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Napier win both games

It was worth the wait. The games between Gisborne Boys’ High School and Napier Boys’ High started late at the Harry Barker Reserve on Monday. Fifty-over games became 30-over contests, but then it was cricket with a hiss and a roar. Napier won the...

Championship sailors cope with protocol

Self-distancing, staying outdoors and using alternatives to handshakes were all part of the protocol at the Poverty Bay yachting championships last weekend. Competitors, supporters and volunteers coped with the new health guidelines associated with...

Old school

Two old foes will meet again in the Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League senior competition at Awapuni Sports Stadium tomorrow. Reigning champions Paikea Whalers will match up against past winners Turanga Panthers at 1pm. The Panthers have returned to the...

Around the Greens: Club bowls news

Conditions were fine and windy for the Kahutia Bowling Club fours championships. A two-life system applied, with a time limit of two hours or 15 completed ends. The men's open fours had four teams competing. In Round 1, Alastair Macpherson (skip), Ray...

Clubmate against clubmate

It will be clubmate against clubmate at the YMCA tonight when the Waikohu teams in netball's premier grade go head to head. The 7.30pm Pak'nSave premiership encounter should bring out the best in Claydens Waikohu 1 and 2.“The top Waikohu team seem...

Out to bounce back

Back in 2014, Poverty Bay left-arm seamer Jak Rowe terrorised the Hawke’s Bay senior cricket side, taking seven wickets for 14 runs. Left red-faced by a 17-year-old, Hawke’s Bay were dismissed for 57 in the 50-over match and they were flogged by...

Tayler Reid 39th in Leeds ITU race

GISBORNE triathlete Tayler Reid finished down the field in the latest International Triathlon Union series race in Leeds at the weekend. Reid was up with the pace in the swim and cycle legs, but faded in the run to place 39th. He came out of the water...

Honours to Ngatapa, highlight to Pirates

LARSAWN Ngatapa took the points against Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates on Saturday at Patutahi but Pirates produced the moment of the match with one of the great Poverty Bay club rugby tries. In the last weekend of points games before the top-four...

Snooker masters in town

A field of 40 will contest the Gisborne round of the New Zealand masters snooker circuit this weekend. The tournament at the Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club starts tomorrow and runs for three days. Steve Wood, who has organised the event sponsorship, said...

Hat-tricks to THC’s Tuhou, Fox

HOCKEYSTRONG starts for the defending men’s and women’s champions were features of the first round of Poverty Bay hockey on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve at the weekend. Big wins were also achieved by Ben Holden Fencing Ngatap...

Cairns aims for results three years into future

POVERTY Bay cricket selector-coach Lance Cairns says he is not overly concerned with results this season or “even next season”.“I’ve given myself three years to turn things around, but in the third year I would be expecting to see some...

Coast show passion, determination despite the score

IT WAS more of the same. The East Coast under-16 rugby team showed more of the same passion and determination with disdain for the scoreboard at Whanganui yesterday. A capable Hawke’s Bay Development team led by second five-eighth Jack Sheridan...

‘Snow’ White a legend for Auckland

ALL Black prop and Auckland legend ‘‘Snow” White has died at 87. White’s full name was Hallard Leo White, but few rugby fans would recognise him without the addition of “Snow”.The Northcote prop played 15 matches, including three tests...

Six teams from Gisborne’s Surf City Squash Club qualify for National events

Six teams from Gisborne's Surf City Squash Club have qualified for National SuperChamps events in September. The Eastern District eliminations were held at Surf City Squash Club over a weekend late last month. National SuperChamps events will be held...

Poverty Bay lose to ND Invitation on another rain-interrupted day

The first two days of this week’s Northern Districts boys’ junior secondary schools cricket tournament in Rotorua were washed out and the fourth T20 was abandoned yesterday afternoon. There was one result for the Bay — a two-wicket morning loss...

GBHS Red beat Old School

BASKETBALLRed is the new Black. Under the banner of Gisborne Boys’ High School Black, Max Scott led Boys’ High to only their second men’s club title — 74-47 against Uawa — at the YMCA in September last year. Scott and all of his returning...