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Ryan and Syme win Gizzy Vegas divisions

Shaun Ryan of Tauranga and Andrew Syme of Cambridge were the big winners in Gisborne Archery Club’s Gizzy Vegas competition at the weekend. Ryan won the recurve and Syme, the compound. Gisborne archer Chris Underdown won a combined division, in...

NZ rafting team do well in Indonesia

KEAGHAN Hartshorne had family support stretching all the way back to the East Coast as he contested the under-23 division of the world rafting championships in Indonesia last week. Grandparents Terry and Vencie Hartshorne (nee Wawatai) were following...

CLUES TO FORM

ANYONE looking for signs about how the Poverty Bay club rugby season may shape up will have found some clues at Patutahi on Saturday. The Ngatapa club hosted a 15-a-side tournament at Paddy's Park and the day was a chance for players to test their...

‘Training like pros’

AMATEURS in name, professionals in attitude. That’s the Poverty Bay under-18 women’s sevens teams to compete at a New Caledonia sevens tournament next week.“We’re taking two teams — Red (13 players) and White (11 players) — and the girls...

Local fighters Christchurch-bound

TWO Patu Tahi boxers will travel to Christchurch next month to fight for the national Golden Gloves title. Khadyn Kahukiwa-Kora and Tyla Kahukiwa-Larby qualified for the national competition by virtue of their performances at the North Island Golden...

Top two teams still unbeaten

THE two top teams in Gisborne premier grade netball remain locked together on the points table after both secured convincing wins at the YMCA last night. In the first of the Pak'nSave competition games, Claydens Waikohu (1) beat Gillies Electrical...

Basketball semifinal results

GISBORNE men’s club basketball semifinal results from last night’s action at the YMCA —City Lights 79 (Scott Muncaster 20, Aubrey Yates 20, Carlos Pedraza 13, Zade Donner 10) GBHS Black 49 (Daley Riri 21, Henare Tofilau 18, Adam Nepe...

Eastland Kart Club season ends in hard, fast racing

Eastland Kart Club's season came to an end last Sunday. The racing was hard and fast as drivers were after all the points they could get. In the rookies' class, Pyper Irvine had two wins and a second placing in her best racing so far. Nixen Gooch had...

Do or die in T15 Blast semi

Tonight the chickens come home to roost. Eastland Broncos skipper Craig Christophers will need all the experience of his 20-plus years in cricket as his underdog side face a daunting challenge in their Walker Shield T15 Blast semifinal at Harry...

Treble in streetstock boys’ sights

THE treble is the “target for tonight” for Gisborne streetstock racers as they prepare for the New Zealand grand prix at Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow. The World War 2 bomber command parlance is the perfect description for what is set to be an...

Under-13s flying the flag for their region

While many sports teams have had the disappointment of their annual tournaments being postponed, the Poverty Bay under-13 boys' hockey team have been given the go-ahead to compete in the 2021 Lower North Island Hockey Festival. With no other...

Three crowned junior champions

LUKAS Ludwig, Jade Swann and Ella Arthur are Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay junior gymnastics champions. They were overall winners of the Level 3 boys’ and Step 5 and Step 1 girls’ competitions respectively at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Junior...

Horouta have inside running in Hope Cup

CRICKETIt will take a big effort for anyone to beat Hope Cup leaders Horouta with just two weeks of the club cricket season to go. Coastal Ultrasound Horouta and Stirling Logging Ngatapa Green Caps both have 24 competition points, Campion College...

Gisborne bridge results

Monday, May 9 — President's Pairs 2 (Howell movement)Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 64.76 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 56.67Mark Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 52.38 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 51.90Caroline Kirkpatrick, Robyn Cheyne 51.43 Katrin...

Gisborne Boys’ High lose thriller

RUGBYIt was excruciating to watch. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 lost their Super 8 rugby opener 32-25 to Palmerston North BHS at the Rectory field on Saturday. A week after losing their last Tranzit Coachlines pre-season game 50-0 to...

Century not enough

CRICKETA SINGLE off the last ball of the innings brought up Mel Knight’s century for Gisborne women against Hastings on Sunday, but it wasn’t enough for victory. Poverty Bay, playing as Gisborne in the Supercity women’s cricket competition run...