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Close encounters of the rugby kind in Poverty Bay-EBoP exchange

Three close encounters, two cancellations and one blowout summed up the Poverty Bay club rugby preseason matches against Eastern Bay of Plenty teams in Gisborne on Saturday. Unfortunately, Poverty Bay reigning Premier champions YMP’s clash against...

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GBHS begin season today v Mt Maunganui College at the Rectory

The 2024 edition of the Gisborne Boys’ High School First 15 begin their season today at home against Mount Maunganui College. Duane Hihi has returned as GBHS coach and at the helm of a relatively fresh squad featuring a large number of players...

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Six clubs to blow out cobwebs

The start of the Poverty Bay club rugby season is only a couple of weeks away and clubs have a great opportunity this weekend to blow away the cobwebs. The annual Ngatapa 15s competition is being held at Paddy’s Park, Patutahi, tomorrow. Six clubs...

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‘Giving the rangatahi a go’

The widespread cyclone devastation that ripped through the Gisborne and wider communities is still being felt a year on as the recovery continues. But for a group of Te Wharau School senior students yesterday, it was all about fun and participation...

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NZR women’s referee development manager to hold refereeing workshop in Gisborne

Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union has experienced a surge of interest in the women’s game, resulting in the formation of the inaugural women’s club competition this year. And as playing numbers grow, it is also hoped to get more women blowing the...

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Bay’s Nepia taking next career step

Australian clubs are recognising the raw potential of union players in our own backyard and enticing more of them over the Tasman. Poverty Bay and YMP forward Hayze Nepia will depart New Zealand shores in March after finalising a 12-month contract...

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Fraser Ruru

18 Jan 2024

Sport

Winning sideways: Gisborne teen powers towards international motorsports career

MOTORSPORT The smell of burning rubber wouldn’t appeal to some but 15-year-old Gisborne teen Corbyn Wilson wants to make it an international career. Twelve months to the day the Gisborne Boys’ High School student went to his first Drift Academy...

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Fraser Ruru

13 Dec 2023

Sport

King in the Ring champ Coastie Parkes returns to fight in 75kg super middleweight

KICK BOXING East Coast kickboxer Sam “Cowboy” Parkes lost a semifinal bout to the eventual winner of the super-lightweight King in the Ring contest, and is sure of one thing: the weight restriction was five kilograms too light for him. Parkes...

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Hoops in Schools initiative providing more opportunities for young people to play basketball

Tairāwhiti schools were visited by Basketball New Zealand’s Hoops in Schools initiative on Tuesday. Awapuni, Ormond, Matawai and Riverdale each received hoops and balls from New Zealand Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns internationals Ethan Rusbatch and...

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Top honour to Nabura

Midfield back Tevia Nabura’s powerhouse season for the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi was rewarded with the top individual accolade at the union’s 2023 prizegiving held at Whakarua Park. Fijian Nabura won the Coast Heartland squad Player of the...

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Go time in Gibraltar

Over the past three days it has been nothing but boards in front of Gisborne’s Toa Matarau Junior Darts Academy youth team in Gibraltar. Continuing on from the Mediterranean Open, the academy players — representing New Zealand — competed in...

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Mixing with the best in the world

Young Tairāwhiti dart players have been mixing it with professionals and one of the sport’s most exciting prospects at the Mediterranean Open in Gibraltar. The group and their co-managers are representing New Zealand overseas at tournaments...

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Stepping up to world youth oche

Rising Gisborne darts aces are flying the national flag on the world stage. Six youths from Gisborne Club Darts Association are in Gibraltar representing New Zealand at the Junior Darts Corporation World Championships entering the JDC World Cup Team...

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Fraser Ruru

28 Nov 2023