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Crash a career bump overcome

RUGBYYOUNG Tairawhiti rugby talent will get tuition from a woman who has won two world cups. Stacey Waaka, who was part of the Black Ferns side that won the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2017, is visiting schools in the region tomorrow and running...

Gisborne Giants in finals night

THE Gisborne Giants have qualified for finals night in the Auckland superstock teams championship at the Waikaraka Park speedway and will join three other teams in the hunt for the title. They will go into battle against the Palmerston North Panthers...

A chance to drift back in time

Gisborne football supporters can travel back in time by turning up to watch Thistle Vintage at Childers Road Reserve tomorrow. Vintage will be Eastern League 2 champions if they beat Gisborne Pro Roofing Bohemians. Draggnett Thistle Vintage will have...

Doleman Cup starts

CRICKET starts tomorrow — another sign that summer is almost here. OBR will play High School Old Boys, and Horouta will play Gisborne Boys' High School in the opening round of the Doleman Cup. Defending champions Bollywood Stars HSOB will be hoping...

Bigger challenge ahead for Poverty Bay

From tough to even tougher — Poverty Bay go from spirited defeat against Whanganui in Gisborne to a face-off with Heartland Championship leaders South Canterbury in Waimate tomorrow. The task ahead of Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas is...

First win back for Waituhi

Waituhi delighted their fans on Saturday when they recorded their first win in the Poverty Bay women's hockey competition on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. They returned to the competition this season for the first time since the new turf pitch...

Waikohu top standings after 15-6 defeat of Ngatapa

Victory gives team a record nine wins in Project Solutions competition

‘Vindication’

Gisborne's Quaid Thompson has every right to be feeling “pretty good” about his inclusion in the New Zealand open team for the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Portugal in a week’s time. The Poverty Bay Kayak Club member also feels “...

Reedy helps PBEC to a draw

A “hero of the day” performance from an injured Anaru Reedy inspired Poverty Bay-East Coast to a share of team honours in the opening round of the Freyberg Masters yesterday. Reedy, nursing a right elbow injury that has severely hampered his golf...

Hastings has three-year plan

GISBORNE Thistle coach Matt Hastings makes no secret of his desire to be a fulltime professional football coach. But Thistle fans can relax. Hastings is in no hurry to leave Gisborne.“I’ve got a great job with Mediaworks and I’ve committed to...

Players perform well

A Gisborne East Coast team showed they could foot it with the better lawn bowlers in New Zealand when they contested the Octagonal in Taranaki last weekend. A representative team of 10 women and 10 men travelled to Taranaki for matches against...

Oliver’s Galeforce blows ’em away

THE 16-year-old from Rotorua took on some tough combinations in the Country TV Pony Grand Prix at the Larsen Sawmilling Show Jumping Championships and responded by taking first and second placings on Redcliffs Galeforce and Delta JD. The...

Gisborne club bowls news

GisborneA big turnout for Gisborne Bowling Club’s closing day and prizegiving on Saturday capped a stellar year for the club. Three teams were unbeaten after 48 bowlers rounded off the season in a closely fought three-game triples contest. Two teams...

Sunday move a sign of the times

HARRIERSThe Gisborne Harrier Club winter season series starts on Sunday with a trail run at the Forest Enterprise Millmore Forest mountain bike tracks at Mander Road, off Waimata Valley Road. The 10am run will be the first event of a revamped...

Injury blow for Christie

A NASTY gash to his left leg brought Ricardo Christie's heat to a gutting end at the final Championship Tour contest of the year in Hawaii this morning. The Gisborne-Mahia surfer suffered the injury four minutes from the end of his elimination heat...

Nanai wins title with classy play

SNOOKERAlex Nanai was in a class of his own as he won Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club’s A Grade snooker title for 2018. Nanai did not lose a frame throughout the competition, putting an exclamation mark on his performance with a 2-0 win against Phil...

‘Exciting’ Coast team eye season opener

Heartland Championship-wide, by now everyone knows why they’re fizzing. But former All Black Zac Guildford is not playing in Ngati Porou East Coast’s first pre-season game. Rather, the Coast is set to play the Anthony Studer-coached Eastern Bay of...

Dream team and Boys’ High survive semifinals

ONE was a nail-biter; the other was a brilliant result for basketball. The nail-biter was the men’s club basketball league Top-four sudden-death semifinal between team No. 3, the Dream Team, and team No. 1, YMP Black. The Dream Team won 63-59. The...