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Sidecar nationals postponed to tomorrow

THE weather got the better of Gisborne Speedway Club last night in the qualifying rounds of the New Zealand sidecar championships. The event has been shifted to tomorrow afternoon at Eastland Group Raceway. The club had just started last night's...

Scoreboard

FootballPacific Premiership: In Gisborne, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 6 Hastings Western Rangers 3; Napier, Napier Marist 0 Gisborne Thistle 3. Eastern League, Division 1: Heavy Equipment Services United 1 Carpet Court Thistle Massive 2...

Silverware collection for OBM

OBM collected their second trophy of the season and sent top-of-table Waikohu a warning with a 27-19 win over YMP in premier club rugby on Saturday. High School Old Boys picked up their first win of the competition, defeating Pirates by the same...

Let’s go racing

Take 2 for start of speedway season

Sports draws

CyclingSATURDAY — Gisborne Cycling Club ride, no racing, meet at 1.30pm at Nelson Road cemetery. Sunday — Group ride at 8am from Avantiplus Manintrax. This is a friendly group ride for anyone wanting to ride with others. The approximate pace will...

Kids sport

Gisborne learn lesson

It’s a hard lesson to learn — traction equals triumph. Gisborne Boys’ High School rugby teams used to the hard and fast Rectory field battled Palmerston North Boys’ High School on a heavy ground, losing all three games of the Super 8 series...

Some may get another bite of the cherry

Gisborne Boys' High School and Trident have a good thing going. Although the David Glendenning-coached GBHS team lost all three of their games at the Trident Invitational Basketball Tournament in Whakatane on Thursday, some of those Gisborne players...

Practice sessions cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Gisborne junior cricket practice sessions this week have been cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Poverty Bay Cricket Association called off all junior cricket practice sessions for the week, citing increasing dangers from the...

Stand by for another epic final

ANOTHER epic Hope Cup final is in the offing as High School Old Boys Presidents and OBR shape up for the decider at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, the long-shots of 2021 — the Bollywood Stars High School Old...

Late penalty wins it

It could be described as a narrow escape. Tihirau Victory Club centre Peti Delamere had two chances to win the game against Tokararangi late in the piece; he took the second one, a penalty goal, for 17-15. Te Araroa Domain was the venue, on Saturday...

Team who get the upper hand could win comp

CRICKETTHIS weekend's cricket in Gisborne could go a long way to deciding who will be best placed to win the DJ Barry Cup. High School Old Boys and OBR will play a double-header in the Poverty Bay A grade competition at Harry Barker Reserve and both...

Mountain meets the river,Hikurangi and Uawa to contest Coast final,Uawa,Hikurangi

UAWA and Hikurangi have followed very different paths to the final of the Ngati Porou East Coast senior club rugby competition this year. But supporters and spectators can be assured that tomorrow’s final at Tolaga Bay Domain will be among the best...

Kennedy pockets singles title

KEVIN Kennedy marvels at the skill of the best snooker players in the world. But he’s not a bad exponent with the cue himself. It was not exactly the sort of performance Englishman Mark Selby turned on to win the world championship at snooker’s...

Number 1: YMP retain title in women’s A-grade club hockey

YMP reigned supreme in Poverty Bay women's A-grade club hockey in another chapter of their long-time rivalry with GMC Green. The “Black Beauties” beat “The Green Machine” 3-2 in a penalty shootout in the final on the blue turf at Harry Barker...

Gisborne their new home

Zimbabwean family cherish welcome they received

Rain dampens drivers' spirits in Stratford

THE five Gisborne drivers who made the finals of the New Zealand streetstock championship in Stratford at the weekend came home disappointed after the meeting was called off because of rain. Father and son Trevor and Ben McArthur, brothers Brenden...

Camp a good team bonding experience

EIGHT up-and-coming Gisborne female judo players travelled with their coach from Gisborne for a training camp in Wellington. Gisborne Judo Club coach Jason King has coached at the camp for the last four years and had taken a contingent of local...