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Girls' High defeat last year's finalists

FINAL-round play in the Pak’nSave Gisborne Premier Netball Competition could be among the most competitive in recent times, if Saturday’s results are any indication. Round 2 wrapped up on Saturday with Gisborne Girls’ High School beating last...

Victories no walk in the park

YMP and High School Old Girls won their first games in the second round of the Pak’nSave premier grade netball at the YMCA on Saturday, but their opponents made a fight of it. YMP Sunshine Brewery defeated Claydens Waikohu 52-45 but were outscored...

Winning start to season for OBR

OBR would be happy with the start they made on Saturday. The team that won 14 of 17 30-over games in 2020-2021 (fell to the Ngatapa Green Caps and lost to High School Old Boys by 25 runs in last season's Senior B Grade club cricket final) began their...

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PBEC brought crashing back to earth after first-team win

REALITY bit Poverty Bay-East Coast on day 2 of the men’s national interprovincial tournament in Northland yesterday. After enjoying the high of their first team win in round 2 of the week-long matchplay competition on the Mangawhai a on Tuesday...

Riders line up for last club race night of year

THE last Gisborne BMX Club night for 2015 drew 47 riders to the start gate. Striders — New rider Ariana Shanks improved as the meet went on, finishing her last race with minimal help. She was joined by Alex Kelly, Ada Lasenby, Ivy Lasenby, Jackson...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

DARTSAs predicted, Roseland Tavern and Cossy Done & Dusted remain unbeaten. However, a subtle placement shuffle puts Roseland in a two-leg lead over the reigning champions due mainly to the stiffer opposition in Done & Dusted’s away 11-4 win...

Podiums again for the ‘G’ cars

SPEEDWAYGISBORNE speedway drivers came home from the East Coast Championships at the Meeanee track in Hawke’s Bay at the weekend with a swag of podium placings as the Gisborne club’s brilliant season continues. Production saloon racer Anton McKay...

Two clubs share local honours

FOOTBALLWAINUI and United are the big winners in Eastern League football this season. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks clinched the first division on July 10 and successfully navigated the first round of the Bailey Cup on Saturday, but the other two...

Turanganui a Kiwa u16 do it tough

THE Turanganui a Kiwa under-16 rugby team lost 27-12 to their Waikato Maori counterparts at Rugby Park yesterday. The home side were not helped by a yellow card to hooker Tyrin Wyllie and a straight red card to replacement player Keanu...

Wilson stars with ball in Poverty Bay victory

CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafOutstanding individual performances by Dylan Foster and Sebastian Wilson highlighted Poverty Bay’s win at the Hawke’s Bay Year 8 Riverbend tournament yesterday. Foster produced the Bay’s batting display of the...

Joel all set for speedway experience

GISBORNE tetraplegic Joel Tibble will tick something off his bucket list on Saturday night when he realises a dream to drive in a speedway car around the Eastland Group Raceway track. The 20-year-old Kaiti man broke his neck in a collapsed rugby scum...

Big year ends with club’s top award

Gisborne Judo Club judoka of the year Sydnee Andrews is 17 but has experienced international senior competition already. The youngest in the senior field at the Oceania World Cup in Perth last month, Andrews was the only New Zealander to get...

On the mats: Indoor Bowls news

The ST1 Forestry Tom Duffin Fours was a great success, and the nine-end final was one not to miss. Warren Gibb, Bruce Easton, Marise Raklander and Kayla Trowell came up against Nathan Trowell, David Lynn, Akuhata Keelan and Lois Lamont. Trowell's team...

Lytton rise to occasion beating Girls' High 49-48

NETBALLLytton Senior A rose to the occasion and defeated rivals Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A by one goal — 49-48 — in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night.“This was another thriller that did not disappoint,” netball...

Parents ‘special part’ of Hoskin’s journey

It was a tearful video call home when Alicia Hoskin broke the news to her family that she was going to become an Olympian. After the New Zealand Olympic Committee had confirmed it, she was allowed to tell her family a week before she was officially...