Thirteen rangatahi from Gisborne Girls’ High School, Gisborne Intermediate and Campion College took part in The Remarkable Games last Friday. The kaupapa of the event is to give local tamariki whaikaha (disability) community a safe, supportive...
RUGBYThey have Palmerston North in their sights. Two weeks after Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15’s epic 17-5 win against 2019 National first 15 rugby champions Hastings on the Rectory field, the Ryan Tapsell-coached crew are taking their...
BMXA good turnout of well over 40 riders marked the start of summer racing at Gisborne BMX Club’s track on Tuesday. For 14 members it was a last hit-out before they attended the North Island champs at Auckland’s Mountain Raiders track. StridersJax...
OVER 1100 gymnasts from 28 schools took part in the Gisborne schools’ gymnastics festival last week. Wainui Beach and St Mary’s were equal-first in the primary schools’ division, Gisborne Intermediate was first in the intermediate division, and...
HOW much can you improve your 2.5 or five-kilometre running time in two months?Gisborne Harrier Club is putting this challenge to local runners with its Thursday twilight series that starts tomorrow and continues to the end of March. The club is...
SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants’ third win on the trot in the national superstock teams championship at Waikaraka Park on Saturday night felt the biggest and best yet, team captain Peter Rees said. The Giants team of Rees (2NZ), his son Ethan (127G)...
Horouta Waka Hoe Club’s Puhi Kaiariki crew completed a notable double on the final day of the IVF Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti. They added the Junior 16 women’s V6 500-metre title to the V6 1000m they had won the day before. The...
Gisborne Girls’ High School netballers face another tough test tomorrow night when they take on Taste One High School Old Girls in Pak’nSave premier grade netball at the YMCA. The students won by three goals when the teams met in...
GET a good coach and a good mentor. That is the advice of Blackjacks coach Dave Edwards to bowlers wanting to make the most of their talent. But you don’t have to leave the provinces to succeed, he says. Edwards and Bowls New Zealand national coach...
BEN Holden Fencing Ngatapa face a stern test against YMP A tonight in the opening game of the hockey round. The YMP women are expected to rebound with passion from their loss to GMC Green last weekend. YMP go into the 6pm match on the LJ Hooker Turf...
POVERTY Bay Rugby Football Union long-term office manager Karen Bryant is interim chief executive until a replacement for Marty Davis, who finished yesterday, is appointed.“Initial procedure with regard to the recruitment process is under way, and...
YMP will be out to secure both senior men’s and women’s A Grade titles in the hockey grand finals this weekend. Based on form, they will be very hard to stop. The women’s premier title will be the last one decided, and that game — between YMP...
CRICKETPOVERTY Bay women’s rep cricketer Tayla Hollis is living the dream. The 19-year-old leaves at the end of April to take up a professional player-coaching position in the Netherlands. Hollis has been signed by the Kampong Cricket Club in...
A FESTIVAL day this week marked the end of junior netball’s ANZ Future Ferns. The dress-up theme was “My Team Is Magic.” Gisborne Netball’s Allisa Hall said the primary school netball Future Ferns was a new programme gradually introduced here...
WAIKOHU pulled off one of the wins of the netball season on Saturday when they brought Whangara Old Girls down to earth with a thud two weeks out from the playoffs. Claydens Waikohu led the defending champions throughout to score a sensational 60-48...
AFTER seven years of trying, Kevin Fishburn and Coralie Campbell-Whitehead qualified in the local round of the New Zealand mixed pairs for the first time. They proved to be unstoppable, and were undefeated all day, winning the local final 10-5...
Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 59.44 John Jones, Glenys Evans 62.38Roger Hayward, Sue Hayward 56.11 Eileen Lee, David Johnstone 60.00Eileen Voysey, Janet Joblin 55.56 Linda White, Frank Roach 55.71Yvonne Waide, Katrina Duncan 63.39 Stephen...
HIKURANGI hit their straps in the second half of the Ngati Porou East Coast senior rugby game at Ruatoria to beat Tokomaru United 38-14 and edge their way into the competition’s top four. Hiku first five-eighth Kris Palmer was first to score after...
NetballWeek 1 of Round 2 of PAK'nSAVE Gisborne senior netball will be held at Victoria Domain on SATURDAY. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Senior Round 2, Week 1; Junior Week 3; futureFERNS Years 5 and 6, Week 2. All senior cards run from the...
RUGBYThe sporting buzz-term of the moment is “transformational change.”And if change only works from the top down, it’ll be at least a year before New Zealand Rugby has an opportunity — through the appointment of a new chair — to make that...
THE David Nathan helmed V5 was literally sailing away late this afternoon from the rest of the field in the reborn Auckland to Gisborne yacht race. The other six boats in the field were struggling to get around the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula in...
Fourteen teams took part in the Poverty Bay Bowling Club Easter Tournament. An optional three-bowl triples tournament was held on Easter Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday players enjoyed the sunshine but the wind was challenging. Everyone was grateful...
Poverty Bay Cricket Association abbreviated scoreboardsChallenge Cup, Twenty20, Nelson Park —Final: Gisborne Boys' High School Blues and Royals 95-1 (Kelan Bryant 60 not out; Riker Rolls 1-11) beat the GBHS Admiralty 92-7 (Bekko Page 31no; Dylan...
THE hockey spotlight falls firmly on the eagerly awaited re-match between YMP A and GMC Green in the senior women’s competition on Saturday afternoon, without a doubt the match of the weekend. YMP sit on top of the points table but only on goal...
RUGBYIF anyone thought last season’s form would be a predictor of competence this year, the first weekend of premier grade rugby has already proven them wrong. GT Shearing Waikohu were an unstoppable force in their Civil Project Solutions Lee...
TENNISGisborne Tennis has welcomed the offer of support to the region from an experienced professional-level coach. Craig Giddy is an International Tennis Federation Level 2 coach and has been national 45-50 age-group singles champion for the past...
A half-century and a three-wicket bag for Matt Crampton helped Pirates beat Gisborne Boys’ High School in Doleman Cup cricket at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. The South African all-rounder top-scored with 55 runs in Kevin Hollis Glass...
What do you get out of a game like that?Answer: a lot. Both the Poverty Bay and Bay of Plenty under-16 rugby teams extracted what they put in from their 34-10 clash on Saturday. Bay of Plenty, under Aaron Bidois, took the spoils at Princes Road...
Tairawhiti Softball under-13 boys’ and girls’ teams not only played at a tournament in North Harbour, they got to see the sport at the highest level. The New Zealand Black Sox were playing Japan at Albany last weekend, at the same venue as the...
RUGBYFORMER Gisborne Boys’ High School student Blade Thomson will make his debut for the Scottish rugby team this weekend. Poverty Bay coach, and Boys’ High assistant principal, Tom Cairns was delighted with the news.“I’m stoked about...
CRICKETBoth principals have signed off: it’s on. The Gisborne Boys’ High School Colts cricket team and the Campion College juniors will spend tomorrow out of class, playing for the William Townley Shield. Shield holders Boys’ High and Campion...