MIDWAY and Wainui enjoyed success as nearly 300 surf lifesavers took on the Mount Monster in Mt Maunganui yesterday. The third running of the 25-kilometre race had individuals and teams competing over a course comprising a 5km beach run, 1.5km swim...
Poverty BayA RED-HOT short game inspired Kim Travers to a career-best round and victory in the division 2 men’s stableford last Thursday. Travers shot 83-21-62, for 46 points — an effort that would have been even better had he not hit the wrong...
NEW Zealand's best waveski surfers are in Gisborne this weekend for the annual New Zealand Open Waveski Surfing Titles. A waveski is a kayak designed to be ridden like a surfboard, with competitors doing cutbacks and aerial manoeuvres. The...
FOOTBALLSENIOR football in Gisborne will finish for the season on Sunday, September 19, with the final of the Braybrook Cup. Women’s teams Gisborne Laundry Services Wainui Riverina and Bohemians will play the decider on the Childers Road Reserve...
YMP skipper and No. 8 Willis Tamatea still leads the Most Valuable Player (MVP) rankings in Poverty Bay premier rugby despite missing Saturday’s premier match against Ngatapa. Tamatea injured his knee playing for LeaderBrand Poverty Bay in the...
Ngatapa had a strong showing at Paddy's Park, Patutahi, against Pirates on Saturday, winning 42-12. They opened the scoring in the second minute and kept the pressure on through the full 80, conceding only two tries in response to their thunderous...
Twelve teams will compete in three divisions at the Bushmere polo grounds this weekend in the district’s major polo tournament. Play in the Harvest Transport Poverty Bay Polo Open starts tomorrow afternoon, with two games in the premier Eastland...
WAIKOHU have a golden opportunity to move into outright fourth position in the Pak’nSave premier-grade netball competition when they take on Lytton Senior A at the YMCA tomorrow night. Heading into tomorrow night’s two games the top five teams...
RUGBYThe Poverty Bay under-13 weight-restricted grade produced more excellent rugby in Week 2 at Waikiriki Reserve: Horouta were in-sync 29-14 v Ngatapa while Pirates laid it on 55-17 v OBM. Horouta coach Robbie Kora is as pleased with the turn-out...
THREE intense days of golf came to a conclusion at the Awapuni Links course on Saturday afternoon when the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Open champions in six divisions were crowned. Electrinet Park Member and Tairawhiti Golf Association president...
The nine Gisborne surf life saving athletes in the Black Fins open and junior teams for next month's World Championships in Italy are hard at work with their final preparations. Jack Keepa, Summer Rolston, Lachie Falloon and Oska Smith — all...
TWO Gisborne girls who grew up surfing together have returned to their hometown this week as national champions. Saffi Vette completed a double — the 15-year-old winning the under-16 and u18 girls divisions at the Surfing New Zealand nationals in...
THE district’s reigning Eastland primary interschool triathlon champions will defend the crown at Nelson Park next month. Makauri School were the overall points winners in 2017 and yesterday the students who will represent the school at the 2018...
GISBORNE Girls' High School Senior A have the chance to cause another big upset in the first round of the netball competition when they take on Waikohu (1) tomorrow. The students will be buoyed by their emphatic win against Whangara Old Girls at the...
GISBORNE Thistle assistant coach Liam Ryan returns to the playing 11 for tomorrow’s Central Federation League football match against Wanganui Athletic at Wanganui after serving a two-match suspension. But the Jags will be without first-choice...
MAREIKURA Waka Ama Club’s Akayshia Williams paddles in a world of silence. But that has not stopped the 21-year-old teacher aid at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga a Maui School from winning the national open W1 500-metre title the past two years...
KAYAKINGSix Poverty Bay paddlers are part of a 32-strong New Zealand team racing in the inaugural Asia-Pacific Sprint Cup in Adelaide this week. Stacey Warren-Moiser, Ben Bristow, Alex Bermingham, Alicia Hoskin and brothers Sam and Zach Ferkins will...
New Zealand's young riders sealed the transtasman clash with a convincing win at the Larsen Sawmilling Jumping and Show Hunter Championships in Gisborne on Sunday. The Kiwis ended up with 17 points from the three days of competition against their...
North Harbour proved too good for Poverty Bay-East Coast in Round 6 of the Freyberg Masters men's golf interprovincial this morning. PBEC went down 4-1 at the over-40s matchplay tournament being played at the Motueka course. Auckland-based David...
Phil Robinson got a sore throat while he holidayed on the Greek island of Corfu, and it changed his life. He lost his voice for six months, gave up his job as head teacher of a large primary school in Derby, England, and came to New Zealand with wife...
Gisborne United have been knocked out of the 2021 Lotto Federation Cup, going down 1-0 to New Plymouth side Peringa United at Hastings Sports Park on Saturday. The game was listed as a home match for Heavy Equipment Gisborne United but because of the...
Joe Kiri (2NZ Kings), Hunter Eyles (2NZ Kings), Wayne Morrell (Roseland), S Lascelles (Roseland), Christina Aspalter (2NZ Wahine Toa), Destiny Barbarich (2NZ Wahine Toa), Walter Whaitiri (Roseland Say My Name), Tristan Reeves (RSA Outlaws), Chris...
LYTTON High School hockey player Sienna King was goalkeeper in the bronze-medal-winning Manawatu team at the Under-18 Women’s Association Tournament in Carterton. They beat Tauranga 4-1 in the bronze-medal match. Thames Valley, which included Lytton...
THE onset of winter does not mean inactivity for the district’s competitive swimmers. Many, such as Comet club swimmer of the year Chris Niven, will continue training twice a day. Scores of others will train daily or several times a week in the...
Pirates import Matt Crampton won’t forget his first game for the club. As well as scoring an unbeaten 22, taking one wicket for 11 runs off eight overs and being awarded three points for Most Valuable Player in Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates’ win...
A TOP line-up of riders and machines will hit the sand track at Makorori Beach tomorrow for Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach-racing nationals. Last year’s senior open class champion, Dylan MacGregor (Yamaha R1), will lead the road...
GLENN Sherriff is back in New Zealand as he prepares for the New Zealand Polo Open after a busy season playing in the UK. He’s made a career out of playing polo — as a professional with a five-goal handicap — and training polo ponies. He says he...
RUGBYThat was tough. Gisborne Boys’ High School’s match-effort here on Saturday was courageous. They did all but win a fast-paced, high-energy clash with Kelston Boys’ High, who took the laurels 29-23.“We’re disappointed to lose because...
Tomorrow is Grand Finals Day and fans are in for a feast of high-intensity, pressure-filled clashes on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The action starts at 11am with the men’s B-Grade final between Gisborne Boys’ High School and LOB...
Gisborne United Premiers are steamrolling their way to football's Eastern League 1 title. And while Wainui Sharks have an outside chance of hauling them in, United could be forgiven if their thoughts turn to the question: what next?They have shown...