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Whangara v Ritana could be a thriller

NETBALLWhangara Old Girls and Ritana Senior A should provide the tighter of the two Gisborne Pak’nSave premier games in the YMCA tomorrow. The 11am encounter could be a replay of hard-fought previous games between those two teams, who seem to bring...

HSOB determined to front this weekend

RUGBYJAMIE Hutana never took a backward step during his 102 games in the front row for Poverty Bay and goodness knows how many for High School Old Boys. And the HSOB coach says that while some have been disappointed with his decision to default their...

Sport was the winner

PBEC proud

THERE are no loyalty medals given out in interprovincial golf. If there were, two of the men teeing up for Poverty Bay-East Coast on day 1 of the men’s national interprovincial in Northland would deservedly be wearing one. Andrew Higham and William...

Uphill for Horouta cricket after DJ Barry Cup semis

A MAN-of-the-match performance from OBR medium-pace bowler Jimmy Holden has almost certainly ended Horouta’s hopes of a place in the DJ Barry Cup semifinals after the penultimate game in the round-robin format at the weekend. Horouta went into the...

Lower grades set for playoffs fight

The top-four match-ups across the senior grades in Gisborne netball tomorrow have quality and excitement written all over them. Game 1 in each grade will be the match between first and second seeds, and the winners go direct to their finals on August...

First centre title to Gisborne's Davy

BEVERLY Davy celebrated her breakthrough open centre title when she combined with Robin Jefferson in the Gisborne-East Coast 2-4-2 mixed pairs championship on the Gisborne club greens. Gisborne club captain Davy and centre president Jefferson did...

GOLF ROUNDUP

GOLF-loving teachers are making the most of their last days of summer holidays. Central School principal Andy Hayward celebrated a career-first hole-in-one on Sunday while fellow teacher Stefan Andreassen made his 10th round of golf for 2020 one he...

Still the champions

Gisborne United retained the Eastern League division 1 title with a 5-2 win against Gisborne Boys’ High School at the Rectory field on Saturday. Two goals to player-coach Stu Cranswick and one each to strike partner Aubrey Yates and midfielders...

OBM push Waikohu all the way in semi

Waikohu coach Jason Tuapawa said Saturday’s 25-14 win against OBM in the Lee Bros Shield rugby semifinal was the stern challenge the team needed going into this weekend’s final.“That was our hardest game of the season, apart from a loss to...

Hope Cup set to go

Ngatapa can barely contain themselves. The first game this season for the Senior B club cricket champions of the past two years will be a replay of the 2019-2020 30-over Hope Cup final. Mike Gibson will lead the Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green...

Plenty of history to schools’ rivalry

first-15 rugby rivalry between Gisborne Boys' High School and Rotorua Boys' High is linked to great teams. The Kim Harris-coached 1995 team led by Mark Jefferson beat a powerful Rotorua crew here on a drop goal by the captain. Both are great rugby...

Tupara, Stacey named Bay players of the year

The captains of the premier men’s and women’s champions were named Poverty Bay Hockey’s players of the year at the association’s prize-giving following the weekend’s grand finals. Kohere Tupara, of the YMP men, and Jade Stacey, of GMC Green...

Swim for Life coach appointed

SWIM For Life Tairawhiti Charitable Trust (SFLT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the country’s top swimming organisation. The trust signed the MOU with Swimming New Zealand (SNZ) yesterday, to provide a swimming coach who will...

New venue for bigger, better Kids TRYathlon

GISBORNE youngsters are so keen to get out swimming, cycling and running that the 2018 edition of the popular Sanitariuim Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon will be held at a new location. The base for the Gisborne event, on February 20, is to be moved from...

This one's for Starr

WAIKOHU celebrate their 100-year anniversary with an official dinner at the club rooms after tomorrow’s premier match against country neighbours Ngatapa at Te Karaka. Aon Waikohu skipper Geoff Pari said while it was a celebration, the occasion...

‘Intelligent innings’ best of the season

It's the innings of the season to date. Caleb Taewa's unbeaten 73 on Saturday was a gem. The highest individual score made in the Junior Colts Grade on either side of Christmas, 11-year-old Caleb's knock was the first Colts Grade half-century since...

Marshall, McIlroy singles winners

VERN Marshall and Holly McIlroy won the men’s and women’s open singles bowls tournaments played at the Gisborne and Kahutia greens over the weekend. Both were first-time winners of this event. Holly McIlroy is a relative newcomer to bowls in the...