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Gisborne East Coast golf roundup

JANET Muir has taken little time to get her hands on one of the top trophies in Poverty Bay women’s club golf. Muir, who switched from Electrinet Park to the Bay this year, won the Hutchinson Cup women’s matchplay crown yesterday. It was no easy...

Sevens action at the Oval

RUGBYWOMEN’S rugby continues to grow in Tairāwhiti and that development continues tomorrow night with Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union running a sevens tournament at the Oval. Three women’s teams have entered. Game 1 features Ritana Pirates...

Season-opener ‘massive’

Kathleen Henderson Memorial win goes to YMP

Gisborne trio stand out at tumbling champs

A great year got better for Gisborne Trampoline Club athlete Lily Arnold when she attended the Counties Manukau Tumbling Champs in Auckland this month. She was one of three club members, the others being Sophie Chambers and Bella Campbell-Reidy, who...

Wairoa equestrian results

Lead Rein Rider — Fancy Dress: Indyannah Gallagher (Wairoa), Sherwood's Reckless Design, 1; Iyla Kamo (Wairoa), Mr Whippy, 2; Briar Kamo (Wairoa) Romeo, 3; Tom Richardson (Nuhaka) Indy, 4. Lead Rein Rider — Horse/Pony Suitable for a Beginner...

Trophies commemorate notable past players

Netball season about to get under way

Semifinalists aiming to peak at the right time

Four teams have to be at their best tomorrow. Ollie Needham, Craig Christophers, Mel Knight and Ryan West have led their teams to Poverty Bay Cricket Association's Senior B semifinals at the Harry Barker Reserve. A place in next week's final is their...

National champs in sights

Fox has training session with Gisborne clubbies before Taurang

Quiet achievers see team home

Keanu Makiri and Finn Robertson are quiet achievers. Yet these Gisborne Boys’ High School cricketers — more than any of their teammates on Wednesday — saw the Blues and Royals through to the T20 Challenge Cup final next week. Robertson made 29...

Ethan Cook can now show 1NZ

SPEEDWAYHigh-line daredevil Ethan Cook pulled off the performance of his career so far when he won the New Zealand saloon car championship at Meeanee Speedway in Hawke’s Bay on Wednesday night. Gisborne Speedway Club’s Cook, previously 76G, can...

Three from East Coast to play for Maori All Blacks

THREE players with links to Poverty Bay or the East Coast have been named in the Maori All Blacks squad announced today. Hurricanes and Hawke's Bay lock Isaia Walker-Leawere (Ngati Porou) played for the Gisborne Boys' High School First XV and won...

Close finish to open men’s triples

An extra end was needed to separate the finalists in the centre open men's triples at Kahutia Bowling Club's greens. Te Karaka Bowling Club trio Don Williams (skip), July Williams and William Murray won the “shoot-out” by a shot. It was William...

Pacific Premiership going down to wire

It’s the penultimate round of football’s Pacific Premiership with only three sides left with a chance to win — Gisborne United, Gisborne Thistle and Taradale. Competition leaders Heavy Equipment Services United play their last two games in...

Time right for new face to lead union

MARTY Davis has resigned as chief executive of the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union.“After 30 months in the role, with the commencement of a new season, I feel the time is right for a new face to lead the organisation,” he said in a statement to...

U19 switch not a problem for Corrin

MIDWAY Surf Life Saving Club coach Matt Sutton was reluctant to speak about Olivia Corrin’s impressive performance in the Eastern Region Championships at Mount Maunganui at the weekend. But after some gentle persuasion and initially singing the...

Coast not to be underestimated

POVERTY Bay under-16 rugby reps play East Coast at Rugby Park tomorrow in the Bay’s first and only warm-up game before their representative season starts the following weekend. The Bay have been training for the past month, and seven Gisborne...

HSOB will be up against it at Wairoa

WAIROA Athletic are setting the pace in the senior division one rugby competition and should make it five wins from five games when they host bottom-of-the-table High School Old Boys tomorrow. Wairoa go into the game unbeaten after three wins...

Win and a try to celebrate

SIONE Ngatu celebrated his 151st game for Poverty Bay with a try in their 43-29 win against King Country at Rugby Park on Saturday. The six-tries-to-four victory over King Country kept alive LeaderBrand Poverty Bay’s hopes of a place in the...