MONDAY, May 23 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Open Championship 4North/South East/WestPhilip Beale/Michelle England 71.67 Eileen Lee/Ann McCombe 61.67Graham MacLaurin/Anne MacLaurin 57.08 Helen Kerisome/Pippa Williams 50.83WEDNESDAY, May 25 — Craigs...
Poverty Bay will end a 10-year drought when they play Taranaki in a Ranfurly Shield match at New Plymouth tomorrow. The Bay’s last challenge was in 2008 when Auckland brought the Log o’ Wood to Rugby Park. Playing that day for the home side was...
Northern Districts Cricket coaches were in Gisborne last week giving tips to promising local cricketers at the Showgrounds Event Centre
Bayleys Beach Netball is back for 2020. The league will run for six weeks on Tuesdays from January 28 to March 3.“As usual, it will be played on the sand track at Churchill Park and, again, it will be lots of fun,” a netball association...
Gisborne cyclist Neil Robinson won the 20-kilometre time trial in the 75-to-79 age group at the New Zealand Masters Games in Whanganui yesterday. His time was 34 minutes 59 seconds — 50 seconds less than the next-fastest rider, Whanganui’s...
CroquetNON-MEMBERS had an opportunity to try their hand at a new game when Barry Memorial Croquet Club held a fun competition day during the Christmas-New Year break. All players had seven games, each with a different partner, and were credited with...
It’s not hard going; it’s a higher level. Next to the national tournament, the Super 8 is the toughest basketball New Zealand schoolboys can play. The Dwayne Tamatea-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School A team (minus one key starting forward, out...
There’s nothing quite like it. The winning feeling returned to Ngati Porou Seafoods Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 rugby on Saturday, with the biggest turnaround in their Super 8 history. They beat New Plymouth Boys’ High School 50-12 in...
THE Speedweek saloon car championships will tear up the Eastland Group Raceway track tomorrow night and Gisborne’s Daniel and Ethan Cook will be out to make the most of their home-track advantage. The 20-car field for the ChemWash-sponsored event...
Bruce Springstein is no golfer but these lyrics from his song Badlands resonate with those sharpening their swords for battle in the 2022 King of the Coast men's open at Tolaga Bay this weekend.“Rules everything” is particularly fitting for the...
It was action all the way at the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club beach-racing nationals at Makorori. A good turnout of spectators, visitors and local racers ensured the throttles were wide open. Dylan MacGregor, riding his Yamaha R1 in the senior open...
Poverty Bay Bowling Club has been on corner of Hall Street and Ormond Road since 1920
Waikohu set themselves up nicely for the Gisborne premier-grade netball playoffs with a solid win at the YMCA on Saturday, but not before Lytton Senior A gave them a wake-up call. Claydens Waikohu won 72-52 and led throughout, albeit narrowly early...
Eastland Masters started their badminton season with a win and a loss in Rotorua. Eastland lost to Wellington (2), 8 matches to 4, then beat Waikato (2) on games won . . . the teams were level at 6 matches each, but Eastland’s 14-13 advantage in...
High School Old Boys, Campion College and Gisborne Boys' High School all have a point to prove tomorrow. Bollywood Stars HSOB Presidents, the 2020-21 Hope Cup holders, will be out to bounce back from their nine-run loss to Campion. The Mark...
POVERTY Bay-East Coast representative Andrew Higham had a hole-in-one on his way to the lowest round by an amateur in the long and proud history of the Poverty Bay golf course yesterday. Painter-decorator Higham fired 8-under 64 — one better than...
REIGNING premier netball champions YMP (1) will look to continue their winning ways and make it two from two in Round 2 of the Pak’nSave Gisborne Premier Netball Competition tomorrow. The champions went undefeated all season last year and have yet...
The four top netball teams in Gisborne take the court at the YMCA tonight. One game should be decided on form, but the other could be close. In-form Taste One High School Old Girls play the rebuilding Whangara Old Girls (1) in Pak’nSave premier...
On Saturday, May 14, Kahutia Bowling Club members had their closing day tournament. The Liquorland-sponsored tournament was played in perfect bowling conditions. Members played three games of three-bowl triples. Games lasted 10 ends or 75...
Applications for the second intake of the shared services programme Taupua Tairāwhiti close on Friday, February 18. The aim of the shared services initiative is to provide a fit-for-purpose entity that offers a range of services for the sporting...
Both Gisborne teams in football’s Pacific Premiership will be in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow to face opponents at either end of the league table. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle have a top-of-the-table clash with Havelock North Wanderers Reserves at...
The 2020 North Island Club Championships took place on Lake Karapiro in Cambridge from January 24 to January 27
Two of Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s association players carried on the Gisborne club’s winning ways in the Bay of Plenty and Hawke’s Bay last week. Barry club members won five of the eight prizes on offer at the Whakatane Golf Croquet Open...
David Lynn and Lois Lamont won the zone final of the New Zealand mixed pairs event in Whakatane. Lynn and Lamont were unstoppable and got better as the day went on. In a round-robin competition against Bay of Plenty, Thames Valley, Waikato and...
HIGH School Old Boys coach Wayne Ensor will not be resting players ahead of the premier playoffs when his team play Ngatapa at the Oval tomorrow.“We don’t have that luxury with all the injuries we have, so we’ll just box on,” said Ensor...
The Ashley Scott Memorial Trophy goes on the line at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night, and racing will be fierce for the stockcar trophy. A field of about 20 cars will contest the Tyre General-sponsored event. Organisers are expecting...
Bowls Gisborne East-Coast has named its representative teams for the National Intercentre Championships in Wellington from tomorrow to Sunday. The GEC centre men's selector and manager Ben Brown has named the following players: Jamey Ferris, Bob...
Gisborne Intermediate athletes did their school proud at the Bay of Plenty/Poverty Bay intermediate schools athletics championships in Tauranga. Podium finishers were (from left): Luke Bidois (third in Year 8 boys' shot put), Timuaki Stewart (third...
DAVID Solomonn made it three wins from three matches as Poverty Bay-East Coast fell just short of their first team success at the Freyberg masters national interprovincial this morning. Solomonn, who replaced Stefan Andreassen at No. 5 for the round 6...
CyclingKonica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club races, SATURDAY — Club Ride (no racing), starting at 1.30pm from Nelson Rd Cemetery. New riders considering racing at some stage are welcome to have a group ride with club. All visitors welcome. Tuesday...
Thistle coach Matt Hastings is taking a 16-man squad to Napier tomorrow for the first of five pre-season games in preparation for the Central Federation League, which starts in April. The Jags play Port Hill United tomorrow and Hastings is looking...
A third-quarter “blitz” told the story for Waikohu (1) on Saturday when they demolished Whangara Old Girls by 30 goals in their premier grade netball clash at the YMCA. Claydens Waikohu (1) outscored their opponents by 21 goals to 3 in the...
GISBORNE swimmer Michael Pickett needed to break his own New Zealand age group record to make the final of the 50 metres freestyle at the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina this morning. The 16-year-old fell short, posting 22.98 seconds in placing...