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Junior secondary schools cricket tournament tough

POVERTY Bay started their Northern Districts junior secondary schools cricket tournament with three losses in Manurewa this week. Chasing Bay of Plenty Coastlands’ 115-6, Poverty Bay were 67-8 at the end of their 20 overs. Drew Scott top-scored...

Gisborne - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkEIGHT months ago Brad Reynolds told his family he would be the 2019 Gisborne Park senior men’s club champion. On Sunday he lived up to those words to achieve the individual highlight of his sporting life so far. Reynolds defeated Rob...

Clean sweep for Gisborne

Gisborne Bowling Club completed a clean sweep, winning all four divisions of the Bowls Gisborne East Coast centre interclub event on Sunday. The weather deteriorated during the day and in the second and third rounds players had to contend with...

It’s Turanga Pirates and Wairoa Athletic in final

Can Anthony Kiwara's Buccaneers dethrone last year's Senior 1 champions?The Kiwara-coached Turanga Pirates will take on the grade's dominant force — and holders of the Lew Patterson Cup — Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic, at Rugby Park at 1pm...

Kiwa complex offers opportunity

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PBEC up for the challenge of Bay of Plenty

“Bring on Bay of Plenty” were the fighting words from so-called New Zealand golf minnows Poverty Bay-East Coast after another piranha-like performance at the men's national interprovincials yesterday. PBEC defeated Aorangi 3-2 on the Omanu course...

Senior 1 HSOB player suspended for ‘tip tackle’

RUGBYA HIGH School Old Boys Senior 1 rugby player has been suspended for four weeks for a tip tackle. Noah Tonga was ordered off by referee Paul Brown, who had already given him two warnings for dangerous tackles, in the game against Waikohu on May...

Slow start, big finish as Whangara roll on

It was another slow start but a strong finish as Whangara Old Girls overpowered Ngatapa 60-38 in premier grade netball at the YMCA last night. Farmlands Ngatapa trailed by just two goals after 15 minutes, three at halftime and seven at the...

On the mats — Indoor bowls news

Andrew Rickard teamed up with his nine-year-old son Adam and 13-year-old daughter Rachael to win the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls centre open trios 10-9 against tournament favourites Arnold Hutchins, Dylan Foster and Bruce Easton. In...

Oceans 19 entry tops 850

SURF LIFESAVINGNEARLY 60 junior surf athletes from Gisborne will be among more than 850 athletes taking part in the Oceans 19 New Zealand junior championships that start next week at Mount Maunganui. The premier New Zealand surf lifesaving event for...

RDA ‘blown away’

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Girls’ High and Lytton doing well in NI competitions

NETBALLGISBORNE Girls’ and Lytton high schools have done well so far at North Island secondary school netball tournaments this week. Lytton are in A Grade at the lower North Island tournament in Palmerston North, while Girls’ High this year...

Tough for underdogs

UNDERDOGS will have to dig deep tonight. Gisborne Boys’ High School take on the Dragons at 5.30pm in Week 5 of Gisborne men’s club basketball. At 6.30, Lytton High School — without regular captain Genesis Bartlett-Tamatea — play defending...

Numerous accolades for local riders despite pandemic disruptions

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Around the greens - club bowls news

Poverty BayTHE Poverty Bay club junior and open fours championship winners acquitted themselves well in the centre champion of champions competitions at the Gisborne club greens this month. Although three out of four of the Poverty Bay teams had to...

A good win for the Pups

You would want to win the toss if you were playing the High School Old Boys’ Pups . . . otherwise you could be chasing a large total. Pups captain and opening batsman Blake Marshall — the only centurion in either of the Saturday or Wednesday...