ALL-DAY north-west winds and small, pulsing east swells ... seems like summer, right?The unusual swell and weather patterns of this winter continue. This is not a complaint, though. While we would all love a bit more size there is nothing too wrong...
MONDAY, July 3 — Self Storage Pairs 1North/South East/WestKatrine Matthews/Trish Corson 57.64 Anne Maclaurin/Helen Kerisome 60.42Ann McCombe/Carolyn McMurray 56.25 Bette Parker/John Rouse 50.00WEDNESDAY, July 5 — Bayleys Real Estate Pairs...
Gisborne United and Thistle Massive both play in Hawke’s Bay for Round 2 of football’s Federation Cup on Monday. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United play Feilding United at Park Island and Carpet Court Thistle Massive play Eskview United at...
Tahuna Irwin gave himself an early 21st birthday present when he won the Hawke’s Bay-East Coast Clubs Singles Championship tournament in Hastings last Sunday. He beat Chris Field of Hastings 3-0 in the final, held at Clubs Hastings, two days before...
Poverty BayAnna Colvin, a first-year player, won Poverty Bay Bowling club's junior women's singles for players with up to three years of bowls experience. She defeated Win Baker 21-5 in the final. While that was a good win, her journey to the final...
A Gisborne face-off of sorts is in store when the Black Ferns meet Australia’s Wallaroos in the curtain-raiser to the Bledisloe Cup opening test tonight. In the Black Ferns No. 6 jersey will be former Gisborne Girls’ High School student Charmaine...
Te Puia SpringsIT wasn’t William Brown’s sub-par round. Or the Cook’s Courier stableford double. It wasn’t the home-course treble in the women’s competition. Or Te Puia Springs triumphing over Tolaga Bay in their interclub challenge. The...
Sensational saloon racing, the skills of the youngsters in the youth ministocks, a first speedway win for Sammy Durston and a visit by Santa were highlights of Saturday night speedway. Gisborne Speedway Club put on a 31-race Christmas programme of...
GISBORNE triathlete Tayler Reid has finished seventh in the elite race in the World Triathlon Championship Series final in Edmonton at the weekend. His performance put him in 13th place overall for the season. Olympic bronze medallist Hayden Wilde...
Captain and court general of local basketball's golden age to become network lead with Pinnacle Midlands Health
SOME of the district’s most promising waka ama paddlers will be in action on city waterways on Monday, when Horouta Waka Hoe members host their annual race simulation day for junior paddlers. The aim is to give young paddlers race practice a week...
PETANQUEA PETANQUE Open Day is being held at Kahutia Bowling Club’s five-lane petanque “terrain” tomorrow. Admission to the open day, at the club’s base in Cobden Street, will be free of charge. Open-day activities will run from 10am to 4pm...
Gisborne's Tahuna Irwin has drawn colourful world No. 2 Peter “Snakebite” Wright in the first round of the Auckland Darts Masters, starting tonight. Irwin, 21, qualified for the tournament which features 16 players, including six of the world’s...
BIGUNS continued their domination of the women’s A-grade softball competition with a 9-2 defeat of their closest rivals Rovers at Barry Park on Saturday. In the women’s B-grade, Tolaga Bay Stingers (High School team) and Panthers played...
The district's up and coming surf athletes contest the Gisborne/Tairawhiti junior championships at Midway Beach from 5.30 tonight. Youngsters aged 7 to 14 years will be in action representing the Dawson Building Midway, Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae and...
THREE Gisborne players featured in the Central Under-18 women’s hockey team’s best finish at a regional tournament. Ngahuia Wilson of Gisborne Girls’ High School and twins Cory and Kodi Campbell of GMC were in the squad who finished runners-up...
There's little time to relax for Pete Anderson after a huge week of competitive golf at the Freyberg Masters in Timaru. Poverty Bay-East Coast No. 1 Anderson finished his eight rounds at the over-40s matchplay tournament on a high — a victory over...
CricketSATURDAY — Doleman Cup final (50 overs), Harry Barker Reserve 5.30pm: Rep, Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates v Landmark Homes Bain Construction OBR. CyclingKonica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club races, SATURDAY — Club Ride (no race) from Nelson Rd...
WORLD champion Gisborne paddler Vesna Radonich will be at Lake Karapiro on Sunday to cheer on the first deaf waka ama team to compete at regional sprint championships. Radonich, herself hearing impaired, travelled to Hamilton in March this year to...
GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald contributed a half as Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay ended the Toro women’s national interprovincial on a winning high. HBPB defeated Wellington 3½-1½ in the playoff for ninth and 10th at the teams’ matchplay...
MEETING 3 of Eastland Kart Club’s season, a fun day with no points, gave drivers the opportunity to test different set-ups and race lines. It also encouraged a family atmosphere. Among those testing the limits was “the king of drifting”, Jerome...
Waikohu coach Jason Tuapawa will be without one of his leading players and possibly another for tomorrow’s top-of-the-table premier clash with YMP at Rugby Park (2.45pm kick-off).Halfback and vice-captain Mario Counsell will be in Wellington to...
THE club's flag is flying at half-mast to honour long-time and respected club member Nan Carmine, who died on Saturday aged 92. Nan was a part of the Poverty Bay fabric for decades, noted as a golfer for her accuracy off the tee and quality short...
Round 1 of the Gisborne Basketball Association’s secondary schools’ league last night was simply brilliant stuff. In Division 1 of the boys’ league, Safin Tuwairua-Brown was consistently superb at the John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre. He...
THE sun came out just in time for the opening race meeting of the Eastland Kart Club on Sunday. There was a slight delay to start the racing due to the weekend’s weather, but this didn’t hinder the ability of the karters to put on a spectacular...
DAVID Yee won Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s B Grade competition last Saturday. Yee continued his consistent form this year, beating Tiny Thompson two frames to nil in the final. A field of 15 players produced good snooker. Qualifying games...
Poverty BayDudley Meadows is back to his near-best. Meadows suffered a serious knee injury playing football last year, requiring surgery and a five-month recovery period before being able to return to the fairways. On Sunday he shot 80-16-64, for 45...
Hunter Eyles, Cris Kiri 2, Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Kingz); Jono Griffith 2, Thao Duncan, Toby Ratapu (RSA Men of Mayhem); Rendall McDonald (Cossy Spandangles); Alvin (Alf) Cross (Roseland); Murray Jukes (RSA 1).Tahuna Irwin, Toby Ratapu, Hukanui Brown...
Bikes will be the main attraction when Gisborne Speedway Club hosts its first race meeting for 2021 tomorrow, with the coveted Law-Cartmell Memorial sidecar trophy on the line. Stubbs Contractors, Phill Law Panelbeating & Engineering, Novus Glass and...
WAIKANAE's IRB teams scored a stack of medals at the BP North Island inflatable rescue boat championships at Paekakariki at the weekend, including three of the four gold medals in the under-23 division. Connor Mitchell and Oliver Shivnan, with...
Ngati Porou East Coast coach Troy Para and Poverty Bay counterpart Mana Otai are using tomorrow’s Queen’s Birthday Weekend clash at Tolaga Bay as a trial game. But if anyone thinks that means a friendly game between two neighbours . . . think...