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Giving more than promised

Poverty Bay Year 7s record their third win in five matches

Jimmy Aupouri Memorial

ENTRIES are being sought for the Jimmy Aupouri Memorial Secondary Schools Softball Tournament. It will be held at Ngata Memorial College at Ruatoria on Saturday, September 17. The tournament is open to all Tairawhiti secondary schools or schools with...

Gisborne cyclists meet challenge of Taupo

A cross-section of distances and race times were achieved by 24 Gisborne cyclists at the 41st Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge last weekend. Fifteen completed the iconic 160-kilometre lap of the lake, the keynote road ride in the country’s biggest...

New season, new challenge

A King Country Rams side inspired by a century of rugby is the challenge awaiting Poverty Bay Wekas when they kick off the 2022 Heartland Championship in Te Kuiti tomorrow. The game kicks off at 2.30pm at Rugby Park in Te Kuiti and marks milestones...

Crossing swords

GISBORNE Girls’ High student Briana Irving is looking forward to taking on her biggest rival in the North Island cross-country championships at Taupo this weekend. Irving was second to Waikato’s Charli Miller at the New Zealand Secondary Schools...

Golden double

Two Gisborne weightlifters have again won gold medals at the national secondary schools competition and, this year, they went one better. Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont and Kitini Taihuka, representing Gisborne Boys’ High School, took out the teams title...

Weather, but not city, disappointed Sri Lankans

THE Sri Lankan under-19 cricket team did not have the best of weather in Gisborne for their preparation for the world cup, which starts on Saturday. But manager Mahinda Halangoda, a former Sri Lanka A and B left-arm medium-fast bowler and left-hand...

Tense game likely as YMP take on Paikea

HOCKEYTHE YMP women will be on the bounceback trail when they confront Paikea tomorrow in hockey and the sparks could fly because their opponents will not be easybeats. High-flying YMP were held to a 1-1 draw by GMC Green last weekend and, but for...

Kiwis pull ahead in young rider clash

New Zealand drew first blood in the Trans Tasman young rider clash at the Larsen Sawmilling Show Jumping Championship here yesterday. Both teams picked up a bonus point in the first of two rounds on the first of three days of competition over the...

Falloon repays coach’s faith

SURF LIFESAVING

McDonald faces her toughest assignment

GOLFGISBORNE’S Tessa McDonald teed off this morning in the toughest assignment of her representative career. McDonald is playing No. 1 for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay at the women’s national interprovincial golf tournament on Christchurch’s...

Gold, silver, bronze to Brott

FORMER Gisborne rower James Brott won gold, silver and bronze medals at the New Zealand Rowing Championships on Lake Ruataniwha near Twizel. The 18-year-old, now studying at Waikato University, was a member of the Hawke’s Bay club's senior coxed...

Season over for jumpers

Showjumping finished for the season at the Glistening Waters and Equestrian Sports New Zealand Jumping Series Final Show at Solway Showgrounds in Masterton this month, and Gisborne riders were among those taking part. Tess Clark and the consistent...

Rising star

POVERTY Bay coach and former New Zealand Maori forward Mutu Ngarimu says Gisborne Boys’ High first 15 captain Isaia Walker-Leawere — who made his senior provincial debut against Thames Valley on Saturday —has “the potential to be something...

Set for grading finale thriller

The premier clash between unbeaten Whangara Old Girls and YMP is shaping up as the game of the day in the final round of Gisborne Pak’nSave senior netball grading tomorrow at Victoria Domain. YMP Sunshine Brewery have lost to Claydens Waikohu 1 and...

STOCKCARS OUTSTANDING

The club meeting at the Gisborne Speedway Club track on Sunday afternoon drew only a small crowd but it was big on action, particularly in the stockcars and sidechairs. Club vice-president Jamie Simpson said car numbers were down a bit but that was...