“SUCK it up and move on” is the attitude of exhausted but upbeat Poverty Bay-East Coast golfers as their Freyberg Masters voyage hit stormy waters yesterday. PBEC were outclassed 4-1 by third-placed North Harbour and 4½-½ by Bay of Plenty on...
Results of the interschool primary athletics day at Awapuni Stadium last Wednesday —Sprints — 80 and 100 metresGirls — Year 3: Honor Hei (Te Wharau) 1; Charlotte McDiarmid (Makauri), Liselle Duckworth (Mangapapa) equal 2. Year 4: Lilla Hain...
HOCKEYTHE hockey season ends for either Paikea or Ngatapa on Saturday, and it would be a brave pundit who would predict how that might go. Matches between these sides have been extremely tight this season. JNL Paikea and Ben Holden Fencing Ngatap...
Dawn Wood and David Johnstone achieved the highlight of the week — a score of 78.06 on Thursday night in the Winter Pairs 3. ResultsSaturday, July 9 — Ryman 8B Multi-grade TournamentSession 1Joy Marden/Yvonne Key 58.89 John Hardman/Yvonne Doole...
Dane Thompson took the biggest wicket in the biggest game of the year so far. The third ball of opening bowler Thompson’s first over didn’t decide the result of last night’s Walker Shield T15 Blast grand final — but the balance of power did...
RugbyPoverty Bay premier grade: Woodbank HSOB 40 Enterprise Cars OBM 36, Aon Waikohu 44 Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 28, Larsawn Ngatapa 36 Farmvets YMP 8. Senior 1: Horouta 15 Tapuae 29, Ngatapa 29 YMP 14, HSOB 10 OBM 42, Nuhaka 17 Wairoa Athletic...
KICKBOXINGSAM Parkes already had a formidable reputation for throwing himself wholeheartedly into whatever he does. Now the Ngati Porou East Coast rugby halfback has enhanced it — with a kickboxing title he earned through a first-round technical...
THERE is less than one month left to get your nominations in for the Tairawhiti Maori Sports Awards 2016. The awards have not been held for nearly a decade having previously been an annual event from 1994 to 2007. They have been resurrected this year...
GISBORNE Girls’ High School student Azalleyah Maaka is not sure what she wants to do after leaving school. For now, she is just “going with the flow” . . . but the 17-year-old knows what she wants when it comes to sport.“Nothing beats...
KARTING by Rockin' RobinNINE-year-old Vinzent MacGregor raised a few eyebrows at Eastland Kart Club's meeting on Sunday. He had already had two wins and a third in the young guns class when he lined up in his stationary-engine kart for the mixed race...
Waikohu (1) will look to bounce back strongly tomorrrow when they take on Whangara Old Girls in their premier grade netball game at the YMCA. Both teams will want to start Round 3 of the Pak'nSave competition with a win, but the outcome looks more...
EQUESTRIANNew Zealand showjumpers have qualified a team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after a hard-fought victory at the FEI Group G Qualifier in Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. The only clear rounds inside the time allowed over the two rounds came...
Gisborne cousins Matthew Foster and Nathan Trowell made their own piece of sporting history last weekend. They are the first two Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowlers to have played in the same North Island representative team. They were in the North...
Poverty BayA PLAYER of his quality could look at it as the one that got away. William Brown prefers to focus on the positives. The Poverty Bay greenkeeper was in supreme form for 15 holes of his Sunday round of 5-under 67. Bogeys on the last three...
Meeting 5 of Eastland Kart Club’s Sunday racing was the hottest since the club was formed, with the temperature reaching 33 degrees. It was particularly trying for the drivers dressed in their race gear. A non-points-scoring meeting, this was the...
Gisborne ParkKUDOS to the Park women who took on the winter elements in club championship qualifying on Sunday. A small but hardy group chasing 2018 honours endured the drowned rat weather to sort out the seedings for the senior, intermediate and...
DUBLIN — Ireland beat New Zealand 29-20 in a gripping contest featuring breathtaking defence embraced by a packed Lansdowne Road yesterday. The Irish couldn't beat New Zealand for 111 years. Now they have three precious wins in five years. Under...
GISBORNE adventure racer Gerald Holden and his teammates were expected to cross the finish line at Te Anau this morning in the gruelling Godzone expedition event through Fiordland. Holden, 41, is captain of the four-man Lincoln Reunion team, who were...
CRICKETPOVERTY Bay senior women’s player-coach Mel Knight said the Northern Districts under-14 girls’ cricket tournament in Helensville was a positive and enjoyable experience for the whole team.“We ended up with two wins and two losses and...
Sandee Porter showed her team how to do it at the YMCA in Game 1 on Monday night. The captain scored 14 points and her crew's first 10 in Uawa Tuakana Teina's 58-29 win against Uawa Hard at the Tolaga Bay women's club basketball derby. Porter's...
Crash, bash, smash — that's what's on the menu at the Harry Barker Reserve from 1pm tomorrow. Walker Shield T20 premier-grade action will be the order of the day for a fortnight as Senior B cricket takes a two-week break. Round 1 of the Walker...
ONE of the top bowls umpires in the country was in Gisborne last week taking the next batch of budding local umpires through their paces. Michael Johnson, chairman of the Bowls New Zealand umpire committee, flew into town to run the assessments for...
GISBORNE surf lifesaver Cory Taylor, fresh from his second victory in the Nutri-Grain IronMan Series in Australia, will be home to play a major part in the inaugural Ocean Warrior event at Midway Beach this weekend. Taylor will join three other...
HOCKEYTHE match of the weekend, probably the season to date, hits the turf at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday afternoon when the two unbeaten men’s teams go head to head in a replay of the men’s grand final last year. The 3.30pm clash between...
NGATI Porou East Coast coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor will use tomorrow’s home match against Thames Valley in Ruatoria to give local players the chance to push for starting spots in the Heartland Championship season-opener.“We know what our...
CricketDJ Barry Cup, Round 2, SATURDAY, 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Pirates v Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys; HBR 2, Bain Construction OBR v Gisborne Boys’ High School. Hope Cup, Round 9, SATURDAY, 2pm: HBR 3, Bollywood Stars HSOB Presidents...
Poverty BayTHE Poverty Bay Bowling Club women's open fours championship was won by Betty Herring (skip), Kathryn Flaugere (director), June Stichbury (two) and Jean Patterson (lead).In the final, they defeated Dawne Abraham (s), Kathy Carroll (d)...
On the trail of legendsLegends. Gisborne continues to produce them, but where do they go after their prime and how have their attitudes changed over the years?These are questions I intend to ask some of the local surfing wise-men, but the real...
ENTERPRISE Cars OBM coach Tom Solomon says it’s time his players made their own legacy. Solomon was the last OBM skipper to lift the Lee Bros Shield — in 2004, when they equalled the Old Boys record of five successive titles from 1977-81.“Some...
FIVE Gisborne teenagers brought home medals this month from Hastings, where they took part in the Teen Gauntlet Gathering for high-performing crossfit athletes. Eight Gisborne athletes from Crossfit Gisborne and Crossfit 4010 were among 38 who took...
COMET Swim Club's annual club championships had a slightly new format that proved a massive success. The changes restricted the number of events in which swimmers could take part, to focus on quality rather than quantity, which made for much more...
TOP-four teams have been decided for A and B Grade playoffs in Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association’s Brezz’n Darts Club Tuesday night winter league. A Grade standings are: Ford Falcons 1, Tigers 2, Rhinos 3 and Pumas 4.B Grade standings are...