HOROUTA'S latest success at the 2016 Te Wananga o Aotearoa Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karapiro was the third in a row. Over six days of competition, 3000 paddlers from 71 clubs and associations contested 388 races. Horouta finished with 286...
They are giving it their all. The Poverty Bay Year 7 cricket team in the B section at the Riverbend tournament yesterday lost to Taupo by six wickets in the morning and to Cambridge by 81 runs in the afternoon. But not for want of trying.“That...
THC turned the tables on YMP A on Saturday, inflicting the season’s first loss on the form team of the men’s competition. THC deservedly won 3-2 when the teams met on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The match was close, pretty much...
Schools and kura from Gisborne travelled to Ruatoria on Wednesday to take part in the Ngata Sevens. Ngata Sevens consists of rangatahi (youth) playing rugby and netball with the help of the Gisborne Netball Centre and Ngāti Porou East Coast...
Rugby is more than a game to both YMP and High School Old Boys. Last week YMP rose to the occasion in dispatching Ngatapa 31-20 on Barry Park 1 in honour of (Nanny) Maude Brown. A week later at the same ground, they outscored HSOB nine tries to one...
Excitement has built to fever pitch in Gisborne Speedway Club’s production saloon fraternity as they prepare to drive their way to the podium in the Professional Fleet Maintenance national championships this weekend. A field of 42 cars and drivers...
Hawke's Bay’s reclamation of the Lucy May and Bays Bronze women’s interprovincial trophies lasted just one year. Poverty Bay won back both pieces of silverware in the annual handicap fixture held on the Poverty Bay course on Monday. The Lucy May...
Gisborne results from the New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships —WaikanaeGold medals: under-16 men’s board relay; u19 women’s beach relay; u16 women’s beach relay; open women’s beach relay; u19 women’s board rescue; Lachie Falloon...
DIFFERENT balls, same objective . . . and that objective was achieved by Uawa and Gisborne United on a wet, windy Saturday afternoon. Uawa defeated TVC 11-8 in the final of the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition at Whangaparaoa/Cape...
POVERTY Bay-East Coast had a tough start to the Freyberg Masters over-40s golf interprovincial golf in New Plymouth this morning. The five-man PBEC team went down 4½-½ to Wellington on the opening day of the week-long teams’ matchplay tournament...
BOWLS by CrackerjackGisborne Bowling Club’s championship pairs titles have been decided in tournament play on the club’s greens. Two teams contested the junior women’s competition for those with up to eight years of bowls experience, three...
HOCKEYTHE Green Machine rebounded from their recent draw with Paikea with a strong win against the same opponents in women’s hockey on Saturday. A fortnight ago GMC Green and Paikea fought out a tough 4-4 draw. On Saturday, GMC won their top-four...
Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. So said Batman at the end of The Dark Knight. Such is the case for the 42 Gisborne Boys’ High School and St John’s College players whose game here on April 14 was postponed due to Covid-19...
Wainui Thunder repelled a challenge from Mangapapa School and retained the Iain Gillies Challenge Trophy last week. Goals from Harry McFarlane and Bodhi West-Hill gave Wainui a 2-0 win after a scoreless first half. Playing in front of their...
CHAMPIONS were crowned at finals day of the Ryman New Zealand veterans golf championship on the Poverty Bay course today. But to the woman behind the organisation of this popular annual tournament significantly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls will produce a spectacle of fast, free-flowing netball in the YMCA tomorrow as they fight for the right to call themselves 2019 Gisborne premier-grade champions. The Pak’nSave competition finale starts...
It is enormous and the Gizzy Hoops academy are there. Four teams — under-16 boys development, u14 boys, u14 girls and u14 girls development— are competing under the Gizzy Hoops banner at the fourth annual HoopNation Event in Tauranga. A party of...
WAIROA Athletic clinched the Eastern League Division 3 football title with a 3-0 victory over Gisborne Boys’ High School (3) at the Rectory field on Saturday. Meanwhile, runners-up Smash Palace Shockers had another setback, this time a 5-3 loss to...
THE Gisborne Giants superstock team won their way through to tonight’s semifinals of the national teams event at Waikaraka Park speedway in Auckland, but they face a tough challenge to make the final. The Giants were beaten in their first...
CRICKETFRESH off a hundred, Thorn Parkes will wear the Poverty Bay cricket colours tomorrow. The 19-year-old batting prodigy fits in matches for Poverty Bay when he can but Northern Districts A and age-group cricket have often prevented it. Parkes is...
GISBORNE surfer Maz Quinn will compete for a record-equalling fifth open men’s title at the national championships in Dunedin tomorrow. The event was on hold this morning due to onshore winds producing a lack of swell. It is forecast to pick up...
Gisborne ParkTHE top qualifiers and the defending champions face potentially hazardous challenges in their round of 16 clashes of the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs this weekend. Top seeds Brad Reynolds and Tony Leggett and 2017 winners Geoff Hill and...
RUGBYIt was neither stroll nor cakewalk, but Barry Cup holders Waikohu nevertheless beat hardy challengers Ngatapa 32-19 in their second defence of the five-game sub-union rugby season on Sunday.“That was a tough game for the boys,” Waikohu...
GISBORNE’s newest All Black, Charlie Ngatai, has his sights set firmly on earning more time in the black jumper and the Rugby World Cup victory has further inspired him to do it. The 25-year-old Maori All Blacks captain, Taranaki captain and Chiefs...
The two premier-grade netball games at the YMCA on Saturday produced sensational performances and results. Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A and Ritana Senior A from Lytton High School fought out a stunning 61-all draw in the Pak’nSave...
BEATING North Otago in Oamaru in the penultimate round of the Heartland Championship, before the playoffs, was always going to be a big ask of the Ngati Porou East Coast rugby team. Losing four key players — flankers Paddy Allen and Hone Haerew...
Phil Aickin has a golfer’s dream job. He travels the country attending competitions with New Zealand Golf as its handicapping and golf services manager, including the New Zealand amateur at Poverty Bay Golf Club this week. He believes the Bay’s...
The region's senior hockey players have got their sticks, pads and boots out of the cupboard and begun preparations for a June 26 start to a shortened season. The switch to Alert Level 1 has opened the doors to full player and supporter participation...
TWELVE-year-old Flynn Hall, Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s youngest member, sent down the symbolic first bowl of the club’s summer season. Club president Bruce Ball welcomed members to the opening on Saturday, following a successful winter of play on...
Gisborne's Jamison Gibson-Park became only the fourth Kiwi to win Super Rugby and European Rugby Champions Cup titles when his Irish side Leinster beat France’s Racing 92 12-9 in Spain last weekend. Gibson-Park, who joined Doug Howlett, Ali...
Four cyclists from the Gisborne Cycling Club will contest the Age Group Road National Championships in Waipukurau this weekend. Nan Baker, Neil Robinson, Craig Hoskin and Peter Blake will fly the flag for the Gisborne district. Of the Gisborne riders...
Poverty Bay club rugby was treated to a special audience at the Oval on Saturday with the appearance of All Blacks head coach Ian Foster at the Tiny White memorial opening day. Foster took over the reins in 2019, succeeding Steve Hansen, and will be...