A THREE-team Poverty Bay contingent are making their way to King Country territory today. The Tūranga Tāne and Tūranga Wāhine squads will join the Poverty Bay Wekas Heartland team in Te Kuiti. This is the first time since 2002 that Poverty Bay...
Local fans won’t see the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 in action here until June 25. Those up to the drive from Gisborne to Waipatu, Hastings tomorrow can see GBHS take on Feilding High School at Elwood Park from 12.30pm, that clash to be...
GISBORNE teenager Charlie Gregory landed a 222.55 kilogram blue marlin to win the major $10,000 prize for the crew of Renegade in the Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club Liquorland Marlin and Tuna Tournament over the weekend. It was third time...
KahutiaGisborne-East Coast centre vice-president Jon Davies delivered the first bowl at Kahutia Bowling Club’s opening day on Saturday. Thirty members took part in the Ryman Healthcare-sponsored opening day tournament. The afternoon turned out to be...
A new netball initiative designed by youth for youth will hold its inaugural season this year, with ANZ Premiership players in town for the opening day. Ariana Cable-Dixon from Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic and past Silver Fern and newly named Magic...
FOOTBALL by John GilliesGISBORNE United beat perennial rivals Thistle Massive in the Bailey Cup on Saturday and are now firm favourites to win local football’s premier knockout cup. Their 3-2 victory was marred by the loss of player-coach Stu...
It’s going to be wet and wild. The Poverty Bay under-18 rugby team play the Wellington Community team, coached by former Poverty Bay Heartland coach Grainger Heikell, at midday tomorrow. The game is at Rugby Park. The PB u16s’ 10.30am clash with...
Nathan Trowell and his cousin Matthew Foster needed an extra end to beat Keith Setter and Bruce Easton in the final of the Clarke Schollum Pairs, played before lockdown. Setter and Easton were 2-1 up early in the nine-end final. On End 4, Setter...
Campion College beat defending champions Gisborne United 2-1 in women’s Eastern League football on Sunday. Heavy Equipment Services United won the league by six points last year, 20 ahead of Campion, who finished fourth in the seven-team...
East Coast Open champion Andrew Higham is not one for victory speeches. He clearly prefers to let the 14 clubs in his bag do his talking. But on Sunday night, in front of a jovial, beer-oiled, 19th-hole crowd, fresh from overindulging in a feast...
The field opened up in a big way last weekend. With the Hikurangi Mountain Maidens’ 17-10 upset win against a team who hadn’t lost in three and a half seasons — women’s champions Tihirau Victory Club — in 1 v 4 at Te Kura Mana Maori o...
?NETBALLWAIKOHU have had the wood on Whangara Old Girls twice this season, but would be wise not to take them lightly when they meet in premier-grade netball tomorrow night. This Pak’nSave competition game — at the YMCA at 6pm tomorrow — should...
Congratulations this week go to Vincelle Marvin and Jean Bennett for scoring 70.83 on Monday. Monday, October 17 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Pairs 3 (Howell movement)Vincelle Marvin, Jean Bennett 70.83 Glenys Evans, Robin Bennett 57.29Anne Roberts...
SURF LIFESAVINGWAIKANAE duo Connor Mitchell and Oliver Shivnan were named the top under-22 crew at the Surf Lifesaving New Zealand IRB nationals at Waikouaiti Beach near Dunedin at the weekend. Driver Mitchell and crewman Shivnan went to the national...
A DOUBLES tournament that Badminton Eastland ran in 2018 has been revamped as a competition being held over three weeks this month. The first round of the Winter Wackers Badminton Doubles was held on Thursday last week. New and experienced players...
EVERY team needs a Jayda. Jayda Nepe of Gisborne Girls’ High School, Jayda Waititi-Leach of Lytton High School and Jayda Banks of Campion College were all in excellent form for the league’s three school teams in Week 6 of Gisborne women’s club...
Raipoia Brightwell was waiting for a medal ceremony when she heard she was being inducted into the Waka Ama New Zealand Hall of Fame. Old friend Corrina Gage was on the stage at the Waka Ama NZ sprint nationals at Lake Karapiro on Saturday and said...
EXCITEMENT is building in Gisborne speedway circles as cars get final preparations and drivers hone themselves mentally ahead of the New Zealand saloon car championships this weekend. The Eastlite Carriers-sponsored event has attracted a field of...
DESPITE winning the 400 metres at an Athletics Auckland meet at Mount Smart Stadium on Saturday, Gisborne runner Tom Smith expects to do much better in his next race.“It was a pretty average time for the 400 metres, 49.7 seconds,” said the...
Qualification for the national sevens is the goal for the Poverty Bay women’s team and they’re working hard to put themselves in the frame. Head coach Luke Bradley is preparing a squad for the Central Region sevens tournament at the end of the...
Gisborne will again host a round of the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Series this summer. Boats will roar across Poverty Bay in Round 2 of the series on Saturday, February 9. The field is set to include boats from Australia this time. The series...
If you build it, they will come. It might have worked for Kevin Costner and his baseball diamond in Field of Dreams, but Kahutia Bowling Club members can’t rely on Hollywood magic to get the most from their new petanque “terrain”.They need...
Pacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm:Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Napier Marist Reserves. 3pm: Taradale Park 1, Taradale v Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Lytton, Lytton...
THE Mary Clinton Cup secondary schoolgirls’ hockey tournament on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve proved a tough day for the two Gisborne teams competing. Gisborne Girls’ High were beaten 18-0 by Freyberg High, who did not concede...
Poverty BayVIV Bell and Jan Steele fought back from the brink of defeat to win the Kahlenberg Cup women’s pairs final on Tuesday. In tough winter conditions, Bell and Steele won the last four holes to defeat club president Miggles Shanks and...
IT was three out of four to Kahutia Bowling Club members in the champion of champions pairs events played on their home greens this month. The two-life system of play was used. Winners were Kahutia’s Vern Marshall and Mick Maunder in the open men...
CROQUETPLAYERS from Gisborne’s Barry Memorial Croquet Club won five of the eight prizes on offer at the Whakatane Golf Croquet Open. In the Saturday handicap doubles, John Wilson and Ross Thomson were runners-up to George Coulter (Whakatane) and...
Gisborne's Cory Taylor will take his place again in the starting line-up in the Nutri-Grain men's ironman championship in northern New South Wales in just over two weeks. The current New Zealand ironman champion qualified automatically for this...
THE Eastern and Central Community Trust will this week give financial assistance to the Tairawhiti Softball Association. Their $25,000 donation will help build a secure fence around the new playing diamond at Waikirikiri Reserve.“Softball in...
TOP players will be in action at Waikirikiri Reserve tomorrow for the Whack! City Touch Tournament. The day-long event is being run by the BlackJax mixed touch team as a fundraiser for a tournament in Whakatane early next year. Tournament organiser...
GISBORNE Thistle did not do Gisborne United any favours when they shared the points here last week. The 2-2 draw allowed Pacific Premiership leaders Napier City Rovers Seconds, who beat Napier Marist 2-0, to open an eight-point gap on United, with 11...
Defence wins rugby games and Tūranga Mana Wāhine showed grit to hold out a barrage of attacks from the Wairarapa Bush Vixens at Whitmore Park, Napier, on Sunday. The Wāhine held on to win 10-0 through sheer willpower. The Vixens had won the battle...