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Former Gisborne players to line up against Bay

RUGBYFIVE former Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 players have been named in the Taranaki rugby squad to play Poverty Bay in the Ranfurly Shield challenge match at New Plymouth on July 28. Toa Halafihi, Adrian Wyrill, Jared Proffit, Beaudein...

Bay focus shifts to Heartland campaign

POVERTY Bay coach Mana Otai has no regrets about their Ranfurly Shield challenge with Taranaki, despite his side copping a 78-0 thumping.“There are things I would change regarding our preparations but it is an honour to play in a Ranfurly Shield...

United leave it late against Wainui

UNITED are one win away from clinching the Eastern League Division 1 football championship, but they left their run late on Saturday. Jack Feyen scored from a penalty eight minutes from time to give Heavy Equipment United a 1-0 win against Wainui...

Bohemians get their first league title

FOOTBALLTWO league titles were decided and another was tipped in one direction in Gisborne club football last Saturday. Bohemians clinched the Gisborne Championship Division 2 competition with a close-fought 2-2 draw with Thistle Vintage at Childers...

Gisborne riders on track for HOY show

Several Gisborne riders have been performing well in recent shows as they count down to the Horse of the Year Show in Hastings next week. Sinead Dolman has had a showjumping season she will long remember aboard her three horses — Kiwi Lansing, Kiwi...

Last-round drama

Takurua four swoop to win Burton by a point

Christie's rookie year ends

THE brilliance and experience of a former world champion ended Ricardo Christie's rookie year on the World Surf League Championship Tour in Hawaii today. Australian and 2012 world title winner Joel Parkinson proved too good for Gisborne-Mahia surfer...

Gisborne Bridge Club results

MONDAY, August 6 — Emerre & Hathaway Pairs 1North/South East/WestJoy Marden, Bette Parker 60.83 Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee 58.57Carolyn McMurray, Trish Corson 55.42 Rosemary Rowell, Murray Owen 58.57WEDNESDAY, August 8 — President’s Pairs...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkROD Moore completed step one of his club championship mission at the weekend — top qualifying. Moore impressively handled the windy conditions on Saturday to post 2-over 74 and earn the No. 1 seeding in the senior division. He was two...

It’s Brigham Young . . .

BASKETBALLArielle Williams-Mackey wanted to be in Gisborne to announce her scholarship to play sport in America. The basketball prodigy had a wealth of offers from universities across America and ultimately accepted a scholarship from Brigham Young...

Thistle back on track with away victory

Early setbacks did not stop Gisborne Thistle from recording a 4-1 victory over Napier Marist in Central Federation League football in Hawke's Bay yesterday. A miskick in an attempted clearance led to a goal being scored by Marist in the 11th...

At home on the Coast

HAVING played 69 games at lock for Poverty Bay, Wayne Ensor is no stranger to local derbies. But on Saturday he will be up against his old province as co-coach of Ngati Porou East Coast for their Queen’s Birthday Weekend clash with the Bay at...

Town-versus-Country game much anticipated

Town against Country is a rugby match-up older than the trees on the hills, and the players are raring to go. The Civil Project Solutions game acts as a final chance to impress Poverty Bay selectors and earn a spot in the upcoming Heartland...

Six Gizzy boys in championship playoffs

SHERIDAN Rangihuna is the first of six Gisborne rugby players in action this weekend in the Mitre 10 Cup semifinals. Rangihuna, from the Gisborne Boys’ High School “class of 2011” and his Wellington Lions teammates play Northland in Wellington...

Taking her culture to the equestrian world

For Lizzie Rangihuna, competing in a showjumping competition in Ireland won’t just be about the New Zealand team’s equine talents. She wants to “empower more young Maori to take up this sport and to feel proud to do so”.Rangihuna, 20, wants...

This one’s for ‘Nanny’

YMP have been well served by their coaches and management teams since the club was founded in 1910. And in the best traditions of complementing their players’ muscle and passion with their astute reading of the game, East Coast Farm Vets YMP...