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Victorious end for Gisborne

Gisborne representative netball team finished the New Zealand Open Champs on a high in Dunedin at the weekend. The Ingrid Brown-coached Gisborne beat Rotorua 43-39 in their final bottom three round-robin game to place 19th overall. It was a fitting...

Defence key as East Coast make it four wins on the trot

Are the Sky Blues unstoppable? Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi beat their oldest foes Poverty Bay Wekas 31-11 at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria on Saturday to consolidate third on the table in Week 5 of the Heartland Championship. The neighbours’...

United do the double

Three goals in the last six minutes blew out the scoreline of football’s Bailey Cup final but the result was a fair reflection of the game. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United completed the Eastern League-Bailey Cup double by beating Coates...

ON THE MATS

Gisborne teenagers Rachael Rickard and Kayla Trowell showed their class in reaching the semifinals at the New Zealand under-18 singles finals in Auckland. The pair qualified strongly, winning all four of their games. Rickard won 16-5, 9-7, 20-3 and...

Gisborne Club Darts results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Ratapu, F Waihape, J Ahuriri (2NZEF TAO Spartans); I Eyles, T Eyles (RSA Gunz); M Hawea, J Campbell-Ratapu (2NZEF TAO Vikings); T Irwin, T TeKira (Brezzn Gold); K Arahanga (RSA Stallions). HIGH STARTS: 180 — F...

Nikora named assistant coach of Heartland XV

Miah Nikora has gone from strength to strength in a rugby coaching career that continues to scale new heights. New Zealand Rugby has announced that Nikora will be assistant coach of the Heartland XV squad, with South Canterbury’s Nigel Walsh as...

Gisborne Girls’ High School win B Grade to claim promotion in the Upper North Island Secondary Schools Tournament

Two grade wins in two years have Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A netballers walking on air. Next year they will contest the A Grade competition at the Upper North Island Secondary Schools Netball Tournament in Waitakere. They won promotion as...

Coast v Bay tripleheader in Ruatōria

Ruatōria will be rugby central tomorrow when Ngāti Porou East Coast host Poverty Bay in a Heartland Championship Week 5 derby with more than just competition points on the line. What is shaping up to be another classic duel between the scarlet of...

Uawa proud

The girls from Ūawa are huddled closely together on the side of the netball court, getting some last-minute advice from their coach before the start of the next quarter. It’s proving a tough first match for them at the AIMS Games in Tauranga —...

Try of the season?

Poverty Bay fullback Ricardo Patricio finishes off an early contender for the individual try of the season in the Bay’s Heartland Championship clash with Mid Canterbury at the Oval on Saturday. With around 20 minutes of the match remaining...

Ecstasy to agony for Reid

Spraying bubbly on the podium in London one week; lying devastated on a Toulouse street after a nasty cycle crash the next. Gisborne’s Tayler Reid was on the wrong end of the fickle and sometimes merciless nature of his profession in Race 2 of the...

Sneaky Reekie sinks Bay

A drop goal in the 79th minute decided a thrilling Week 4 Heartland Championship match at the Oval on Saturday. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas fought back with a late try double to fullback Ricardo Patricio to level the game only for Mid...

Coast pick up third straight win

Sky Blue rugby fans worldwide jumped for joy on Saturday. The Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi, holders of both the Lochore Cup and Bill Osborne Taonga, beat Francis Mining Buller 24-21 at Victoria Square in Westport. A weekend of...

Crossing the finish line

Gisborne Intermediate School’s Sylvia Allen on her way to second among 128 other Year 8 female athletes in the 3 km cross country event of the AIMS Games on Sunday. She crossed the line in 11 minutes, 8.74 seconds — 11 and a half seconds behind...

Double trouble as Jags sink PN United

Oska Smith marked his return to Federation League football with two goals in Gisborne Thistle’s 4-2 away win against Palmerston North United (PNU) on Saturday. But celebrations were muted by the sending-off of Thistle players Campbell Hall and...

Turanganui-a-Kiwa, Gisborne darts results

GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: P Waihape, A Tangira, F Waihape (2NZEF TAO Spartans); T Irwin, H Woollett, T TeKira, T Duncan (Brezzn Gold); M Stevens (2NZEF Rebels); H Ngarangione, K Arahanga x2 (RSA Stallions); I Eyles...