The result did not match the occasion for two members of the High School Old Boys team in Poverty Bay premier-grade rugby on Saturday. Hayden Walters-Stuart was having his 100th game for the club, and Tamanui Hill was having his 50th. But they had an...
Men's net: T Hill 61, R Grace 66, A Reedy 68. Twos: S Phillips, A Reedy 2. Approach: R Walford. Men's best second shot: A Reedy. Benson Cup women's pairs final: K Papuni/J Akuhata defB Walker/W Morrissey on the 17th. Men's stableford: G Hill 39. WEDNESDAY...
THC player Tei Mohi tries to leap out of the way of a shot by YMP A’s Heath Tupara as goalkeeper Kieran Irving watches in Poverty Bay men’s club hockey on Harry Barker Reserve’s LJ Hooker Turf on Saturday. YMP won 8-0
BMXBMX rider Jessie Smith says her feelings were all over the place after she finished fourth in a women’s elite final in Paris.“I’m slowly accepting the fact I got fourth and it all wasn’t a dream,” she said. Smith, 18, formerly of...
Kelan Bryant is a natural timer of the ball. And he got back into the swing of things in Round 1 of cricket's T20 Challenge Cup with a superb innings of 56. Bryant's was a match-winning turn for the Blues and Royals, who beat the Admiralty by four...
Clinching paddles for a spot in any final at the national secondary schools waka ama champs seemed like a stretch for the three teams from Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Waiu o Ngati Porou. But they showed they had the passion and guts to win a race...
RUGBYA capable Hawke’s Bay Saracens team avenged their 32-31 loss to Poverty Bay in 2017 by beating the Bay 62-12, outscoring them 10 tries to two at Tremain Field in Napier on Saturday. Second five-eighth Anthony Karauria scored for Poverty Bay in...
THE winners of the Gisborne-hosted Super 8 secondary schools tournament probably won’t be decided until at least mid-February. Rain this morning ended finals day before it even began and the six outside schools were heading home earlier than...
180s: John White 2 (Done & Dusted); Irie Elyes 2, Toby Ratapu, Marcus Leach (Falcons); Corey Kaio (Young Guns).Highest start, men (180): John White (Done & Dusted); Irei Eyles (Falcons).Highest start, women (140): Mihi Awatere (Manaaki).Highest...
Gisborne Boys' High School held on to win their first match in the DJ Barry Cup against OBR on Saturday in a game that could have gone either way. The Galaxy World GBHS team won by three wickets over Coastal Concrete OBR in a match where both teams...
Two Gisborne polo players will be in international action in Australia this weekend. Guy Kirkpatrick has been named in the New Zealand team to play Australia at Windsor Polo Club, Richmond, near Sydney, on Saturday. Susie Hamilton was last week named...
Sunshine and light breezes were in abundance for the McKenzie Shield Mixed Eight-point Triples Tournament held at Poverty Bay Bowling Club last Wednesday. A full contingent of 16 teams played three games each. Winners of the McKenzie Shield were Jan...
LEAH Scholefield has become the youngest person to win Eastland Port Gisborne Trampoline Club’s top trophy. The 11-year-year Gisborne Intermediate student was voted best all-round trampolinist at the club’s end-of-season prize-giving.“Despite...
RUGBYKids aren’t easily impressed these days. But they were last Saturday, by LRB Sports’ rugby clinics at Uawa Domain in Tolaga Bay and at the Gisborne Boys’ High School Rectory field. The stage had been set.“Our kids have been champing at...
CROQUETA SUPERIOR hoop differential won Robyn Chaffey and Dave Newton the Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s golf croquet handicap doubles tournament. Five pairs took part, arranged so that high- and low-handicap players were in pairs together. The...
ROWINGGISBORNE Rowing Club's men's coxed eight pulled off a dramatic victory at the North Island Club Championships, beating the Wellington Rowing Club crew by 0.24 of a second to win gold. Gisborne coach Peter Simmons said the two clubs were neck...
