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Honours to Vintage in Thistle derby

Never underestimate the passion in a football game between two teams from the same club. Nearly always, the players of one side are recognised — on paper at least — as the better team, and that’s all the motivation the other lot need...

Fundraising tournament surpasses expectations, raising $32,000 for injured golfer's rehabilitation

The fundraising tournament for seriously injured Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golfer Andrew Higham exceeded organisers’ expectations. Held at the Poverty Bay course over the weekend, it raised $32,000 for the Higham whānau as Andrew...

GOLF ROUNDUP

POVERTY BAY TWO sexagenarians will take on two rising stars young enough to be their grandsons in the 2023 final of the Gisborne Motors Barns-Graham Cup men’s pairs. Richard Owen and John Van Helden will be getting the shots but giving away...

MVP honours to Ngatapa’s Westrupp

Ngatapa midfield back Khian Westrupp’s first season of Poverty Bay club rugby ended on a high as the Premier competition’s Most Valuable Player winner. MVPs were chosen by neutral parties in Week 1; clubs selected MVPs from their own teams using...

Hundred years of YMP hockey

One hundred years is a lot of memories, a lot of stories and a lot of fun. YMP Hockey Club marked that century milestone with an official dinner in Gisborne on Saturday night, which became a walk down memory lane for many of the 140 in attendance...

Shanks, Pinn eighth at NZ champ of champs pairs

Kahutia club bowlers Lucy Shanks and Karen Pinn did not qualify for post-section play but beat two of the stronger teams at the national champion of champions women’s pairs in Dunedin. They placed eighth out of 17 women’s pairs from around the...

Singles scalp but no post-section for Gisborne’s Hawes

Carol Hawes of Gisborne Bowling Club represented Gisborne-East Coast in the national champion of champions women’s singles in Hastings. In the first round, Hawes lost to Nicole Toomey, of Stokes Valley Bowling Club, 21-12. Hawes then had a bye. In...

Coast final ‘awesome experience’: referee

Terry Reeves did a great job for sport on Saturday. Controlling the Ngati Porou East Coast men’s club rugby final is no easy task for any referee, let alone one from their closest neighbours Poverty Bay. But with the support of local officials Joe...

Sports draws

Netball PAK ‘n SAVE Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Seniors — Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put bins out: Uawa Hinekura & Campion MacKillop. 9am: 1, Whatatutu v OBM OG (Annie, Kaki); 2, Horouta Taiman...

History Makers: Century-long wait over as Hicks Bay are crowned Coast champions

There has never been anything like it. On many levels, nothing to remotely approach the 2023 H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club rugby final has occurred in the Sky Blue union’s 102-year history. Hicks Bay won the Rangior...

Doubles to Rickard, McMenamin in YMP win

YMP women set the tone for their men in the curtain-raiser to the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby final on Saturday. YMP and Waikohu women went head-to-head in their first 80-minute fixture of the season at Barry Park — hosts YMP winning 20-0. The...

City titan Fyfe loses illness battle

Time and tide wait for no man, and footballers have no special privileges. Players who in their prime seemed indestructible grow old and die, like the rest of us. Word comes from Australia that a titan of the Gisborne City defence of the mid-1970s...

Gritty Horouta give YMP tough workout

Horouta Koura produced probably their best result of the season so far in pushing Premier Grade table-toppers YMP (1) all the way at the YMCA on Wednesday night. YMP won 43-39 while Horouta earned themselves a richly deserved losing bonus point. As...

Thundercats are go for Waikanae

A team of Waikanae racers will be in action next week in the Australian inflatable rescue boat championships at Kingscliff Beach in northern New South Wales. The championships start on Thursday and go for four days. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae’s well...

Gizzy double trouble

Gisborne’s Kelsey Teneti got the second start of her international rugby 15s career for the Black Ferns this morning in their Pacific Four Series clash with the United States in Canada (8am kick-off NZ time). Teneti, 20, was on the wing for her...

Students give champs a fright

Gisborne Girls’ High School First XI went close to pulling off the upset of the season in Poverty Bay women’s club hockey when they met YMP A in a catch-up game on Tuesday night. Defending champions YMP won 2-1 on the turf at Harry Barker...

OPPORTUNITY KNOX: Two debutants named in Wekas Heartland squad

Head coach Miah Nikora has named his Poverty Bay Wekas 2023 Heartland Championship squad including two new caps and some players who were unavailable last year. Nikora said he was really happy with the squad and building on the foundation laid last...

DOUBLE HEADER WEEKEND FOR JAGS

The shortest day was three weeks ago and Gisborne Thistle get their first home game of the season tomorrow. Their Central Federation League match against Palmerston North Marist at Childers Road Reserve at 2.45pm will be the first of seven home...