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From beach to pool as Aqua Fern: Avalee chases Olympics dream

New Zealand’s electoral system has been under review and recommendations we’ve heard before, plus some new ones, are the result of 58 public meetings and an independent panel of legal experts having considered more than 1700 public submissions...

Derby glory to Poverty Bay after second-half comeback

It ain’t over till it’s over. At halftime, Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi had momentum and the lead over Poverty Bay in their King’s Birthday Weekend Derby at the Oval on Saturday. It mattered not to Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas...

United knocked out of Fed Cup

Gisborne United right-winger Jacob Adams tries to get past Napier Marist midfielder Rueben Thurston in a Central Federation Cup game at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. Pacific Premiership pacesetters Marist beat Eastern League leaders Heavy...

Thistle, Napier City Rovers share honours in another dramatic Fed League finish

Never leave a Jags game early. Those words could well be the 2023 motto for Gisborne Thistle’s Federation League team. Two goals — one for the Jags and the other, against — continued a trend of late strikes deciding their matches. At...

Bridge results

Monday, May 29 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 4 North/South East/West Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 64.24 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 60.32 Robin Bennett, Jean Bennett 57.64 Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 53.37 Katrin...

Gisborne Club Darts results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Irwin 2 (Brezz’n Gold); A Taukamo-Pohio 2 (Vikings); M Reedy (Done n Dusted); S Harris, S Nisbett (Eastland Asphalts); T Ratapu (Spartans). Highest start (180): T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); A Taukamo-Pohio (Vikings)...

ON THE MATS

INDOOR BOWLS It was certainly a game of two halves in the local final of the New Zealand mixed fours competition between eventual winners Keith Setter, David Lynn, Nanette Treloar and Sara Lamont, and Jay Casey, Doc Tipene, Krystel Williams and...

Blair to wear NZ cap at Tri Series

Comet swimmer Angus Blair has been selected in one of two New Zealand age group teams to compete against Western Australia, South Australia and a Pacific Island team in the 2023 Tri Series meet in September. Blair earned his place after a successful...

Look before you leap

Over 160 students from as far away as Wairoa took part in the East Coast North Island secondary school cross-country championships at Showgrounds Park this week. The students competed in three boys and girls categories — Year 9, junior and senior...

‘Stepping stone’ for Fed Cup knockout match in Gisborne on Monday

Josh Adams used a game over a week away as motivation for Gisborne United Firsts before their Eastern League 1 match against Wainui Demons. It worked. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United beat Coates Associates Wainui Demons 10-1 at Harry Barker...

Ball putt the difference as Poverty Bay win pennants

One shot decided the 2023 Endeavour men’s interclub pennants on Sunday. One putt to be exact. Four rounds, comprising 24 matches for each of the eight teams, came down to two men and the sixth green at Poverty Bay Golf Club. Poverty Bay and...

Golf Roundup

POVERTY BAY Three of last year’s Kahlenberg Cup women’s pairs finalists will appear in the 2023 decider next week. Defending champions Rosie Spence and Di Sherratt advanced to the handicap matchplay final yesterday in emphatic style, dismissing...

TOKA ON TOP

Tokararangi are setting the pace four weeks in. Under Rapata Haerewa, the Te Araroa-based club have won three of four games but have unbeaten Hikurangi Te Maunga, with a game in hand, breathing down their necks. Placings in the seven-team H Blackbee...

Gisborne fight back in Super 8 clash, but damage done by PNBHS

Palmerston North have never put together a better first half of rugby than their hat-trick hero Tom Illston-Park’s side did in their 59-21 win here on Saturday. They launched a seven-try blitz to make heads spin in the opening 35 minutes of their...

BIZminton business house league: Asure Quality win, but only just

The fourth night of the BIZminton business house league produced close ties and plenty of excitement in the Social Grade. A countback on points was required to determine the winner after a 3-all tie between Asure Quality and Slammers. Quality got...

Sports draws

Hockey Poverty Bay club hockey, Intermediate — Tuesday (June 6), 4pm: Gisborne Intermediate Wha v TKKM Whatatutu; Gis Int Toru v Campion Mackillop. 4.40pm: Ilminster Kea v Ilminster Weka; Kaiti Toa v Gis Int Ono. 5.20pm: Patutahi Taiohi v Gis Int...

Top guns fight out goal-less draw, Round 1 honours to YMP A men

A hard-fought draw between the top women’s teams, heavyweight men’s side Lytton Old Boys fending off Gisborne Boys’ High by a single goal, two from two for ‘The Ladies in Pink” and a brave effort from LOB Masters were among the highlights...

Electrinet Park reign supreme

No champagne cork-popping jubilation. No Viking-like bellows of victory. No changing shed roof-raising team chants. Electrinet Park (1)’s successful defence of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants title on Sunday was marked with reflection...