BAY OF PLENTY Premier 1 bowlers won both the Endeavour Shield and the Waioeka Shield in matches against Bowls Gisborne-East Coast representatives at Whakatane Bowling Club's greens last SundayGisborne-East Coast senior men had four wins for 12...
RUGBYLAST Saturday High School Old Boys entered the lion’s den; tomorrow at the Oval, will OBM stand firm?Week 5 action in Civil Project Solutions Premier Rugby starts at 2.45pm. Competition leaders Waikohu (20 points) will play OBM (2pts) on Oval...
TWO contrasting games played out in Gisborne premier netball at the YMCA last night. In one, the margin was huge. In the other, it was close until the final stages. YMP (1) completely outplayed Whangara Old Girls (1) to win 65-37 in the first of the...
That was a workout. Ngati Porou Nation won a frenetic match against Revolution Fitness New Zealand, 46-37, in Week 5 of the Gisborne Basketball Association women’s league at the YMCA on Tuesday night. In other games, the Petra Sparks-led Campion...
CRICKETTHE captains may be keeping a wary eye on the weather as the next fixtures loom in the DJ Barry Cup. Rain is forecast for tomorrow but the MetService predicts it will ease by the time Poverty Bay senior cricket games are scheduled to start. DJ...
GISBORNE saloon car racers, brothers Daniel and Ethan Cook, took the two top spots on the podium at the Meeanee Raceway’s final speedway meeting of the season last weekend. Elder brother Daniel, 25, took out the David Jones Motors Gold Cup for...
IN October 2017, Josiah Ney marked a year since the accident that could have scuppered his career. He had broken his collarbone and scapula (shoulder blade) in a high-speed cycling crash. Ney spent three days in hospital and it was three months before...
Taine Lincoln is not known for his excitability. So when it came to choosing a player with the demeanour to handle the pressure of sudden-death golf, the 21-year-old ticked the cucumber cool box. Lincoln responded with a second hole playoff win to put...
Tihirau Victory Club are riding high five weeks into this epic East Coast club rugby season. Under 2017 championship-winning captain Moana Mato, Cape Runaway's finest have won four from four in the two-round race for the Rangiora Keelan Memorial...
Forty-three proved the magic number as player dominated course in arguably the most popular tournament of the year on Sunday. The Poverty Bay carpark was filled as a field of around 144 vied for vouchers in the Taste One First Light Frozen Christmas...
Morning session prize: Bette Parker and Trish Corson. Afternoon session prize: Jenny Jones and Bronwyn Kamphorst (both Whakatane).Best junior/junior pair: Noel Minnaar and Dinyar Guy. Overall placings: Stephen Francks/Amanda Matthews 58.97; Ann...
Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union struck gold on Saturday. A two-pronged initiative in which Civil Project Solutions premier teams played and hosted five Eastern Bay of Plenty clubs — and a Turanga Combined side made up of the local clubs' Senior 1...
DEREK “Red” Craven has seen some great putting in his time, but nothing like what his partner produced as they booked their place in the semifinals of the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs on Sunday.“He absolutely putted the lights out,” Craven...
Gisborne BMX Club ran its race meeting last Tuesday under Covid Alert Level 2 conditions. In the division for riders five years and under, Jax Nepia-Anderson continued his build-up for nationals by leading the way. Zahn Light is showing continued...
GISBORNE Boys’ High School first 15 coach Tom Cairns said his team were beaten by the better team on the day, following a 22-7 loss to Super 8 leaders Hastings here on Saturday.“We didn’t get a lot of ball in the first half due to the pressure...
NETBALLTHE Gisborne netball fraternity have welcomed with open arms the shift down to Covid-19 Alert Level 1 as they prepare for a start to senior netball on June 20. Centre manager Allisa Hall said Level 1 had arrived at a good time.“It’s going...
