Te KarakaTe Karaka Bowling Club hosted its first open tournament of the 2019/2020 season — an optional triples event — on Sunday. The eight teams who entered enjoyed great weather, and the green was in top condition. Teams played two rounds of...
Poverty BayPETER Kerekere’s mission to win the East Coast Open got a birdie-filled boost on Sunday. Kerekere came home like Kiwi in the 1983 Melbourne Cup in one of two rounds in the 60s at the Eagles Halberg charity tournament. Admittedly the...
The top two teams in Gisborne premier-grade netball clash at the YMCA tonight and, barring a draw, only one of them will still be on top at the end of it. YMP (1) and Claydens Waikohu (1) have been unbeaten in Round 2 of the Pak'nSave competition and...
THE sidecar champion of champions, pairs racing in all classes and a final hit-out for stockcar drivers ahead of the New Zealand teams’ championship highlight Gisborne Speedway Club’s Christmas meeting tomorrow night. The Stubbs...
HOCKEYPAIKEA lived up to their favourites tag to win the first of the Poverty Bay hockey finals last night, but they were made to wait until the last few minutes of the match to do it. A spirited Waituhi side took it to them and, after being two...
NETBALLWAIKOHU should feature in the games of the day in Round 2 of grading in Gisborne premier-grade netball at Victoria Domain tomorrow. Play continues for all senior, secondary and intermediate teams in Pak’nSave netball competitions.“The top...
After his team conceded 121 points in two games, you might have thought Ngati Porou East Coast co-coach Wayne Ensor would be happy with a 26-5 loss to Wairarapa Bush at Ruatoria on Saturday. He wasn’t.“Not really . . . a loss is still a loss and...
AMERICAN women’s pitcher Alyson Spinas-Valainis will hold two pitching and catching clinics in Gisborne tomorrow at Barry Park. The first for age-group representative pitchers and catchers and coaches, will be from 2pm to 3.30pm, and the second...
SPEEDWAYTHE weather gods have control over whether the Gisborne Speedway Club will be able to run its big meeting tomorrow night, but at this stage it’s still on. The club has a huge meeting planned with stockcars, production saloons, saloons and...
SURFINGGISBORNE surfer Saffi Vette is in the New Zealand team for the ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in the US from Saturday. She is one of three returning members of the New Zealand team to the 2017 junior world championships in Japan. The...
MUTU Ngarimu is humbled and proud to have been reappointed as coach of Poverty Bay for the 2016 Heartland Championship season.“I’d be the first to put my hand up and admit I made some wrong calls,” said Ngarimu, whose side finished...
GISBORNE man Tayler Reid finished down the order at the latest ITU World Triathlon Series race in Hamburg yesterday. Reid was solid in the swim and the cycle but struggled in the run to place 41st overall in 56 minutes 25 seconds — 2min 17sec...
Tolaga Bay has completed all its club championships for the season. The open men's fours was won by Chas Henry, Mike Atkins, Mark Walker and Mike Namana. From lead to skip all four were in incredible form in convincingly beating Ben Elkington, Anton...
FOOTBALLHawke’s Bay’s dominated the boys’ games but at the Central Football Game Day at Nelson Park over the weekend. The visitors won all six boys games — 12, 13 and 15/16yrs age groups — while Gisborne won three of the girls’ games —...
SIX athletes from Special Olympics Tairawhiti are set to take part in the Special Olympics National Summer Games, which start tomorrow and end on Friday in the Wellington district. It will be the first time Gisborne has had a team competing at the...
GISBORNE Gymnastics Club (GGC) members were out in force at their last competition for the year, a girls-only event in Whakatane this month. Head coach Nicola Ludwig said she had never seen so many GGC Step 1 entries in the 17 years she had been...
WHANGARA Old Girls have given themselves every chance of retaining the premier grade netball title tomorrow in the YMCA but grand final opponents YMP (1) have shown they will be tough to beat. YMP’s midcourt were sensational in their semifinal win...
EASTLAND will host the third round of the inter-association masters’ badminton competition this weekend. They will play Bay of Plenty (2) and Waitakere (4). Also playing in Gisborne will be Waikato (2).Eastland team members are Mark Beard, David...
Bowls Hawke’s Bay made no race of it against Bowls Gisborne East Coast in the annual intercentre fixture for the Challenge Trophy on Gisborne Bowling Club greens at the weekend. When the scores were added up after the end of play on Sunday...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafPoverty Bay opened their Northern Districts junior secondary schoolboys cricket tournament with two T20 losses at Whangarei’s Kensington Oval yesterday. In Game 1, Bay of Plenty Coastlands batted first and made 194-5...
Carriage driving results from the Poverty Bay A&P Show last month (competitors from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —HARNESSCarriage DrivingBest turned out — Open: Kathie Shepard (Huntly) Misty Lea Cefiro, 1; Julie Coker, Swanhaven Boot'N All...
THEY came, they floored, they kicked butt. Well, the Auckland Alleycats did on their way to winning the New Zealand stockcars teams’ championships in Gisborne on Saturday night. But our Gisborne Gladiators — the defending champions — flew the...
Poverty Bay cricketers (from left) Rubi Perano, Grace Levy and Kayley Knight are in the Northern Districts team for the national women’s under-19 tournament starting in Lincoln, near Christchurch, tomorrow. This will be the second national u19...
There were more than just two winning teams that featured Gisborne surf athletes at the gruelling Mount Monster long-distance surf lifesaving event at Mt Maunganui on Saturday. A Waikanae team won the under-19 women’s section for the second year in...
HIGH School Old Boys back Andrew Tauatevalu scored a try and kicked a conversion on his Poverty Bay Heartland Championship debut, but Wanganui made it 13 straight Heartland wins against the Bay, with a 25-14 victory at Whanganui on...
The spotlight falls on Lytton and Gisborne Girls’ high schools, Waikohu and Horouta Gold in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball at the YMCA tonight. Girls’ High take on Waikohu at 6pm.“Girls’ High have yet to record a win this round, so...
THE higher seeded teams should emulate the mid-week performances of Whangara Old Girls and YMP tomorrow when the second set of games in the netball premiership get played in the Gisborne YMCA. But F45 High School Old Girls and Claydens Waikohu 1 will...
Poverty BayThe Gisborne Refrigeration 2x4x2 mixed pairs tournament attracted a full green of 16 teams. Players had to endure showers throughout the day but were generally undaunted. Pairs faced four games of 10 ends, with a 90-minute time limit. Only...
Rugby — Pre-season matches: Poverty Bay 24 Central Bay of Plenty 22; Ngati Porou East Coast 61 Bay of Plenty Maori 14; NZ Marist under-23 75 Poverty Bay Development 27. Poverty Bay u20 double-header: Wanganui 22 Poverty Bay 19; Wairarapa Bush 50...
THE Bowls Gisborne-East Coast representative teams have been named for the octagonal tournament in Manawatu from Friday to Sunday. The senior men’s team will comprise: David File (Te Karaka), Don Hoepo-Williams (Poverty Bay), July Hoepo (Te...
Eastland Masters will step up a division when they start their 2020 badminton season at North Harbour this weekend. They finished second in the North Island division 3 masters (over-35) inter-association competition last year and were invited to move...