GISBORNE Sam Marsh and Heather Mihaere will defend their A-grade mixed pairs title in the FMG seniors tennis tournament at the Gisborne Tennis Club, starting at 8.30am tomorrow. Marsh and Mihaere beat Auckland couple Steve and Kim Parkinson in the...
Some days the ball follows you. That was the case yesterday for Poverty Bay Year 6 cricketer Caleb Taewa, who held three catches in Game 1 of the Riverbend tournament. The Jimmy Holden-coached Bay yesterday lost by 51 runs to Cornwall Blue at Frimley...
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NETBALLONE close, one not so close would be the prediction ahead of the two premier-grade netball games at the YMCA tomorrow night. The Pak’nSave matches start at 6pm tomorrow night with Gillies Electrical Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A in...
AFTER a mixed surf forecast, last weekend (including the Friday) ended up providing some of the most fun waves in a long time. A peaky three-foot north-east swell, mixed in with just the right amount from the south, made for some amazing A-frame...
NEW Zealand won the first day and Australia the second, setting up a stellar transtasman battle for the final day and overall honours at the Larsen Sawmilling Gisborne Showjumping Championships. There was nothing but praise all round for the riders...
Players in the inaugural Geoff Logan memorial pre-season football tournament had easily enough time on the park before the teams called it a day. Gisborne Thistle and Gisborne United would have been in the final on Saturday but they elected not to...
RUGBYWILLY Grogan’s return from holiday in Ireland has come at the right time for OBM, as they prepare for tomorrow’s premier rugby clash with Waikohu at Te Karaka. Grogan, one of the most experienced and competitive halfbacks in the competition...
Individual Results180s: Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 4, Te Kotahi Kaio 2 (Young Guns); Tahuna Irwin, Pete Tom, Irie Eyles (Falcons); Tracey Te Kira (Tigers).Highest start (180): Te Kotahi Kaio 2, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Young Guns); Tahuna Irwin (Falcons).Highest...
CRICKETPOVERTY Bay cricket coach Lance Cairns says beating Bay of Plenty in a 50-over game in Gisborne on Sunday has given his side a huge morale boost.“Jimmy Holden’s reaction when he ended the innings said it all — you would have thought...
Big things have small beginnings. Such was the case yesterday, with Sonrise Christian School’s first foray outside Gisborne in the nine-a-side primary boys’ New Zealand Cup cricket tournament. Last season, Sonrise beat Gisborne Intermediate...
THE past 12 months have been huge for Comet swimmer Jamie Joblin. He capped off a great year by winning a bronze medal at the New Zealand Short Course Championships held at the Millennium Pool in Auckland. Right from the start of the season, Joblin...
ANOTHER successful national women's interprovincial for Gisborne's Tessa McDonald ended on a winning high in Timaru on Saturday. Playing at No. 1 in the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay team, McDonald powered to a 7 and 6 victory over the Aorangi No. 1 in the...
Gisborne Intermediate girls’ cricket team began their Northern Districts regional finals campaign for the National Primary School Shield with a 41-run win over Mount Maunganui in Papamaoa yesterday. Gisborne posted 110-7 in 20 overs of the...
Gisborne surf lifesaving athlete Cory Taylor on Sunday won his second Nutri-Grain IronMan Series event. It was at Surfers Paradise, where he achieved his first victory, in February
Poverty BayMixed triplesThe Beetham Lifestyle Village Mixed Triples was held on Wednesday, November 22. The format was progressive triples over four rounds of 10 ends with a 90-minute time limit each round. Thirty-nine players contested this popular...
Results from the Gisborne primary schools athletics meeting, organised by Te Wharau School and held yesterday at Awapuni Stadium —Ball throwGirls — Year 3: Kalianne Taylor (St Mary’s) 1; Riley Lewis (Wainui) 2; Nyana Ruru (Te Wharau) 3. Year 4...
Waikanae up-and-comer Lachie Falloon has made the step from Oceans under-14 to u16s this season and the gutsy youngster is looking forward to what’s ahead of him. Lachie was a strong competitor through his junior years, culminating in gold medals...
NETBALL by Murray RobertsonWAIKOHU produced the boil-over result of the season to date in premier-grade netball when they downed defending champions YMP in emphatic style at Victoria Domain on Saturday. Claydens Waikohu (1) led throughout and...
POVERTY Bay Rugby Football Union's senior representative side regained the Jeremy David Memorial trophy in Napier on Saturday. They beat Wairarapa Bush 36-31. Last year's match was won by Wairarapa Bush 46-26. Poverty Bay also won the under-20s' clash...
It was a time to reward stout service, given for the duration of a tough campaign. Now, with football's Eastern League 2 title in the bag, Coates Associates Wainui Demons shuffled their line-up. Defenders Ben Burgess, Ollie Suttor and Jacob Moorcroft...
Gisborne Gladiators finished on the podium at the New Zealand Stockcar Teams Championship in Stratford after four wins from five match-ups. Wet weather forced organisers to shift the whole event to Saturday, from qualifying right through to the final...
GISBORNE surf athletes Cory Taylor and Olivia Corrin have four hectic rounds of the Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series ahead of them on the Gold Coast from tomorrow. The Gisborne duo go into the four back-to-back rounds to decide who will be...
“With Amos, what you see is what you get.”That’s Hawke’s Bay Magpies and Saracens head coach Josh Syms’s assessment of Amos Roddick. Gisborne product Roddick, 22, who has been in the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Academy for two years and starts at...
THE restructured Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union is achieving its aim of better club involvement and input, says chairman George Brown. The new board structure, established following annual general meeting procedures allowing constitutional changes...
SURFERS were greeted with a solid four-foot peaky east/south-east swell and offshore winds at “Stockies”, Wainui Beach, on Sunday for the first Gisborne Boardriders Club shortboard competition since June. Taking the club scene to the next level...
ANDREW Gibbs didn't realise he had taken quite so many wickets when he was well on his way to an eight-wicket haul for High School Old Boys.“I had no idea. It was not till the end when someone (pointed it out).”The seam bowler toiled manfully in...
Tairāwhiti will be well represented at the 2022 Long Distance Waka Ama Nationals being held off Waitangi in the Bay of Islands this weekend. Over 1000 competitors, representing 62 clubs from all over the country, will compete over two days. Paddlers...
Sixteen-year-old Dylan Foster was in the zone throughout the day, winning the New Zealand Henselite Singles local final 14 points to 8 against elder brother Matthew Foster at the weekend. Eighteen bowlers started the event; nine qualified. Dylan got...
THE soccer and rugby balls have been put to one side this week and the bats brought out for a series of clinics run by Northern Districts Cricket and the Poverty Bay Association. Clinics are also being held at the Showgrounds Events Centre, along...