Congratulations this week to Eileen Lee and Trish Corson for scoring 70 percent on Monday night. Monday, June 13 — Winter Pairs 2North/South East/WestJeff Allen, Katrina Duncan 58.33 Eileen Lee, Trish Corson 70.00Bette Parker, Joy Marden 54.17...
GISBORNE triathlete Tayler Reid cemented his place in the New Zealand under-23 team to compete at the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Cozumel, Mexico, next month when he was the second New Zealander home in the Premium Continental Cup race in...
NEW Zealand beach volleyball women’s team member Kelsie Wills has a strong Gisborne link. Wills, 25 years old and 6ft 1in, is the granddaughter of former Gisborne residents Barry and Diana Preston. Barry and his brothers Bob and Husky played rugby...
JETSPRINTING by Grant MillerHAMPERED by mechanical troubles and limited time on the course, Gisborne’s Blake Briant and Kate Hoogerbrug felt fifth wasn’t a bad result in the latest round of the New Zealand Jetsprint Championship. Competing in the...
Waikohu extended their lead in the Poverty Bay premier competition to five points after High School Old Boys defaulted their game scheduled for Te Karaka on Saturday. GT Shearing Waikohu now have 25 points — five clear of Ngatapa, who had the bye...
The teamsheets, two separate TV crews and the referee in the Poverty Bay club rugby game between Ngatapa and YMP at Barry Park on Saturday got it wrong. The result in what was the last game of round 2 of the Civil Project Solutions competition was...
Aaron Graham was blunt when asked about Gisborne United Firsts’ game against Thistle Youth in Eastern League 1 football.“It looked as if all 11 of us were hung over,” he said.“It was 2-1 in the end. We were up 2-0 in the first 15 minutes...
Well might Campion cricket fans wonder — what just happened and how did we do it?Campion College beat the Gisborne Boys' High School Blues and Royals by 18 runs wiith 13 balls remaining in a big finish to the Challenge Cup season opener on...
THE Gisborne Tairawhiti open and youth teams have been selected for the New Zealand Representative Challenge to be held at Mount Maunganui later this month. Midway’s Chris Dawson will captain the open team while clubmate Danielle Scott will lead...
YACHTINGGISBORNE Yacht Club’s Poverty Bay championships produced evenly contested racing in the Bay over the weekend. Saturday’s racing was postponed after one race as a southerly squall came through, with results that included a broken boom and...
THE excitement level from seeing new talent emerge remains as high as ever for Eastland Port Gisborne Trampoline Club coach Doug Callahan. He has been producing champions up to international level for decades and 2017 appears to be no different, as...
SMALL in stature, big on heart and skill, that was the Tairawhiti under-15 softball team who opened their North Island u15 tournament with two sensational wins at Waikirikiri Park yesterday. After beating Manawatu 12-2 in the morning with...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE football’s top two women’s teams meet tomorrow in what is effectively a final for the Eastern League title. For one side, though, a draw will be enough. On the last playing day of the women’s league this season, Heavy Equipment...
Division 2Game 1: Gisborne Boys’ High School Junior Black 59 (Cruze Robinson 10, Eraihia Maru 9, Whaimuri Gear 8) Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Whatatutu 65 (Jayrus Ruru 29, Angus Thompson 15). Q1 TKKMW 20-12, HT 35-27, Q3 50-43. Game 2: Tolaga Bay Are...
HOCKEYTIGHT wins to GMC Gold, Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits and JNL Paikea, and a fighting loss for Gisborne Girls’ High School against women’s competition leaders GMC Green were highlights of club hockey at the weekend. Sharon Bramwell, Jo Foster...
The senior women’s match between unbeaten YMP A and the Green Machine on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve tonight looms as the match of the round this weekend. Defending champions YMP beat GMC Green 4-1 last time they met. The prediction...
ONLY one marlin was caught in the Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club’s Enterprise Motor Group Autosure Bay Bonanza but there were plenty of other fish. There were 126 boats entered and 465 anglers making record numbers for the 33rd...
TOLAGA bay won the Gisborne-East Coast champion of champions senior men’s fours tournament, while Te Karaka won the senior women’s competition. Five games of round-robin play settled the contest for both senior women and men at the greens of host...
Lily Arnold has won Gisborne Trampoline Club's trophy for best all-round trampolinist. She received the club's top award at the end-of-year display and prizegiving. Club head coach Doug Callahan said Lily gave 100 percent to her training, worked hard...
JETSPRINTINGGISBORNE driver Blake Briant and navigator Kate Hoogerbrug will try to get small improvements out of their superboat in the second round of the New Zealand Jetsprint Championship. The couple finished third in their Harvest Transport boat...
ALL Saturday cricket is cancelled. Recreational Services closed Harry Barker and Nelson Park, meaning games will not be played tomorrow. The junior season has space for the missed game to be made up at a later date, however, a strict premier grade...
Poverty Bay rugby coach Tom Cairns has named a mobile forward pack and experienced backline for tomorrow’s pre-season hit-out against Ngati Porou East Coast. The players have been fizzing at training sessions ahead of the highly anticipated fixture...
Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Taradale Premiers. 3pm: Park Island (Napier) Ground 2, Napier Marist Premiers v Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United. Rectory field, Gisborne Boys' High School v Lytton High School; CRR...
It was a team effort with giant reinforcement. While all-rounder Max Briant (51 runs and two wickets for 20 runs off four overs) was superb in his Gisborne Boys' High School cricket debut, had it not been for their to-a-man commitment, the 16...
GISBORNE Thistle goalkeeper Mark Baple produced a string of top-class saves to keep a clean sheet against Port Hill United at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Thistle deserved their 3-0 victory in this Central Federation League football match, but...
Comet Swimming Club competitors made their own bit of history at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Summer Championships at Gisborne’s Olympic Pool. For the first time, Comet won the United Cup awarded to the club winning the most gold medals. Second in...
?Badminton Eastland Masters’ team kick off their 2019 season this weekend. The team is travelling to Waitakere where they will play Auckland 3 and Horowhenua Kapiti 1 in the North Island Masters Division 3 Competition. Eastland will have to play...
BOWLERS from Eastern Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Wairoa and Hawke’s Bay are contesting the Eastern Region Chartered Clubs Bowls Tournament for men’s fours at the Kahutia club’s greens. A field of 26 teams took part in section play yesterday. Teams...
BOXINGGISBORNE boxers showed skill and heart at the North Island Golden Gloves in Taupo. Alhaji Sheriff, 15, from the Gisborne City Hit Pit club, was judged the most scientific junior male boxer at the championships last weekend. He won his...
RUGBYTHREE JAB rugby championships have been decided, with Pirates winning two finals and Ngatapa, one, in matches played at Rugby Park. Pirates defeated YMP 22-19 in the under-13 final, Ngatapa beat Pirates 30-10 in the u11 final and Pirates beat...
GISBORNE surf lifesaver Laura Quilter won three gold medals and swam an unofficial world record time at the Queensland Pool Championships on Australia’s Gold Coast at the weekend. Wainui club member Quilter recorded a time of 33.21 seconds for the...
EQUESTRIANAll roads lead to the Hawke’s Bay A&P Showgrounds in Hastings for local equestrians, with the Land Rover Horse of the Year running from March 12 to 17. Several Gisborne riders have been out and about in North Island competition trying to...