Rugby leagueDraw for Week 3 —11.30am: Stags v Panthers. 1pm: Whalers v Stallions. 2.30pm: Falcons v Mustangs. RugbyREPRESENTATIVE fixtures (free entry) —11am: Rugby Park, Poverty Bay Development v Wairoa Sub-union. 1.30pm: Rugby Park, Poverty Bay...
A tally of ends won was needed to find the winners of Poverty Bay Bowling Club's open mixed triples championship. Three of the 10 teams won three of their four games. Steve Berezowski (skip, Jan Powell and Erin Sutherland received the winners' trophy...
GisborneSHE may be a veteran but Queenie Takurua showed a star-studded field in the $2000 Bronwyn Kay Women’s Pro Pairs that she still has the skill to match her vast experience. Skip Takurua teamed with Hawke’s Bay’s Mere Nepia to tame the...
NEW Zealand’s best-placed eventer at the Rio Olympics is to compete at the Larsen Sawmilling Gisborne Showjumping Championships, which start tomorrow. Clarke Johnstone (Cambridge) rode Balmoral Sensation to sixth at Rio but his Gisborne focus will...
Gisborne surf athletes Cory Taylor and Olivia Corrin are in the top half of Australia's elite ironman and ironwoman competition with two rounds to go. Taylor is ninth out of 20 male competitors in the Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman Series after...
IT'S a top-of-the-table clash in premier cricket tomorrow as OBR take on High School Old Boys, while either Horouta or Gisborne Boys' High School will earn their first win of the season. But this morning Coastal Concrete OBR were unsure whether they...
ALL teams bar YMP will be at full strength for the Poverty Bay premier club rugby knockout semifinals at Rugby Park tomorrow. Farmvets YMP, who face Enterprise Cars OBM, have lost the services of loose forward Shayde Skudder. Fiercely combative...
OBM are emerging as the dark horses in the battle for the Lee Bros Shield, symbol of Gisborne club rugby supremacy. Unbeaten in their past five premier matches, Enterprise Cars OBM are fourth on the table and on course to play competition leaders...
A BATTLE royal can be expected at Victoria Domain tomorrow when Whangara Old Girls and YMP go head to head to decide the premier-grade netball championship. The return to Covid Alert Level 1 means the match can be played before a full crowd of...
Stand-up paddleboarders Stella Smith and Sean Hovell set off this month for Puerto Rico in the Caribbean for the ISA World StandUp Paddle and Paddleboard Championship. They have both been working hard in preparation for the event. They will be part of...
GisborneSome players had to be balloted out when 48 bowlers faced the starter in the Gisborne Carpets-sponsored Jack Clark Triples at Gisborne Bowling Club last Wednesday. First past the post were Gus McCabe (skip), Bruce Gledhill and Chris...
Gisborne surfers Finn Vette and John Gisby won national titles at opposite ends of the age-group spectrum at St Clair Beach, Dunedin, on Saturday. Vette, one of the form surfers of the week, won the under-16 boys' division, having finished third in...
Whangara Old Girls should retain top spot on the premier grade netball table tomorrow but top-of-the-table clashes in three of the other grades are too close to call. The Level 2 restrictions still apply so primary and senior grades will be at...
Glenys Whiteman's Kahutia team needed an extra end to win the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre open women's triples. For Whiteman and Marie Wright, it was their third centre open triples title in a row. Ngamiro Allen came in this year for Paige...
GISBORNE Boys’ High School hockey side enjoyed their first win in the competition this season on the LJ Hooker turf last night. The students defeated Lytton Old Boys Masters 4-2.“They led 2-0 at half time, we tied it up at 2-2 early in the...
Organisers of Fun5 Beach Netball are hopeful the league will become an annual feature after the success of their inaugural season. The social league was designed by Gisborne Netball Centre's Youth Activation Group (YAG) for all skill types and...
Gisborne Rowing Club (GRC) earned three second placings and a third at the New Zealand Rowing Championships on Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel, last weekend. It was the first time in a decade that the club had sent rowers to the nationals, and every one of...
GISBORNE BMX rider Nick Fox knows all too well the cut-throat nature of his sport. So the 23-year-old was both disappointed and upbeat after being eliminated in his elite men’s round of 8 heat at the UCI BMX World Championships in the United States...
High School Old Girls face a monumental challenge in their premier grade netball clash with table-toppers YMP1 in the Gisborne YMCA tomorrow morning. The defending champions currently sit in sixth position out of six teams in the premier grade, with...
The second round of BIZminton 5 was held last Wednesday night with a new team, GDC, hitting the courts with the eight others. Either teams have been practising or players haven’t taken long to get back into form. GDC look as if they will be a team...
Eastland Kart Club issued its 2020/21 race calendar this week. The club will put on 22 events, starting this month and running through to May. The season starts with a series of three practice days — on September 27, October 11 and October 18...
BASKETBALLWhat else is there?In tonight’s main event at the YMCA — the 2019 GBA men’s club basketball league 7.15pm A Grade grand final — last year’s champions Gisborne Boys’ High School and club ball’s team of the decade, City Lights...
GisborneSteve Goldsbury successfully defended his Gisborne Bowling Club senior fours championship title at the weekend without losing a life. Goldsbury made one team change from last season’s winning combination, with Robin Jefferson stepping in at...
GISBORNE teenager Saffi Vette showed she could foot it among the world’s rising stars at the GromSearch International at Raglan. The 16-year-old was among 16 surfers — eight female, eight male — from seven countries to converge on Manu...
WAIROA football is booming, and the town could have two teams in the Gisborne men’s competition next year. This season Wairoa Athletic won the men’s Division 2 competition for the second year running. They clinched the title with a 2-0 victory...
James Tauariki had the short but sweet reaction you’d expect from a 15-year-old when asked what it felt like winning the King of the Coast men’s open title last weekend.“Pretty mean,” the Rotorua Boys’ High student said after his first...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE will have two football teams in this season’s Pacific Premiership — Gisborne Thistle and Heavy Equipment United. Thistle pulled out of the Central Federation League after two seasons, while it will be United’s first crack at...
ANOTHER dreamy place ...Held at surf spot Red Bus in the morning and Northern Makorori in the afternoon, Sunday’s Makorori First Light Longboard Surfing Classic was a wonderful day, organiser David Timbs said.“We had great attendance, about 75...
PUMPING waves and scorching weather combined for the first Gisborne Boardriders Club contest of the year at Wainui Beach on Saturday. The continued run of clean north-east swell from Cyclone Victor provided ideal conditions for more than 40...
Results of equestrian events at Gisborne's A&P Show (riders from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —Saddle hunter — PoniesNovice saddle hunter pony not exceeding 138cm (0-2 wins): Iyve Speirs, Miss Candy Floss, 1; Zoe McNaught, Mr Riley, 2...
GISBORNE’S Holly Drain has a dream to represent New Zealand at the Oceania junior Olympic weightlifting championships at New Caledonia in July. But the 19-year-old, who is in her second year studying physiotherapy at Auckland University of...