FRUITS OF THEIR LABOUR: Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits player Jed Skuse has teammate Liam Melville in support as Waituhi's Graham Edwards tracks him in a Poverty Bay men's club hockey game on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. A 5-0 win to LOB earned them the first-round points honours, with Melville and Skuse among the goalscorers.
THE sporting battlefields of Gisborne were busy again on Saturday, highlighted by the Poverty Bay premier club rugby final at Rugby Park.
GT Shearing Waikohu emerged victorious from that with a 19-5 defeat of Enterprise Cars OBM to retain the Lee Bros Shield.
In other parts of the city. Whangara
Old Girls (1) and Claydens Waikohu turned on an entertaining Pak'nSave Gisborne premier-grade netball game at the YMCA, Whangara winning 49-43.
Harry Barker Reserve was a hive of sporting activity of the hockey and football kind.
LOB NZ Fruits put five goals past Waituhi without reply to seal the first-round honours in the Poverty Bay men's club hockey competition on the Hain Farming Turf.