GISBORNEThe fours championships were completed last weekend and some high-quality bowling was on display. The open women’s championship went to Bobbie Beattie, Tanya Harrison, Joy Wallace and Kay Goldsbury, with two lives intact. They beat Carol...
GISBORNE District councillor Amber Dunn yesterday voiced the concerns of the city’s female footballers, who say Central Football had refused them the chance to play on Gisborne’s premier football pitch “time and time again”.Dr Dunn asked the...
Former Gisborne woman Aileen Buscke, who represented New Zealand at squash, received life membership of Squash New Zealand this month in recognition of more than 50 years’ involvement in the sport as a player and coach. Aileen, now in her 70s, has...
GISBORNE Boardriders Club reclaimed the No. 1 status at the national surfing championships held in Gisborne last month. Helped by a five-title haul, Gisborne finished ahead of Point Boardriders of Raglan in the always hotly-contested club points...
RUGBYPOVERTY Bay openside flanker Callum McDonald is “beyond happy” after being called into the New Zealand Heartland Championship XV. An injury to South Canterbury flanker Nick Strachan has McDonald — who was on standby — on the verge of...
The Ngāti Porou East Coast look like producing rockin' rugby in the style of last year ahead of this Saturday's Heartland Championship season opener at Ruatoria. Having run in seven tries to defeat Eastern Bay of Plenty 39-12 at Princess Street...
Gisborne United are football’s Pacific Premiership champions for 2019.A last-minute goal by skipper Kieran Venema gave them a title-clinching 3-2 victory over Eskview at Petane Domain, Hawke’s Bay, on Saturday. Second, one point back, were...
GISBORNE speedway sidecar duo Rob Miller and Kerwin Arnaboldi won the North Island title against tough opposition at Meeanee Speedway in Napier on Saturday night. They topped a field of 18 bikes including hot favourites Derek and Mathew Ramsay, from...
FOOTBALLFour games from the finish, football’s Pacific Premiership looks like a two-team race . . . and both sides are from Gisborne. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United lead the league with 29 points from 12 matches — nine wins, two draws...
As the Poverty Bay premier club rugby competition heads into week 4, Waikohu back Ethine Reeves is already putting up his hand as its most influential player. Reeves was in a class of his own in GT Shearing Waikohu’s 34-10 win against Larsawn...
A trio of Gisborne Speedway Club drivers came through a tough night of qualifying heats to make the finals of the Professional Fleet Maintenance New Zealand production saloon car championships. A field of 40 cars from throughout the country fought it...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE United opened a four-point gap at the top of football’s Eastern League Division 1 with their 2-1 victory over second-placed Thistle Massive at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Thistle opened the scoring midway through the first...
POOL/SNOOKERA SIX-WEEK course of coaching culminated in the inaugural Tairawhiti Secondary Schools 8-ball Pool Invitational Singles Tournament at Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club this week. Campion College students Rusty Jones and Michael Johansen...
TALENTED teenager Briana Irving and master-aged Steve Morrow led the local performance at the Athletics Hawke’s Bay Gisborne cross-country championships at Hexton on Saturday. In fine conditions on a testing course at the Tietjen property on Back...
INDOOR BOWLSAKUHATA Keelan skipped the winning team in a Hibernian Indoor Bowling Club fours tournament at the club’s rooms at the Gisborne Intermediate School hall on Monday evening. A strong turnout of 32 bowlers took part, teams being drawn from...
IT WAS an intense battle for dominance from the start when leading Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby teams TVC and Uawa met at Tolaga Bay Domain on Saturday. TVC had won two of their games this season by large margins and lost to Tokararangi by only...
STRIKERS in the spring and autumn of their careers took the eye in Eastern League Division 1 football on Saturday. Teenage striker Josh Adams, just setting out on his senior career, scored two goals and had a hand in the other two as Heavy Equipment...
THE top YMP men's team produced the senior hockey result of the weekend with a win against arch-rivals Lytton Old Boys. In the women's matches, Paikea's victory over Girls' High was the hardest-fought contest. YMP A defeated the other previously...
It’s about quality, not quantity. Week 9 of East Coast club rugby had two tough-as-teak clashes on Saturday. Uawa — whose only loss came in Week 6 — were pushed to the brink by Ruatoria City before claiming victory 24-17 at Whakarua Park. In Te...
The Rosemary O'Brien tournament is part of the secondary school Winter Tourney Week featuring a range of sports. The combined Gisborne Girls’ High/Campion College team lost their game against Papamoa 4-1. Several Gisborne schools are involved in...
YACHTINGBEGINNERS are set to team up with experienced sailors at the Poverty Bay yachting champs this weekend. The Gisborne Yacht Club invited some recent learn-to-sail graduates to join more seasoned sailors in two-person yachts to get more “bums...
WHO plays who in the semifinals of the Poverty Bay club rugby championship playoffs will be decided tomorrow afternoon at Paddy’s Park in Patutahi when Ngatapa host Pirates. The winners will play in-form Earthwork Solutions High School Old Boys in...
GISBORNE kayak paddlers Quaid Thompson and Alicia Hoskin are among a small group of New Zealand athletes in Australia chasing quota spots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. They will be in Penrith, Sydney, competing at the Oceania Canoe Sprint...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), George Vaotu’ua (2NZ Bullz), Norm Shann (Cossy 2 PHL), Cris Kiri (2NZ Titans), Jesse Noa Noa (2NZ Rebels), Peter Archbold (Roseland Dilligaf).Best start (180): Peter Archbold...
A first-half try blitz laid the platform for Lytton High School’s second Ngati Porou East Coast Secondary School Girls’ rugby title. Lytton High School beat Gisborne Girls’ High School 31-24 in a thriller at the weekend. Horouta waka ama and...
Stockcar driver Ben Holt (4G) kept up his good form with three wins from four starts in Gisborne Speedway Club’s support programme at the Eastland Group Raceway on Friday night. Mason O’Dwyer (99G) was not far behind . . . he had four second...
CHRIS Vincent could have written a shopping list by the time he got to the end of this small but clean wave at Wainui’s Whales break. Vincent was competing in the Wainui Store Turanganui open waveski surfing titles. The event was part of the...
IN life, the underdogs don’t always turn the tables; the favourites teach them hard lessons instead. The average winning margin in all three games of Week 4 of women’s club basketball was 35 points. Lytton High School were clinical against...
If last night’s tripleheader at the YMCA is anything to go on, the premier grade netball season proper is going to be a roller-coaster ride. Two games were one-goal thrillers while the defending champions were given a scare before finishing the...
RUGBYWell might they hunker down. With wet weather predicted, the Thames Valley Swampfoxes host a rapidly improving Ngati Porou East Coast tomorrow from 1pm at Paeroa Domain. The Coast are growing in confidence game by game three weeks into the Mitre...
Gisborne judoka Andrew Wall and Tom Mackenzie won gold and silver at the Sydney International Open this month. The Gisborne Judo Club members — both cadet blue belts — were among a strong New Zealand contingent competing alongside judoka from...
SOFTBALLPALMERSTON North and Hamilton were the big winners in the finals of the Division 2 North Island Secondary Schools Softball Championships at Waikirikiri Park yesterday. Palmerston North Boys’ High School beat Gisborne Boys’ High 8-5 in one...