On yet another hot Saturday, 26 players with water bottles and various cooling aids stepped up to play four games of singles on the Gisborne Bowling Club greens. This is not a game for sissies at the best of times but it was pot luck who you struck...
SURFINGIDYLLIC conditions at Midway Beach on Sunday set the stage for an exciting third event of the Gisborne Boardriders Club longboard circuit. Longboarders of all ages competed in their second event in as many weeks at Midway’s Pipe...
A 2-0 lead after 10 minutes became a 7-2 loss after 90 for Gisborne Thistle in Whanganui on Saturday. In the last 20 minutes, they conceded five goals in a 13-minute period. Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle took a seventh-minute lead against...
New Zealand’s Joelle King has booked her place in the semi-finals of the Manchester Squash Open after a win over Malaysia’s Aifa Azman in three games. King raced out to a 7-2 lead in the opening game, hitting powerfully to the back and not...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafTop job Dave Castle, top job Poverty Bay Cricket. With heavy rain penetrating the well-laidcovers at the Harry Barker Reserve on Thursday night, the new director of cricket might have been forgiven for transferring all...
FOOTBALLTHE top four in football’s Pacific Premiership could look a lot different on Monday. Tomorrow’s games pit competition leaders Gisborne Thistle against third-placed Port Hill, in Gisborne, and second-placed Napier City Rovers Reserves...
SURFINGSURFER Jay Quinn was inducted into the Gisborne Boardriders Club Hall of Fame at this year’s prize-giving. Quinn has been a professional surfer for nigh on two decades. He won the under-18 world junior surfing title in 2001, followed by the...
Talented athletes with good fundamentals made Week 6 of Division 1 in the Gisborne Basketball Association Secondary Schools’ League memorable. Round-robin play at the John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre, Gisborne Boys’ High School, concluded in...
Tracey Te Kira 4, John White (Tigers); Juanita Reeves 2 (Knights); Tahuna Irwin (Falcons); Thao Duncan, Jono Budd (Ruahine Toru).Tahuna Irwin (Falcons); Tracey Te Kira (Tigers).Tahuna Irwin (Falcons); Tracey Te Kira (Tigers).Juanita Reeves...
RODEOREGAN-STARR Ruru has been holding on for dear life since he was four years old. The nine-year-old is a junior steer-rider, which is the children’s version of bull-riding at the rodeo. His love for the sport started the moment he saw videos of...
The countdown has begun. Four epic finals will play out this Saturday in Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby. At Rugby Park in Gisborne from 1pm, the Civil Project Solutions Senior 1 final will pit defending champions and Lew Patterson...
RUGBYLife and rugby on the East Coast have a rich, timeless quality tied to family, nostalgia, wit and joy. Former president and life member of East Coast Rugby Football Union the late John Manuel was a mounted personification of Sky Blue pride —...
He’s in form and he’s ready. Gisborne product and Kirk Cup-winning Poverty Bay men’s cricket captain Thorn Parkes made his first-class debut for the Otago Volts today, against the Auckland Aces. The four-day Plunket Shield match at the...
Te Kotahi Kaio 4, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard, Tristan Reeves (Rangatahi); Juanita Reeves 2 (Knights); Mihi Awatere (Ruahine Tahi); Sam Kirikino (Falcons); Willie Edwards 2 (Tigers).Tahuna Irwin, Sam Kirikino (Falcons).Juanita Reeves (Knights); Mihi Awatere...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE United Thirds reckon they’ve found their lucky strip, and they can thank a forgetful player for it. He had taken the team shirts home for washing and, somewhere along the way, it slipped his mind. He was in a car on his way to...
RUGBYThe sporting world turned upside down at Cape Runaway on Saturday. The defending champions of Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby, Tokararangi, beat Tihirau Victory Club 14-13 at Te Kura Mana Maori o Whangaparaoa in their Week 4...
RugbyTHE draw for Civil Project Solutions Senior Club Rugby on SATURDAY is —Premier grade, 2.45pm: Patutahi 1, Ngatapa Larsawn Premiers v GT Shearing Waikohu (M Greene, L Thomas, C Johnson); Rugby Park, Enterprise OBM v HSOB Contract Consultants...
RUGBYIt’s on. The Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship will start on Saturday next week and rugby fans nationwide won’t miss a game. New Zealand Rugby has confirmed that the round robin will run in full from September 18, picking up from Week...
BASKETBALLAdrian Sparks was well-cast in the role of hero on Tuesday. SE Systems’ captain was a match-winner for the defending men’s Premier Grade club basketball champions. About 300 fans at the YMCA saw SES, who had trailed the competition...
The Challenge Cup produces class batsmen. Top of the pops last Wednesday evening was tall all-rounder Johnathan Gray, with his unbeaten innings of 66 off 45 balls from No. 3 in Sonrise-Lytton High School’s seven-wicket win against the Gisborne...
FOOTBALLWAINUI Beach School yesterday reclaimed the Iain Gillies Challenge Trophy they lost to Mangapapa School last year. It was history repeating itself. In 2019, Wainui had taken the trophy off Mangapapa. Wainui, competing as Wainui Thunder, swept...
A STACK of the district’s top young surf lifeguards will blow out the competitive cobwebs for the 2020-2021 season in two events at Whangamata this weekend. They will compete in the traditional Whangamata Classic interclub event tomorrow and will...
TONIGHT we find out who can bump, who can shoot and who can run. In Week 6 — the halfway point — of the Gisborne men’s club basketball league, defending champions City Lights take on the Dragons in a top-of-the-table clash at 5.30pm, open-court...
?The women’s section was played at Poverty Bay Bowling Club on Saurday, with 14 teams entered. Four 15-end games with a time limit of two hours were completed. The top eight teams based on wins and net total shots qualified for post-section play at...
These are big games. Tomorrow the Gisborne Boys’ High School Colts — unbeaten in the C Grade — play the Primary boys and Campion College meet Gisborne Girls’ High School in nine-a-side Twenty20 cricket.“They have some great young players...
FOUR players from Gisborne Contract Bridge Club had encouraging results at the Hawke’s Bay Bridge Congress in Napier. Beverley Evans, David Johnstone, Delwyn Arthur and Vincelle Marvin were the top-placed junior team in the intermediate/junior...
Mangapapa School finished with the most points in the primary interschool triathlon run at Nelson Park last week. A total of 321 students from 15 schools took part in the run-bike-swim triathlon, which was organised by Mangapapa School. Points for the...
The Waimata Traverse has turned into something of a family affair. Defending champion Craig Hoskin won the title again but the rest of the family did not simply turn up as support crew . . . they also conquered the 55-kilometre road bike...
FootballMen, Pacific Premiership: Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 3 Eskview United 2; Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle 5 Napier Marist 0. Gisborne Championship, Division 1: Carpet Court Thistle Massive 3 Gisborne Boys’ High School (1) 0...
THE visitors took the lion's share of honours in tightly fought Lucy May and Bays Bronze women's golf clashes between Poverty Bay and Hawke's Bay this week. Players from clubs throughout both provinces converged on Poverty Bay golf course on Monday...