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Skaters drop in

The national skateboard championships return to Gisborne’s Alfred Cox Skate-park for the second year in a row tomorrow. It will be the first time the national champs have been able to hold all three major section finals at the same venue. The...

Clean sweeps for Black Fins pair

A clean-sweep from Gisborne’s Cory Taylor in the oceanperson ironman event was the major highlight of the Black Fins efforts at the International Surf Rescue Challenge in the United States. The three day, three test event concluded at the weekend...

Bellerby fours win to Mac and the family Pinn

Adam McIlroy and Geoff Pinn, with Geoff’s sons Kyle and Liam, have won the Bellerby Cup at the Gisborne Bowling Club greens. The cup is one of the club’s feature events each year. It is contested by teams of four comprising a skip, a three...

Bridge results

MONDAY, September 18 — Ben White (Ray White) Pairs 3 (Howell movement) North/South East/West John Hudson, Elizabeth Jackson 63.54 Carolyn McMurray, Helen Kerisome 58.68 Avinash Rane, Pamela Clay 55.56 Bette Parker, Ann McCombe 54.86 Beverley...

Bartlett’s 100th celebrated by win

Saturday at Ruatoria was one to warm the cockles of a Sky Blue heart. The Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi beat King Country Rams 29-11, have 25 competition points and remain in fourth place with one round-robin game to play in the 12-team Heartland...

Gisborne high schoolers selected for cluster development camp

Waikato-Bay of Plenty Zone has named a stack of Gisborne netball players for the Magic in the Making development camps. The Gisborne players have been named in the third cluster of four, to attend a selection session in Tauranga at the city’s...

Bay end losing streak to keep Lochore Cup hopes alive

Away from home, on the brink of being out of Lochore Cup contention and on a five-game losing streak . . . Poverty Bay were up against a lot of factors in Week 7 of the Heartland Championship. They responded with a 31-17 win over Horowhenua Kapiti...

Open win to Smith in all-BoP final

They’ll be back. The two men who carried out a Bay of Plenty takeover of the 2023 Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open are likely to return to the scene of their domination in six weeks time. Mark Smith, of Rotorua golf club Springfield...

First surfing comp for many

Raglan surfers Luca Thompson and Alani Morse won the two major titles at the primary school surfing championships that finished at Makorori Beach yesterday. Morse retained the Year 7 and 8 girls’ division title she’d won the previous year. For...

Be wary of wolf in Rams’ clothing

When Will Smith wrote the lyrics to Gettin Jiggy Wit It, he might have had a roadie up State Highway 35 in mind. If the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi tap into the joyful vibe of a carnival atmosphere at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park tomorrow...

Setting Suns defending club title

The 2023 Gisborne Basketball Association club league finals are upon us. Tomorrow night a bumper crowd at the YMCA is expected, with three great games in prospect. The Setting Suns, under Matt Tong, are back to defend their men’s open grade title...

Lochore Cup the aim for Bay

It ain’t over yet. Poverty Bay may be languishing in 11th place on the Heartland Championship table but they are not giving up on making the Lochore Cup playoffs (fifth to eighth). A win tomorrow at Levin Domain against Horowhenua Kāpiti would...

Collier sets hot pace at PB Open

Gisborne golfer Dan Collier made a loud and clear statement in the opening round of qualifying at the Poverty Bay Men’s Open today. Electrinet Park member Collier fired 3-under 69 in summer-like weather on the Awapuni Links course. It was the low...

GOLF ROUNDUP

Poverty Bay Anne Witters is the Poverty Bay Women’s Open champion for the fourth time — 25 years after her first Open victory. The nine-time senior women’s club champion defeated 2023 senior club champion Lynne Holmberg on the 18th hole of the...

Tomlinson to coach Central Districts Māori Wāhine

Former Tairāwhiti cricketer Kerry-Anne Tomlinson has been named as one of two inaugural coaches of the Central Districts Māori Wāhine squad to play in Heretaunga Hastings next month. Hawke’s Bay and Central Hinds rep Tomlinson (Te...

Thistle win by default

Gisborne Thistle have completed their season in football’s Central Federation League by climbing off the bottom of the points table, without kicking a ball. Scheduled opponents Palmerston North United (PNU) and Napier City Rovers Reserves...

Three Warriors voted for Players’ NRL Dream Team

Dallin Watene-Zelezniak’s high-flying season has reached a new height with his selection to this year’s NRL Players’ Dream Team. The team is made up of the best 13 players by their positions, as voted on by players, with Watene-Zelezniak one...

Playoffs done, finals set

This is the week that the best of the rest — the non-finalists — bow out of the local basketball leagues with a boom. And being salt of the earth GBA clubs, those that fronted up brought the 300 in attendance to their feet and hoot with relish...