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Rising Gisborne stars give it plenty at Mount

SMALL teams from all three Gisborne city surf lifesaving clubs had success at the Bay of Plenty junior championships held at Papamoa Beach on Sunday. Midway, Waikanae and Wainui were among the top-three placings in several age groups. Jack Keepa led...

Aotearoa Surf Film Festival coming

SLUGGISH surf breaks at Gisborne’s beaches mean boardriders have to work harder to take flight. In the meantime a screening at the Aotearoa Surf Film Festival promises a set of more vicarious adventures. The lineup of feature films and documentaries...

Gisborne teams do well against BoP

INTERMEDIATE school students in Gisborne are in the midst of a 25-code annual programme of sporting contests with their Bay of Plenty neighbours. These Gisborne Intermediate teams and athletes are among the winners at recent Super 11 Bay of...

Fans get their money’s worth

SPEEDWAYA BATTLE royal in the saloons, hard and fast sidecars racing and a smashing series of demolition derby team races highlighted an action-packed meeting at Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night. The 30-race programme rolled along smoothly...

Fascinating matches ahead for supporters

ROUND 6 of the senior hockey competition over the next three days throws up some fascinating contests, none more so than the women’s game between GMC Kowhai and YMP A tonight. Unbeaten YMP are set to take on an emerging threat in the...

Six-run loss hard to take for Poverty Bay

CRICKETHard to swallow — that was Poverty Bay’s second-round Twenty20 loss to the Invitation side at the Northern Districts boys’ senior secondary schools cricket tournament at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. The Bay lost by six runs.“We...

Team strengths on display in grading

THE opening round of grading in the senior netball competition tomorrow will provide an indication of team strengths at the start of the season and an early-season read on form. Grading opens at 9am with the first of five games that involve premier...

Bay’s Moala to play season in Spain

POVERTY Bay’s version of “The Terminator” is off to Spain. But the good news for Bay and High School Old Boys supporters is that Siosiua Moala, the Bay’s Heartland Player of the Year for the past two seasons, will be back for the 2018...

Bridge results

Another big score was recorded in Gisborne Contract Bridge Club play this week, this time by Ann McCombe and Trish Corson — 73.33 on Wednesday afternoon. TUESDAY, September 3, 10, 17 — Eastland Community Trust Open TeamsCaroline Taylor, Carolyn...

Championship sailors cope with protocol

Self-distancing, staying outdoors and using alternatives to handshakes were all part of the protocol at the Poverty Bay yachting championships last weekend. Competitors, supporters and volunteers coped with the new health guidelines associated with...

Old school

Two old foes will meet again in the Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League senior competition at Awapuni Sports Stadium tomorrow. Reigning champions Paikea Whalers will match up against past winners Turanga Panthers at 1pm. The Panthers have returned to the...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Conditions were fine and windy for the Kahutia Bowling Club fours championships. A two-life system applied, with a time limit of two hours or 15 completed ends. The men's open fours had four teams competing. In Round 1, Alastair Macpherson (skip), Ray...

Clubmate against clubmate

It will be clubmate against clubmate at the YMCA tonight when the Waikohu teams in netball's premier grade go head to head. The 7.30pm Pak'nSave premiership encounter should bring out the best in Claydens Waikohu 1 and 2.“The top Waikohu team seem...

Out to bounce back

Back in 2014, Poverty Bay left-arm seamer Jak Rowe terrorised the Hawke’s Bay senior cricket side, taking seven wickets for 14 runs. Left red-faced by a 17-year-old, Hawke’s Bay were dismissed for 57 in the 50-over match and they were flogged by...

Tayler Reid 39th in Leeds ITU race

GISBORNE triathlete Tayler Reid finished down the field in the latest International Triathlon Union series race in Leeds at the weekend. Reid was up with the pace in the swim and cycle legs, but faded in the run to place 39th. He came out of the water...

Honours to Ngatapa, highlight to Pirates

LARSAWN Ngatapa took the points against Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates on Saturday at Patutahi but Pirates produced the moment of the match with one of the great Poverty Bay club rugby tries. In the last weekend of points games before the top-four...

Reid is making the best of it

WORLD-ranked triathlete Tayler Reid has found innovative ways to keep training at home in Gisborne, and he recommends other sportspeople do the same during the Covid-19 crisis. The 23-year-old came home from his training base in Cambridge two weeks...

Around the Greens: Club Bowls news

Last Thursday, the club held a single-entry bowls tournament on a 3/5 format. Two games were played — enough for the heat of the afternoon. Murray Murton skipped the winning team, with Marie Thomas at two and Graham Atkins the lead. They had two...