The Gisborne Giants superstock team retained their national championship title at Waikaraka Park in Auckland on Saturday night when they beat the Palmerston North Panthers in the final. They bounced back from a qualifying-round loss to Hawke’s Bay...
Tatapouri Marist Thistle played Bohemians in women’s football last Sunday in a hard-fought match that resulted in a 1-0 win to Bohemians. Marist had to pull out all stops in defence to keep the score at just one. Morgan Andrews and Fern Jones were...
LOCAL equestrians have been busy over the past month competing at home and and outside the district. Anna Harris and Mr Crème Brulee had a successful time in the riding horse classes at the Hawke’s Bay Showing ChampionshipsThey won the open paced...
DARRYL Grant’s name was added to a select list while Arthur Bacon may well have made history in winning the 2019 Gisborne Motors Barns-Graham Cup men’s pairs at Poverty Bay Golf Club. Grant and his veteran partner defeated Hamish and Tim Williams...
It is not true that you learn from every loss. But the Poverty Bay under-18s can take a great deal out of their 14-point loss to Wellington Community in the opening round of the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council (HYRC) tournament here on Saturday. The...
MORE than 80 athletes from surf lifesaving clubs across the eastern region enjoyed a big weekend of competition in Gisborne. It was a replacement event for the cancelled 2022 Surf Life Saving New Zealand national championships. The nationals were to...
IT has been a long time since Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast had Heartland Championship rugby wins on the same day. Here's hoping it will only be a week before the next double. The Bay set up a 50-26 win over King Country at Rugby Park in...
WAKA AMADOZENS of schoolchildren who are new to the sport of waka ama gave racing a try yesterday. Organiser of the race day for intermediate-aged pupils, Keiha Waikari, said 30 crews took part in the sprints at the marina and most of the paddlers...
NETBALLTHE region’s senior netballers hit the courts at Victoria Domain tomorrow morning to get their delayed competition under way, and the match-up between YMP and Waikohu looms as the game of the day. A start to the season was put on hold due to...
RUGBY by Grant MillerA GAME display by the men in scarlet wasn’t quite enough to get them a win in their last pre-season rugby match before the Heartland Championship, but Poverty Bay’s coaches are encouraged by their players’ poise and...
High School Old Girls and Claydens Waikohu fought out a battle royal in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball at the YMCA on Saturday, and HSOG got home by the skin of their teeth. Taste One HSOG held a one-goal lead at the end of the first quarter but...
GISBORNE triathlete Terry Scott now has a National Triathlon Sprint Championships medal of each colour. Scott, who turned 48 this week, won bronze in the 45 to 49 years age group at the nationals in Kinloch, near Taupo, on Sunday. After only deciding...
RUGBYFORMER Gisborne Boys’ High School first five- eighth Beaudein Waaka scored 21 of Taranaki’s points in a 26-19 win against Counties Manukau in last night’s Mitre 10 Premiership rugby competition. Taranaki opened the scoring after four...
No one picked this. Saturday was an unprecedented day in the history of East Coast rugby. Never before have a team who did not take the field on opening day later drawn with the defending champions in the first round. And never before have such a team...
NETBALLWHANGARA Old Girls will need to sort out their error rate to stand much of a chance against YMP in the match-of-the-day premier grade netball tomorrow at Victoria Domain. The premier games in the Pakn’Save competition begin at 10am with the...
SPEEDWAYGisborne brothers Ethan and Daniel Cook will be serious contenders when the second meeting of the V8 saloon car series is held at their home track, Eastland Group Raceway, tomorrow night. Up to 20 cars from throughout the North Island are...
RESULTS from Day 2 (Friday) of the showjumping events at Poverty Bay A&P Show (riders from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —JumpingDunstan Horsefeeds Amateur Rider Series 1.10m-1.20m AM5 Art: Tasha Hart (Hastings) Kiwi Windfall, 10.00, 1; Jo...
CRICKETVictory was possible. Gisborne Boys’ High School Colts were knocked out of the New Zealand Community Trust cricket championship by Tauranga Boys’ College by three wickets yesterday. Boys’ High were the Poverty Bay representatives and...
RUGBYWherever you are, there’s a good game on. Leaders Hicks Bay will be refreshed and ready for Hikurangi in week 6 of East Coast club rugby tomorrow. Coming off the bye, Hicks Bay host the men from the maunga at Wharekahika. Uawa make the trek to...
This could be the start of something big. That’s how Alan Thompson feels about the Eastland Port New Zealand Kayak Marathon Championships in Gisborne this weekend.“It has come together as we hoped,” said Thompson, a double gold medallist at the...
Gisborne United are on the cusp of making an outstanding season a great one. Tomorrow they host Massey University in the Federation Cup final at Harry Barker Reserve at 2pm. This season United’s top team have won the Pacific Premiership and retained...
Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s main rounds of competition finished on Tuesday. Quarterfinals and semifinals will be played over the next two Tuesday nights. Finals are on Saturday, November 9.A Grade: Te Kuzzys 14 wins, 207 legs, 1st...
SPEEDWAYPRODUCTION saloon racer Seth McKay was named Competitor of the Year at Gisborne Speedway Club’s annual awards on Saturday night. The 17-year-old featured heavily on podiums in many championships across the summer but his crowning...
MOTORSPORT by Andy McGechan, www. BikesportNZ. comFORMER Wairoa riders Tommy Watts and Reece Lister are among the contenders for the national cross-country motorcycling championship series, which wraps up in the South Island this weekend. Both are now...
YOU can’t beat going directly to the source, which is what I should have done before I wrote about Jim Doherty’s first goal celebration for Gisborne City. While my version conveyed the general picture, Jim’s version differs on a few points and...
August 13 results, Round 2, Game 2 —Individual highlights180s: Tahuna Irwin, Sam Kirikino, Irie Eyles (2), Joe Kiri, Tyson Eyles, Renata Leach (3), Dudley Reeves, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (3).Most tons (31): Dudley Reeves. Highest start (170): Ihak...
HORSE SPORTSA Hicks Bay-founded horse sports team has taken out the top prize at one of the pinnacle events on the horse sports calendar. The Rough Riders East Coast Horse Sports Club were overall winners at the Peggy McDonald Horse Sports...
YOUTH was to the fore in Gisborne surf lifesaving clubs’ campaigns at the Eastern Region Senior Championships at Mt Maunganui on Saturday and Sunday. Midway duo Olivia Corrin and Matt Scott had comparable double success at age-group level in...
RUGBYThey have all the cards. Defending champions of East Coast club rugby Uawa added the Jury Harrison Memorial Trophy to the Kath McLean Memorial Trophy as winners of both the first and second rounds with their 59-5 win against Tokomaru Bay United...
MONDAY, November 13 — Turanga Pairs 2North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 65.28 Ann McCombe/Trish Corson 54.17Katrine Matthews/Hans van der Kuijl 47.22 Sally Knight/Beverley Evans 50.69WEDNESDAY, November 15 — Turanga Pairs 2...
Results of equestrian competition at the Poverty Bay A&P Show —Showing, novice hack over 158cm, 0-2 wins: Sarah Gault (Gisborne) El Escolta 1; Fiona Sharp (Hastings) West-lea Harrington Park 2. Novice hack over 158cm, 0-5 wins: Adrienne van den...