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Tairāwhiti fall to neighbours at Freyberg Masters

Hawke’s Bay took the honours in their neighbourhood rivalry with Tairāwhiti in Round 6 of the Freyberg Masters men’s national golf interprovincial in Gisborne this morning. The men in black beat the host province 4-1 on the penultimate day of...

Sanders Cup now East Coast Cup

Gisborne Yacht Club son-and-father sailing team of Ross and Colin Shanks, representing the East Coast, have uplifted one of New Zealand’s oldest sailing trophies after a close-fought contest on Lake Rotoiti. The Sanders Cup was in its 99th year of...

GOLF ROUNDUP

Poverty bay Darryn White and Marg Colebourne are the 2023 Primo Cup champions. White won the men’s title while Colebourne won the women’s crown, along with the hidden partners competition run alongside the Primo Cup final. White shot 77 off his...

Battling Tairāwhiti on the board at Freyberg Masters at Freyberg Masters

Golf is a game of inches in a couple of ways. There’s the six inches between your ears that the great Arnold Palmer said were “the most important”. And there’s the inches out on the course where the smallest mistake can come back to bite...

Campion impress Senior B reigning champs Ngatapa

Campion College are getting better. Last season’s Senior B Grade champions the Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps beat Campion’s first 11 by 42 runs . . . after the Mark Naden-coached up-and-comers gave them a push. The younger set...

Ex-Gisborne racer wins NZ Sidecars Grand Prix, Streetstock Champ of Champs title to Redington

When it came to action-packed racing and breathtaking fireworks, Saturday night’s second meeting of the season at Gisborne Speedway had everything. A near-capacity crowd over 4000-strong packed the track for a 27-race programme at Eastland Group...

Solomann win only reward for Tairāwhiti

Every sportsperson has had to lick their wounds on occasion. For Tairāwhiti men’s golf team, the tongues were out yesterday and a cold beer helped ease a little of the pain after two more defeats at the Freyberg Masters interprovincial golf...

Heartland XV campaign ends with loss to NZ Baa-Baas

The Heartland XV had a mountain to climb after the New Zealand Barbarians posted a halftime lead of 35-0. They got past base camp but the Baa-Baas held on to win 49-26 in Oamaru on Saturday. Poverty Bay rugby coach Miah Nikora, who was Heartland...

Horouta rebound with 80-run win over GBHS

Te Waka were superb in Round 2 of premier grade Doleman Cup cricket. The David Situ-led Breakers Horouta rebounded from a 156-run loss to beat the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 11 by 80 runs on Saturday. Put in to bat on Harry Barker Reserve...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Gisborne Club Darts Association Tuesday night league — INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: K Arahanga 3, A Charlie 2 (RSA Stallions); T Eyles, P Stewart (RSA Gunz); H Eyles 2, A Kaiwai, J Horua (2NZEF TAO Vikings); TK Kaio (Cossie Done & Dusted); Q...

Gisborne Speedway Club meeting to go off with a bang

There will be fireworks on the track in the streetstock champion of champions and fireworks off it when Gisborne Speedway Club holds its traditional Guy Fawkes meeting tomorrow night. To add to the action, the New Zealand Sidecars Grand Prix title...

Kaupoi Renata in the tries in Heartland win

The New Zealand Heartland XV put on a show worthy of the picturesque mountain range backdrop at Methven Rugby Club in beating Canterbury Development 43-17 on Wednesday afternoon. It was the first of two games for the Heartland team who are selected...

OBR versus HSOB could be ‘a genuine test of wits’

Round 1 was a great one for club cricket’s old hands. But a week on, Breakers Horouta Te Waka will be hoping they can bounce back from their 156-run loss to Doleman Cup Premier Grade champions Bollywood High School Old Boys against a young...

Gisborne Boys’ High in sevens action

It will be very fast and very hard. Tomorrow the second Super 8 Schools seven-a-side rugby tournament will be held at Rotorua Boys’ High School, and in terms of athleticism, flair and skill, not much tops it. Though no Gisborne Boys’ High School...

Gisborne Tairāwhiti under-13 team the Central Football Federation champions

Title the culmination of a six-year journey for many in the Gisborne Tairāwhiti team.

Golf roundup

Te Puia Hot Springs It was the hole-in-one that wasn’t. James Forrester sank his tee shot on the 140-metre 16th hole on Sunday . . . for a three. Forrester sent his first tee shot well left into golfing oblivion so hit another ball, this time...

The way forward or an aberration?

OPINION PIECE by Ben O’Brien-Leaf I believe that on Sunday morning, one of two things happened in rugby. Either the way in which the 2023 Rugby World Cup final was controlled was shown to be the way forward . . . or it was an aberration. As a keen...

Plenty to celebrate with Bowls3Five qualifying event win and a birthday

by Paddy Stewart Geoff Pinn had plenty to celebrate on his birthday this year. He and his wife Karen joined skip Adam McIlroy to win the Gisborne-East Coast centre Bowls3Five qualifying event on Labour Day, which this year fell on Geoff Pinn’s...