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Could this be United’s bumper season?

FOOTBALLIT is shaping up to be a big year for Gisborne United football club. The club’s women’s team have won the league competition without losing a game, and are in the final of the Braybrook Cup. Their opponents in the cup final will be the...

Sports draws

Junior CricketSATURDAY — Intermediate Hardball, Nelson Park, 8.30am: Campion Gold v Gis Int Firebirds, Gis Int Aces v Ilminster, GGHS 1 v Gis Int Wizards. Primary, Nelson Park, 8.30am: Makaraka v Mangapapa Stars, Gis Int Girls v Central White, Te...

Vette goes up a division for victory

GISBORNE surfer Finn Vette went up a division to win his first contest in the Billabong Grom Series after years of trying. Vette, 13, won the under-16 boys’ division at Mt Maunganui on Sunday, beating national age-group champion Kora Cooper, of...

Harbour scalp gives Akroyd another high

GOLFLOYAL golfing servant Tony Akroyd has enjoyed the highs and endured the lows in his lengthy representative career. Yesterday afternoon’s victory over North Harbour at the Freyberg Masters in Timaru rates near the top of that “highs”...

Injury-hit Ngatapa hold on by a point

Ngatapa took the points and the glory after their injury-ravaged side held on to beat High School Old Boys 16-15 in premier rugby at Patutahi on Saturday. Larsawn Ngatapa player-coach Sione Ngatu was without seven first-team regulars, including...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

TIGERS defeated Rhinos by one point in the A Grade game of the night in Brezz’n Darts Club’s Tuesday winter league this week. Apart from the Tigers’ 11-10 victory over Rhinos, Ford Falcons defeated Pumas 16-5 and Stallions defeated Sharks 16-5...

‘Small but mighty’ crew for pool rescue champs

A SMALLER-than usual contingent of Gisborne athletes has headed to Auckland for the New Zealand Surf Life Saving Pool Rescue Championships but they should bring home some medals. Riversun Wainui will have four athletes competing, Dawson Building...

Bridge results

Eileen Lee, Yvonne Waide 57.62 John Rouse, Murray Owen 55.83Jeff Allen, Caroline Kirkpatrick 54.29 Beverley Evans, Bette Parker 54.17Tracy Clayton, Katrina Duncan 53.61 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 52.20North/South East/WestRobin Cheyne, Pipp...

YMP pushed all the way by Waikohu

UNDERDOGS Claydens Waikohu fought heroically against reigning champions YMP (1) before losing 54-46 in the only Pak’nSave Gisborne premier netball game at the YMCA on Saturday.“I think the girls played awesome; we’re happy as Larry with the...

Ricardo Christie in the hunt for Championship Tour return

SURFINGA RETURN to world surfing’s elite tour remains firmly in Ricardo Christie’s sights as he looks to the last two “biggies” of his competitive year. The 29-year-old Gisborne-Mahia surfer is 14th on the World Surf League Qualifying Series...

‘Old girls’ produce thriller

NETBALL - THE “old girls” teams turned on one of the games of the Gisborne netball season at the YMCA on Saturday. F45 High School Old Girls and Whangara Old Girls went toe to toe for the full hour in a tremendously entertaining and enthralling...

Bay to face Weepu-boosted Bush in Memorial clash

Poverty Bay square off against a Piri Weepu-led Wairarapa Bush at Rugby Park tomorrow, with the Jeremy David Memorial trophy at stake — a trophy that has eluded the Bay for seven years. Bay coaches Mana Otai and Dwayne Russell believe this could be...

Correction

THE Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union’s judiciary appeal committee did not suppress its decision last week, nor the name of the official who appealed his suspension sentence, as reported in Saturday’s paper. Suppression orders in the case of four...

Bay young guns playing parts in semis charge

Poverty Bay are taking a knockout cup mentality into their final round-robin game in Heartland Championship rugby at Te Aroha tomorrow.“Our manager, Steve Smith, came up with the idea, which I think is brilliant,” said LeaderBrand Poverty Bay...

80 minutes from glory

TO BEAT Hikurangi at home for the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield is the biggest ask in East Coast rugby. But that’s what Tihirau Victory Club have to do to be Ngati Porou East Coast club champions in 2017. Since 2004, Hikurangi have beaten Uaw...

Weather casts shadow over Speedway Club meeting

Classy fields for sidecar and flat-track features

ANDREWS IN NZ TEAM

Seven-strong team for reinstated Games sport

On track for Tokyo

World under-23 men’s champion Tayler Reid is not resting on his laurels as he prepares for his final two International Triathlon Union World Cup races for the season in the United States (Florida) and Ecuador (Salinas).Reid has enjoyed...