UNDER AND OVER: Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits player Oliver Shivnan reaches over the top of YMP A's Thomas Rutene as he falls during an action-packed men's A-grade hockey game between the rivals on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. LOB won 2-1.
WORLD attention may be on the Tokyo Olympics but there was plenty of action happening on our own backyard on Saturday.
The onfield action included a “local derby” netball game between Waikohu 1 and Waikohu 3 at the YMCA and an action-packed Poverty Bay men's club hockey clash between arch-rivals
Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits and YMP A on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve.
And if they were handing out medals for attrition, Gisborne Civic Brass Band members would have earned gold for their 24-hour Band-A-Thon fundraiser.