TRAMPOLININGTHE spring is back in the step of Gisborne Trampoline Club members. This week the club’s base in the ElectriNET Sports Centre on the corner of Aberdeen and Stanley roads has been busier than at any time since the last minute of...
KAHUTIA teams won both the men’s and women’s centre open fours this month. Vern Marshall’s team won the J.J. Martin Memorial for the men, while Glenys Whiteman’s team won the Rahiwi Cup for the women. Nine teams took part in the men’s event...
GISBORNE Thistle AFC chairman Ron Young says it is time for a local club to go to the next level and enter a team in the 2016 Lotto Central Federation Premier League.“Firstly I’d like to say I’m disappointed that Team Gisborne are pulling the...
Canterbury jetboat racer Peter Caughey extended his lead at the midpoint of the SuperBoat championships with a commanding win at Waitara, despite getting airborne at 120 kilometres an hour.“It’s always nice to win an event with a fastest time of...
Gisborne ParkSunday — Women’s stableford: J Akuhata-Nickerson 90-19-71, 38. Drawn two: M Marino. Men’s stableford: G McKinnon 37, B Reynolds 35 on c/b from D Craven 35. Twos: G McKinnon, J Charles. Nearest the pin: B Huhu. Men, second shot: G...
TE KARAKA will come to town on Saturday as Waikohu try to make history by winning their first Lee Bros Shield rugby title at Rugby Park. Waikohu lost last year’s final to High School Old Boys.“We’ve got a lot of players who played that day (12...
TEAM New Zealand are not bringing the America’s Cup to Gisborne on their national tour but have not ruled out a future visit. The America’s Cup is on a national tour with 19 venues on the itinerary and Gisborne is not one of them. Gisborne was the...
Summer must be on the way. Preparations have begun for the second Gizzy Movember Friendly charity mini cricket tournament. The tournament will be held at Harry Barker Reserve on November 21. Last season's inaugural match raised over $3000 for the...
Surfers from the far reaches of the country travelled to Gisborne to compete in the Gizzy Longboard Championships hosted by Gisborne Boardriders Club. Well over 40 competitors took part in the event, held at Midway Beach at the weekend. Nathaniel Fitt...
Wainui Sharks stay on the fringe of the title race after a hard-fought 3-0 win against Gisborne Boys’ High School in Eastern League Division 1 football at Wainui on Saturday. Damian Archdale now has a personal tally of six goals in six games after...
Eastland travelled to Waitakere for their second-round ties of the 2018 inter-association masters’ badminton competition. They beat North Harbour (4) seven matches to five, and lost to Waitakere (4) 7-5. Against North Harbour (4), Victoria West and...
No one is indispensable but some people leave a big hole. Rugby retirees Puri Hauiti and Kerehama Blackman are in that category. The pair, both 40, played their last game for Ngati Porou East Coast club champions Uawa on Saturday — Blackman starting...
Tuesday, February 8 — Summer Pairs 1North/South East/WestEileen Lee, Anne McCombe 60.32 Vicki Taylor, John Hudson 56.25Janet Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 55.95 Tracy Clayton, Katrina Duncan 55.13Caroline Kirkpatrick, Sally Knight 55.16 Anne Roberts...
SAM Martin showed on Sunday why the New Zealand snooker selectors have picked him to represent his country at under-21 level. The apprentice electrician from Hawke’s Bay beat local player Alan Scholes in the final of Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker...
ALL Gisborne’s school-aged future rippers are invited to a surfing competition that aims to grow the sport in the district. The annual Boardroom Summer Slam is on Sunday at north Makorori Beach. The Boardroom has hosted the youth competition for the...
POVERTY Bay Hockey’s secondary school grade finished on Monday night and the first 11 Ritana team from Lytton High School emerged the winners of a hard-fought Division 1 final against Gisborne Boys’ High School. Ritana won the match 3-2, with...
RUGBYIt’s one of the juiciest rivalries in Super 8. Since Mark Jefferson’s first 15 beat Rotorua Boys’ High School 11-3 here at the Rectory in 1995 to defend the Moascar Cup, the Gisborne BHS-RBHS clash has become an epic. Jefferson, now head...
