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Game bridges generation gaps,Competitive fire burning brightly,Personal challenge of player and bowl a stimulating mix,‘Relaxing’ sport just the ticket,Ron’s spikes not required on green

BOWLS stories by John GilliesGO to any bowling club’s junior championships and you might see a bowler in his 20s in earnest competition with an opponent in his 70s. Bowls is like that . . . young, old and in between on the same green. You can play...

Four teams qualify for winter league regional final

FOUR Poverty Bay Bowling Club teams have qualified for the regional final of the Tiger Turf Winter League. They will play on their home greens when Hawke’s Bay qualifiers come to Gisborne to play in the regional final at Poverty Bay on July 23. The...

Teams look for turnaround

Struggles over first and last places to feature

Family ties link winning pairs

Father and son Jamey and Ashli Ferris, and husband and wife Steve and Kay Goldsbury were all winners in centre champion of champions pairs bowls at the weekend. They are members of Gisborne Bowling Club, whose members won three of the four titles on...

Gisborne host duelling singles

Bowls Gisborne East-Coast held the centre champion of champions singles tournament at Gisborne Bowling Club. Adam McIlroy won the senior men's title. He won all his games on Saturday and on Sunday faced Vern Marshall of the Tolaga Bay club. These two...

On the mats Indoor bowls news

Malcolm Trowell was in great form, winning the Poverty Bay-East Coast Friday Night Singles, notching up five wins from his five games. He started the night off with a 13-1 win against Bevan Moore in Round 1, followed by a 16-3 trouncing of Warren...

Sports briefs

No titles for Gisborne surfersGisborne surfers have returned home empty-handed from the national scholastic championships in Raglan. Finn Vette was the only Gisborne surfer involved in a final on the last day of the contest held in 1.5-metre waves at...

Grade changes but not in premiers

Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A and Horouta Gold produced comprehensive second round wins in their premier-A grade netball challenges on Saturday to rightfully retain their premier status this season. The students and Horouta carried right on...

High hopes for Tairawhiti

WAKA AMATAIRAWHITI paddlers will be well to the fore when the 30th annual national waka ama sprint championships are held on Lake Karapiro, Waikato, next week. Horouta Waka Hoe Club has 70 event entries from 32 teams — over 190 paddlers in all —...

Second in Clubs NZ tourney

A TEAM from Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club finished second in the Clubs New Zealand North Island Women’s Outdoor Bowls Tournament in Tokoroa last week. Glenys Whiteman (skip), Carol Hawes (3), Judy Taylor (2) and Lesley McIntosh (lead) lost the grand...

Horouta clinch top-four spot

HOROUTA Gold secured themselves a place in the premier-grade netball top-four playoffs but Lytton Senior A made them fight hard for a 55-54 win at the YMCA last night. Lytton started stronger and led 15-12 after 15 minutes and 30-28 at halftime. In...

French offer after Aussies pip PB Rugby 7s in final

POVERTY Bay under-18 teams won one final and lost one at the New Caledonia sevens in Nouméa. The Red team suffered a heart-breaking 26-24 loss in the championship final to Australia’s Tribe. The White side, comprising u14s and u16 players, beat...

Thistle face red-shirted wall

THE curse of the bouncing ball in the penalty area almost undid Gisborne Thistle at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. They went a goal down to bottom-of-the-table Devon Homes Wanganui Athletic in the 33rd minute of a Central Federation League...

HSOB win ‘thumpfest’

It was a clash worthy of both clubs. The tightness and muscular nature of High School Old Boys' defence helped them win their Tiny White Opening Day thumpfest with OBM 16-13. That result in Civil Project Solutions premier rugby meant Contract...

YMP’s long wait ends

YMP v WaikohuYMP ended a two-year wait for a win on their home ground at Manutuke with a 20-14 victory over Waikohu in Poverty Bay premier rugby on Saturday. The three-tries-to-two win also opened a five-point gap between fourth-placed Farmvets YMP...

Gisborne team commanding respect of their opponents

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Damage costs Giants place in teams final

SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants qualified fourth for the semifinals of the New Zealand superstock teams in Palmerston North on Sunday night but suffered engine and gearbox damage that cost them a place in the final. The Giants beat the Wellington...

Anton’s teammates motivated

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