PENALTY shootouts were needed in two of the women's hockey quarterfinals at the weekend, while YMP and Te Aowera won in normal time. In the men's games, Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits beat YMP again, and Waituhi beat LOB Masters. LOB beat YMP A 3-1 in the...
RESULTS of the 112th Waerenga-o-Kuri Sports, held at The Laurels last Saturday (riders from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —HORSE SHOWING EVENTSNovice hack/hunter 0-3 wins: Lucy Win-Hewetson, Tangaroa 1; Hazel Jones (Porirua) Sancho 2; Kim...
BIG wins for both top YMP teams, Lytton Old Boys A, THC and Ngatapa, and a second win for newcomers GMC Kowhai were highlights of third-round hockey action at the weekend. The games on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve produced 53 goals over...
GISBORNE bridge players Beverley Evans and Pippa Williams were the top juniors in the country — and 20th overall — in the New Zealand-wide Pairs played on Friday, November 6, with a score of 65.60 percent. This event, played simultaneously...
Cricket can be a tough game, as the Poverty Bay Year 8 boys found out this week. The Bay, who had posted totals of 130-plus in their first three Section B matches at the annual Riverbend camp at Hawke's Bay, lost to Wellington powerhouse North City...
All three Wainui men's teams won their games by handsome margins in Eastern League football at the weekend. In Division 1, 1st Class Decorators Wainui Sharks beat Heavy Equipment Services Wainui Firsts 6-1. The Sharks are second on the league table...
Team training was its own reward last night. Under Phase 2 — Prepare to Play — of New Zealand Rugby's Return to Rugby Requirements, 2019 grand finalists OBM and YMP were the first local premier club teams to train since the code was shut down by...
HOCKEYTHE Green Machine sent a shock wave through Gisborne hockey circles on Saturday. It was not that they beat defending women’s champions YMP for the second time this season; it was that they beat them 7-1. GMC Green won the first game against...
ENTERPRISE Cars Swim Team competitors set two New Zealand and 16 Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay records at the national short-course swimming championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Auckland this month. Michael Pickett set national records for the...
ENTERPRISE Cars Swim Team won the Herald Aggregate Cup Presidents Cup (most points in the 14 years and over age group, including relays) in the final day of the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay summer championships at the Olympic Pool yesterday. In one of...
GISBORNE Thistle cemented third place in the Central Federation League with a 2-1 win against Palmerston North Marist Reserves in Palmerston North last week. But Jags co-coach Liam Ryan says his side have their sights set on closing the gap on...
THEY were always expecting a steep climb but Poverty Bay-East Coast were a little shocked by the gradient of the opening day’s challenge at the Toro men’s national interprovincial tournament yesterday. Invercargill turned on a day to match the...
Community consultation held to stimulate feedback about how best to promote junior game
POVERTY Bay avoided the wooden spoon when they beat the Northern Districts Invitation team in the game for seventh and eighth place at the Northern Districts senior secondary schoolboys’ cricket tournament, which finished at Harry Barker Reserve...
SurfingONE move proved the difference as Ricardo Christie survived a cut-throat heat of the 2019 Championship Tour-opening Gold Coast Pro yesterday. Christie, battling for survival in a three-man Round 2 heat at Gold Coast, Queensland, placed second...
Uawa will play Tokararangi in the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby final after two stellar semifinals at the weekend. Uawa beat 2017 champions Tihirau Victory Club 31-29 in Tolaga Bay while Tokararangi defeated top qualifiers Hikurangi 31-24 in...
YMP beat Waikohu 30-24 at Rugby Park on Saturday, closing to four points the gap to second-placed OBM in local premier rugby. Farmvets YMP led 20-10 at halftime through two tries to No. 8 Jimmy Wilson and one to midfielder and player-coach Reihan...
Tairawhiti is hosting the annual National Maori Hockey Tournament at Labour Weekend — the first time it has been held here since 1994. The tournament at Harry Barker Reserve has locals excited and looking forward to competitive games, reuniting...
GISBORNE Boys’ High School first 15 openside flanker and skipper Naera Tipoki is in the Hurricanes under-18 run-on rugby team to play their Crusaders counterparts in Christchurch tomorrow. Tipoki’s school teammate Sam Matenga (prop) and former...
TAIRAWHITI under-15 coach Ray Noble held his hand up following a heartbreaking 8-6 loss to national champions Wellington in the North Island u15 tournament at Waikirikiri Park yesterday.“I made a wrong call when we were up 6-2,” Noble said.“I...
BEACH VOLLEYBALLNew Zealand’s beach volleyball stars are lining up their next play following the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Tauranga brothers Sam and Ben O’Dea achieved a bronze-medal finish in beach volleyball’s Games debut, while the...
KARTING by Rockin’ Robinrain before the start of Eastland Kart Club’s meeting on Sunday produced a great race track and some of the best racing this season. It was the club’s fifth points meeting of the season. The women’s class was an example...
The Lee Bros Shield is the Civil Project Solutions Premier Grade's ultimate prize. It is one of a number of such trophies in Poverty Bay. They are significant because of the quality of the people they are named for, those persons' connection and...
CRICKETA LITTLE more than usual rides on tomorrow’s Doleman Cup cricket match between High School Old Boys and Horouta. The winners will qualify top of the Poverty Bay clubs’ 40-over competition and go through to the final while the losers will...
Waves of senior and junior cricket players will surface in Gisborne on Sunday as the summer game cranks up. The first senior match of the season starts at Nelson Park at midday when OBR take on High School Old Boys in the Doleman Cup 40-overs...
A GOLDEN day for Gisborne paddlers at the world waka ama sprint championships in Australia has yet to sink in for Aotearoa elite women’s coach and crew member Kiwi Campbell.“Maybe later in the week this will become reality,” a jubilant and...
180s: Craig Watson, Ora Pohio, Bob Fraider, Tyson Eyles 2, Kayne Arahanga, Irie Eyles, Dudley Reeves, Charlie Reiri, Jesse Noanoa, Ihaka Wynyard-Kaio. Highest start (180): Craig Watson. Highest finish (135): Ihaka Wynyard-Kaio.(P = pairs won. S =...
Gisborne had a win and three losses in pool play at the Netball New Zealand Open Championships in Palmerston North this week. On Tuesday they lost 55-36 to Waitakere and beat Hawke's Bay 42-36. Yesterday they lost 60-39 to Manawatu A and 52-20 to...
ANTHONY Pahina highlighted eight consecutive days of golf with an excellent 1-over 73-6-66, for 41 points on Saturday. The round featured birdies on the eighth, ninth, 11th and 12th holes and won him the men’s stableford. Pahina teed off 2022 with...
THE Burger King Pro Dirt super saloon series comes to the Eastland Group raceway on Friday and Saturday and among the field will be Daniel Corrin. Corrin started his speedway career at the Gisborne track and while now based in Tauranga, he still...
GISBORNE Gymnastics Club’s Baylee Crago was second overall in Level 7 boys’ competition at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay open championships in Hawke’s Bay at the weekend. Baylee was first on rings, vault and high bar, and second on floor...
POVERTY Bay Rugby Football Union JAB chairwoman and board member Cara Haines says the new board’s main focus is to increase participation in all rugby.“There is strong rugby participation in Gisborne, with approximately 2050 playing, but in the...
Japanese hotshot Kanoa Igarashi brought down Ricardo Christie for the second consecutive contest of the World Surf League’s Championship Tour. Gisborne-Mahia surfer Christie was once again eliminated in the round of 32 — this time at the Oi Rio...