP and Waikohu could not be separated in Pak’nSave Gisborne premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night. They drew 44-all amid wild crowd support for both teams. Claydens Waikohu held a one-goal lead after the first quarter and still led by one...

Golf Roundup

PatutahiFORMER Poverty Bay and Waikato first class rugby player Chris Humble made his holiday home a successful one on his parents’ golf course. Humble, the son of Patutahi members Gordon and Helen, won the junior men’s net on Christmas Eve...

Coast look sharp for first game

Ngati Porou East Coast are primed to perform in Game 1. Hosea Gear's Sky Blues will host Horowhenua-Kapiti in the Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Rugby Championship season opener at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, at 2.30pm tomorrow. In the...