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Bridge results

MONDAY July 30 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship 6North/South East/WestRaewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 63.69 Murray Owen, John Rouse 66.96John Hudson, Vicki Taylor 57.14 Glenys Evans, Herman Koenders 55.95Joy Marden, Yvonne Key 56.25 Diana Styche...

Strike rates high for Colts and Campion

IT was Twenty20 cricket with intensity. Five Gisborne Boys’ High School players had strike rates of 100-plus as the Colts beat Gisborne Girls’ High School by 132 runs and Campion College recorded a 115-run win against the Poverty Bay boys’...

YMP end Waikohu streak

MAKE a plan, execute it. That was the simple but deadly effective formula as YMP ended Waikohu's Poverty Bay premier club rugby winning run in emphatic fashion at Te Karaka on Saturday. Both teams left the field battered and bruised after YMP won...

Young bowlers make their mark

Dylan Foster, Nathan Trowell and Kayla Trowell were in top indoor bowls form last weekend. Foster won the zone final of the New Zealand Henselite Singles and the Trowell siblings won the zone final of the New Zealand mixed pairs in Whakatane. Foster...

Bridge club results

MONDAY, November 27 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 10: Eileen Lee/Ann McCombe 61.11; Sally Knight/Michelle England 58.33; Jean Turnbull/Robyn Cheyne 55.09; Carolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 55.09. WEDNESDAY, November 29 – Craigs...

Softball coaches appointed

Tairawhiti Softball Association has appointed coaches for its representative teams for the 2018/19 season. They are —Under-13 boys: Jane Edwards. U13 girls: Roy Timoti. U15 boys: Eru Osborne. U15 girls: Leesa Kingi. U18 boys: Ray Noble. U18 girls: Leigh...

SPORT in brief

Gisborne triathlete Tayler Reid’s coach Stephen Sheldrake says the world under-23 champion will have to push the reset button ahead of next week’s ITU World Cup race in Ecuador, after Reid finished 34th in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday.“With...

Gisborne - East Coast sports draws

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events — visitors and new cyclists welcome. Saturday — Club ride (no racing) from the Taruheru Cemetery in Nelson Road, starting at 1.30pm. Most rides are 90 minutes to three hours long and at a comfortable pace for...

Top course designer for Wairoa

ORGANIERS of the Wairoa A and P Show have attracted one of the best showjumping course designers in the Southern Hemisphere. Australian John Vallance has been part of the design team for four Olympic Games and travels the world designing and sharing...

Local paddlers in national squads

KAYAKINGPoverty Bay Kayak Club will have nine paddlers representing New Zealand at overseas events in May and July. Zach Ferkins (u21), Alex Bermingham, Ben Bristow, Sam Ferkins and Alicia Hoskin (all u18) and Stacey Warren-Moiser (u16) will compete...

Double-header success

The Lytton Senior A netballers started their 2018 season where they left off in 2017, with two wins under their belts after the first round of senior grading at Victoria Domain on Saturday. It was a sensational start for the students in the...

A step closer

GISBORNE speedway sidecar duo Rob Miller and “Red” George took another strong step towards the New Zealand sidecar championships at the weekend when they finished runners-up in the Manawatu sidecar championships. The Manawatu title is regarded by...

Badminton results

Eastland lost their first two ties in the 2020 North Island Division 2 masters' (over-35) inter-association badminton competition. They finished second in Division 3 last season and when a team pulled out they accepted an invitation to step up...

Gisborne-connected golfer Ivan Elder dies, aged 99

A GOLFER who consistently proved age is no barrier, former Gore mayor Ivan Elder QSO, died at Southland Hospital on February 23. He was 99. Ivan was a regular at the Gisborne East Coast Veteran Golfers’ Society’s tournament held annually on the...

Marist memories rekindled

Bring to mind one sporting memory, and watch as sibling memories line up behind it, ready to transport the “viewer” to long-ago scenes of triumph, disaster, joy and disappointment. An obituary on Len Cudd brought the memories flooding back for...

GOLF ROUNDUP

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Match played with spirit

Yesterday’s scoreline at the Rectory encapsulates hard first 15 rugby: Gisborne Boys’ High School 7 Sacred Heart College 14. Gisborne Boys’ were denied a last-play try on Sacred Heart’s goalline — rather, a penalty was given for...

Anything can happen at the speedway

CURRENT 1NZ Steve Cowling predicts two great nights of racing when the New Zealand saloon car championship is decided at Eastland Group Raceway, starting tomorrow night. The Mount Maunganui driver will defend the title in a field of more than 40 cars...