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Eastern Region surf lifesaving champs results

OPEN WOMEN — Surf canoe long course: Waikanae A (Courtney Hoskin, Lucy Mossman, Anna Ellingham, Ella Andrew) 1; Short course surf canoe: Waikanae A (Andrew, Hoskin, Mossman, Ellingham) 2. 2km run: Michelle Rennie (Waik) 1. Beach relay: Waikanae...

Whitley snapped up for summer league

FORMER Lytton High School midfielder Israel “Izzy” Whitley has been snapped up by Waikato Bay of Plenty (WaiBoP) for this season’s ASB Premiership football campaign. Whitley, 21, has played for the Waitakere youth team in the national youth...

Lessons in defeat

GISBORNE rower James Brott and his New Zealand under-21 teammates couldn’t prevent Australia from retaining the Rusty Robertson Trophy on Lake Karapiro at the weekend. But Brott and the Kiwis did not go down without a fight in the second of two...

Honoured to be NZ captain

Surf lifesaver Cory Taylor is just hours away from his first competition as captain of the Black Fins. Gold Coast-based Taylor, from Gisborne, will lead the New Zealand team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in Durban, South Africa. The...

Tuteari aiming for podium at CrossFit World Games in Wisconsin

The crossfit prince of Tairawhiti is about to take on the world — again. Gisborne teenager Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont is counting down to the 2018 world CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin next week. From August 1 to 5, the pinnacle event of crossfit...

Sevens at Rectory

Napier Tech will begin the defence of their Poverty Bay Sevens rugby title with a game against Havelock North at the Rectory tomorrow. As well as local clubs YMP and High School Old Boys, Havelock North and MAC (Hawke’s Bay) are also...

It’s GBA semis time

The Gisborne Basketball Association club league semifinals and play-offs are tonight and will feature all 12 teams. The B-Grade game for fifth placing pits Gisborne Boys’ High School Red against East Coast at 5.45pm at the YMCA. That will be...

Jug stays at PB

Peter Kerekere is not sure if he will be back next year to try to add to his outstanding Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants record. Kerekere spearheaded the Poverty Bay (1) team to a 20th pennants victory at Gisborne Park on Sunday. The four-man...

Riverina and Girls’ High in Braybrook Cup thriller

FOOTBALLTWO hat-tricks featured in a thrilling Braybrook Cup women’s football final at Harry Barker Reserve on Sunday. Erin Sycamore, for Riverina, and Maddie Wilson, for Gisborne Girls’ High School, each scored three goals in a game that went to...

Badminton draw

WEDNESDAYMercantile Badminton League, Badminton Centre6pm: Court 1, 101’s v T Dub Players; C2, Ngati Rangi v Kahu Brown’s; C3, Monday Madness v Puatai Whanau; C4, High Flyers v Salties. 7pm: C1/2: Puatai Whanau v MOE. Bye: Shuttle Smashers. Duty...

Need for new sports facilities ‘desperate’

EASTLAND Community Trust is laying Gisborne’s “desperate need” for new sporting facilities squarely at the feet of local government as it contemplates becoming more “ruthless” when deciding which community projects to fund. ECT’s monthly...

Youngest have their day in the sun

The youngest surfers competing at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships had their chance to earn valuable points for their regional teams yesterday as the title race advanced at Makorori Beach, north of Gisborne. Day 3 of the event was held...

Christie’s CT hopes dashed in Hawaii

A LITTLE wobble on a throaty barrel threw Gisborne/Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie off his board and out of contention for the 2018 Championship Tour. The Gold Coast-based former CT surfer will be ruing the missed barrel attempt yesterday on his second...

Christie busy but fails to advance

GISBORNE/Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie’s tough European leg of the World Surf League Qualifying Series continues with another early exit, this time in the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal. In clean, punchy two-to-three-foot peaks at the...

Tough task for Gisborne school sides

NETBALLHIGH school teams face two of the form sides when the Pak’nSave netball premiership launches into the second round at the YMCA tomorrow night. Lytton Senior A take on Taste One High School Old Girls at 6pm and Gisborne Girls’ High School...

Bay win mini-tournament

HOCKEYA LACK of game time did not stop Poverty Bay from producing a title-winning performance at the under-15 boys’ hockey mini-tournament in Levin. The Wade Manson-coached side flew the Poverty Bay flag high with three wins and a draw to top the...

Sports draws

CricketToday — C Grade, Nelson Park, 3.15pm: GGHS v Primary Reps, GBHS v Campion. Mercantile, Harry Barker Reserve, 5.30pm: M5, AGfirst v Boundary Violators; M6, Outlaws v Maccas Rebels; M7, Sons of Hadlee v Mangapapa Garage; M8, TBC v...

Close contests to end season

NETBALL by Murray RobertsonTHE senior netball finals on Saturday produced some very close results on the Victoria Domain courts, with the eight-goal winning margin to High School Old Girls in the premier final, won 53-45 against Whangara Old Girls...