Gisborne cricketer Thorn Parkes is having a good tournament at the national men’s under-19 tournament in Lincoln. Parkes is captaining the Northern Districts side who recorded a tie and a loss in their first two one-day matches. Parkes was...
TE Hapara School will represent Poverty Bay-East Coast at the Air New Zealand Rippa Rugby Championship in Wellington in August. Te Hapara defeated Manutuke 25-15 in the final of the combined PB-EC primary interschool tournament on the Gisborne...
MEN’S NETBALLPLENTY of action looms in the final round-robin games in the men’s netball competition tomorrow night in the YMCA — and one of the best matches so far will be on the cards. The unbeaten Noogies take on Big M at 5.45pm tomorrow in...
Defending Lee Bros Shield champions High School Old Boys’ hopes of making it four titles in a row hang by a thread. Waikohu and OBM have five games to go before the top-four semifinals; the rest have four. Earthwork Solutions HSOB, who have the bye...
Gisborne Senior Tennis has attracted players from across the North Island to compete in its annual seniors' tournament this year. Sixty-six doubles combinations are expected to compete in the FMG Gisborne Tennis Seniors Tournament over the weekend...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE United won the Braybrook Cup women’s knockout competition in a penalty shootout after regulation time ended goalless at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. United beat Gisborne Laundry Services Riverina 4-3 in the shootout. Riverin...
FOR High School Old Boys Presidents, it won't be long now. The question is — will the tide turn tomorrow?The defending champions of Senior B club cricket beat OBR to claim the Hope Cup last season as underdogs, but never in the past two years have...
CRICKETThe future of local cricket was on show at the Poverty Bay Cricket Association junior prize-giving last week. Individual awards for the development and age-group representative teams —Poverty Bay Boys’ Primary (coach, David McDonald...
RUGBYTomorrow could be cataclysmic. The colossal jostle between Uawa and Tihirau Victory Club at Tolaga Bay is an awesome prospect. Uawa, the home team, beat TVC of Cape Runaway 24-23 in front of 1200 fans to defend the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield...
Rugby people here are hard to impress. But all who saw Poverty Bay beat Ngāti Porou East Coast 46-12 at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria on Saturday to claim the PJ Sayers Cup must agree — the Bay played hard, fast and skilfully. Civil Project...
Gisborne athlete Warren Edlin has received a Masters Athletics New Zealand Merit Award for 20 years of service to the organisation. Edlin started his running career in Hastings on the Nelson Park grass track in 1972. He took part in fundraising for...
Gisborne BMX rider Reave Nepia Anderson will trial for her spot in the Mighty 11s on Friday. This is a test style of racing with two teams of four competing against each other. Traditionally a home-and-away series is held between New Zealand and...
CRICKETKAYLEY Knight scored her first half-century in senior cricket, then took three wickets to spearhead Gisborne’s victory effort over Palmerston North in Supercity women’s cricket at Cornwall Park, Hastings, on Sunday. Knight opened the...
Tahora Horse Sports Club held another successful sports day this month. Competition was keen in all classes, ranging from the adults down to three-year-old Lachie Williams. The Tahora club was grateful for the help of sponsors and local people who...
It’s all-action Monday. Tonight’s men’s club basketball card lists four fast-paced encounters: the flyers of Brandon Paul’s East Coast play Campion College, the powerful Uawa line-up take on City Lights under Scott Muncaster, Gisborne...
It could be last man standing. This has been a superb year in Gisborne club basketball — 12 men’s and eight women’s teams — have made the winter league the biggest in the association’s history. So gruelling have the previous 10 weeks been...
Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic skipper and Silver Ferns great Casey Kopua was a popular visitor to the Victoria Domain netball courts on Saturday morning
Barry Croquet Club pair Ross Thomson and his son Rick have won the top division of a golf croquet handicap doubles tournament run by the Thames Croquet Club. Players from eight clubs from Howick to Gisborne took part, and were divided into two...
TAPU Dixon’s Waikohu teammates and the club will share the $1000 he collected when he won the premier rugby competition’s Most Valuable Player trophy.“Without the club there’s no team and without the players I couldn’t have won the...
SPEEDWAYSTRONG performances by Ben Holt in the stockcars and Shaun Kingi in the streetstocks, and some lightning-fast lap times by Eastland Kart Club drivers were highlights at Gisborne Speedway Club’s meeting at Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday...
The New Zealand Silver Fern Motor Rally stages over Gisborne roads were a big hit with the race crews and supporters, and organisers the Ultimate Rally Group said they will be talking to the District Council about coming back. The classic car rally...
After finishing second in the men's 50 metre freestyle race at the New Zealand Open swimming championships in Auckland last night, Michael Picket was given a pat on the head from winner Daniel Hunter. Hunter, who is nine years older than the Gisborne...
TWO little golden stars from Gisborne brightening the Napier sky — that’s how Gisborne Gymnastics Club head coach Nicola Ludwig described two of her gymnasts who won gold at a Hawke’s Bay competition this month. Charlie Keepa, in Step 2, and...
AARON Brown’s streetstock has undergone a significant change this week. He has swapped 5G for the well-deserved 1NZ. Brown won the New Zealand title at Kihikihi speedway on Saturday night.“It’s started to sink in now,” he said. “So many...
Juanita Reeves (xFMO RSA); Royce Kaa (2NZ Tao Spartans); Thao Duncan (RSA Men of Mayhem); Tyson Eyles (2NZ Kingz); Matty Reedy, Te Kotahi Kaio, John White (Cossy Done & Dusted); Mike Jones (Roseland); Edward Brown (RSA Stallions).Tyson Eyles (2NZ...
It's payback time for YMP tomorrow when they play Ngatapa in the opening game of round 2 of the Poverty Bay premier championship at Barry Park (kick-off 2.45pm).When the sides met in the first Saturday of the season, Larsawn Ngatapa came back from...
CYCLONE Victor served up plenty of waves over the last few days and the feast is set to continue through to next week. The north-east long-period ground swell (14 to 16 seconds) peaked last night and this morning at around four-foot on the coast...
HOCKEYTHE performance of the top YMP men’s team in handing out a solid defeat to Lytton Old Boys A was a highlight from the four days of the senior hockey series that concluded on Sunday; so too was the performance of the Gisborne Girls’ High...
THE Gisborne assault on the indoor bowls mats continued at the AIMS Games International Sporting Championships in the Bay of Plenty yesterday. Following the silver medal performance of Gisborne Intermediate’s Nathan Trowell in the singles, Gis Int...
Gisborne Speedway Club has finished one of its most challenging seasons and the club president has thanked fans for the support they gave despite the challenges presented by Covid. The Eastland Group Raceway hosted the final local meeting of the...
Andrew Rickard outclassed the field, winning the Friday Night Singles for his 14th centre title. Rickard defeated Kayla Trowell in his first game, then beat Hina Preddey. A loss to David Lynn in Game 3 meant Rickard needed to win or draw his last...