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Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, senior semifinals — semifinals cannot end in a draw). All games are 4x10-minute quarters with two-minute first-quarter and third-quarter breaks, and a three-minute halftime. Duty teams to put up the...

Keepa strikes gold at Aussie nationals

Waikanae surf lifeguard Jack Keepa set an Australian record and won three titles at the 2023 Australian Surf Life Saving Pool Rescue Championships at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre at the weekend. Keepa competed alongside other Kiwi athletes who went...

Medals to Enterprise Swim Team members

Gisborne swimmers were in the medals on Day 1 of the New Zealand Short Course Swimming Champs at the Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre. Enterprise Cars Swim Team members Helena Huettemeyer, 15, and Taylor Newman, 13, both made the podium...

GMC Green women, YMP A men make Prem 1 title statements

A resounding 6-0 victory to YMP A men and a hard-fought one-goal win to GMC Green were the outcomes as arch-rivals clashed in the lead-in to the Poverty Bay club hockey playoffs. James Torrie belted home three goals on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry...

Falcons win a fitting tribute to Nate

The Falcons honoured a fallen club hero by winning the tournament that bears his name. The annual Nate Miller Tournament kicked off the Tairāwhiti Rugby League 2023 season. The Seeka Falcons beat Paikea Whalers 16-10 in the final at Barry Park on...

Olympics hopeful Andrews ‘doing all the right things’

The Olympic Games fire burning in Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews has become a blaze after her latest international success. Andrews competed at the prestigious Hungary Masters in Budapest over the weekend. She won her women’s over-78 kilograms...

YMP, Whangara Old Girls keen to take shorter route to grand final

Direct passage to the Gisborne Premier Grade netball championship grand final beckons tonight in the YMCA for YMP or Whangara Old Girls.

Bridge results

Monday, July 31 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 6 North/South East/West Diana Styche, Joy Marden 59.23 Murray Owen, John Rouse 61.31 Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 58.93 Katrina Duncan, Yvonne Waide 54.17 Robyn Cheyne, Caroline Kirkpatrick...

First Super 8 victory to Gisborne in three years

They got what they deserved. A Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 who stuck with SANIX world rugby champions Hamilton BHS and Tauranga Boys’ College to halftime have finally sealed the deal on the road. They picked up their first Super 8...

Foster brothers win pairs title

Matthew and Dylan Foster have won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Centre indoor bowls open pairs title. They beat Rachael Rickard and Royden Owen 13-2 in the final. After three ends of nine, the game was close . . . the Foster brothers led 3-2. But the...

Praise for Gisborne spirit and resilience at Super 8

Jared Martin has a high basketball IQ. And the man whose Tauranga Boys’ College crew were pushed to the brink by Gisborne Boys’ High School on Wednesday morning knows just how close run a thing the game between the teams was. TBC came from...

Jags back in action after three weeks off

A win tomorrow would lift Gisborne Thistle off the bottom of football’s Central Federation League table, but it won’t be easy. They play Taradale — two points above them in fourth place in the five-team competition — at Childers Road Reserve...

Saracens a step up for PB Wekas

Poverty Bay continue their Heartland Championship preparation with a hit-out against Hawke’s Bay Saracens in Napier tomorrow. The Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas are looking to build on last weekend’s 61-31 win over Eastern Bay of...

Fallen comrades honoured at memorial tournament

Gisborne Tairāwhiti Rugby League is holding the annual Nate Miller Tournament at Barry Park tomorrow. The memorial event was to be played at Paddy’s Park in Patutahi but the ground was closed due to surface water. Six teams have registered —...

Battle stations for prem heavyweights

The surge towards the Poverty Bay club hockey playoffs heats up this weekend with the top men’s and women’s teams facing vital games. Prem 1 women’s sides GMC Green and YMP A take the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker Reserve at 6pm tonight in...

Horouta power into Prem top four

A Waikohu second-half comeback shattered Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A’s top four hopes in Premier Grade netball in the YMCA on Wednesday. In a battle royal, Claydens Waikohu (1) fought back from seven goals down to win 53-49 in a game the...

World Cup surprise for Marist Thistle women's team

A World Cup secret has finally been revealed much to the relief of Tatapouri Marist Thistle goalkeeper Eden Schollum, who has been tightlipped about a huge surprise for her teammates since May. Schollum received an email about becoming part of an...

Coast show promise but CHB take victory

Some Saturdays are all smiles and sunshine. And in the 17-year history of Central Hawke’s Bay Rugby and Sports Club, no event — or result — has been bigger than the red-and-whites’ win against Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi...