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Weekend sports results

RUGBY CPS Poverty Bay premier club rugby: GT Shearing 55 Larsawn Ngatapa 20, Enterprise Cars OBM 34 Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 8, East Coast Farm Vets won by default over High School Old Boys. Senior 1: OBM 12 Uawa 47, Tapuae 68 LVB Farm Services...

Park, Poverty Bay emerge triumphant after dramatic day of pennants at Mahia

DANIEL Collier couldn’t beat William Brown in the morning. And he couldn’t beat him in the afternoon. But when it came to the sudden-death crunch in the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants semifinals at Mahia on Sunday, Collier delivered. On...

Trident tourney a confidence boost for GBHS senior prem team

They’re off to a good start. The Keenan Ruru-Poharama-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior Premier basketball team came fourth of eight crews at the Trident High School Invitational Tournament at the Whakatane War Memorial Stadium this...

Today the Aussies, tomorrow the worlds for Lily

The dream of representing New Zealand at the Australian Gymnastic Nationals is coming true for 16-year-old Lily Arnold. She is competing in the championships at the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre in Queensland this weekend. Lily began her...

Gisborne, TAK darts results

Gisborne Club Darts Association INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: C Holmes (RSA1); H Ngarangione, K Arahanga, K Tamihere (Stallions); J Kingsbeer, R Mason 2 (Roseland); A Taukamo-Pohio, H Eyles (Vikings); R Leach (Outlaws); T Irwin, P Tom, J White...

100 years of YMP hockey

The call has gone out for members of the past and present to celebrate YMP Hockey Club’s 100th anniversary. The club — which started out as Manutuke following a meeting in May of 1923 before changing to YMP when it merged with YMP rugby club —...

No HSOB for Round 2 opener

Unable to field team but coach confident blue and whites can ‘turn it around for next week’ Premier club rugby players are back in action today for the opening Saturday of Round 2 but only four teams are featuring. Enterprise Cars OBM host Kevin...

ON THE MATS

Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowlers started the representative season with a trip to Mount Maunganui to play Tauranga, Thames Valley and King Country. Although the team started the day poorly — picking up only 29 points from a possible 72 —...

Defending champs YMP A v arch-rivals LOB

A replay of the 2022 local men’s hockey grand final is on offer at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. Defending champions YMP A take on fierce rivals Lytton Old Boys Traktion. Their 7.30pm clash on the Hain Farming Turf promises to be one of the...

Double defeat for super vets

Eastland representatives returned to Gisborne with two losses after their first-round ties in the 2023 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hawke’s Bay. They played Waikato and Hawke’s Bay. Eastland team...

PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL DRAW

First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park , 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Kaiti Paoa; 11, Central Tahi v Te Wharau Kereru; 2, Central Rua v Te Wharau Kiwi; 3, Central Royals v St Mary’s Asteroids; 4, Makauri Warriors v St Mary’s Stars; 5, Te Hapara Toru v...

Global day of croquet

World Croquet Day was celebrated in Gisborne with a golf croquet open afternoon organised by Barry Memorial Croquet Club members. It was aimed at those new to the game, and 12 players took part. Many of them had never lifted a mallet before...

Gisborne Trampoline Club members return laden with medals

Gisborne Trampoline Club members returned from the North Island champs in Auckland with seven titles, a silver medal and four bronze medals from its team of 13. Ava-Raey Haley took out both the trampoline and double mini North Island titles in the...

Sports draws

Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: Whangar...

BIZminton, week 2

The second night of the badminton business house league had results ranging from dominant wins to close encounters. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys had some tight matches against RSL51s, a team made up of super veterans. The score ended three...

Superior ends won earn Denham crew Craill Shield crown

It was great to see 48 players taking part in Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s Eric Craill Triples Tournament this month. The tournament was held at Kahutia due to cyclone damage to Poverty Bay’s artificial green. Winners of the Eric Craill Shield...

Lesser lights push guns

Solid but not startling wins for the front-runners marked the weekend round of the Poverty Bay hockey competition, while there were some good efforts by the lower-ranked teams. Ngatapa women got the ball rolling on Thursday night on the Hain Farming...

Baptism of fire for prem grade newbies Ngatapa

by Sherrill Beale Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball gets under way at the YMCA tonight, with one game set to be close and the other a test for one of the new premier teams. Whangara Old Girls take on Horouta Koura at 6pm in the...