A half-time rev-up does the trick for Uawa . . . last weekend it worked against Tokomaru Bay United 48-12, and on Saturday that same approach — albeit a milder version — got a result at home. The Big Blue Crew beat Pango Productions Waiapu 23-19...
The Poverty Bay Wekas did their cricket pedigree justice on Saturday. The Craig Christophers-led composite side beat the Southland development squad by 32 runs at Gisborne Intermediate School’s “boutique” ground. Christophers, like his teammates...
PIRATES skipper Dane Thompson wants his top-order batsmen to step up when they play Doleman Cup leaders High School Old Boys at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates should have beaten Bain Construction OBR last week after rolling...
You would be hard-pressed to make a more rugged game than this. Powerful Hikurangi travel to Te Araroa Domain to play Tokararangi — a match which, place on the seven-team table and form aside, both crews always get up for. All three games in Week 7...
Gisborne Gymnastics Club member Sophie Chambers was the top Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay gymnast at the HBPB open championships last month. She was awarded the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay junior champion’s trophy. In an event dominated by Wellington...
Ngatapa have a hard-earned reputation for playing no-nonsense rugby. But occasionally they let their hair down. The country club ran in six tries in beating High School Old Boys 38-12 in a Civil Project Solutions premier club rugby game on Saturday. It...
RUGBYThey’ll be back — and in greater numbers. Not much slows Uawa Sports Club down. The champions of East Coast club rugby have an eye to the future. And that’s why they sent their under-9 team to the New Zealand Junior Rugby Festival in...
Gisborne Boys High School have notched their first win of the season with a convincing victory over Horouta. Chasing 123-to-win, Galaxy World GBHS cruised home in the 21st over with seven wickets in hand after strong performances from the whole...
Ten budding surfers and their whanau took to the water on Sunday for the adaptive surfing day run by Gisborne Boardriders Club and Parafed. With the event in its third year, club surfing development officer Flo Bub said it was exciting to see...
LYTTON Old Boys Masters have braced themselves for an all-out assault by the rampant YMP A men’s hockey side when they meet in the 7.30pm match on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. YMP come off a big win against LOB A last weekend...
GISBORNE Speedway Club has cancelled tonight’s Speedweek saloon car championship meeting due to the threat of further rain, and club president Grant MacGregor says club members are gutted about it. The Holden Trade Club Saloon Speedweek series...
ACTION-packed and drama-charged racing at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night saw the junior and senior titles in the Eastland Ministock 100 go to drivers from out of town and Hawke's Bay won the New Zealand sidecar teams title. Mount...
MITCHELL Turner says he is looking forward to the challenge of leading the Poverty Bay cricket team for their Kirk Cup defence against Hawke’s Bay in Napier tomorrow.“I was stoked when Macca (Bay coach David McDonald) asked me to lead the...
YMP player-coach Reihana Wyllie said the last five-minute spell of his team’s 32-22 win against Ngatapa was heart-attack material.“Once Willie (Brown) kicked the penalty, we knew we would move above Ngatapa on the points table but we turned the...
High School Old Boys’ bid for a fourth straight Lee Bros Shield victory ended when OBM beat Ngatapa at Patutahi on Saturday. But the reigning champs did all they could to stay in the hunt for a top-four spot with a 31-30 win against second-placed...
Results of Gisborne Cycling Club championship events this month —Hill climb, in finishing order, with grading in brackets (U15M = under-15 men etc; M1M = master 35-44yr men; M2M = 45-54yr men, M2W = 45-54yr women; M3M = 55-64yr men; M4M =...
FOOTBALLMID-TABLE clashes took centre stage in Gisborne Championship football on Saturday. Lytton High School beat Sunshine Brewery Wainui Sharks on their own patch, 4-2; Gisborne Boys’ High School came from a goal down — for the first time in...
CROSSFITGisborne crossfit athlete Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont placed 11th in the world for his division at the 2018 CrossFit Games in the United States. After several intense days of competition in Madison, Wisconsin last week, the Gisborne teenager once...
Bay of Plenty surf lifesaving championships in Ōpōtiki
Ngati Porou East Coast co-coach Troy Para didn’t think twice when told some people were suggesting it was time to consider an amalgamation between the Coast and Poverty Bay.“Absolutely not,” said Para, whose depleted side were thumped 100-7 by...
NETBALLTHE semifinals of the senior netball competition on Saturday produced some “amazing” match-ups and most of the top-four senior games were close. Centre manager Allisa Hall said it was wonderful to see the Pak’nSave competition so evenly...
SQUASHSurf City Squash Club’s Casey Miller has added lustre to a stellar year by winning the C Grade women’s individual national champion of champions event in Ohakune last weekend. Miller had come through local competition to earn the right to...
Gisborne women Charmaine McMenamin and Renee Holmes have been named in the Black Ferns squad to play the Barbarians. Kaipo Oslen-Baker was named in the Barbarians side to face the Black Ferns in a two-game series played over the next two weeks in...
POVERTY Bay coach David McDonald is under no illusions about the task facing his team tomorrow when they host Bay of Plenty in a one-day Fergus Hickey game at Harry Barker Reserve“They’re traditionally one of the strongest teams in the Northern...
Jan Powell and Kathryn Flaugere overcame a slow start to win the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre women's pairs tournament at Kahutia Bowling Club. Poverty Bay Bowling Club members Powell (skip) and Flaugere won only one of their three games in...
CricketTODAY — C Grade, Nelson Park, 3.15pm: Primary Reps v GBHS, GGHS v Campion. Mercantile, Harry Barker Reserve, 5.30pm: M5, Maccas Rebels v Boundary Violators; M6, Mangapapa Garage v AGFirst; M7 Wannabes v Outlaws; M8, TBC v Sons of...
BIG scores were a feature of Poverty Bay club hockey games with matching wins to Gisborne Boys' and Girls' High teams the standout results in terms of closer action. In the women's competition, Amber Dental Gisborne Girls' High School defeated GMC...
FOOTBALLUNITED and Thistle Massive have pulled away from the field in Eastern League Division 1 football, and their meeting at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday could be pivotal to the competition outcome. Heavy Equipment Services United player-coach...