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...
Forty-eight players, from five Gisborne-East Coast clubs took part in the second Eric Craill-sponsored triples tournament held at Poverty Bay Bowling Club on the Saturday of Queen’s Birthday weekend. Games started at 10.30am and teams played three...
Waiapu versus Uawa in Rangitukia is not an easy result to predict. The Pango Productions Waiapu team made a statement of intent with their 25-19 triumph over Ruatoria City in week 1 of the Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby...
HOCKEY by ScraggyNGATAPA captain Emily Willock led by example when she scored a hat-trick in her team’s 7-1 victory over GMC Kowhai in Gisborne women’s hockey at the weekend. The win, on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve on Friday night, kept the...
HOCKEYGMC Green and Girls’ High School got the weekend hockey matches under way in fine style last night when they battled out a close one at Harry Barker Reserve. The Green Machine came through 2-1 winners in a game that could have gone either...
FOOTBALLTWO young teams fell to heavy defeats in Eastern League Division 1 football in Gisborne on Saturday. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle Reserves lost 8-2 to clubmates Carpet Court Thistle Massive in the early game at Childers Road Reserve. In...
Pacific Championship, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: CRR 1, Carpet Court Thistle Massive v Heavy Equipment Services...
RUGBY by Ben O’Brien-LeafTomorrow the ball gets rolling at School Park. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 trial will be held at 3.15pm with players who have been working on their fitness since late last year. Fifty-odd students to be put...
Gisborne's Tessa McDonald and Ellen Ball made emphatic starts to the women's national interprovincial golf championship in Bay of Plenty this morning. McDonald, at No. 1 in the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay team, and Ball, at No. 2, brushed aside their...
Gisborne's Kayley Knight can hold her head up high. Northern Brave Knight’s 12 off 11 balls with one boundary batting at No. 10 — and three wicketless overs for 20 runs — in New Zealand’s eight-wicket semifinal loss to India at the inaugural...
SWIMMINGA new Gisborne swim club with the goal of improving their members’ swimming abilities in the ocean is off to a successful start. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club started the swim club to help train the necessary skills to save...
Mike Gibson’s Ngatapa crew took their first step to making it three Senior B club cricket championships with a seven-wicket win in the Hope Cup final replay on Saturday. The Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps beat the Bollywood High School...
A trophy that holds a special place in the history of netball in this district goes on the line at Victoria Domain tomorrow when the Kathleen Henderson Memorial Tournament opens the season. Netballers in 26 teams will compete across four grades in...
BADMINTONMERCANTILE badminton players continue their weekly tussle on the courts as BIZminton goes into its second-last week. In the second week, WSP and Carbon Crusaders had a close tie that required a countback of points with WSP winning by 9. In...
NetballWELCOME to Premier Grade netball . . . Waikohu (3) earned promotion from Premier Reserve with strong performances in the challenge games last week. Now they can test themselves against the reigning champions. YMP Sunshine Brewery are the first...
Harry Barker Reserve 1, Galaxy World Gisborne Boys’ High School v Horouta (umpire Jason Trowill); HBR 2, Coastal Concrete OBR v Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys (Stewart Patrick).HBR 3, Rawhiti Legal OBR v Siteworx Horouta (Gary Coutts); HBR...
RUGBYUawa have set the standard for two years. And all indications are, that under head coach Laman Davies, they will continue to be hard to beat. Week 2 of Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby features three juicy contests: Uawa v...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE football fans have a feast of viewing pleasure this weekend. Tomorrow, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United play Taradale in a Pacific Premiership game at Harry Barker Reserve at 2.30pm. On Sunday, Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne...
ONE-man shows highlighted the opening round of a trophy designated for two — the Gisborne Motors Ford Barns-Graham Cup men’s pairs — on Saturday. Brent Colbert and Sam Willock did not have or need their partners in the round of 32 handicap...
OLYMPICSTHE Tokyo Olympic Games will always be special to Gisborne hockey umpire Amber Church. And her fondest memories are of the people with whom she mingled. The Gisborne Intermediate School teacher returned to Gisborne on Monday after completing...
Eastland Kart Club members are holding their second practice session tomorrow. It starts at 10am. The first practice session was called off as rain had caused the track to be waterlogged
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafYes, Craig Christophers took 6-16 and Grant Walsh 4-12But Saturday belonged to Rhys Grogan. The Campion first 11’s Year 10 opening bowler took 5-24 from six overs in a nine-run win to the College against Jeff...
CRICKETTOP-OF-THE-TABLE action features in Doleman Cup cricket tomorrow. Galaxy World Gisborne Boys’ High School are the only unbeaten team in the competition. They play Coastal Concrete OBR, who are second in the standings, just ahead of Bollywood...
KEEN or crazy?The majority would probably have gone with the latter in assessing the small crew who went out in miserable weather on Thursday last week. Nine players, including 75-year-old Bill Allen, donned wet-weather gear but only two of them came...