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...
TEARING apart your home course in a Sunday haggle with the boys is one thing. Reproducing that form among the country’s top over-40-year-old players on a foreign course hundreds of kilometres from your hood is another. And claiming the scalp of one...
Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie has rocketed up the World Surf League Qualifying Series rankings following his top eight finish at the Ballito Pro in South Africa. Christie was eliminated by Australian Jack Freestone in the quarterfinals of...
If Saturday's games are anything to go by, Gisborne rugby fans are in for some scintillating play in premier club rugby finals. The game of the weekend was a preview of the 2 v 3 semifinal, where Larsawn Ngatapa and East Coast Farm Vets YMP will meet...
Super saloons take the limelight at Gisborne Speedway Club's meeting tomorrow night, but one car stands out. The new drive of Palmerston North-contracted Mick Quin has been turning heads. Built in the United States to a Late Model design with standard...
Gisborne has two new national surfing champions — Jay Ryan-Emerre and Sean Hovell. Hovell won the stand-up paddleboard (SUP) title while Ryan-Emerre took out the junior women's longboard in small but highly contestable conditions. Ryan-Emerre said...
TRAMPOLINETHE weather was cold but the competition was hot at the Australian Gymnastics Championships for Gisborne trampolinist Leah Scholefield. Sixteen-year-old Scholefield was part of New Zealand’s transtasman team that came second in the double...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafThe Poverty Bay boys’ primary team played their best cricket of the season yesterday with their first win on Day 2 of the Northern Districts tournament. Waikato Valley beat Poverty Bay by 45 runs in the first game of...
SAM Singh scored a majestic unbeaten 111 as Bollywood Stars opened their DJ Barry Cup cricket campaign with a three-wicket win against Tamarind High School Old Boys at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Singh, captain for the day after he travelled by...
CRICKETParts of it were top-notch. Poverty Bay had more good moments against Northland yesterday than they had previously had at the Northern Districts junior secondary schools cricket tournament in Whangarei. While Northland beat the Bay by 80 runs...
They put up a fight. The Poverty Bay Year 7 boys team lost Game 1 at the Riverbend cricket camp to Hutt Districts by two wickets yesterday. Hutt captain and Most Valuable Player Noah Boyle won the toss and elected to bowl on the artificial pitch at...
NETBALLTHE match many netball fans look forward to hits the YMCA boards when Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A play Ritana Senior A tomorrow night. The school clash promises to be another beauty. Ritana (Lytton) earned bragging rights when these...
THE Poverty Bay Cricket Association has broken with tradition and will start a week later than usual.“Normally we have our first games on the Sunday of the A and P Show weekend but this year we’re starting the following week, Saturday the...
Gisborne finished fourth in their pool at the Netball New Zealand Open Championships in Palmerston North. That put them in the ninth-to-16th playoff group in the 20-team tournament. Yesterday evening Gisborne lost to Cambridge, 50-26, which put them...
Gisborne Boys' High kicked off the Condor 7s national secondary schools competition with a win and three losses in Auckland yesterday. Two Gisborne schools are competing — Gisborne Boys High in the open boys division and Gisborne Girls' High School...
It was one of several events in the city, ranging from the What Now children's TV programme crew shooting an episode at Marina Park to sand flying at the beach motorbike racing nationals held at Makorori to snooker enthusiasts chalking up their cue...
GISBORNE Mountain Bike Club's first event of a three-race summer series was a hit. Almost twice as many riders took to the Fox Street Trails for the Emerre & Hathaway Summer Series opener as competed in the same event two years ago. Around 60 mountain...
DESPITE spending most of the three days in the tent as 12th woman for the Northern Spirit women’s team, Mel Knight said she was glad to have been part of the side.“There’s great potential within the team, with many young players who are still...
SURFINGGISBORNE had two teams in the top five at the NZ Schools Surf Champs at Raglan this month. A combined Gisborne Boys’ High and Girls’ High team were third and Campion College were fifth. Finn Vette and Hannah King were second in their age...
STRAIGHT off the plane from her volleyball adventures, Gisborne athlete Julia Tilley is back to promote an event of a different code. Ms Tilley has been appointed the new schools and volunteers manager for the Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon, in...
Jumping into a wheelchair for Charmaine McMenamin was about encouraging children to keep active. The 2019 Black Ferns player of the year wasn't too familiar with wheelchair rugby but she joined in a game on the artificial turf at Lytton High School...
SPEEDWAYA BIG field of V8 “big grunters” will charge round the banked track at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night as the fiercely fought Burger King Pro Dirt Super Saloon Series hits town. Gisborne Speedway Club scored this season’s...
NGATAPA pulled off one of the upsets of the season when they beat GMC Green 2-0 in Poverty Bay senior women’s hockey last night. Jamie Humphreys opened the scoring 30 seconds before halftime. Midway through the second half, Katie Herries scored the...
GISBORNE athlete Mary Briant became the national long-distance triathlon champion for women aged 55 to 59. Competing in the Tauranga Half Ironman, Briant won her age-group in the time of five hours 40 minutes 41 seconds. Team Gizzy — Triathlon New...
HICKS Bay beat Uawa 18-14 in a torrid East Coast club rugby game that had two players sin-binned in the closing stages at Wharekahika on Saturday. Uawa led 14-11 with eight minutes to go, when two of their players were sin-binned. They had led from...
Road closures on the East Coast on Saturday thwarted plans for the Future Ferns netball festival at Victoria Domain, but the youth leadership awards were still presented by Silver Ferns legend Irene van Dyk. Gisborne Netball Centre youth development...
Four Surf City Squash Club teams won their grades at National SuperChamps tournaments held across five locations last week. It is the first time any club in the history of the event — stretching back over 50 years — has won four titles. The club...
Individual highlights180s: Thao Duncan (2NZ Say My Name Again)(2), Webster (Webby) Lewis (2NZ Say My Name Again), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Mike Hughes (2NZ Bullz), Colin Edwards (2NZ Bullz)(2), Gary Poi (2NZ Bullz), Cris Kiri (2NZ...
NETBALLTHE pathway to the Gisborne premier-grade netball grand final beckons for Whangara Old Girls and Waikohu. But only one of these teams will take that path after their game tomorrow. A real battle is on the cards. Tomorrow’s 11am clash at the...
Riverina and Gisborne United showed why they are the dominant teams in local women's football with powerful performances at Harry Barker Reserve on Sunday. Gisborne Laundry Services Riverina had a well-deserved 5-1 win against a Bohemians side who...