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No substitute for experience

Kaiya Huta says the experience from competing in his first World Age-Group Trampoline Championships will help him as he prepares to take on the best age-group competitors in St Petersburg, Russia, in November. The 16-year-old Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o...

Gisborne Cycling Club races

Race 3 of Gisborne Cycling Club’s Avantiplus Maintrax Series is on SATURDAY. Sign-on is from 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Bushmere Arms with a 2pm start. The race course is Lavenham Road plus Quarry — a distance of 49 kilometres. SUNDAY — The group ride...

Turanga back as new era kicks off

The Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League senior competition begins tomorrow at Awapuni Sports Stadium, signalling the start of a new era of the sport in the district. Six teams will battle for the Dave Ahu Memorial Trophy — an honour reigning champions...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Rowe Mason (2NZ Bullz), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Rio Edwards (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters), Ngata Monika (2NZ McCann’ics).Best start (180): Ngata Monika (2NZ McCann’ics).Best finish (132): Puna McRoberts (Cossy...

Two losses to Poverty Bay on first day of tournament

Hamilton, Bay of Plenty Coastlands and Counties Manukau were the unbeaten teams on day one of two Twenty20 fixtures in the Northern Districts Senior Secondary Schoolboys tournament that started in Gisborne yesterday. Poverty Bay suffered two losses...

Fyall vice-captain of NZ team

Waikanae club member Casie Fyall has been named vice-captain of the 10-strong New Zealand team to contest the 11th annual Sanyo Cup lifesaving carnival in Japan in three weeks. Midway club member Cory Taylor will captain the team. Fyall said she felt...

Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

180s: John White (Tigers) 3, Jordan Ngarangione (Falcons) 2, Te Kotahi Kaio (Assassins) 2, Glen Rangihuna-Atkins (Assassins) 2, Tahuna Irwin (Falcons), Willie Edwards (Tigers), Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Assassins), K Koka (Assassins).Highest start (180)...

A ‘must-win’ for East Coast

RUGBYSeven lean years are referenced in the good book. And Ngati Porou East Coast have endured seven hard ones since their epic comeback against Wanganui to be 2012 Meads Cup champions. On Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, the Coast came from 27-3 down...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Andrew Ball won the Poverty Bay Bowling Club men's junior singles championship for players with up to eight years of bowls experience. Ball defeated Dusty Miller 22-15 in the final, which club members watched with interest. This result was not...

East Coast retain trophy

RUGBYNGATI Porou East Coast retained the Basil Simpson Trophy with a 47-16 win against a depleted Eastern Bay of Plenty team at Te Araroa on Saturday. The visitors arrived at George Nepia Memorial Park with only 14 players.“We loaned them one of...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Thao Duncan (2NZ RUNVS), Chris Giddens (2NZ McCann’ics), Marisa Neho (RSA McIntosh Allsorts).Best start (180): Thao Duncan (2NZ RUNVS), Marisa Neho (RSA McIntosh Allsorts).Best finish (148): Shane Horne (2NZ Rebels).Most...

Gisborne celebrates its sports men and women

THEME music from the movie Chariots of Fire, which centred on two athletes’ bid to compete in the 1924 Olympic Games, set the tone for the 2017 Sporting Excellence Awards held at the Showgrounds event centre last night. At 67 nominations the 2017...

Cup finalists to be decided

Campion College will play Gisborne United and Bohemians will take on Gisborne Girls' High School in women's football tomorrow to determine the Braybrook Cup finalists. Campion beat Gisborne Laundry Services Wainui Riverina 2-1 in one quarterfinal...

HSOB primed, ready to get on the grass

CRICKETGet off the grass is an expression of disbelief. But in a cricketing sense, the Isaac Hughes-led High School Old Boys Presidents are only too happy to be back on a quality turf wicket in Hope Cup cricket at Harry Barker Reserve...

New Zealand Speedway Awards tonight

THE annual New Zealand Speedway Awards will be handed out at the Brentwood Hotel in Wellington tonight

Four-goal Murrell stars in Thistle victory over rivals

THISTLE cemented their lead in the women’s football competition with an 11-0 victory over Marist on Sunday. Gisborne Laundry Services Thistle have ruled the roost in local women’s football for years. Their match-up in the last game of Round 1...

Lytton earn promotion for tournament A Grade

LYTTON Senior A achieved their major goal for the season by winning promotion to the A Grade for the 2018 Lower North Island secondary schools netball tournament, and coach Ronnie Martin is ecstatic about it. Lytton, fifth in the Gisborne...

Sports draws, October 21, 2015

CricketWEDNESDAY — Mercantile, Harry Barker Reserve, 5pm: 4, Sons of Hadlee v Earthwork Solutions; 5, Marist Rugby v Mayfair Dental; 6, Outlaws v Laser Electrical; 7, Maccas Rebels v AG First; 8, Wannabes v Mangapapa Garage. SATURDAY — Nines...