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Poverty Bay Cricket’s finest umpires recognised with two significant appointments

Good umpires are valuable to the game. And Poverty Bay Cricket has seen two of its finest elevated by the powers that be. Jason Trowill, 51, is one of the five officials selected for the Northern Districts A panel and Luke Fisher, 17, is one of three...

Gisborne Boys’ High rebound from tough first three matches

CRICKETThe first three days were a write-off. But the Gisborne Boys' High School Colts' five-wicket win against Whangarei Boys' High yesterday was hard-earned. Gisborne had lost their first three games at the New Zealand Community Trust Year 9 and 10...

Free-flowing game expected

GISBORNE Boys’ High School first 15 coach Tom Cairns expects a free-flowing game when his side take on New Plymouth Boys’ High School at the Rectory at 12.30pm tomorrow.“New Plymouth are travelling well this year, having beaten Hamilton...

Club basketball results

Results from week 3 of the Gisborne Basketball Association men’s league —A Grade: Old School 68 SE Systems 52, City Lights 74 Filthy Dozen 72, Gisborne Boys’ High School Red v GBHS Black deferred. B Grade: GBHS Wolf Pack 48 GBHS Blue 44...

Bollywood Stars receive Challenge Cup

SAM Singh’s policy of batting down the order paid off for the second week in a row when he scored 74 and shared a 120-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Gagan Dhingra (43 not out). Singh, a right-handed batsman who also opens the bowling...

Gisborne's George Andrew loves playing football for Grand Canyon University in Arizona

APART from “getting a bit of stick” about his Kiwi accent, Gisborne’s George Andrew is loving life and playing football in America. The former Gisborne Boys’ High School and Team Gisborne centreback — who signed a four-year football...

Longboard Classic spots filling up fast

SURFERS wanting to enter Sunday’s Makorori First Light Longboard Classic will need to register quickly as spaces are running out fast.“We are looking good,” organiser David Timbs says of the classic, which is in its 22nd year. The 80 competitor...

A TIME OF CHALLENGES - Moves afoot to make grandstand available

The chief executive officer of Poverty Bay Rugby has a huge profile in the community. And after five years managing its affairs on a daily basis, Josh Willoughby will leave that role with the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union at the end of...

No team glory but Horouta made their mark

No club cricket triumph, but team do well out of prize-giving

Poverty Bay in ‘cauldron from the beginning’

RUGBYFROM the frying pan into the fire. Poverty Bay began the Heartland Championship by playing against the 2018 Meads Cup champions, then the beaten finalists, and now they’re taking on a rugby team who have started their 2019 campaign with two...

Year today, gone tomorrow

CORRUPTION in FIFA. Whoop dee doo. Drugs in Russian athletics. So friggin’ what?Optically deluded third umpire costs Black Caps test. Tell someone who gives a rat’s buttocks. This sporting enthusiast is facing a dire emergency that demotes these...

Bay win continues roller-coaster ride,End-to-end play a feature of under-16 eastern derby

IT reads like a roller-coaster — a roller-coaster heading up. The Fulton Hogan Poverty Bay under-18s — who lost to the Wellington Samoans 33-5 and beat Thames Valley 34-12 — have bounced back from the 21-17 loss to Wanganui a fortnight ago with...

Gibbs and Allen named in Bay squad

FORMER Gisborne Boys’ High School players Maia Gibbs and Jody Allen will make their Heartland debuts for Poverty Bay in this season’s championship. Bay coach Mutu Ngarimu named both in his 32-man squad. Squad — Forwards: Sione Ngatu, Russell...

Waituhi leave it late

IT took the Waituhi women until seven minutes from the end of their hockey semifinal against Te Aowera to score their first goal last night, and a minute from the end they put it beyond doubt. Waituhi won the clash on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry...

Back on the national stage

28 years later. It’s not a movie; it’s a reality. For the first time since 1991, GBHS will compete on the grand stage — the Basketball New Zealand Schick AA National Championship Tournament next week. The action will unfold at Central Energy...

Classic car rally is close

Excitement levels are rising among motorsport fans across the district as the Silver Fern Rally heads this way. The 2018 rally started in Hamilton last weekend and finishes in Rotorua on Saturday afternoon. Among the 32 entries are teams from...

Working the throttle at Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach racing series

FINE weather and an enthusiastic line-up of riders in the various divisions made for another enjoyable meet for competitors and spectators

Scoreboard

RugbyPoverty Bay premier grade: Woodbank HSOB 32 Farmvets YMP 14, Aon Waikohu 12 Larsawn Ngatapa 16, Enterprise Cars OBM 116 Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 0. Senior 1: Horouta 66 YMP 0, Wairoa Athletic 76 OBM 0, HSOB 5 Tapuae 84, Nuhaka 42 Ngatap...