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Boys’ High building towards Super 8

RUGBYBig rugby is just around the corner for Gisborne Boys’ High School. Ryan Tapsell’s first 15 are steeling themselves for their second-last pre-Super 8 game — at 12.30pm tomorrow against Feilding Agricultural High School at Whitmore Park...

GOLF ROUNDUP

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Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

Individual HIGHLIGHTS180s: Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2 (Young Guns); John Love, John White (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men (140): Te Kotahi Kaio 4, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Young Guns); Tahuna Irwin, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Heath Woollett (Tigers); Matty...

Tournament ‘biggest and best yet’

RUGBY SEVENSThis year’s Turanga Sevens tournament was the biggest and best yet, with 11 teams playing in a festival of rugby. Hawke’s Bay team MAC beat Waikohu 19-17 in the final to win the tournament. Campbell Hall, of Waikohu, was the...

Now for next challenge

WAKA AMA by John GilliesCHALLENGES have been met and more lie ahead for Horouta Waka Hoe paddlers still glowing from their success at the Waka Ama New Zealand National Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro. Horouta won the club points trophy for the...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

: Marcus Leach, Jono Griffiths (both from RSA Men of Mayhem); Tobias Campbell-Ratapu (2NZ Vikings); Matt Reedy, Monty Reedy (Cossy Done & Dusted).Mike Jones (Roseland); Kayne Arahanga, Tyson Eyles, Irie Eyles (2NZ Kings); George Vaotuua (2NZ...

Incentive for Waikohu is outright third place

NETBALLWAIKOHU (1) have plenty to play for when they take on competition leaders YMP at the YMCA tomorrow. A win or a bonus-point loss would see them move into outright third place on the table. Heading into the two games tomorrow, YMP Sunshine...

Visit to Tauranga a drought-breaker

A SMALL team from Tu Mana Toa Martial Arts travelled from Gisborne to Tauranga to break a Covid-induced drought of sporting contests. The Bay Open taekwondo tournament was held during Queen's Birthday Weekend and although it was scaled down to...

Riders take on must-do event

IT is known in motocross circles as the “must-do” of all cross-country events. So a small group of Gisborne riders “did” and did it well at the Tarawera 100 Cross Country Race at Te Teko last weekend. The five-strong Gisborne contingent all...

Raiders, City Lights set the tempo

If Gisborne Boys' High School versus Green Up was the main event in men's club basketball this week, the Raiders-City Lights clash in Game 1 got the juices flowing. Lights skipper Scott Muncaster (13 points), so often the point of the sword for his...

Tautau wins President’s Trophy

Wayne Tautau’s list of snooker achievements got a little longer when the President’s Trophy was decided at the Cosmopolitan Club. The trophy, played off handicap, brings together players who have won or been runner-up in Gisborne Cossie Snooker...

Hannah King second at Raglan surfing comp

SURFINGGISBORNE surfer Hannah King finished second in the under-16 girls’ division of the Backdoor Oceanbridge Manu Bay Pro at Raglan yesterday. King finished with a heat score of 6.40 in the final. The winner, Raglan’s Brie Bennett, boosted her...

Akroyd shines at Freyberg Masters

REPRESENTATIVE stalwart Tony Akroyd could write a book about his golfing successes over the years. Yesterday he added another chapter. Akroyd racked up two wins as Poverty Bay-East Coast were pipped twice on the penultimate day of the Freyberg Masters...

Martin’s century sets up Horouta for victory

CRICKETKeegan Martin’s unbeaten century was the mainstay of Horouta’s victory over Campion College in Hope Cup cricket at the weekend. Martin came to the crease with his side in trouble at 11-2 and smashed 17 fours and three sixes on his way to...

Husband and wife made life members

BOWLS by Jack MalcolmBOWLING brought Carol and Arthur Hawes together over 40 years ago and on Sunday they were made life members of Gisborne Bowling Club. It is the first time the club has awarded life membership to a husband and wife. Life-member...

Straight talk from Coast coach Hosea Gear

When talking rugby, the salt of the earth — Ngati Porou East Coast — don't go the airy-fairy “We're disappointed”.They say, “We gave it death, mate; lost 42-16.”The Hosea Gear-coached Coast under Hone Haerewa make no excuses: they were...