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Gisborne surf lifeguards gear up for Mt Maunganui action tomorrow

Surf lifeguards from the Waikanae and Midway clubs will be in action at Mt Maunganui tomorrow in a carnival staged to give them something to make up for the cancellation of the New Zealand championships. Surf Life Saving New Zealand this week...

More short-course swimming medals

TWO more medals completed a successful campaign at the New Zealand short-course swimming championships in Auckland for Enterprise Cars Swim Team. Jack Keepa added to his haul with third place in the 14-year boys’ 100 metres butterfly. He was also...

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkLIAM Wallace is better known for his musical skills. Last Saturday, the EIT Tairawhiti student proved brilliant with an instrument of the sporting kind. Wallace had a hole-in-one on the 155-metre par-3 second hole while playing with...

Golf roundup

Electrinet ParkRODNEY Moore and Mihi Marino made it three Lunken Cup mixed pairs foursomes titles in four years on Sunday. The Moore/Marino combo defended the title with a net 70, with Anthony Pahia and Wiki Morrissey and Pete Stewart and Tracey Ford...

Sports draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club eventsSaturday, GCC Saturday Spring Series, Race 2 —Sign-on: 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Bushmere Arms. Start: 2pm. Handicap race (45 kilometres): Waingake course. Marshals: Rowan Clark, Barry McLaughlin. Tuesday, Avantiplus...

GGHS, Ngatapa staying put

THE make-up of the Gisborne premier grade netball competition remains unchanged from last year after Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A and Farmlands Ngatapa saw off A-grade challengers on Saturday. Following midweek wins over A-grade sides Taiki and...

LOB A rebound but Masters hammered

LYTTON Old Boys A rebounded from their loss last weekend but LOB Masters were hammered in the opening matches of Round 10 in the men’s hockey competition on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve last night. The Masters were trounced 17-0 by...

Now they know what they’re up against

CRICKETThat’s what they’re up against. The Bay of Plenty Coastlands primary school team who rolled Hamilton for 90 a fortnight ago dismissed Poverty Bay for 89 on Sunday, at Trident High School, Whakatane. Coastlands captain Loughie Keaney won the...

Opportunity for tribute

THE spirit of Poverty Bay Open great Frank Gordon will hang heavily over the 82nd edition, which tees off tomorrow. The most prolific winner of the district’s signature men’s tournament — eight times over the period from 1952 to 1969 — died...

Green Machine win turf thriller

THE Green Machine produced the result of the weekend in hockey, ending the unbeaten run of YMP (1) in a hard-fought contest at Harry Barker Reserve. INA Contracting GMC Green won the top-of-the-table premier women's contest 2-1 in a thriller on the...

Local sports news in brief

Eastland Masters won both their ties in the North Island Regional Masters northern region Division 3 badminton competition in Rotorua on Saturday. They defeated Waitakere (4) 8 matches to 4 and Auckland (3) 7 matches to 5. Drivers had a chance to blow...

Tessa takes route 66 to Bay course record

IF Tessa McDonald needed extra motivation heading into the women's national interprovincial in Auckland, Saturday's round on her home track was the perfect injection . . . a course record. The No. 1 women's golfer in Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay shot...

Ryan in doubt for clash with Havelock,Northern Ireland end 34-year wait with 2-0 win

GISBORNE Thistle player-coach Liam Ryan is in doubt for tomorrow’s Central Federation League football match against Havelock North Wanderers at Guthrie Park in Hawke’s Bay. Ryan picked up a knock to his knee in last week’s 5-1 win against Red...

Tie-breaker needed to decide final

SOFTBALLSCORPIONS needed an eighth-inning tie-breaker to beat TWK Rams 8-7 in the final of the Reid Reihana Memorial Tournament for Tairawhiti men’s softball teams. The scores were tied 6-6 at the end of the regulation seven innings. Rovers won the...

Making mark on mats and track

GISBORNE students are making their mark on the mats, while a Campion College BMX rider has tasted bronze success at the AIMS Games International Sporting Championships in the Bay of Plenty. Twelve Gisborne students have advanced to post-section play...

OBR and Ngatapa the teams to beat as Hope Cup semis loom

CRICKETWhat wouldn't any cricket team do to have just one of them?Opening batsmen Craig Christophers and Thom Berry again laid the platform for victory at the Harry Barker Reserve in Round 14: two weeks out from the Hope Cup semi-finals, their club...

Set to be one of the best so far

NETBALLONE of the matches of the season so far — that’s the game between High School Old Girls and Whangara Old Girls at the YMCA tomorrow night. Taste One HSOG have emerged as title contenders after steadily improving in Pak’nSave premier...

Gisborne club receives award for Squash New Zealand Club of the Year

Surf City Squash 'deserves every accolade received'