THEY survive tight scrapes and they can win big. Barry Cup holders Uawa outmuscled the Ruatoria sub-union 32-0 at Tolaga Bay on Sunday. In driving rain, Uawa — outnumbering the challengers 25 to 17— dictated from the outset. Tawhao Stewart scored...
FORMER Gisborne Girls’ High School student Charmaine McMenamin was one of the standout players for the Black Ferns in their 31-11 win against the Wallaroos at Eden Park on Saturday night. The blindside flanker carried strongly, tackled well and was...
TUESDAY, June 18 — Rod Chrisp Colliers Pairs 3North/South East/WestEileen Lee, Jean Turnbull 61.31 Carolyn McMurray, Michelle England 66.37Glenys Evans, Robin Bennett 61.01 Ann McCombe, Elizabeth Jackson 64.58Diana Styche, Jean Bennett 58.91 Pipp...
The impressive form of Gisborne's Asia Braithwaite and Finn Vette has continued at the Billabong Grom Series. Vette finished second in the under-18 male division at Whangamata to maintain his spot at the top of the standings going into the third and...
Gisborne football clubs United and Thistle were expected to be contacted this week about the Central Football Federation response to the scuffle at the end of their Pacific Premiership match at Harry Barker Reserve last Saturday. Federation...
Ruatoria City don't need to pinch themselves. They really have made history in the last two weeks. The Lisa Muller-Ian Logan-coached City beat Hikurangi 19-18 on June 12 and on Saturday triumphed over 2020 champions Tokararangi 21-14. Tokararangi went...
TAIRAWHITI equestrians have had a busy time competing in events around the North Island. Amelia Paull rode Envious Edition to first in the pony 1.2 metres class in the Showjumping Waikato Grand Prix this month. They were also second in the pony 1.15m...
Two new teams joined the competition when BIZminton4 got under way at the Badminton Centre last Wednesday. Enthusiasm and hilarity marked the first week of the league. A few players not having played badminton before added to the fun of the night...
NETBALLRITANA Senior A moved off the bottom of the Pak’nSave premier grade netball points table with a solid victory over fellow tailenders Horouta Gold at the YMCA on Saturday. The Lytton High School team won the match 55-44. They led throughout...
THE best gets kept to last in Poverty Bay club hockey tomorrow, with all eyes set to be on the rematch between THC and unbeaten YMP A in the men’s competition. YMP A won the first-round clash between the sides 4-2 in mid-June but have since gone on...
CRICKETOBR by eight wickets; OBR by 54 runs. These were the Senior B cricket pacesetters' margins of victory against Bollywood High School Old Boys Presidents. Heading into Round 14 and two weeks out from the semifinals, their third meeting...
AUCKLAND-based Josh Berry, representing Poverty Bay, gained third place in the Tanner Cup national interprovincial P Class championships in the Bay of Islands this week. Last week Berry, 14, was competing in Sydney, where he and fellow Auckland...
The Billabong Grom Series' final leg, at Piha, finished prematurely over the weekend as news of Auckland re-entering lockdown forced organisers to put the event on hold. Local surfers and title hopefuls Asia Braithwaite and Finn Vette both advanced...
GOLF’s Major winners have been known to cuddle up in bed with the trophy following a long night of celebration. Andrew Higham didn’t do that after winning the Poverty Bay-East Coast version of a Masters or British Open on the Poverty Bay course...
Gisborne runners featured in the junior divisions of the East Coast North Island Secondary School Cross-country Championships at Showgrounds Park last week. Le’Sharn Anderson, of Gisborne Girls’ High School, won the junior girls’...
Black Ferns Renee Wickliffe, Ari Bayler and Alana Bremner took time during the Women's Rugby World Cup to support athletes at the Halberg Games North held at Kings College in Auckland over the weekend. The sports festival for young New Zealanders...
THE wind and a tree conspired to deny Poverty Bay-East Coast a first team win in three years on day 3 of the Toro national men’s interprovincial at Invercargill yesterday. PBEC drew 2½ -all with hosts Southland — a result that ended a run of 19...