YMP v Lytton juniorsFull force — that’s what YMP’s Amoe Tarsau hit the Lytton High School juniors with in women’s basketball at the YMCA last night. Tarsau led all scorers with 19 points in YMP’s 35-23 win. Her quick hands in defence were...
Gisborne ParkLIFTING a trophy with a long and illustrious history was extra special for Bo Huhu on Sunday. Huhu and Pete Koorey beat Cliff Nepe and Johnny Collier in the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs handicap matchplay final — a first Te K success...
Gisborne ParkSCOTLAND did not feature at the World Cup but Dave Harrison made sure the cry of the Bravehearts was heard in the Men’s Handicap Cup. In a performance befitting Mel Gibson’s “they will never take our freedom” speech, Scotsman...
Temepara Bailey will not be the only famous Silver Fern to attend a Gisborne Weet-Bix TRYathlon — Irene van Dyk will be here for this year’s event. Temepara Bailey (formerly George) was a 2014 Weet-Bix TRYathlon sports ambassador, alongside...
MONDAY, November 16 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Open Championship 10: Philip Beale/Michelle England 65.48; Bette Parker/Trish Corson 58.33; Eileen Lee/Ann McCombe 55.95; John Hudson/Vicki Taylor 51.79; Joy Marden/Yvonne Key 45.83; Anne McLaurin/Graham...
TE Wharau School team have been in sensational form at the Air New Zealand National Rippa Rugby Championship in Wellington this week. The Poverty Bay champions this morning made the championship final after defeating South Canterbury 50-25 in the...
BLACK Ferns star Charmaine McMenamin and former All Black Keven Mealamu will be in Gisborne for a week-long promotion of rugby. McMenamin, the Black Ferns player of the year from the 2019 New Zealand Rugby Awards and New Zealand Rugby Players'...
WAKA AMAFOUR weeks training in Tahiti with one of the world’s top coaches of long-distance waka ama champions could bear fruit for a team of young Gisborne paddlers as early as next week. The Horouta J19 men’s team Baby Heli’s are New...
Gisborne's Kim-Maree Larby recently became one of only a handful of fully accredited female boxing coaches in New Zealand. The head coach at Patu Tahi Boxing Club achieved her Level 2 boxing licence while colleagues Paul Graham and Rob Kora achieved...
ROBIN Jefferson has won a record 10th Bowls Gisborne East Coast centre men's singles title. Marie Wright, of the Kahutia Bowling Club, won the centre women's singles for the second year in a row. Gisborne Bowling Club's Jefferson received the Martin...
BOXINGBOXERS from Gisborne’s Patu Tahi club had a strong showing at the Central North Island championships in Rotorua, winning two-thirds of their fights. Tyla Kahukiwa-Larby, one of several promising teenagers in the club, had two fights last...
Draws for Tairawhiti junior softball games at Waikirikiri Park on SATURDAY — finals, prize-giving to follow —Junior Sox, (Year 9-10), 11am: D1, GBHS Black v Apitihanga (boys' division title); D2, GGHS v Lytton (girls' div title).Emerging Sox...
THE Bill Edwards Tankard at stake in the annual challenge between Gisborne and Kahutia bowling clubs changed hands last Wednesday afternoon. It was fitting that Jamey Ferris, greenkeeper for both clubs, received the trophy on behalf of the winners...
GROW the kids . . . grow the sport is the winning formula adopted by Tairawhiti Softball Association, whose numbers have increased from eight adult teams in 2009 to 17 teams competing in the women’s (10 teams), seven in the men and 37 in the...
POVERTY Bay Kayak Club results from the second and third days of the NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro, on Saturday and Sunday —SATURDAYTyros women’s K1 500 metres: Jayha Egan (fourth).Tyros men’s K1 500m: William...
Ritana Senior A from Lytton High School kept their premier-grade netball playoff hopes alive when they produced a strong team performance to defeat Horouta Gold by 24 goals. The school team led throughout this Pak’nSave competition game to win...
Some fantastic games are on the cards at Victoria Domain tomorrow as the Pak’nSave senior competition culminates with finals day through the grades. All of the games will be rematches of the initial semifinals played on August 3.“All of the teams...
Poverty BayCLUTCH putts on the last two holes earned Brian Morrissey membership to an exclusive club at Poverty Bay on Sunday. The 74-year-old carded 73-11-62 to break his age for the first time on the Poverty Bay track. Morrissey has achieved the...
Poverty Bay Cricket’s two-league colts initiative bore spectacular fruit at the weekend. The aim was to give Year 7 to 10 players more games in the form of a 15-over competition on Wednesday afternoons and 30-over matches on Saturday mornings. In...
WHANGARA Old Girls staged a second-half comeback to defeat Gisborne Girls' High 51-46 in premier grade netball at the YMCA last night. YMP led all the way in a 58-35 win over JT Contractors Horouta Gold. Gillies Electrical Gisborne Girls' High Senior...
TAYLER Reid has followed up his strong showing at the Olympics with an eighth-place finish at the Groupe Copley World Triathlon Championship Montreal. Reid excelled in a new format of triathlon in which he raced four times across two days on...
Gisborne Girls' High School pulled off the result of the season to date in premier grade netball last night. They ended YMP's unbeaten run in dramatic fashion at the YMCA. The students were down by four goals heading into the final quarter but stormed...
Jeff Allen, Caroline Kirkpatrick, Carolyn McMurray, Frank Nieuland 51VPsDelwyn Arthur, John Rouse, Murray Owen, Vincelle Marvin 19 VPsDiana Styche, Anne Roberts, Jean Bennett, Robin Bennett 5 VPsEileen Lee, Beverley Evans 61.74 Carolyn McMurray...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE United conceded an own goal in the sixth minute of their game against Napier Marist and never had a chance to recover. Or rather, every time they had a sniff of a recovery, Marist were all over them, nipping at their heels, flicking...
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They're the only show in town. With the DJ Barry Cup taking a break this weekend, Hope Cup cricket will take pride of place at the Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow from 2pm. Rawhiti Legal Old Boys Rugby and Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps sit...
High School Old Boys are into the Doleman Cup 40-over cricket final, after crushing Horouta by 126 runs. Thorn Parkes hit 77 runs and Josiah Turner took five wickets in a dominant display at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday that secured High School...
GISBORNE croquet players Dave Newton and John Wilson won a section of the Mt Maunganui Croquet Club’s Winter Handicap Golf Croquet Tournament last weekend. They and fellow Barry Memorial Croquet Club members Ross and Betty Thomson travelled to play...
Poverty Bay and Thames Valley were deadlocked at 34-all until a late penalty in the Heartland Championship match. Thames Valley won 37-34
HIGH School Old Boys and Horouta opened their accounts with convincing wins in Doleman Cup cricket at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Bollywood Stars HSOB beat Gisborne Boys’ High School by five wickets, while Coastal Ultrasound Horouta beat...
GISBORNE-Tairawhiti open and youth coach, Dion Williams, is “unbelievably proud” of their performance in the New Zealand Representative Challenge at Mount Maunganui.“We took two all-local teams away with a focus on development and...
GISBORNE-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie is building solidly towards his 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour campaign. Christie yesterday advanced to Round 3 of the Sydney Surf Pro at Manly Beach. He was second in his Round 2 heat of the Qualifying...
HOCKEYGISBORNE hockey coach Matt King came home from the New Zealand under-18 regional tournament in Wellington a happy man after the Central Region men’s side finished runners-up last week. King was head coach of the team, who had a win and two...