THE Gisborne Giants superstock team finished runners-up in the Huntly Invitational superstock teams event on Saturday night. They started their night with a good win against the Rotorua Rascals, then scored an emphatic victory over the Stratford...
THE “Bledisloe Cup” of Poverty Bay-East Coast golf goes on the line at the Awapuni links tomorrow. It has nothing to do with Australia-NZ rivalry but the Enterprise Motor Group Poverty Bay men’s open foursomes trophy does have one striking...
GISBORNE Thistle could do a lot worse than study the way Team Taranaki went about their business at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Two goals in the last five minutes blew out the score to 4-0 in Taranaki’s favour, but the visitors deserved to...
Gisborne's Central Champs got trampolinists and tumblers into competition mode and now they will be refining their routines to set themselves up for the year. Tumbler Lily Rolls, 13, will compete at Rotorua this weekend and if she performs as well as...
180s: Mihi Awatere 2, Ripeka Te Kira 2 (Ruahine Tahi); Wayne Heurea 2 (Ruahine Rua); Tamati Irwin (Falcons); Thao Duncan (Ruahine Toru); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Rangatahi).Highest start, men (180): Te Kotahi Kaio (Rangatahi).Highest start, women (180)...
BYRON Chivers’ fighting name is “Young Blood” but he has the wisdom of someone much older in his focus and dedication to becoming an Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter. The 19-year-old mixed martial arts athlete boarded a plane this week...
NETBALLTHE final shape of Gisborne premier-grade netball’s top four was decided at the YMCA on Saturday, with the top three teams stamping their authority over their opponents in no uncertain terms. None of the matches in the Pak’nSave...
GISBORNE navigator Glenn Mason and Hamilton driver Sam Newdick not only won round 3 of the New Zealand jetsprint championships at Waitara on Sunday. They did it in a borrowed boat and, and in the process, did Gisborne’s Blake Briant and Kate...
Dreams do come true. Just ask Gisborne teenager Amelia Paull (pictured) who won the Country TV Pony Grand Prix on debut at the Poverty Bay A&P Show on Saturday. The 15-year-old has only had pony Envious Edition since August and this was only their...
SPEEDWAYGisborne sidecar duo Jason Rees and Callum Innes (22G) were part of the winning team in the King of the Arena best-pairs sidecar event at Palmerston North Speedway at the weekend. They teamed up with Palmerston North riders Mike Zachan and...
DOMINANCE from streetstocker Brenden Gooch, power from Mason O’Dwyer in the stockcars, top driving from Fraser Wright and Dave Moorcroft in the saloons and breathtaking thrills from Freestyle NZ were highlights of Saturday’s speedway meeting. The...
A classy free-kick and some nifty attacking play earned Gisborne Thistle a 2-0 victory over Taradale in Pacific Premiership football in Hawke's Bay on Saturday. The win kept Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle in second place on the points table, three...
RUGBY“WE just didn’t score enough points in the first half with a strong wind behind us,” Ngati Porou East Coast coach Wayne Ensor said after his side’s 56-7 loss to Mid Canterbury in their Heartland Championship rugby clash at Ashburton on...
CRICKETIT gives them a chance — that’s what the Poverty Bay secondary schools’ T15 competition on Friday afternoons does for young cricketers. The nine-a-side league mixing seniors and juniors produced another cracker of a match in Round 2...
THE Vette family yesterday surfed to victory in the National Scholastic Surfing Championships at Makorori Beach, 10 kilometres from Gisborne. Saffi Vette, 15, won the under-16 girls’ division while younger brother Finn, 13, won the u14...
Tuesday, June 7 — Winter Pairs 1 (Howell movement)Pippa Williams, Yvonne Waide 61.25 Margie McKee, Anne Roberts 58.10Carolyn McMurray, Beverley Evans 56.19 Jean Bennett, Glenys Evans 53.81Diana Styche, Delwyn Arthur 51.90 Eileen Lee, Raewynne Cook...