This competition is unlike any other. In Week 2 of Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby, hard-trucking Hicks Bay beat defending champions Uawa 15-10 at Tolaga Bay — and in Week 3, Ruatoria City, a blue-collar crew in their 100th year...
Connor Starck made people sit up and take notice last night. The Year 9 all-rounder, who made his Hope Cup debut for the Campion College first 11 as an outswing bowler before Christmas, handled a pressure situation with aplomb to steer Campion Gold...
RUGBYGisborne Boys’ High School suffered their third defeat in four Super 8 first 15 games, going down 41-5 to Rotorua on Saturday. A crowd of 700 — the biggest at Rotorua BHS so far this season — saw the home side score six tries to one...
TOKOMARU United are looking forward to unleashing East Coast triple try-scorer Stefan Destounis against Hikurangi in the ninth round of the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition on Saturday. Destounis will be with United for the rest of the...
KING Country Rams did not win a game in the 2021 Heartland Championship season. They are one from one in 2022 after beating Poverty Bay Wekas 30-22 in the season-opener in Te Kuiti on Saturday. Both teams put on a strong display and the Bay were...
POVERTY Bay Polo Club’s Open saw almost 50 competitors from Gisborne and out of town battle it out for supremacy of the chukkas, last weekend. Hawke’s Bay dominated the upper divisions. Their A team won the Eastland Vets 6-goal final over...
They were good value from beginning to end. The Poverty Bay cricket team who beat Napier Old Boys-Marist in their fifth Year 7B game finished their four-day tournament with a gutsy effort against Western Bay of Plenty White. Poverty Bay coach Jimmy...
BASKETBALL by Ben O’Brien-Leaf“Sheesh” is not a word found in old-school dictionaries. But City Lights captain Scott Muncaster used it to express his feelings after his team’s 83-81 victory over defending champions Gisborne Boys’ High...
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They were just getting started. The Fulton Hogan Poverty Bay under-18 rugby team finished their five-game season with a 24-7 win against East Coast at Rugby Park last Saturday. Lock Sione Kinuia, blindside flanker Wiremu King-Taufa and No. 8 Billy...
SPEEDWAYGISBORNE sidecar swinger Callum Innes and Hawke’s Bay driver Justin Lincoln (26B) won the Stubbs Contractors Gisborne Sidecars Champion of Champions title at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night. Four rounds of qualifying races...
IT wasn’t pretty but OBM got the job done with a 16-8 win against YMP in their premier rugby match at the Oval on Saturday.“Who would be a coach,” lamented Enterprise Cars OBM coach Stu Blair, whose side dominated the first 40 minutes but went...
A MAGNIFICENT unbeaten 101 from High School Old Boys opener Sam Singh yesterday kept his side’s hopes of a Doleman Cup top-four playoff spot alive. Rolled for 36 on Saturday by Horouta, who replied with 37-4, Tamarind HSOB responded by chasing down...
BASKETBALLThis is absolutely incredible. Twelve of Gisborne Basketball Association’s keenest under-12 players — Jerome Tamatea, Felix Sparks, Wirihana Papuni, Jack John Maurirere, Oakley Brown-Terekia, Kingi Rakuraku, Dominique Wilson, Quaydon...
Matches between arch-rivals GMC Green and YMP A in the women’s division and Gisborne Boys’ High and Lytton Old Boys in the men’s competition are shaping up as the games of the round in Poverty Bay club hockey. The INA Contracting GMC Green and...
This is Week 3 of Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball, and Week 5 of junior netball. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. All intermediate and secondary teams are to umpire their own games. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1...
The New Zealand Junior Back Fins surf lifesaving team head to Australia this week for a training camp as they prepare for the World Lifesaving Championships in Riccione, Italy, in late September. Waikanae's Jack Keepa, Lachie Falloon and Oska Smith...
BRING on 2019 is the call after another successful edition of the Tairawhiti Standup Paddle Surfing Championships at Makorori Beach. Forty-five surfers took part in the fifth annual champs run by Tairawhiti Standup Paddlesurf Club. Locals mixed with...
It’s called the Super 8 for good reason. Both the Gisborne Boys’ High School first and second 15s suffered tough away losses to Napier Boys’ High School at the weekend. Napier first 15 retained the Football Challenge Cup — first presented in...
HALBERG Award finalists in six categories have been announced. Horouta waka ama paddlers Kiwi Campbell and Gaibreill Wainohu were among the nominations for the Coach of the Year and Emerging Talent awards but neither made the five-strong...
A bomb went off under the Sky Blues on Saturday. On the back of a stellar second-half performance by first five-eighth Carlos Kemp, the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi ran the King Country Rams close at Rugby Park in Te Kuiti. The Rams (15 competition...
Best presented showing combinations: Shelby Hughes,(Otaki), Skibbereen Jubilation; Honor Brown, (Otaki),Taurimu Da Vince; Rebecca Aplin, (Dannevirke),Sherlock; Henrik Puketapu, HSP Soe; Andrea Baxter, (Hastings),Seattle; Sue Reynolds, (Hastings)...
SPEEDWAYTHE stockcar classic and teams demolition derby will feature tomorrow night in Gisborne Speedway Club’s third meeting of the year. As of yesterday, the Sam’s Upholstery and Gisborne Fluid and Machinery Services Stockcar Classic had drawn...
THE year 2012 was supposed to be the end of the world. But for Cape Runaway-based TVC, the farthest flung of East Coast rugby’s active clubs, 2012 signalled the dawn of a new era: they made their first appearance in a final and as No. 1 qualifier...
NETBALLHIGH School Old Girls and Waikohu (1) were a class above their opponents in premier grade netball at the Gisborne YMCA on Saturday. F45 HSOG defeated Horouta Gold 60-39 and Claydens Waikohu (1) beat Tapuae from Wairoa 57-38 in Pak’nSave...
Football was never meant to be like this. Players never got sick. They never went into isolation. They went to training with a cold and if they passed it on, too bad. Feeling a bit under the weather? Put on another layer and sweat it out. Gisborne...
SNOOKERIT could be third time lucky for Nathan Coombs if he contests the Burnie Hart Memorial open snooker tournament next month. Coombs has had to settle for runner-up honours in two Cossie Club snooker events in recent weeks. He lost to Larry...
180s: Tracey (Potz) Te Kira 5 (Tigers); John White (Whanau Magic); Jury Reedy (Waihape Whanau); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, Corey Kaio (Kid’z n Him’z); Cyn Tupene, Mihi Awatere (Ruahine Tahi); Wayne (Ursh) Heurea (Ruahine Rua); Willy Te Kira, Chris Te...
NETBALLTHE match-up between Whangara Old Girls and Gisborne Girls’ High School looms as game of the round in premier-grade netball tomorrow. Top teams Taste One High School Old Girls, Whangara and YMP Sunshine Brewing go into the third round with...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafOBR’s vice-like grip on Senior B club cricket tightened on Saturday. Round 9 in the 18-week quest for the Hope Cup at the Harry Barker Reserve produced an OBR win over Siteworx Horouta by nine wickets, with the Civil...