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Final goes down to the wire as HSOB beat Ngatapa in the Hardball T20 decider

Cricket can be a hard old life, even for the young. No captain could have worked harder to position his team to win the Junior Hardball T20 final than the Ngatapa Kings’ Archie Gillies, before a tide-turning over from Jack Williams of the High...

TAIRĀWHITI SOFTBALL DRAW

Draw for Tairāwhiti senior and junior softball, all games at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday — Senior Division, 12.30pm: D2, Moana Toa v Māori Smurfs; D3, Expendables v More or Less. Emerging Sox Intermediate Softball (Years 7 and 8), 11am: D1...

Perfect start by ‘Huks’ at national interprovincial

A two-from-two performance from Hukanui “Huks” Brown highlighted a historic opening day of the national interprovincial for Tairāwhiti men’s golf team yesterday. Competing under a new banner for the first time at the national interprovincials...

Top honour to Nabura

Midfield back Tevia Nabura’s powerhouse season for the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi was rewarded with the top individual accolade at the union’s 2023 prizegiving held at Whakarua Park. Fijian Nabura won the Coast Heartland squad Player of the...

‘Beautiful community spirit’ at Fish Fest

The Kegged crew’s Fish Fest surfing event at the Creeks break at Makorori Beach proved a big hit among youngsters and their older mentors alike. It was the organisation’s fourth event of a series aimed at upskilling the district’s younger...

Nepia, Ball singles champions

Mere Nepia of Kahutia Bowling Club and Andrew Ball of the Gisborne club are the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre singles champions for 2023. Both are first-time winners of this event. Nepia was presented with the Brown Whanau Trophy and Ball, the J...

ND Māori outgun Poverty Bay boys

Taye McGuinness is the right man for the job. But the all-rounder's job as captain of the Poverty Bay team at the Northern Districts Youth cricket tournament in Hamilton is not without its challenges. Of their first-up seven-wicket loss to Northern...

HSOB bounce back from Walker Shield loss

The crown that slipped is once more in place. Doleman Cup and Walker Shield Premier Grade champions Bollywood High School Old Boys lost their Walker Shield stoush with Breakers Horouta Te Waka by six runs last Thursday, but hit back hard on...

BRIDGE RESULTS

MONDAY, November 27 — Bayleys Closing Night North/South East/West Elizabeth Jackson, Carolyn McMurray 67.01 Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 58.73 John Hudson, Vicki Taylor 59.72 Raewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 55.16 Bette Parker, Patricia Corson...

Club cricketers praying for sun

Let there be cricket. That is the refrain from all 10 of Poverty Bay’s club teams ahead of what they are praying will be Round 6 in the Premier Grade 40-over Doleman Cup and Senior B 30-over Hope Cup competitions tomorrow. Of the prems fixtures to...

Season’s half won by GBHS

Challenge Cup T20 cricket has a new hero: Aarav Nair. The unassuming Life Guards middle-order batter was the surprise package of his team’s innings in the all-Gisborne Boys’ High School final against the Blues and Royals at Nelson Park on...

Teens to tee it up at national interprovincials

Two Gisborne teenagers will make their men’s national interprovincial debuts on one of the country’s most famous courses. Zach Rolls and Marcus Gray have been named in the six-strong Tairāwhiti team to compete at the interprovincials being...

Golf Roundup

Electrinet Park The club just can’t catch a break. The weekend rain once again resulted in heavy surface flooding and the course being closed. However, greenkeeper Pete Tamatea said on Facebook on Tuesday that the water was “draining away...

World champs honoured: Māori Sports Awards recognise Tairāwhiti paddlers

Tairāwhiti waka ama paddlers have been honoured at the 2023 Māori Sports Awards held in the Bay of Plenty at the weekend. Hine Brooking (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) was honoured as an individual Māori world champion, and the...

Mixing with the best in the world

Young Tairāwhiti dart players have been mixing it with professionals and one of the sport’s most exciting prospects at the Mediterranean Open in Gibraltar. The group and their co-managers are representing New Zealand overseas at tournaments...

Gisborne sisters to face each other in Aupiki

They haven't taken over Super Rugby Aupiki completely . . . yet. But there is no question that there will be a strong Gisborne Ngāti Porou influence in the competition's third year. The competition has been extended from five rounds to seven, from...

Tairāwhiti softball draw

Draw for Tairāwhiti senior and junior softball, all games at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday — Senior division, 12.30pm: D2, Moana Toa v Expendables; D3, Maori Smurfs v More or Less. Emerging Sox Intermediate Softball (Years 7 and 8), 11am: D1...

Malone surfs world waves

Gisborne grandparents Dennis and Cynthia Malone are closely following the fortunes of the New Zealand team at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Brazil. Their grandson Navryn Malone, son of 1998 national surfing champion Chris, has been...