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Gisborne Trampoline Club members return laden with medals

Gisborne Trampoline Club members returned from the North Island champs in Auckland with seven titles, a silver medal and four bronze medals from its team of 13. Ava-Raey Haley took out both the trampoline and double mini North Island titles in the...

Sports draws

Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: Whangar...

BIZminton, week 2

The second night of the badminton business house league had results ranging from dominant wins to close encounters. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys had some tight matches against RSL51s, a team made up of super veterans. The score ended three...

Superior ends won earn Denham crew Craill Shield crown

It was great to see 48 players taking part in Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s Eric Craill Triples Tournament this month. The tournament was held at Kahutia due to cyclone damage to Poverty Bay’s artificial green. Winners of the Eric Craill Shield...

Lesser lights push guns

Solid but not startling wins for the front-runners marked the weekend round of the Poverty Bay hockey competition, while there were some good efforts by the lower-ranked teams. Ngatapa women got the ball rolling on Thursday night on the Hain Farming...

Baptism of fire for prem grade newbies Ngatapa

by Sherrill Beale Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball gets under way at the YMCA tonight, with one game set to be close and the other a test for one of the new premier teams. Whangara Old Girls take on Horouta Koura at 6pm in the...

Dame Lisa hails ‘amazing’ effort in World Cup first for Gisborne’s Hoskin

National champion, Olympian and now Canoe Sprint World Cup gold medallist. Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin’s career reached another milestone with a gold medal-winning paddle alongside Dame Lisa Carrington at the International Canoe Federation Canoe...

Fast and furious MacGregor wins feature race

by Rockin’ Robin Vinzent MacGregor won the feature race and drove the fastest lap at Eastland Kart Club’s second-to-last points meeting. The rain early on the Sunday meant the track did not need any more water. This made for a fast track...

Champ of champ pairs titles to Kahutia, Te Karaka

KAHUTIA and Te Karaka pairs won the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast Champion of Champions Pairs tournament for senior women and men at Kahutia Bowling Club. Lucy Shanks (skip) and Glenys Whiteman of Kahutia beat Wairoa’s Glenda Kapene (s) and Jo Sturmey...

ON THE MATS

Indoor bowls by Horsey Andrew Rickard showed total class on his way to winning the Poverty Bay East Coast centre open singles final 13-6 against Jay Casey . Rickard was unbeatable all day. He defeated Kaye Easton in his first game, drew with Bryan...

Darts results

Gisborne Club Darts Association INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: L Kaa (Rebels); A Taukamo-Pohio (Tao Valkyries); J Waikawa-Nepe (Tao Vikings); J Collier (Roseland); M Reedy (Done n Dusted); I Eyles (Gunz); T Irwin, J White, M Awatere (Brezz’n Gold); L...

‘Jet ski racing is fun’

WHEN Gisborne teenager Claire Ellmers lined up at the start gate for her first New Zealand pole ski race meeting on Lake Taupo, she couldn’t help but notice that not only was she the only novice, she was also the sole female. That did not stop the...

Third year of JAB initiative kicks off with Ngatapa kids

A rugby ball for every registered JAB player is the aim of the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union/Bayleys Gisborne initiative Balls4All. Started three years ago, it is about promoting the game by directly “getting a ball in the hands” of all JAB...

Challenge wins to Girls’ High, Horouta Koura

by Sherrill Beale Premier sides Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A and Horouta Koura hit the court running with emphatic wins in the first of the Challenge round games on Wednesday night. Girls’ High outgunned YMP (2) 59-22 and Horouta eased past...

Three in the hunt for last pennants semi spot

The cream has risen. Rounds 5 and 6 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants were expected to be Moving Day for those hunting semifinal berths in the matchplay series. And move they did. Patutahi (1), as they have done since Round 1, virtually...

Flair play likely in GMC, YMP clash

by Scraggy GMC Green know their A’s from their B’s but there could be the odd double take in their Poverty Bay women’s club hockey game tomorrow night. The Green Machine will be out to keep their unbeaten run intact when they face YMP B at 6pm...