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Mangapapa, Kaiti top of the sevens class

Opportunity was the focus of the primary interschool sevens rugby competition at the Rectory field yesterday. Seventeen boys’ and nine girls’ teams from schools all over the district took part in the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union-run...

ROA fighters among those to benefit from elite coach’s tiki tour

Tairāwhiti martial arts exponents had the benefit of tips from a coach of champions this month. Mike Angove is one of six elite-level coaches operating out of City Kickboxing in Auckland. The club has fighters competing in UFC and around the world...

Disc wars

Te Puke’s skill and know-how came to the fore in a successful Super 11 Ultimate Festival hosted by Gisborne Intermediate School last week. Five intermediate schools — Gis Int, Ilminster, Te Puke, Mount Maunganui and Tauranga — competed at the...

Sports draws

Football Eastern League 1 — SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Property Brokers Thistle 1sts v Coates Associates Wainui Demons. 2.30pm: Wainui 1, Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks v Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 1st’s; Wairoa 1...

Rotorua’s Vake takes centre stage in Super first 15 clash

Ngatanatafu Vake will never forget his star turn at the Rectory. The Rotorua Boys’ High School centre scored three tries in the first half of the Super first 15 clash at the home of Gisborne Boys’ High School rugby on Saturday. It set his side...

Another tough game of premier netball ahead for Whangara Old Girls

by Sherrill Beale Whangara Old Girls face an uphill struggle when they play top seeds YMP in Gisborne premier netball tonight. The Pak’nSave competition game at the YMCA starts at 6pm. Turanga FM YMP are unbeaten this season and have been playing...

Goal rush: heavyweights flex muscles in Poverty Bay club hockey

The sound of ball hitting the back of the goal was prevalent as the heavyweights flexed their muscles in Poverty Bay club hockey. There were big wins to YMP’s top men’s and women’s teams, GMC women’s Green Machine also racked up the goals as...

Bridge results

Congratulations this week to Joy Marden and Patricia Corson for scoring 71.88 percent on Wednesday. Patricia also featured in the results of each session. Tuesday, June 6 — No Trumps Pairs 1 North/South East/West Bette Parker, Eileen Lee 59.23...

PN Marist punish Thistle’s failings

Gisborne Thistle had a day to remember in Central Federation League football in Manawatu on Saturday. They lost 6-1 to Palmerston North Marist and they’ll want the memory of that defeat to galvanise their effort for the game this weekend. Thistle...

Confident GGHS topple Waikohu

Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A threw predictions out the window to stun 2022 Premier Grade runners-up Waikohu 55-46 in the YMCA on Wednesday night. In the battle of the newly promoted teams, YMP (2) proved too good for Farmlands Ngatapa — winning...

And the Bowls GEC players of the year are . . . Steve Goldsbury and Karen Pinn

LAWNBOWLS Fourth-year bowler Karen Pinn received two major awards at the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre prize-giving at Kahutia Bowling Club. Pinn, a member of the Gisborne and Kahutia clubs, was named Most Improved Junior Women’s Player and...

Striker could be the solution as Thistle’s central defenders battle injuries

Gisborne Thistle are running short of centrebacks but help is on its way in the form of a centre-forward. Tomorrow ALH Thistle play Palmerston North Marist under lights on the artificial surface of Arena Turf in Palmerston North. Last Saturday Chris...

‘Skeleton crew’ City to take the battle to Hikurangi

This could be the best day of club rugby the coast has had so far. And while heavy rain warnings are the reality for tomorrow’s hardy sides and supporters, no true die-hard with an eye on the draw will miss Week 5 of H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti...

Improving Waituhi could threaten YMP

WEEK 6 of Poverty Bay senior club hockey should produce some tantalising contests. The feature match will probably be the men’s game between YMP A and Waituhi on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow afternoon. It starts at 3.30pm...

Out to break victory drought against Raukura

How big would it be for Gisborne Boys’ High School to beat Rotorua Boys’ High at the Rectory tomorrow? A victory to the Gisborne first 15 over reigning Super 8 rugby champions Raukura would be their first against Rotorua in a decade. They would...

Holmes, Teneti in Ferns squad

A new era for the Rugby World Cup-winning Black Ferns is under way with the announcement of their first squad of 2023 ahead of the opening test for the Pacific Four Series and O’Reilly Cup against Australia in Brisbane later this month. Black...

DRAW FOR PRIMARY FOOTBALL

All games on Saturday — First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Mangapapa Storm; 2, Kaiti Paoa v Kaiti Horouta; 3, Central Royals v Central Tahi; 4, Makauri Warriors v Awapuni Black; 5, Te Hapara Toru v Te Wharau Kereru; 6, Wainui...

First centre crown for Kora

LAWN BOWLS Differentials separated the top two teams in Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre’s Chisholm Optional Senior-Junior Pairs Tournament at Kahutia Bowling Club. Adam McIlroy (skip) and Gerry Kora won the tournament with eight points, 33 ends...