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Extra-extra time decides Premier Grade champions: Whangara Old Girls 59 YMP 57

Whangara Old Girls hoisted the Jan Duncan Trophy for Gisborne Premier Grade netball supremacy on Saturday at the end of a cliffhanger grand final described as “one of the best”. There was pandemonium in the Gisborne YMCA when, after six minutes...

Kiwi triple-threat in NRLW

Wairoa code-switchers Madison Bartlett and Amelia Pasikala and Gisborne’s Nita Maynard are making an impact on the NRL Women’s Premiership. All three are in teams sitting in the top three of the eight-team competition after four rounds. Points...

Golden champs for GJC

GISBORNE Judo Club head coach Jason King can be forgiven for feeling a little old. He’s trained countless judoka over his decades with the club formed by father Dave, and now the children of some of them are emerging as talented players...

Gisborne club, Turanganui-a-Kiwa darts results

GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: M Reedy 2, B Leach (Done n Dusted); H Eyles 3, (Vikings); A Charlie, J Noanoa, Q Stevens 2 (Rebels); A Tangira (Spartans); J Smith (Brezz’n Silver); M Evans 2 (Spandangles); R Moore (6...

Knight on ‘classy’ ND women’s list for 2023-24 season

Gisborne’s Kaley Knight is among the 13-strong list of contracted players for the 2023-24 Northern Districts women’s team. Four new faces have made a list ND Cricket described as “a classy line-up”. “Powerhouse batter and right-arm...

GRAND FINALE

It’s YMP v Whangara for Premier Grade glory after nail-biting semifinal Whangara Old Girls will clock up yet another Premier Grade grand final but they got there by the slenderest of margins in a pulsating semifinal in the YMCA on Wednesday night...

Thumping could be fillip Thistle need for late-season surge

Gisborne Thistle couldn’t have asked for better opponents than those they face at Childers Road Reserve tomorrow. Palmerston North Marist are nine points clear at the top of the Central Federation League table. Who better to play for a shot at...

Tūranga, Coast on the road for historic Heartland comp

Tūranga Wāhine kick off the inaugural North Island Heartland competition against Thames Valley in Te Aroha tomorrow. Ngāti Porou East Coast Hamoterangi are also in action against Wairarapa Bush in Napier. Turanga and Thames Valley sides met in...

Ney 12th in junior time trial at worlds

Former Gisborne Boys’ High School student Matthew Ney has continued to show he has what it takes to compete with the world’s best cyclists. Ney represented Canada in two races at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow last week with...

Last chance saloon for Premier grand final hopefuls

Whangara Old Girls or Waikohu? The answer to that question will be found tonight when these sides meet in a Gisborne Pak’nSave Premier Grade semifinal at the YMCA. The winners of the 7.30pm clash will go on to face Turanga FM YMP (1) in the grand...

Victory double to Tūranga

Tūranga Tuatara finished their season with a 26-13 win over King Country Development in the curtain-raiser to Poverty Bay’s Heartland Championship opener at the Oval on Saturday. Andrew Tauatevalu, at centre for Tuatara, scored two tries as the...

Shootout dramas in club hockey thrillers

Waituhi into Prem 1 men’s final, another GMC-YMP women’s title decider

Bridge results

Monday, August 7 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village Teams (after two rounds) Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee, Bette Parker, Patricia Corson 32.36 victory points Glenys Evans, Anne Roberts, Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 26.73 victory points...

Coast pipped in eight-try thriller

Whichever impish deity penned rugby’s scripts in Week 1 cut loose with twists and turns. Ngāti Porou East Coast got their Heartland Championship campaign off to a rollicking start at Masterton on Saturday. Wairarapa Bush prevailed 32-31 at home...

Coach apologises to Thistle fans after ‘embarrassing effort’

Napier City Rovers Reserves came to Gisborne with a part-time goalkeeper and no substitutes and beat Thistle 7-2 in Central Federation League football on Saturday. They led 5-1 at halftime as ALH Gisborne Thistle floundered about in a tragicomic...

Waikohu advance; Whangara lie in wait

Waikohu live to fight another day after ousting Horouta Koura in Premier Grade sudden-death semifinals netball at the YMCA on Saturday. Claydens Waikohu (1) won 59-46 to earn the right to play Whangara Old Girls (1) in another do-or-die semi at the...