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Coast v Bay tripleheader in Ruatōria

Ruatōria will be rugby central tomorrow when Ngāti Porou East Coast host Poverty Bay in a Heartland Championship Week 5 derby with more than just competition points on the line. What is shaping up to be another classic duel between the scarlet of...

Fourth placings for GBHS, GGHS teams

Gisborne Boys’ High and Gisborne Girls’ High finished just out of the medals in their secondary school hockey tournaments last week. GBHS, coached by Wade Manson assisted by Aidan Scragg, were fourth at the Founders Cup in Napier. GGHS, coached...

Gisborne into bottom three at NZ Open champs

Gisborne have continued to battle hard at the NZ Open netball championships in Dunedin. The Ingrid Brown-coached Gisborne team were beaten 40-34 by Taranaki in their final Pool D game at the Edgar Centre. It followed losses to Counties Manukau...

Gisborne basketball club league results

Men’s open championship, Week 5 — Horouta 37 (Myles Walker 10, Hone Waitoa 8, Taylor Haenga 6) Rizzlies 56 (James Aston 17, Israel Kerisome 16, Wayne Bartram 7 - Q1 Rizzlies 15-3, HT 34-16, Q3 47-30). Gizzy Gilas 36 (Raphael Heria 14, Cabinian...

Demons out to deny United cup double

Wainui Demons will run on to Childers Road Reserve No. 1 tomorrow in pristine condition for football’s Bailey Cup final against Gisborne United. The reason? Well, they don’t train for a start . . . no pesky training injuries for them. Even their...

Golf roundup

Patutahi Shayde Skudder will be giving it his all on two sporting battlefields over the weekend. “Skudz” will co-captain Poverty Bay Wekas in their Heartland Championship rugby derby against Ngāti Porou East Coast in Ruatoria on Saturday. The...

Expanding rugby into the future

For the first time in over five years Poverty Bay held the Junior Intermediate Inter School Rippa/Tackle competition at Barry Park. Among the schools that competed, Gisborne Intermediate School met Patutahi and beat them in the final of the Ripp...

Mixture of club colours for Gisborne’s opening day

The greens were manicured and fast, the weather was perfect, and 54 players in their club uniforms were keen to begin the 2003/04 season at Gisborne Bowling Club’s opening day. Club president Chris Bunyan welcomed the teams and asked life member...

Tough draw for Gisborne

The Gisborne Netball Centre representative team had a tough start to the Netball NZ Open Championships in Dunedin on Tuesday but it was not unexpected. The week-long tournament features 19 provincial teams split into five pools. Gisborne is in...

Turanganui-a-Kiwa, Gisborne darts results

GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: P Waihape, A Tangira, F Waihape (2NZEF TAO Spartans); T Irwin, H Woollett, T TeKira, T Duncan (Brezzn Gold); M Stevens (2NZEF Rebels); H Ngarangione, K Arahanga x2 (RSA Stallions); I Eyles...

Bay wearing pink for whanau

Heartland Championship action returns to the Oval tomorrow, when Poverty Bay aim to make the most of home field advantage to turn their season around. The Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas’ game against Mid-Canterbury starts at 2.30pm. The...

Kaupoi ride for Buller in Westport

Do they dare dream of three? The Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi in Sky Blue have established momentum with two classic wins in the Heartland Championship and are hungry for more. Tomorrow at 2.30pm, they face Buller in Week 4 of the...

A Hat-trick welcome tomorrow

Three hat-tricks, good. Four hat-tricks, better. My apologies to ALH Gisborne Thistle striker Jimmy Somerton. In my addled arrogance, I trusted my memory in its recall of two hat-tricks before last Saturday’s effort in a 5-3 loss to Palmerston...

Double-header at Wainui

Wainui Beach will be the place to be for knockout football action tomorrow. Wainui teams Demons and Sharks will have home advantage over Thistle and Gisborne United respectively in a Bailey Cup semifinal double-header at the beach ground off Wairere...

Super vets in Waikato

Eastland super veterans will be in Hamilton this weekend for the final round of the Badminton New Zealand inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 playoffs. Injuries have again affected the make-up of the team. They will play ties against...

Sawyer Rosebowl decided

The annual Sawyer Rosebowl Optional Fours tournament was held at Kahutia Bowling Club on Sunday. Ten teams played three rounds of games lasting eight ends or an hour, whichever came first. The winners of the Stonehaven Memorials-sponsored event were...

Six-medal haul for Enterprise

Six medals — three of them gold — were highlights of the Enterprise Swim Team’s efforts in the New Zealand Short Course Championships at the Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre last month. Helena Huettemeyer, competing in the 15-year...

Golf roundup

Electrinet Park Winning her 21st women’s senior club championship title was the second-best thing to happen to Karen Hay in the space of a few days. Becoming a grandmother for the first time well and truly outdid that. Hay beat Jo Kerr 7 and 6 in...