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Leah best all-rounder

TRAMPOLININGLEAH Scholefield has been named Gisborne Trampoline Club’s best all-round trampolinist. The announcement came at the club’s end-of-season prize-giving. It is the second time the Gisborne Girls’ High School student has won the top...

Boys’ High to play Bay of Plenty team

GISBORNE Boys’ High School earned the right to play a Bay of Plenty team by beating Campion College in a First XI Cup pre-qualifying cricket game at Harry Barker Reserve this week. Campion captain Sam Patterson, who made his debut for the Poverty...

Second straight win for YMP

YMP have their heroes. And under their captain and hooker Shayde Skudder, they beat High School Old Boys 29-7 — their second straight win — and took five points.“Our set-piece worked well and our backs complemented the mahi (work) the forwards...

McIlroy national bowls champion

SHANNON McIlroy won his first national singles bowls title yesterday, a day before his 29th birthday. The Nelson-based former Gisborne bowler beat fellow New Zealand representative Paul Girdler 21-11 in the final at the Burnside Bowling Club in...

Nathan Trowell continues great run of indoor bowls success

Sixteen-year-old Nathan Trowell has continued his great run of indoor bowls success. He defeated his cousin Matthew Foster 12-9 to win the local final of the New Zealand under-18 singles, then defeated Matthew's younger brother Dylan Foster 18-7 to...

BRING ON THE BUTCHER BOYS

One of the weirdest seasons of rugby in living memory comes to an end tomorrow for Poverty Bay. The Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay side take on Wanganui's “Butcher Boys” at Napier's McLean Park in a curtain-raiser for Hawke's Bay's defence...

Happy 100th

COREY Reihana capped his 100th game for High School Old Boys with a scintillating try in their 26-18 premier win against Waikohu at the Oval on Saturday. The bonus-point victory stretched the defending champions’ lead at the top of the table to 11...

Big challenge for GBHS,First away game for 2019 won’t be easy

RUGBYThe first away game of a season can be very revealing. So, although the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 played top rugby in the 66-12 win at home against Lindisfarne College last Saturday, their fans should expect tomorrow’s 12pm clash...

Sports awards winners

THE region’s sporting elite and those who helped them reach those heights were acknowledged at the Logans Sporting Excellence Awards this week. The awards featured a celebration of 25 years of an organisation that has played a major role in sport...

Kiwi Campbell and Jessie Smith in running for awards

TWO local sporting stars have been recognised for their success, being nominated for the Nga Whetu o Matariki Awards. Kiwi Campbell has been nominated as a finalist for Te Waita Award for Sport and Jessie Smith has been nominated for Te Whetu Maiangi...

BMX club hosts qualifying events

Gisborne BMX Club hosted riders from all over the North Island — and Christchurch — at two meetings over one weekend this month. Both meetings were classed as qualifying events for the nationals in Tauranga at Easter. The Bikeys Gisborne meeting...

Weekend of action opens with ‘crackers’

HOCKEYTWO cracking games tonight usher in the weekend’s action in Poverty Bay hockey and both senior women’s matches are too close to call. At 6pm, JNL Paikea meet GMC Kowhai and hockey commentator Tony Scragg has sat firmly on the fence.“I...

Suns bow out on the road

It’s done. The Turanga Health Rising Suns have finished their 2015 SAS Sports Conference Basketball League season in Round 7. They lost 130-62 to the Waikato Pistons and 83-70 to St John’s College in Hamilton on Saturday, and 124-42 to the...

Taylor sits 13th in Nutri-Grain Ironman surf lifesaving series

GISBORNE’S Cory Taylor is sitting 13th on the rankings after the first two rounds of the prestigious Nutri-Grain Ironman surf lifesaving series on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Gold Coast-based Taylor, making his ironman series debut, was 11th in...

Handicap singles win for Raggett

Bill Raggett won Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s handicap singles championship this month. In the final, he defeated Tiny Thompson — in the decider for the third year in a row — two frames to one. Qualifying was played in four sections...

Sports draws

CricketFRIDAY — WALKER SHIELD T15 BLAST, 5.45pm: — HBR 1, Auto Tyres Eagles v Eastland Broncos. Bollywood Stars have defaulted to Smash Palace Bail Breakers. SUPERSTARS, 3.45pm: HBR 1, Mixed Schools PBCA years 2-6 v Wainui Wizards; HBR 2, Makauri...