GOLFDAVID Smail would probably prefer not to remember it. Peter Hakiwai will never forget it. About 30 years ago, Hakiwai stunned Smail in an interprovincial matchplay golf clash between Poverty Bay-East Coast and a star-studded Waikato side featuring...
GOLFJORDAN Rangihika doesn’t need to be told seeding means nothing when it comes to matchplay golf. The Waikato school teacher, who hails from Kawerau, was No. 1 seed at the 2018 King of the Coast, only to be bundled out in the first round by...
POVERTY Bay will contest the Barrett/Dearden Memorial Tournament at Wanstead Polo Club’s headquarters in Hawke’s Bay this weekend. Andy Moore, Campbell Chrisp and Scott McNeil will represent Poverty Bay Polo Club. Members of the club are building...
Gisborne ParkIF Jack Glassford and Roger Kelso go on to win the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs matchplay title, they won’t forget the comeback that helped get them there. Glassford and Kelso fought back from 5-down after 11 holes to beat Dave Harrison...
In a competition as tight as rugby’s Heartland Championship this year, teams can ill-afford a slip-up. On paper, Poverty Bay have a slight edge over Horowhenua Kapiti heading into their game at Waikanae tomorrow. Both teams have two wins and three...
NEW Poverty Bay Heartland rugby coach Tom Cairns prefers to look to the future, not the past. When asked why one of the bigger Heartland unions had under-achieved in recent seasons, Cairns said: “I don’t think about what happened in the past; I...
KahutiaKahutia Bowling Club’s Liquorland-sponsored closing day tournament was held on Sunday afternoon. The 36 players who took part enjoyed playing on the magnificent greens in a fun afternoon of triples, with two games of six ends each. The...
SURFINGFORMER Gisborne and Wairoa resident Sasha Brownlie and her partner Paul Culpan won the women’s and men’s longboard divisions at the Duke Festival of Surfing in Christchurch yesterday. Now they are both at the top of the New Zealand...
PAUL Wellard proved last Friday's hot round at the Electrinet Park course was no fluke by repeating it on Sunday. The 19-handicapper followed up his 84 with another 84 to win the men's stableford with 43 points. Eight-four was a common winning theme...
ROB Hayes is Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s new golf croquet singles champion. The top six players in the club played each other in a round-robin. Hayes finished the day on seven points, 2016 champion Ross Thomson was on six, and John Wilson and Dave...
Poverty BayWAS it something in his Sunday morning coffee WADA should be suspicious of?Was it Ryan Fox’s inspirational Perth World Super 6 victory?Did the same golf supremo aliens that have snatched Dustin Johnson’s body invade his?Or was it...
BADMINTONEastland travel to Hawke’s Bay this weekend for the third round of the 2018 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition. The games will be played at the Meeanee Indoor Sports Centre near Napier tomorrow. After four...
Gisborne Thistle's under-19 team will come up against some of the best age-group football teams in the country this weekend. They are competing in the Napier City Rovers Under-19 National Tournament at Park Island, Napier. In the past two years...
TAUPO Intermediate won the war at the Battle of the Bays triathlon in Gisborne on Friday. Taupo collected the overall school trophy, fending off the challenges of Ilminster and Gisborne Intermediate and a multitude of Bay of Plenty schools in the...
Poverty BayRex Rigney Christmas MixedTriples TournamentForty-two members, many dressed in Christmas colours, entered this Ryman Healthcare-sponsored event featuring three one-hour games. At the end of play, the teams of Erin Sutherland (s), Marilyn...
GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald suffered a third consecutive loss at the Toro women's national interprovincial tournament in Ashburton this morning. McDonald, playing at No. 5 for Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay, lost her match in a 3-2 team loss to defending...
Injury can be a great leveller. All premier-grade teams in Poverty Bay club rugby have had to do without key players at times this season. Ngatapa lock Dan Law (right wrist) and OBM loosehead prop Lance Dickson (right knee) come to mind. OBM are still...
RUGBYPOVERTY Bay will be looking for a strong start to their Heartland season in their opening game this weekend against Wanganui. After five weeks of no rugby, the Civil Project Solutions team will be eager to retake the field and revenge last...
PIRATES skipper Brad Reynolds led from the front with a five-wicket for 16 runs in the Buccaneers’ seven-wicket win against Coastal Ultrasound Horouta in Walker Shield T20 competition last night.“We knew we had to win to make the semifinals, now...
THEY’RE fighters, 43-0 or not.“We’re proud of them,” East Coast under-18 forwards coach Morgan Wirepa junior said, in the wake of his team’s 43-0 loss to the Wellington Catholic Colleges team at Playford Park in Levin last night.“We’ve...
New Zealand SuperBoat champion Peter Caughey took the first step in defence of his title when he had the fastest time in Round 1 at Wanaka. Gisborne navigator Glenn Mason and his driver Sam Newdick (Hamilton) were second, while Gisborne’s Blake...
Men, SATURDAY1pm: D1, Raptors v Uawa. Junior grades, SATURDAYJunior Sox (Year 9-10), 11am: D1, GGHS v Apitihanga; D2, Lytton v GBHS Black. Emerging Sox (Y7-8), 8.30am: D1, Ilminster Tahi v Nga Kura o Te Akau; D2, Waikirikiri v Tolaga Chargers. 11am...
GOLFCOVID-19 has provided an unexpected but much-welcomed spin-off for this year’s Poverty Bay men’s open. Two months and three weeks out from the district’s most prestigious men’s golf tournament, the field of 112 players is full. The...
The last important Bowls Gisborne East Coast centre tournament for 2019 will be played this weekend. The Bowls New Zealand Division 1 Interclub preliminaries will be held for both men's and women's teams. Bowls NZ has reintroduced this national event...
BEACH netball has been under way again for a couple of weeks on the sand track alongside Churchill Park, and Gisborne Netball Centre manager Allisa Hall says the players are having a lot of fun. The netball centre piloted the competition last summer...
Whangara Old Girls moved into third place on the premier-grade netball points table with a six-goal win at the YMCA on Saturday. They had a hard-fought 49-43 victory over Claydens Waikohu (1).The Pak'nSave competition match was close throughout as...
ONE of the top volleyball referees and coaches in the country says he has no doubt Gisborne could become a national powerhouse in the sport. Des Kerekere has played, coached or refereed volleyball almost his whole life. He has more than three...
Experience told the story on Saturday when Claydens Waikohu and Whangara Old Girls cemented top four places in the Pak’nSave premier grade competition with wins over school teams. An exciting morning’s play at the YMCA featured a 53-46 win to...
SURF lifesaving results from the Eastern Regional Championships yesterday —Double skiOpen mixed: Mairangi Bay A (Samalulu Clifton/Travis Mitchell) 1, Whakatane Green (Campbell Reid/Carla Reid) 2, Mairangi Bay B (Jonathan Reshef/Stefanie Crncevic)...
Premier-grade cricket returns tomorrow with High School Old Boys playing Horouta and Gisborne Boys' High School playing OBR in the DJ Barry Cup 50-over competition. It will be the first time in three weeks that Coastal Concrete OBR and Siteworx Civil...
HOCKEYTHE Tairawhiti women’s hockey team finished runners-up in the national Maori hockey tournament at the weekend, only the second time a Tairawhiti women’s team has made the final since the tournament began in the early 1990s. They went...