AN entry of 42 windswept bowlers enjoyed an afternoon of three one-hour games for the Gisborne Bowling Club Closing Day before the club prizegiving to end the season. It was not easy going but some managed to show their skills despite the...
GOLFBRENT Colbert was the toast of the Poverty Bay (2) team last weekend as they scraped into the top-four playoffs of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants. Colbert produced the only win for PB (2) in a 10-2 loss to host club Tolaga Bay in Round...
It's time to fire up. The Nicholas Hendrie-coached Poverty Bay team is Rotorua-bound for the Northern Districts boys' senior secondary schools cricket tournament.“Our goal is to grow and develop a number of cricketers who, as Year 11s, will be...
IT WAS do-or-die for the home team, and the game reflected that. But a valiant Waiapu, fifth in the East Coast club rugby competition, couldn’t hang on and Ruatoria City, team No. 3, beat them 29-21. Waiapu cannot now make the semifinals in two...
HALBERG AWARDSTom Walsh has claimed New Zealand’s top sports honours for 2018 at the 56th ISPS Handa Halberg Awards during a ceremony at Spark Arena in Auckland last night. The shot-putter was named the Sportsman of the Year for the second...
GISBORNE'S Tayler Reid held off one of New Zealand’s best triathlete runners to win the second race of the national elite triathlon series at Takapuna Beach at the weekend. Reid and fellow Triathlon NZ high performance squad teammate Dan Hoy had...
Poverty Bay“SEEDINGS mean nothing.”“There’s no I in team but there is in win.”“Next!”Those were some of the quotes international media would have wanted from Larry “Steros” Foster after he and Robin Wells sent the top qualifiers...
RUGBYWaikohu won game one of the 2019 Barry Cup season v Ruatoria 80-5 and the broadest shoulders in local rugby made the biggest impact. Waikohu titan tighthead prop Jarryd Broughton — a giant dwarfing even the visitors’ heftiest forwards —...
They’ll be there with bells on. The Bollywood High School Old Boys Pups have made a great start to the Colts nine-a-side season at Nelson Park: they won their first game, a T15 clash v the DNature Dragons (by 46 runs) and their second fixture, T30...
Kelan Bryant hits the ball cleanly. And he followed up his 54 from No3 for the Gisborne Boys' High School second 11 in the Hope Cup with 60 not-out for the GBHS Blues and Royals at Nelson Park on Wednesday. That 60 for the pre-Christmas champions of...
DEPARTING winger Karl “Gannet” Macpherson left Ngatapa a reminder of his pace, footwork and determination when he scored the match-winning try against High School Old Boys at Rugby Park on Saturday. Larsawn Ngatapa’s 16-10 victory over Woodbank...
NGATI Porou East Coast took a massive leap forward in their Heartland Championship game against Horowhenua Kapiti at Ruatoria on Saturday, despite losing 24-20. Horowhenua Kapiti had made the trip north full of confidence after noting the Coast’s...
CRICKETPOVERTY Bay had a win and a loss in two under-14 girls’ cricket games against Cornwall at the Clifton County Cricket Club grounds at Te Awanga, Hawke’s Bay. Cornwall won the first match, in which each side had 18 overs. Skipper Josie...
BRISBANE-based Gisborne swimmer Michael Pickett has been chosen to represent New Zealand at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games. He is one of four swimmers the New Zealand Olympic Committee today named to represent New Zealand at the...
KEEN racing, visiting riders and a celebration of club history marked Gisborne BMX Club’s 30th anniversary meet on Saturday. Riders from Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga and Hawke’s Bay were among the 61 who took the start line for an afternoon of close...
The Gisborne Giants finished third in the Auckland superstock teams' event on Saturday night, losing to the Palmerston North Panthers in their semifinal. But Giants team member Peter Rees said “third place was good enough for us”.It followed the...
HOCKEYIT was ecstasy for the “Green Machine” on Saturday when they wrapped up the shoot-out needed to win the A Grade women’s hockey crown for the first time in six years. The group hug and wild celebrations on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve...