WHANGARA Old Girls and YMP (1) take centre-stage tonight in their final round-robin game before the premier grade playoffs, and this one could go either way. A week from today, these two teams are likely to meet again in the 1 versus 2 top-four...
BADMINTONEastland masters badminton team start their 2018 campaign in Rotorua this weekend. Victoria West (nee Lee) returns to the representative ranks after last playing for Eastland 25 years ago. Her sister Adrianne McLeod joins her. Both were...
Waikanae surf lifesaver Casie Fyall raced to gold and silver in the interclub component of the world surf lifesaving championships in Adelaide last week, for her Australian club Kurrawa from Broadbeach in Queensland. The 21-year-old was part of the...
The word is spreading like wildfire. Coach Graham Hudson's Poverty Bay team are playing great cricket at the Northern Districts senior secondary schools tournament. He and captain Thorn Parkes have marshalled the troops superbly since the home team...
THISTLE coach Fred Robertson will not name his starting 11 for tomorrow’s Central Federation League football match against competition leaders Havelock North Wanderers until shortly before kick-off.“Brad Reynolds and Kieran Ryan, who filled in...
Gisborne East Coast's Peace Shield for men and Ella Gibson Trophy for women went on the line at Te Karaka Bowling Club over the weekend. David File skipped his men's four to victory in the Te Karaka Butchery Peace Shield. Carol Hawes' four claimed the...
A near-perfect record was too good to be matched in the race for the Gisborne Super League intermediate football title. KT Orthodontics City had eight wins and one loss to finish one point ahead of nearest rivals Frank & Albie's Rovers. City scored 46...
RUGBYCall it future-proofing. And call it a great outing for kids to play the national game. Eight clubs and 10 teams took part in Uawa Sports Club’s Festival of Rugby at Uawa Domain on Saturday. The inaugural festival featured four teams in the...
CAMPION College and Aquinas College of Tauranga this week continued their 14-year tradition of sporting exchanges. The annual exchanges had been a big part of Campion’s sporting calendar since Aquinas opened in 2003, Campion principal Paul...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: George Vaotu’ua (2NZ Bullz), Brendon Barry (2NZ Bullz), Colin Edwards (2NZ Bullz), Keith Hannam (Cossy B Coz), Cris Kiri (2NZ Rebels), Lee Barbarich (2NZ Rebels), Wayne Morrell (Roseland).Best start (140): Alf Cross (2NZ...
LACK of training could be an excuse for Carpet Court Thistle’s slow start to the football season. They are up and running now, though, and on Saturday they beat a competitive Bohemians side 4-2 at Nelson Park to record their fourth win in a row and...
THE Gisborne and New Zealand speedway fraternity is mourning the loss of one of the sport’s long-time drivers and officials. Murray Michie passed away on Monday. He was clerk of the course at Eastland Group Raceway and for many years raced saloon...
Two national titles and a second placing from five teams at national tournaments — that's the return that has Gisborne's Surf City Squash Club members buzzing. The titles were won at National SuperChamps tournaments around the country last...
CRICKETIT doesn’t get much closer than that. OBR won Gisborne cricket’s DJ Barry Cup on Saturday by the slimmest of margins — one point — and they were in danger of having the trophy slip from their grasp in the tense final moments of their...
Women’s basketball drawThe draw for Gisborne Basketball Association women’s club competition games at the YMCA tonight is —5.45pm: Gisborne Girls’ High School v Paikea Nation. 6.45pm: YMCA Riverina v Campion College. 7.45pm: Ngati Porou v...
Gisborne Boardriders Club members got together last weekend for their annual club gathering longboard competition. With blue skies and beautiful waves on tap, surfers from around the region descended on Midway's Pipe for a day of fun but competitive...
Gisborne golfer Tessa McDonald and her Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay teammates had to settle for 12th at the national women’s interprovincial in Hawke’s Bay. HBPB were beaten 4-1 by Tasman in the positional playoff for 11th and 12th at Napier’s...
GISBORNE Intermediate won the girls’ division of the Bay of Plenty-Poverty Bay Intermediate Schools Softball Tournament last month. They beat Whakatane Intermediate 17-3 in the final of a competition that also included a team from Rotorua’s...
The history-repeating moment was not lost on Dion Milner as Tolaga Bay booked their place in the final of the Poverty Bay-East Coast men’s interclub pennants. A wet and cold Milner, known to many as Coastie, won a sudden-death playoff at Gisborne...
CricketWalker Shield T15 Blast, FRIDAY, round 6, Harry Barker Reserve, 5.45pm: HBR 1, Eastland Broncos v Smash Palace Bail Breakers; HBR 2, Bollywood Stars v Autotryes Eagles. DJ Barry Cup, 40-over games, SATURDAY, 1pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1...
United and Thistle Massive, the top two teams in Eastern League Division 1 football, will contest the Bailey Cup final in nine days. Heavy Equipment Services United beat Gisborne Boys’ High School 4-1 at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Just down...
Watch that man Carrick. That will be one of the tasks key to the success of Gisborne Thistle's Central Federation League effort against Palmerston North Marist at Childers Road Reserve tomorrow. That's assuming, of course, that Nick Carrick makes the...
Campion college beat a much-improved Bohemians side 1-0 in Women's Eastern League football on Sunday. Bohemians coach Graham Maclean said all 11 players put in a fantastic effort against a very good Campion side. Bohemians stand-in goalkeeper Morgan...
RUGBYYMP coach Steve Smith and OBM counterpart Tom Solomon will put friendship on hold for 80 minutes tomorrow when their teams meet in a Poverty Bay premier game at Rugby Park.“We’ve been friends for a long time and that won’t change, no...
A CONTINGENT of Gisborne riders travelled to Hawke’s Bay last week for the Royal A&P Show of New Zealand and had a successful time. For some it was their first show out of the district. In the lead rein class, Rose Webster and Gundagai Moolabull...
TINIROTO’S Susie Hamilton completed a remarkable comeback when she played for New Zealand against England at the Keyte Watson Polo Tournament in Cambridge on Sunday. Hamilton, 31, broke her leg playing polo in Australia three years ago and thought...
Hard work? Yes. Everest? No. The Poverty Bay Year 6 team tasted victory at the Riverbend tournament in Hawke's Bay with a 30-run win v Rotorua, and played good cricket in all six games. The Jimmy Holden-Tim Kirkpatrick coached Bay lost to the Eastern...
NETBALLA BATTLE royal looms as the two best-performing teams in Gisborne premier-grade netball go head to head at the YMCA tomorrow night. YMP Sunshine Brewery and Whangara Old Girls, first and second on the Pak’nSave competition table, meet in...
As Game of Thrones character Ser Davos Seaworth told his king, “Loyal service means telling hard truths”.Which is what — in his understated way — Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 rugby head coach Ryan Tapsell did with his young line-up at...
RUGBY LEAGUEPAIKEA Whalers and Seeka Falcons both have two wins from two games in the Gisborne Tairawhiti rugby league competition but the Manutuke Mustangs have also shown they could be a force to be reckoned with. The Whalers are the 2018 champions...
THE women of Ben Holden Fencing Ngatapa walked off the LJ Hooker Turf with their heads held high after they held high-flying YMP A to just four goals at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday.“We aimed at holding YMP A to single figures and to lose 4-0...