Club cricket’s big wheels got into gear on Saturday. Competition leaders Bollywood High School Old Boys and perennial contenders Coastal Concrete Old Boys Rugby recorded convincing wins in Round 6 of the premier grade Doleman Cup. HSOB beat Horout...
DAVE Brew has one of the fastest street-legal cars in the country. And he has a message for anyone who thinks theirs might be faster.“Prove it.”Last season, he won the New Zealand Super Lap Series' street class in his VTEC turbo Honda EG Civic...
GISBORNE-BORN boxer Shay Brock is staying positive after losing a fight for the vacant IBF youth super welterweight title on Friday in Melbourne. The NZPBA super welterweight champion was outpointed over ten rounds by former Australian middleweight...
‘He’s one of those players you don’t see on the field. He’s a workhorse’
GYMNASTICSGisborne Gymnastics Club added lustre to its proud 40-year history in its first competition of the 2021 season. Gisborne received the Top Club award for having the highest average score in each of the six sessions comprising steps 1 to 6 at...
Mid-August, it may be, but the weather was easily fine enough for young cricketers to hit the practice nets in Gisborne this week when a Northern Districts delegation paid a visit. ND chairman of selectors Pat Malcon, Northern Spirit head coach Kari...
FOOTBALLWAINUI clinched their second Eastern League title in 32 years on Saturday, with two games to spare. They beat Thistle Massive 4-0 at Childers Road Reserve, but it was anything but plain sailing. Thiago Carlos de Melo scored the first goal of...
Gisborne ParkJO Kerrr has a fair few titles to go to match Karen Hay’s prolific senior women’s club championship record. She got one closer to Hay’s 18 with a comprehensive win in the 36-hole final at the weekend. Defending champion Kerr beat...
FINAL-round play in the Pak’nSave Gisborne Premier Netball Competition could be among the most competitive in recent times, if Saturday’s results are any indication. Round 2 wrapped up on Saturday with Gisborne Girls’ High School beating last...
OBR would be happy with the start they made on Saturday. The team that won 14 of 17 30-over games in 2020-2021 (fell to the Ngatapa Green Caps and lost to High School Old Boys by 25 runs in last season's Senior B Grade club cricket final) began their...
YMP and High School Old Girls won their first games in the second round of the Pak’nSave premier grade netball at the YMCA on Saturday, but their opponents made a fight of it. YMP Sunshine Brewery defeated Claydens Waikohu 52-45 but were outscored...
REALITY bit Poverty Bay-East Coast on day 2 of the men’s national interprovincial tournament in Northland yesterday. After enjoying the high of their first team win in round 2 of the week-long matchplay competition on the Mangawhai a on Tuesday...
THE last Gisborne BMX Club night for 2015 drew 47 riders to the start gate. Striders — New rider Ariana Shanks improved as the meet went on, finishing her last race with minimal help. She was joined by Alex Kelly, Ada Lasenby, Ivy Lasenby, Jackson...
SPEEDWAYGISBORNE speedway drivers came home from the East Coast Championships at the Meeanee track in Hawke’s Bay at the weekend with a swag of podium placings as the Gisborne club’s brilliant season continues. Production saloon racer Anton McKay...
DARTSAs predicted, Roseland Tavern and Cossy Done & Dusted remain unbeaten. However, a subtle placement shuffle puts Roseland in a two-leg lead over the reigning champions due mainly to the stiffer opposition in Done & Dusted’s away 11-4 win...
THE seven boats in the Auckland-to-Gisborne yacht race headed out of Auckland this morning at lower-than-predicted speeds as the wind dropped. The Royal Akarana Yacht Club got support from the Eastland Group to relaunch the classic 300-nautical mile...
Gisborne showjumping and show hunter riders have had a busy start to the season with many travelling far afield to compete. Lily Beaufoy and Jakaranda — owned by Mick and Suzy Gardner — were second in the pony 1.15 to 1.2m class at Te Teko...
THE district's top young surf lifeguards acquitted themselves well at separate carnivals in Whangamata over the weekend. They competed in an interclub carnival on Saturday and then several of them were included in an inaugural teams' event on...
TAPUAE won a thrilling Poverty Bay senior one club rugby final at Rugby Park on Saturday, despite finishing with only 14 players after one of their forwards was sent off midway through the second half. Tapuae defeated YMP Bumbles 14-11 to win the Lew...
IT was a great day for Glenys Whiteman (skip), Marie Wright (3), Dayvinia Mills (2) and Ngamiro Allen (lead) when they won the Ohope Bowling Club's prestigious Paradise Women's Open Fours. The tournament attracted 28 teams from all over the North...
TE Karaka Bowling Club's women came to town and left with the Rahiwi Cup for centre women's open fours on Sunday. Del Tamanui (skip), Jasmine Merrick, Janet Baty and Erica Thompson won the cup with nine points and a plus-21 differential. It was...
Sebastian Wilson did what no one else in the Super 8 could do. Gisborne Boys' High School's towering wicketkeeper-batsman hit three sixes on finals day in the tournament. Wilson also hit seven fours in his 64 runs off 76 balls in 86 minutes. He had...
On the eve of International Women’s Day, a dozen women and girls from Tairawhiti share their thoughts about exercise and the spirit of wahine
Lytton Old Boys A face a major challenge when they play unbeaten THC in senior men’s hockey on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. And the match before, between LOB B and the LOB Masters at 6pm, also promises to be an appealing...
THE Turanganui a Kiwa under-16 rugby team lost 27-12 to their Waikato Maori counterparts at Rugby Park yesterday. The home side were not helped by a yellow card to hooker Tyrin Wyllie and a straight red card to replacement player Keanu...
FOOTBALLWAINUI and United are the big winners in Eastern League football this season. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks clinched the first division on July 10 and successfully navigated the first round of the Bailey Cup on Saturday, but the other two...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafOutstanding individual performances by Dylan Foster and Sebastian Wilson highlighted Poverty Bay’s win at the Hawke’s Bay Year 8 Riverbend tournament yesterday. Foster produced the Bay’s batting display of the...
GISBORNE tetraplegic Joel Tibble will tick something off his bucket list on Saturday night when he realises a dream to drive in a speedway car around the Eastland Group Raceway track. The 20-year-old Kaiti man broke his neck in a collapsed rugby scum...
Gisborne Judo Club judoka of the year Sydnee Andrews is 17 but has experienced international senior competition already. The youngest in the senior field at the Oceania World Cup in Perth last month, Andrews was the only New Zealander to get...
The ST1 Forestry Tom Duffin Fours was a great success, and the nine-end final was one not to miss. Warren Gibb, Bruce Easton, Marise Raklander and Kayla Trowell came up against Nathan Trowell, David Lynn, Akuhata Keelan and Lois Lamont. Trowell's team...
NETBALLLytton Senior A rose to the occasion and defeated rivals Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A by one goal — 49-48 — in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night.“This was another thriller that did not disappoint,” netball...
It was a tearful video call home when Alicia Hoskin broke the news to her family that she was going to become an Olympian. After the New Zealand Olympic Committee had confirmed it, she was allowed to tell her family a week before she was officially...