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Day of days on the turf

Excitement is set to reach fever pitch as the Poverty Bay hockey fraternity counts down to its “Day of Days” tomorrow — the Prem 1 and 2 men’s and women’s grand finals. A couple of big questions will be answered on the Hain Farming Turf at...

Bay challenging themselves

After a victorious start to the Heartland Championship on home soil, Poverty Bay are out to build momentum in their Round 2 road trip. The Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas, fresh from an encouraging 52-33 win over Buller in Gisborne last...

GOLF ROUNDUP

ELECTRINET PARK Te Kanawa Cup glory-seeker Tom Reynolds is playing down his and Darrel Gregory’s chances of filling the coveted silverware in 2023. The Reynolds-Gregory combo face father and son Anthony and Shaun Pahina in the handicap matchplay...

Senior football draw

Central Federation League, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Childers Rd Reserve 1 (CRR), ALH Limited Gisborne Thistle v Watson Integrity PN Marist FC. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Nelson Park 1 (NP), Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 1st’s v 1st...

United in class of their own

Eastern League football is rushing towards its conclusion, with two of the three titles already decided. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United Firsts have won the men’s first division in emphatic fashion, a 10-2 demolition of Coates Associates...

Te Keepa a voice for rangatahi at the rugby table

Te Keepa Pokiha-Wanoa is representing the East Coast on the New Zealand Rugby Rangatahi Advisory Group. The group met for the first time in Auckland recently. Members of the 10-strong RAG travelled from all parts of the country for the day event...

Road to the final

The Gisborne Pak’nSave senior netball season culminates this Saturday with finals across all grades to decide the 2023 champions. Whangara Old Girls and Claydens Waikohu (1) fought it out last night in the YMCA to decide who will join Turanga FM...

‘MY JOB, MY PASSION’

FLY FISHING by Mead Norton, Local Focus — When it comes to fly fishing, Gisborne man Cory Scott is in a league of his own.

Ney 12th in junior time trial at worlds

Former Gisborne Boys’ High School student Matthew Ney has continued to show he has what it takes to compete with the world’s best cyclists. Ney represented Canada in two races at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow last week with...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Irwin (5), J White (Brezz’n Gold); T Kaio (Done n Dusted); P Waihape (Spartans); H Brown, A Charlie (Stallions); A Kaiwai, A Taukamo-Pohio (Vikings); Q Stevens (Rebels); M Evans, C Andrews (Spandangles); J Budd...

Sue wins snooker singles crown close to her heart

Uncle would have been proud. Sue Hart made the trip from Tauranga to Gisborne for the 20th anniversary Burnie Hart Memorial handicap singles a fittingly winning one on Sunday. Hart, the niece of the late Burnie Hart, won all her matches on the...

Top player honour to Bay’s Nepia

Poverty Bay finished the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 series winless but provided one of the individual highlights. Prop Hayze Nepia was named player of the series which finished with a doubleheader weekend in Bulls. Nepia and Poverty Bay teammates...

ON THE MATS

Talented Poverty Bay East Coast bowler Matthew Foster flew the district flag high as a member of the North Island team in their annual clash with the South Island in Ashburton. Foster, 19, played lead in the men’s fours team alongside Ali Wilson...

Bombs away on ‘Trey Tuesday’

Week 2 of the men’s premier basketball league was mind-boggling stuff. A raft of the Gisborne Basketball Association’s best three-point shooters drew a bead and hit the target on a Tuesday night to remember. Weighn Wilson hit four of Green...

‘Best and fairest’ focus of Hina 9s

It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about learning and experiencing something different. That was the ethos of the Trish Hina Rugby League 9s Primary Interschool tournament held at Waikirikiri Park this week. Youngsters got a taste of a sport...

All or nothing in Poverty Bay club hockey semifinals

Sudden-death semifinals in the Poverty Bay club hockey competition offer some juicy prospects this weekend and it all starts tonight with GMC Kowhai playing Te Aowera on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The winners of that game go through to the...

Times change but work-versus-football dilemma remains

Bear with me. When my dad was coaching Gisborne City 55 years ago (it was the first year of the name change from Eastern Union), players would come to him with the work-versus-football dilemma. Every time he would say: “Work comes first. This is...

Coast out to hit ground running

Saturday morning is expected to be frosty. And from 2.30pm an overcast sky and a nor’ westerly breeze will greet Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast and their Round 1 Heartland Championship opponents Wairarapa Bush. Dealing with the Reece...