FOOTBALLGISBORNE Thistle made hard work of their 2-1 Pacific Premiership win against Napier City Rovers Reserves on Saturday. For the most part, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle set their shooting sights too high. When they did hit the target they...
GISBORNE'S Malone and Vette families are to the fore in age-group competition at the national surfing championships finishing in Dunedin today. Chris Malone, national open men's champion in 1998 when he was based in Gisborne, has spent much of the...
JUST a couple of weeks after becoming the New Zealand schools under-20 duathlon champion, Gisborne’s Josiah Ney is going under the knife. Surgery to remove a metal plate and screws from his shoulder will be one of the final acts of a nine-month...
FORMER Poverty Bay coach Grainger Heikell says he is “proud and humbled” to have been named best coach in Romanian domestic rugby for 2015.“I owe the award to the players,” the coach of Romania’s Superliga (Super League) champions...
THE National Scholastic Surfing Championships began yesterday and the Gisborne under-16 and u18 boys enjoyed some early-round success. Despite difficult conditions at Makorori Beach during the first round of the contest, all Gisborne’s surfers...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Webby Lewis (2NZ Say My Name Again), John Kingsbeer (Roseland) 2, Wayne Morrell (Roseland), Ngata Monika (2NZ McCann’ics), Denise Renata (2NZ Vikings).Best start (180): Webby Lewis...
THEY'VE gone 130 years without a break. And as soon as New Zealand reaches Alert Level 2, Poverty Bay rugby will once more kick into gear under NZ Rugby Covid-19 guidelines. Level 2 — which could in theory be two weeks away but is more likely at...
It was a low-scoring game of nervous tension. But Heyan Ranasinghe's Horouta rejoined the winner's circle on Saturday with their 29-run win against 2019 Senior B cricket champions Ngatapa at Harry Barker Reserve. Also in Round 12 of the six-team race...
RUGBYThink big . . . because it doesn’t get any bigger in East Coast club rugby than competition leaders Uawa at Uawa Domain against the holders of the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield, Tihirau Victory Club. And it being club day — when Uawa’s...
HIGH School Old Boys took advantage of some batting practice and booked an automatic spot in the DJ Barry Cup cricket final in two weeks with a 269-run win against Campion College at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Bollywood Stars HSOB skipper...
FOOTBALLGisborne United head football’s Pacific Premiership table, one point above local rivals Gisborne Thistle. Heavy Equipment Services United have 16 points from their first seven matches, with five wins, one draw and one loss. Tomorrow they...
GISBORNE paddlers claimed their first gold medal of the 2016 waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karapiro yesterday. Mareikura crew Hinekura won the junior 16 women’s W6 500 metres final, then followed it up with gold in the W6 1000 to end the...
Four Ngata Memorial College students have made a big impression at this year's area schools national competition in Dunedin. Year 11 student Kahu Kenworthy was selected in the national Ki o Rahi side, while Kauri Hovell, Chase Smith and Kauri Ben...
The Interclub bowls winners have been found — Te Karaka for the men and a combined Kahutia/Wairoa team for the women. Last Saturday the Gisborne-East Coast Interclub was played at the Gisborne Bowling Club. Four clubs entered in the men's...
Mission accomplished with more to come. Tene Goldsmith has ticked off another golfing feat on what has grown to a driver's length list of achievements. On Boxing Day at his home Poverty Bay course, the popular left-hander joined an exclusive club of...
High School Old Boys ended Waikohu’s 10-match unbeaten run in Poverty Bay rugby’s premier division with a 39-30 win at Te Karaka on Saturday. But GT Shearing Waikohu coach Jason Tuapawa was surprisingly upbeat following the loss.“We don’t...
ANY plans for Tairāwhiti waka ama crews to taper their training for the national sprint champs went out the door when sewage flowed into city rivers. Paddlers were warned against going on the rivers after the District Council opened emergency...
GISBORNE paddlers continued their medal mission with regional and club success on the penultimate day of the waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karapiro. Day 5 culminated in premier regional W12 500 races. Gisborne is part of Te Uranga o te Ra region...
EASTLAND are in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow for the first ties of their inter-association North Island veterans division 3 campaign. Eastland face North Harbour 3 in the morning and Counties Manukau 1 in the afternoon. Eastland finished sixth in the 2015...
THEY won nine out of 10 games and amassed 43 win and bonus points. Other placings in the playoffs will depend on the results of tomorrow’s (July 4) games. Currently in the top four are Tokararangi (33 points), Uawa (32) and Hicks Bay (27), with...
High School Old Girls gave the form team in Gisborne premier netball a good run for their money for half an hour at the YMCA on Saturday. But YMP (1) got on top in the second half and won the Pak'nSave competition match 61-45. At the end of the first...
Gis Int teams did themselves proud at the Super 11 Winter Sports Tournament in Tauranga. The Gisborne Intermediate School winter sports contingent had a blast. The Wayne Ensor-coached boys' first 15 rugby team and Emily Willock's girls' hockey team...
POVERTY Bay lost 7–5 to Rangitikei in the final of the Skene Trophy on Sunday in the premier six-goal competition of the annual Harvest Transport Poverty Bay Polo Open. The composite Bay team of Pete Dormer and Ben Finney from Christchurch had...
GISBORNE — the East Coast’s surfing mecca — is a week away from hosting the New Zealand Surfing Championships, from January 7 to 13. The championships bring together surfers across all disciplines and age groups, but now more than ever, the...
RUGBYHere is the team, their opposition, when they play and where. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 of 2019 will start their 14-game season against Lindisfarne College in Gisborne at the Rectory ground on Saturday, April 6. The following...
Fourth-year junior bowler Karen Pinn has won the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre women's singles held on the Gisborne Bowling Club greens. Pinn, from the Kahutia club, beat Poverty Bay's Anita Vaotuua 21-14 in the final for her first centre singles...
Sunderland, Southampton, Wimbledon, Wigan Athletic . . .If Gisborne Boys’ High School follow those teams’ example and cause their own cup-final upset, they deserve a parade down, well, Stanley Road. Boys’ High and Gisborne United had a dress...
The Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowls representative team travelled to Napier and won the Presidents Trophy by beating Hawke's Bay 79 points to 65. The 16-member Poverty Bay team shrugged off the early-morning travel and started the event in style...
WITH so many humdinger performances involving Gisborne dart players home and away, Tutu is at a bit of a loss as to where to start. On the local scene, Marlene Pohio’s 2NZ (3) had a close-fought 9-6 win against Kehu Beauchamp’s RSA (4).The...
SURFINGFORMER Gisborne surfer Jay Quinn has Welsh and British titles under his belt and he’s preparing to defend his European title. But what he’s really after is a berth in Great Britain’s Olympic team next year. Quinn, 35, is eligible to...