Rhinos got one back on Tigers, beating them 16-5 in Brezz’n Darts Club winter league A Grade competition on Tuesday. In the first set of singles, Rhinos took the first three games. Marcus Leach defeated Tipi Eyles 3-1, New Zealand Darts Council...
HAYLEY Rolls celebrated her birthday by winning three gold medals at the national trampoline championships. Her performances put her far ahead of the competition in the 10-and-under women's trampoline, double mini-tramp and tumbling, coach Doug...
Gisborne ParkPoverty Bay-East Coast Golf Association got a much-appreciated $1750 boost from golfers from clubs throughout the district at a fundraising tournament on Sunday. Most of the clubs were represented in the field which included nearly all...
Young gun Mason O’Dwyer has made the most of his debut season in the stockcar class to emerge as one of Gisborne Speedway Club’s hard chargers. O’Dwyer has improved with every outing in his 99G car and his two fine wins in tough competition at...
TABLE TENNISTABLE tennis — once strong in Gisborne — is re-emerging in the city. A new club has started and a group of adults meet at Ilminster Intermediate School on Thursday nights. Children at the school receive coaching in the sport at...
After a tough week at the Super 8 cricket tournament, Gisborne Boys’ High School are straight back in the saddle facing Bollywood High School Old Boys in the DJ Barry Cup tomorrow. GBHS last won at Super 8 level in 2015, against yesterday’s...
Two goals from Jarom Brouwer and two pieces of Corey Adams magic were highlights of Gisborne United’s 5-3 win against Maycenvale at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. With Gisborne Thistle beating Port Hill 6-0 at Childers Road Reserve, the top of...
It has not been a great season results-wise for the Gisborne Boys’ High School second 11 in the Poverty Bay club cricket competition and Saturday was no exception. The Peter Stewart-coached side lost both of their Walker Shield twenty20 games —...
Gisborne sailing siblings Jake and Lucy Millar topped the podium with overall first and second placings in Wellington in this year's round of the Wellington Open Skiff Cup Silver Fleet at the weekend. The event was part of a series sailed in the...
Tolaga BayPETE Kerekere took the throne while several other players earned royal honours at the King of the Coast men’s open tournament over the weekend. Kerekere raised the Poverty Bay club flag over the nine-hole course after defeating...
Ngati Porou East Coast cast their rugby net nationwide and dig deep to be competitiveAnd their head coach, Hosea Gear, will take tomorrow's clash for the Anaru “Skip” Paenga Memorial Tropy in from his couch on the Sunshine Coast . . . if he's...
CRICKETFORMER Black Caps test cricketer Lance Cairns knows all about limited-overs cricket. He played 78 one-day internationals for New Zealand, as well as 43 tests. His advice to players taking part in tomorrow night’s opening round of the Walker...
Round 2 of Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s winter competition was completed with Game 5 on Tuesday night. The third and final round of the association’s season starts on Tuesday night. Individual highlights180s:? Tahuna Irwin (2), Antonio...
There is nothing between them. Defending champions City Lights and the larger-than-life Old School tied last night’s top-of-the-table thriller 53-all. Week 7 of the men’s club basketball league will wrap up at 6.30pm tonight with the...
Congratulations this week to Elizabeth Jackson and Eileen Lee for scoring 70.83 percent on Friday. Tuesday, October 25 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 9 (Howell movement)Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 65.10 Sue Minot, Joy Marden...
MARTIAL ARTSFOUR members of the Turanganui-Gisborne Kyokushin Karate Club competed in the 49th International Kyokushin Karate Nationals in Hawke’s Bay, and all returned with top-three placings — 12 in all. In the junior division high grade...
Twelve-year-old Adam Rickard won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls Handicap Singles final 12-11 against Marise Raklander in a close final. Rickard, on a four-point start, and Raklander, on a five-point start, went bowl for bowl in the nine-end...
THIS was anybody’s game until the last 10 minutes. Gisborne Thistle beat Palmerston North Marist Reserves 4-1 in Central Federation League football at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. But until the 81st minute — when Thistle got their third goal...
A DREAM holiday could become reality for a lucky golfer at the Emerre & Hathaway Insurance Brokers Poverty Bay Men’s Open in September. The open, which dates back to 1931, is at the Poverty Bay course from September 26 to 28. The first player to...
Annual Youth Ministock 100 draws big field for a night of close-driving action
WITH a dream start, consistent pitching and outstanding play from a 12-year-old the Spartans overcame a wounded but spirited Gisborne Boys’ High 8-6 in the Tairawhiti men’s pre-Christmas club competition final on Saturday. Spartans made a fine...
EXpat Gisbornites now living across the Tasman will be among the field for the 3rd Annual Tairawhiti Stand Up Paddle Surfing Champs here this weekend. Contest organisers have their fingers crossed that an “epic month” of waves will continue for...
THISTLE Massive completed Gisborne football’s league-and-cup double on Saturday . . . the hard way. They beat clubmates Carpet Court Thistle 3-2 in the Bailey Cup final at Childers Road Reserve, and were a man short for all but the first 15...
A SUPERB spell of attacking cricket by Horouta has shaken up Poverty Bay's DJ Barry Cup competition. After an ordinary start with the bat on Saturday, Horouta made up for it with the ball, charging to a first-innings win against High School Old Boys...
The clash of the high school teams is shaping to be a bobby-dazzler in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball at the YMCA tonight. Gisborne Girls’ High School take on Lytton Senior A at 6pm in what is expected to be a close battle.“This game will be...
A STANDING joke between brothers will be told no more, thanks to a perfect shot during a perfect round. For over 17 years, Aaron Higham has taken great delight in reminding younger sibling Andrew that he has done something little bro hasn’t in his...
CyclingSATURDAY — Konica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club Bushmere Arms Series, Race 4, sign on 1.30pm to 1.50pm, with 2pm start. Open grades: 48 kilometres, Gentle Annie rise plus Brunton Road Loop–Bloomfield Road, Tiniroto Road, GA Rise...
The inaugural tournament for the Eric Craill Shield was held on a beautiful autumn Queens Birthday Saturday, at the Poverty Bay Bowling Club. The greens were full, with 48 players competing. The format was a modified Bowls3Five, the format for lawn...
Gisborne Archery Club's team won the annual Rosebowl Shoot against stiff competition to round off a successful 2020 season. The Gisborne team of Matt Jackson and father-daughter combination Chloe and Chris Underdown finished just ahead of the hosts...
CRICKETThe thunder and lightning came 30 seconds too late to save Poverty Bay from a five-wicket loss to Hamilton at the Northern Districts boys’ primary cricket tournament in Hamilton yesterday. Poverty Bay captain Te-Reimana Gray won the toss and...
FOUR players from Gisborne’s Barry Memorial Croquet Club competed with distinction at the Whakatane Golf Croquet Tournament. John Wilson cleaned up Block B of the golf croquet handicap doubles partnered with Rob Hayes, and the following day was...
PRO triathlete Tayler Reid is determined to add his name to the list of Gisborne Olympians. Last night he joined an elite list of another sort — Gisborne Tairawhiti’s overall sportsperson of the year. In front of a sell-out crowd at Showgrounds...
A brilliant bloke, a comeback story and a fine character who understands the value of where he comes from — that’s former Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 rugby player Blade Thomson, who has been named in the Scotland squad for next...
IT wasn’t pretty or perfect, but New Plymouth Rangers beat Gisborne Thistle 3-2 in a ripsnorting Central Federation League football match at Childers Road Reserve yesterday. The game was worth six points to the winners in a makeweight arrangement...