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Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Poverty Bay Bowling Club's Open Championship Mixed Fours were played as twilight games on Tuesday and Thursday last week. Section play comprised four games of 15 ends or two hoursThe team of Barrie Denham (skip), June Stichbury (3), Kathryn Flaugere...

Gisborne Senior Surf Lifesaving Championships contested Midway Beach

THE Gisborne Senior Surf Lifesaving Championships got under way at Midway Beach yesterday, with canoe, surf ski and board events held. Fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, when beach and surf events will be held from 8am

SPORTS DRAWS

Central Federation League — SUNDAY, 1pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle v Palmerston North Marist. Pacific Premiership — SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Western...

The heat is on

GISBORNE/MAHIA pro surfer Ricardo Christie made a strong start to his first big competition of the year yesterday, advancing from his first heat of the Maitland and Port Stephens Pro at Merewether Beach in Newcastle, Australia. Gold Coast-based...

Bridge results

MONDAY, November 27 — Sean Shivan Pharmacy Championship, Pairs 10: Eileen Lee/Ann McCombe 61.11; Sally Knight/Michelle England 58.33; Jean Turnbull/Robyn Cheyne 55.09; Carolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 55.09. WEDNESDAY, November 29 — Craig’s...

Medal haul at national judo champs

Gisborne Judo Club contingent bring back 11 medals, including four gold

Golf Roundup

Peter Clayton and Mark Hunt turned talk into title in winning the 2022 Gisborne Motors Barns-Graham Cup men's pairs on Sunday. Clayton and Hunt beat brothers Kit and Tene Goldsmith on the 17th hole of the handicap matchplay final to join an elite...

YMP in resounding win against Whangara

YMP made their most emphatic statement yet in the Pak’nSave premier-grade netball competition when they completed a resounding victory over challengers Whangara Old Girls at the YMCA last night. YMP Sunshine Brewery were in control throughout and...

Weir gives OBR more options

HARD-hitting OBR opener Timoti Weir returns to the side for the game against Gisborne Boys’ High School in Doleman Cup cricket at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow.“Not only does Timoti give us another batting option, his bowling has been difficult...

Taranaki win consigns PBEC to last at Freyberg Masters

Poverty Bay-East Coast fell just short of relinquishing the wooden spoon as the Freyberg Masters interprovincial wrapped up on the Paraparaumu Beach course yesterday. The bottom-seeded PBEC lost 5-0 to Aorangi in the Round 9 of the over-40s men's...

Two-from-two start for Bay,Hayes, Weir and Venema shine against ND Maori

A GREAT beginning to the season, that’s what Bollywood Poverty Bay made in beating McCaw Lewis Northern Districts Maori by 49 runs in a 35-over cricket match on Sunday and by 18 runs in yesterday’s Twenty20 game. The two wins made for a great...

Racing expected to be hard

Round 3 of Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach racing series hits Makorori Beach tomorrow. Hard racing is expected from riders trying to move up the table in the final points round of the season.“Road warrior” Dylan MacGregor (Yamaha R1)...

Rankings indicate form

But Whangara and HSOG are out to cause upsets

Wellington to be tough opposition

It’s Wellington College at Wanganui Collegiate this Monday at 1.30pm. That will be Game 3 of the Poverty Bay under-16s’ season. The Bay opened their season with a 77-10 win against East Coast at Rugby Park this month but lost 43-10 to Hawke’s...

Wins to Pups, Dragons

CRICKETHe must be Happy Jack after that. Bollywood High School Old Boys Pups’ Jack Whitehead-McKay has claimed top spot on the T30 Colts cricket batting leaderboard with the only half-century of Round 1. The 14-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman hit two...

Bridge results

TUESDAY, October 24 — Singles 2: Michelle England 71.25; Pippa Williams 55.63; Ann McCombe 55.00; Trish Corson 55.00; Dawn Wood 53.75; Sally Knight 53.13; Graham Maclaurin 53.13. WEDNESDAY, October 25 — LJ Hooker Pairs 3North/South...

Key match-up tonight at the Y

It’s a huge game to play in week two. The 2018 Gisborne Basketball Association Men’s Club Basketball League will see teams destined to feature at season’s end go at it tonight: 2016-2017 champions City Lights and the Filthy Dozen. City Lights...

Coast push King Country

RUGBYThey had the means, motive and opportunity. Or put in a more humdrum way, Ngati Porou East Coast had enough ball, passion and territory to beat the King Country Rams. As it was, the visitors at Hatea-a-Rangi Domain at Tokomaru Bay extended their...