Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s recent “have-a-go” days might have unearthed a new star. New player Robyn Chaffey nearly caused a few upsets in her first tournament at the club. Chaffey and playing partner Rob Hayes lost several games by only one...
GOLFTHEY have been swimming in the deep end of the Freyberg Masters men’s golf interprovincial since Day 1 but Poverty Bay-East Coast remain afloat. PBEC suffered their fifth consecutive defeat at the over-40s matchplay tournament on Taupo’s...
WITH the final night looming, the BIZminton matches last Thursday were tougher. Rallies were longer and more smashes and amazing returns were seen. The improvement in play in the past four weeks has been fantastic. No countback situations applied...
THE sporting battlefields of Gisborne were busy again on Saturday, highlighted by the Poverty Bay premier club rugby final at Rugby Park. GT Shearing Waikohu emerged victorious from that with a 19-5 defeat of Enterprise Cars OBM to retain the Lee...
Wairoa hosts the Gisborne East Coast centre's first champ of champs event this weekend — the triples. Senior and under-8 years (experience) men's and women's teams will battle for club supremacy from 8.30am both days. With only six clubs operating...
RUGBYAS preparations around Ruatoria ramp up this week for Ngati Porou East Coast Rugby Football Union’s centenary celebration, for one avid rugby fan, it’s been years in the making. Kevin Hare started writing NPEC History 1919-2020 three years...
2022 Heartland Championship: NPEC aiming to lift the bar another level
FOOTBALLA WOUNDED tiger is to be avoided in every circumstance, but wounded football teams are a different matter. They can’t always be avoided. When a meeting is inevitable, be on your guard for surprises, collect three points with as little fuss...
Senior 1 club rugby final —Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic 37 (Sean Taylor 2, Aaron Ioane, Angus Twigley, Jeffery Ismail, tries; Moss Doran 3 con, 2 pen).Turanga Pirates 21 (Moui Paongo, Mason Apanui, Trevor Edwards, tries; Henry-Troi Kepa 2...
THE 107TH edition of the Waerenga-o-Kuri Sports was held at Tiniroto last weekend and there’s no sign of this famous event ending. If anything, it’s enjoying a revival in popularity. There were 384 entries this year compared with 301 in 2015. The...
GISBORNE Boys’ High first 15 lived up to the school’s motto “Virtus Repulsae Nescia - Courage Knows No Defeat” when they beat St Patrick’s College Silverstream 29-28 in Wellington on Saturday. Ngati Porou Seafoods GBHS trailed 28-12 with 15...
FOOTBALLGisborne football supporters can travel back in time by turning up to watch Thistle Vintage at Childers Road Reserve tomorrow. Vintage will be Eastern League 2 champions if they beat Gisborne Pro Roofing Bohemians. Draggnett Thistle Vintage...
RUGBYWeek 1 was mouth-watering. Week 2 looks even juicier. The Oval and Barry Park are the current venues for Civil Project Solutions premier club rugby tomorrow, with all three games kicking off at 2.45pm. On Oval 1, Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates host...
Two more Tairawhiti Legends of Sport were inducted at the Sporting Excellence Awards this month — Raipoia Brightwell (waka ama) and Terry Sheldrake (triathlon).Brightwell, daughter of Tahitian traditional voyager Francis Cowan, was part of the...
NETBALLA CALL is going out to find and celebrate netball’s local legends. They are the game’s supporters whose time and energy keep local netball alive through good and bad times. The ANZ Bank, sponsor of ANZ Premiership netball, is putting out...
Centre stage in the hockey competition this weekend will be taken by the two leading men's teams when the Lytton Old Boys top team outfit front up to YMP A, in a replay of last year's Grand Final. The 12.30pm clash on Saturday afternoon on the Hain...
BasketballSATURDAY — Gisborne Basketball Association Miniball League,Years 3/4, Gisborne netball courts, C1, 10am: Awapuni Ballers v Mangapapa Griffins, (Cinta O’Neal, Kaipo, Lilly) C2, Central 34S v Te Harpara, (Petra, Paddy, Kellann, Char)...
THIS week East Coast surfing powerhouse Ricardo Christie got his World Surf League Qualifying Series (QS) campaign under way at the Newcastle Surfest. With 6000 points offered at the event, a good result there would have set Christie up nicely in...
Poverty Bay club hockey’s grand finals day produced some thrilling action on the LJ Hooker Turf on Saturday. YMP celebrated a victory double. In the A-Grade men’s final, YMP A beat THC 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out after the teams finished normal...
A THREE-MAN Poverty Bay Rugby Union judiciary committee has imposed sanctions on four premier club officials — two from Pirates and two from Ngatapa — following an incident in last Friday night’s premier match at Rugby Park. But the sanctions...
Gisborne ParkOPOTIKI earned a place on Rod Moore's favourite golf course list after achieving perfection on Saturday. Moore holed his tee shot on the 121-metre sixth hole for the second ace of his career. The first was at his home course in March...
HOROUTA face a monumental challenge tomorrow night when they front up to the dangerously in-form YMP 1 in a mid-week premier-grade netball game in the Gisborne YMCA. The 6pm Pak'nSave premier clash between the two teams promises to be entertaining. JT...
THE TSB New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships begin at Midway Beach tomorrow for the 240-plus athletes set to contest the masters side of the championships. Since masters competition began in the l990s, the over-30 component of the nationals has...
STEFAN Destounis has been named Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union’s Paul Sceats Player of the Year at the union’s end-of-year prize-giving. The High School Old Boys loose forward’s selection for the Heartland 15 was the icing on the cake after...
FORM is everything in competitions for younger trampolinists, says Eastland Port Gisborne Trampoline Club coach Doug Callahan.“Raine Lamont-Milner found that out when he placed eighth on double mini, eighth on tramp and fourth on synchro at the...
FOOTBALLWAINUI Riverina are a class act, and Bohemians coach Graham Maclean paid tribute to them after they beat his side 4-0 in the final of the Braybrook Cup for women’s football on Sunday.“Riverina played exceptionally well,” Maclean...
Eastland representatives travel to Rotorua this weekend for the second round of the North Island interprovincial masters’ Division 3 badminton competition. They will play North Harbour (4) and Counties Manukau (2).The team were hoping to travel...
Ron Skelton never had a moment when he thought he might quit the gruelling Race Across America. The Gisborne endurance athlete completed the race in 12 days, 18 hours and 54 minutes — just over two hours before his deadline. It is the second time...
Belief: from an idea held or the verb, to believe.“Belief” here means self-belief, belief in the team. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 have both. And first 15 head coach Mark Jefferson wants more of both at 11.15am tomorrow against...
180s: Lance Cook 2NZ 3, Hunter Eyles (2NZ Kings), Mike Price (Cossy Done & Dusted) 2, Fred Moreland (Roseland), Tristan Reeves (RSA Outlaws), Chris Giddens (2NZ Tao TCL), Richard Moore (Cossy 6-Shooters).Highest start (180): Lance Cook (2NZ...
Barry Memorial Croquet Club members enjoyed considerable success at tournaments at Heretaunga in Havelock North and Claudelands in Hamilton. At Heretaunga, John Wilson and Rob Hayes played great doubles croquet, winning five games and losing only one...