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Spot kick proves the difference in women’s Eastern League football

by Mandy Owen and John Gillies Two teams at the bottom of the points table provided plenty of excitement in women’s Eastern League football on Sunday. Gisborne Girls’ High School beat Tatapouri Marist Thistle 3-2 at Harry Barker Reserve. Marist...

Pink is the colour; football is the game

A top-of-the-table showdown in Eastern League football on Saturday will be splashed pink, and the Barbie film has nothing to do with it. Second division pacesetters High School Old Boys will play close rivals Smash Palace Shockers in a match that...

Gisborne team for Netball NZ Open Champs an ‘exciting mix’

Gisborne Netball Centre (GNC) has named their team for the Netball NZ Open championships tournament in Dunedin next month. Not surprisingly, Premier Grade runaway leaders YMP (1) feature prominently in the 10-woman squad, with six of them from that...

Brown strike stuns previously unbeaten Lytton Old Boys Traktion

And last-gasp GMC Green goal denies Girls’ High.

McCartney on the rise: second highest vault in world this year

New Zealand pole vaulter Eliza McCartney has recorded her equal-third highest clearance to win a meet in Luxembourg as she ramps up preparations for next month’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The 2016 Olympic bronze medallist cleared...

Warriors coach wary of NRL’s fastest team

Warriors coach Andrew Webster is predicting spectacular play from the Gold Coast Titans when the two sides meet on Friday night at Cbus Super Stadium. “Long-range tries,” he said, when asked what he expected of the 12th-placed Titans...

Tauranga too strong for GBHS

Tauranga Boys’ College first 15 defeated Gisborne Boys’ High 48-10 in a Super 8 secondary schools rugby competition clash in Tauranga on Saturday. The visitors, after trailing 10-0 early in the game, came back to level it 10-all before the home...

And still the King of the Coast

Waikohu’s William Brown retained the King of the Coast men’s open crown at Tolaga Bay course on Sunday. The Poverty Bay Golf Club head greenkeeper defeated first-time finalist Dan Collier 2 and 1 in the matchplay final to retain the title he has...

Top 10 for Morrow in Taupō

Gisborne Harrier Club member Steve Morrow had a top 10 finish at the New Zealand Cross Country and Relay Championships in Taupo on Saturday. Morrow was seventh out of 18 competitors in the master men’s 45 to 49 years age group category. He...

Rising stars on show at Y

College hoops got the crowd in on Monday. The last night of Gisborne Basketball Association (GBA) secondary schools’ action drew 400 to the YMCA. They were treated to four great finals. In Division 1, William Collier-led Gisborne Boys’ High...

A-grade title to Uawa Hinetera

Uawa Hinetera took out the Secondary School A-grade title and Nga Uri a Maui Hine Rikoriko the intermediate title in Gisborne junior netball this season. The final games in both competitions were held last weekend. The secondary A-grade runners-up...

Māori teams qualify for Hockey5s World Cup

Aotearoa men’s and women’s teams have qualified for the 2024 Hockey5s World Cup in Oman. Gisborne couple Kahu and Joy Ripia were the kaumātua delegates for the New Zealand Māori Hockey-selected teams, who travelled to the Gold Coast as New...

Tahunga on course for return

We’ll be back. That is the positive news from Tahunga Golf Club after Cyclone Gabrielle cut a swathe through the nine-hole country course, forcing its closure for the 2023 season. In a July newsletter, the club has provided an update on its...

Sun came out to play . . .

The fields were still heavy but at least the sun came out to play in sporting events around the district. Gisborne Boys' High first 15 produced a gutsy performance before going down 25-7 to world champions Hamilton Boys' High in a Super 8 rugby...

Coast King William flying three banners

THE flags of nine golf courses will be flying in the top 16 of the 2023 edition of the King of the Coast which tees off at the Tolaga Bay course tomorrow morning. Defending champion William Brown will be hoisting three of those — his true home...

Eastland super vets in Div 2 playoffs action at home

Eastland host Oroua, Hawke’s Bay, Auckland (3) and Northland super veteran teams at the Badminton Centre tomorrow. The super vets’ competition started in April. Ten provinces were split into two groups. After the first two weekends of...

Coast clash is ‘like the All Blacks are coming’

Dylan Scott is the happiest man alive. The president of Central Hawke’s Bay rugby is over the moon at the prospect of hosting the 2022 Heartland Championship Lochore Cup winners and holders of the Bill Osborne Taonga — Enterprise Cars Ngāti...

PB rep teams on the road

Poverty Bay will be represented in force this weekend when four representative teams play on “foreign” soil. The first Heartland Championship match of 2023 is only three weeks away and Poverty Bay Wekas are gearing up with two pre-season matches...