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Holmes impresses in Wallaroos whitewash

Gisborne’s Renee Holmes underlined her importance to the “new-era” Black Ferns with a strong performance in a 50-0 whitewash of Australia in Brisbane on Thursday night. The Wallaroos had no answer to the world champions in their opening clash...

Ground conditions mean Thistle’s home run of Central Fed games to start with Matariki weekend doubleheader

Gisborne footballers will dip their studs in the mud as they return to local league competition this weekend. Women’s Eastern League games on Sunday are the most likely to go ahead. The grounds have an extra day to recover, and the women have had...

Take 2 for latest round of Coast comp

They’re not slowing down on the Coast. Last week’s games in H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club rugby will be played tomorrow at the same times and venues. Pango Productions Waiapu are to host Waima at George Nepi...

Tasty treat on offer in top-of-table tussle

POVERTY Bay club hockey over the weekend has plenty of mouth-watering prospects but the men’s clash between Lytton Old Boys Traktion and YMP A tomorrow is likely to be the tastiest. Their top-of-the-table encounter takes place at 5pm on the Hain...

Top 20 for Reid in Montreal Triathlon

GISBORNE professional triathlete Tayler Reid had a top 20 finish at the Montreal Triathlon last weekend. Reid was 20th in the 55-strong elite men’s race in the Canadian city — the fourth event of the World Triathlon Championship Series. He...

DO OR DIE

Poverty Bay Senior 1 semifinals - Tapuae v Nuhaka; Athletic v Uawa Sir David Attenborough said migration in numbers, despite obstacles, dangers and predators, was the key to a species’ survival. Such will be the case with the semifinals of the...

Premier wins to Whangara, YMP

The top two teams in Premier Grade netball reinforced their standings with Wednesday night victories in the YMCA. Second-placed Whangara Old Girls saw off Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A 50-41 in a close Pak’nSave Premier contest. Competition...

Semifinal showdowns

It is the business end of the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby competition and a new ball game for the four teams hunting Lee Bros Shield glory. The Civil Project Solutions Premier sudden-death semifinals take place tomorrow with back-to-back action...

Rep golf in Gisborne next month

Poverty Bay-East Coast contenders for national interprovincial tournaments will get a welcome taste of top-quality matchplay in Gisborne next month. Wellington and Hawke’s Bay masters squads will be coming through for a 54-hole quadrangular...

Bridge results

Congratulations this week to Katrine Matthews and Carolyn McMurray for scoring 74.74 percent on Wednesday. Monday, June 19 — No Trumps Pairs 3 (Howell movement) John Rouse, Brent Turnbull 61.90 Carolyn McMurray, Frank Nieuwland 57.74 Patrici...

All go for Premier top-four playoffs

The final Saturday of Round 2 in the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby competition, which was called off due to the state of emergency announced on Friday, will not be played. That means the competition standings remain as they are and semifinals of...

Cool, calm Kahu to coach Coast

Ngati Porou East Coast have Lochore Cup-winning brains back in 2023. With Hosea Gear as the Sky Blues’ first-ever director of rugby, world secondary school championship-winning coach Kim Harris returning as technical adviser and Kahu Tamatea going...

Athletic’s hat-trick hopes face a tough nut to crack . . . Tapuae

To win the Lew Patterson Cup for three years in a row would be a tremendous achievement. But two-time defending champions of Civil Project Solutions Senior 1 rugby, Charteris Choppers Wairoa-Athletic, have a tough nut to crack first. No points were...

ON THE MATS

INDOOR BOWLS Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowlers continued their impressive run at the New Zealand Indoor Bowls Championships by winning the District Challenge in New Plymouth. Each district was represented by four bowlers and 22 districts started...

Five Gisborne clubbies in NZ team for Surf Rescue Challenge

The New Zealand Surf Lifesaving Black Fins team have been named for the International Surf Rescue Challenge 2023 and five of them are from Gisborne clubs. The Challenge is being held in South Padre, Texas, from September 20 to 23. Among the...

Heartland unions band together to support Poverty Bay, Coast

While New Zealand rugby’s 12 Heartland Provincial Unions are highly competitive on the field, the strength of their bonds off it are as strong as ever following the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle earlier this year. The cyclone left thousands of...

Sporting fixtures cancelled throughout district

Sports venues around the region are empty over the weekend following multiple cancellations due to the state of emergency announced yesterday. Hockey (posted on Poverty Bay Hockey Turf Facebook page) “All hockey is cancelled this weekend. There...

Eastland seniors to take on Manawatu, Wgtn North

Teams from Manawatu and Wellington North will be in Gisborne this weekend for the second round of Badminton New Zealand’s North Island senior inter-association Central Division 1 competition. Badminton Eastland’s senior division team will play...