Gisborne Thistle have to beat Gisborne United by three goals tomorrow to win football's Pacific Premiership. Unless, of course, they score five. Then a two-goal winning margin would suffice. It's all to do with the relative goal-difference...

A second Poverty Bay player has been named in the Heartland XV. Prop James Higgins has been called into the squad as an injury replacement. He joins fellow Poverty Bay Weka player Stefan Destounis in the squad for the Heartland team's only game —...

The team, a combination of current Boys’ High players, Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast Heartland players, beat Brothers, from Napier, 52-5. Poverty Bay sevens coach Brent Mokomoko and assistant coach, former All Black and NZ Olympic sevens...

NETBALLTHE second batch of premier games in the Pak’nSave netball championship at the YMCA tomorrow morning will provide a good gauge on how well Horouta Gold and Claydens Waikohu have got their game together. Both sides finished grading with...

Premiership title still in play, Challenge Cup lost

WAIKOHU are out of contention for a place in the premier rugby playoffs heading into tomorrow’s final round-robin clash against Pirates at the Oval. But Aon Waikohu’s goalkicking No. 8, Tapu Dixon, has 1000 reasons to produce a man-of-the-match...

THE word “pilgrimage” might overstate Mareikura Waka Ama Club’s approach to the world sprint championships in Tahiti this year. But not by much.“Competing in Tahiti is very special for our club,” said Raipoia Brightwell, whose husband...

POVERTY Bay and OBM captain Murray Hewson has avoided further penalty after appearing before the judicial committee following a red card for punching an HSOB opponent during a premier rugby match. Hewson admitted punching an opponent in the face...

GISBORNE electrician Craig Sutton had plenty to celebrate on Sunday night after winning the $20,000 lucky angler draw at Gisborne Tatapouri Sport Fishing Club’s Enterprise Motor Group Autosure New Zealand Bay Bonanza. The winner was selected...

Harry Barker Reserve 1, Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys v Horouta; HBR 2, Galaxy World Gisborne Boys' High School v Coastal Concrete OBR. HBR 3, Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa v Campion College; HBR 4, GBHS (2) v Siteworx Horouta; HBR rep wkt...

After seven years away from the country's premier secondary schools sevens competition, Gisborne Boys High School struggled to find winning form at the Condor 7s. The side qualified in 24th place in pool play of the open boys' division, their only...

RUGBYHard, very hard — that’s what Tokomaru Bay United captain and loosehead prop Adam Williams expects reigning champions Tihirau Victory Club to be when Tokomaru Bay play them on TVC home turf on Saturday. That clash and Tokararangi-Waiapu in...

Forget the royal wedding. Te Puia Hot Springs members will be bowing to one of their own after Georgina Roberts was crowned Queen of the Coast at Tolaga Bay on Saturday. Roberts carded 81-18-63 to win the overall net and was presented the Queen of the...

Ngati Porou East Coast coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor had hoped to field a full-strength team against Eastern Bay of Plenty at George Nepia Memorial Park, Rangitukia, tomorrow.“Unfortunately several of the boys, including our captain Hone...

poverty bay age group players have taken a great deal away from their Hawke's Bay Cricket Camps Riverbend experiences. That continued yesterday for the PB Year 6 team on the final day of their four-day camp. Under the captaincy of Curtis Wylie, PB...

GISBORNE triathlete Tayler Reid’s 16th place in a Continential Cup race at Weert in the Netherlands “served its purpose”, says coach Stephen Sheldrake.“He’s not raced since December when he crashed. It was his first race at the Olympic...

Reid selected in triathlon team to represent NZ at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

RUGBYIn rugby, respect is hard-earned. Ngati Porou East Coast earned more of it with a gutsy effort against Mid-Canterbury at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park on Saturday. The Sky Blues lost 22-15 to the Hammers, but only Mid-Canterbury captain No. 8 Jon...

Whangara Old Girls and Waikohu (1) have joined YMP and High School Old Girls in the preliminary finals of the premier grade netball competition. The Whangara side produced a powerhouse performance on Saturday in the Gisborne YMCA to end Horout...

Thor had a hammer; so does Thom Berry. The hard-hitting wicketkeeper-batsman clubbed two sixes and four fours in his 37-ball innings of 42 on Saturday. Berry and his Old Boys' Rugby captain, fellow opener Craig Christophers (47 off 28), both retired...

GISBORNE Boys' High School took the top spot at the Tairawhiti High School Surfing Championships on Tuesday. With 2900 points, GBHS narrowly beat Gisborne Girls' High School, who had 2700 points. Campion College finished third on 1500 points. Both...

GISBORNE BMX Club will host riders from around the central North Island on Sunday for a round of the central region winter series. Twelve Gisborne club riders attended the series opening round in Rotorua last month. The series comprises a round in...

Two different formats, two wins to finish — the Poverty Bay boys’ primary cricket team followed up their 115-run Twenty20 win against a Hamilton invitation side on Tuesday with victory by 11 runs over the same team in 30 overs on Wednesday. The...

A group of girls are out to change the stereotype of the skate park and make it more inclusive for all. Surely Skate is a programme to encourage women of all ages and skills to give skating a go. It was devised by Sophee Hills, Tessa Hills, Morgan...

RUGBYOBM skipper Jake Holmes will have mixed emotions when he watches Poverty Bay play Taranaki in a Ranfurly Shield rugby match at New Plymouth on Saturday. The 25-year-old Gisborne Boys’ High School art teacher, who played for the Bay last...

NETBALLYMP took the Gisborne Girls’ High netballers back to school when they produced a powerhouse display to beat the students by nearly 40 goals in premier-grade netball at the YMCA on Saturday. The defending champions overpowered Girls’ High...

WITH two games to play in the Heartland Championship, Ngati Porou East Coast coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor’s chances of getting their first win since teaming up last year are almost certainly nil. The Coast play North Otago — who are still in...

GISBORNE distance runners were on the podium several times at the 1000-competitor Tarawera Trail Marathon and 50km Race last weekend — including a quinella in one age group. Helayna Ruifrok and Nicki Davies finished the 42km marathon together in 4...

SIX-time world champion Ivan Mauger OBE/MBE was more than once asked why New Zealand’s golden era of motorcycle speedway racing ended with him.“We always had Ronnie Moore to look up to,” Mauger said in an interview seven years before he died...

Gisborne ParkBrad Reynolds left his cricket bat at home and used the golf clubs to good effect, winning the men’s stableford. Reynolds won on countback after he and Pirates stalwart Derek Craven scored 40 points. ELECTRINET Park results, Sunday —...