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BIZminton4 ends with Late Comers top again

Late Comers took the honours on the final night of the BIZminton4 competition held at the Badminton Centre. Although they won the competition, they were defeated 6-0 by Te Hapara Excellers in the final night’s play. Over five weeks, 13 teams drawn...

Five goals in 15 minutes

Champions Gisborne United began their post-Covid 2020 season with a thrilling 3-2 win over a much-improved Port Hill United in the first round of the Pacific Premiership football competition. Goals from Jarom Brouwer, Josh Harris and captain Kieran...

Mens’ club basketball results

Results from Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club league last night —At the YMCA: City Lights 79 High Fliers 33, Uawa 59 Dragons 34, The Young and the Useless 45 Lytton High School 40. At John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre, Gisborne...

PB-EC golf team remember Jaymee in bid to retain Booth Shield

POVERTY Bay-East Coast headed north yesterday to defend the Booth Shield junior interprovincial handicap title. The Shield is being held for the first time in its 56-year history at the Whangaroa course in Mangonui in the far north. An eight-strong...

SPORTS DRAWS

Gisborne netball senior semifinals will be held at Victoria Domain on Saturday. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put out bins: JT Contractors Horouta Hiriwa. 9am: 1, Thistle...

Bay aim to break Otago drought in Ngatu’s 150th game,‘It’s a good time to rewrite history’ — Otai

HISTORY will be made on one count — maybe two — when Poverty Bay play North Otago in a Heartland Championship rugby game in Oamaru tomorrow. LeaderBrand Poverty Bay tighthead prop Sione Ngatu will play his 150th game for the Bay, 19 ahead of the...

Sports draws

Saturday — Steve Wolter/Barry Hyland Summer Series, Race 5 (final race of series). Sign-on: 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Wainui School. Start: 2pm. Course: Wainui Beach School to Loisels turn-off (A/B Grade), C Grade turn at top of B5. Marshals: Rowan...

Allen’s trio victorious

Kahutia teams make it four in a row

Unleashing the tomahawk

Close scores highlighted men’s and women’s hockey matches at the weekend, with kudos to Gisborne Girls’ High School and Ngatapa for the way they fronted up to more fancied opposition. Amber Dental Girls’ High pushed GMC Green all the way and...

McDonald delivers

Consistency is key to Gisborne golfer Tessa McDonald having a successful and possibly breakthrough year. And she delivered that in spades on the way to winning the Group 1 championship of the Sacred Hill Maraenui Women's Open in Napier on...

Women show their style at national surfing championships

HEAVY surf and walls of whitewater at Midway Beach yesterday tested the endurance of all competitors on day 2 of the national surfing championships. Such was the power of the seas that some struggled to get out let alone surf. Gisborne surfers showed...

Boys’ High win shoot-out, now face league champs

FOOTBALL by John GilliesA PENALTY shoot-out was needed to separate Gisborne Boys’ High School and Wainui Sharks in the opening Bailey Cup football game. Boys’ High won the shoot-out 7-6, after four of the first five penalty takers from each side...

Thistle are Bailey Cup winners

Carpet Court Thistle Massive celebrate their 6-1 victory over United in football’s Bailey Cup final on Saturday. Massive finished second, by a point, to United in the Eastern League Division 1 competition in a race that went to the last round of...

Contribution recognised with life membership

EQUESTRIANTHREE stalwarts of horse sports have been honoured with life membership of the Gisborne area of Equestrian Sports New Zealand. The contributions of Geoff Tombleson, Jenny Holden and Merran Hain were recognised at the annual meeting of the...

North End form ‘worrying’

GISBORNE Thistle haven't exactly been catching the breaks this year. Having lost a substantial part of last season's first-team squad to the travel bug and other clubs, Thistle faced a rebuilding task in football's Central Federation League this...

All hands to the pump

Sideline team dedicated to resurgence of HSOB

Tall Blacks coach in town

TALL Blacks head coach Pero Cameron will host a coaches' session tonight in Gisborne. The evening is open to coaches from all codes, with the talk on building team culture rather than fostering individual talent. Cameron captained the New Zealand Tall...

Christie wins heat

Tokyo — The New Zealand men have made a successful start to the World Surfing Games in Japan, which doubles as a qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics. Ricardo Christie and Billy Stairmand have won their opening round heats, while Kehu Butler has...