CRICKETA MATT Crampton ton has kept Pirates in the hunt for the DJ Barry Cup cricket title but High School Old Boys are still clear at the top of the table. Old Boys Rugby are also back in the mix after they defeated Gisborne Boys’ High School in...
PISTOL SHOOTINGGISBORNE’S ace marksman Aaron Manson gave himself the perfect birthday present when he added the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) national title to his North Island and South Island successes. In doing so Manson...
OBM will be without Poverty Bay halfback Willy Grogan for tomorrow’s premier rugby game against Athletic in Wairoa. Grogan was concussed in last week’s 47-15 win against Tapuae at the Oval and will be missed. But as they say, when one door closes...
It might not have been pretty from a side who play “on the edge” but YMP did enough to end the first round of the Poverty Bay club rugby regular season unbeaten, defeating Ngatapa 29-5 on Saturday. On the same day they celebrated hooker and...
HOCKEYTHE Masters’ close win against YMP B in the men’s competition and hard-fought wins to GMC Green and YMP B in the women’s games were highlights of local hockey at the weekend. Lytton Old Boys Masters and YMP B were locked up 1-1 in the...
SIXTEEN-year-old Gisborne Boys' High School student Nathan Trowell is the North Island secondary schools' indoor bowls singles champion for 2021. Trowell beat his cousin and fellow Gisborne Boys' High student Matthew Foster 12-7 in the 12-end final...
180s: S Gooch (Sugar Spandangles); K Arahanga 2 (Sugar Stallions); L Cook (2NZ3).Highest start (140): J Griffith (Sugar Men of Mayhem); S Gooch (Sugar Spandangles).Highest finish (104): K Unuwai (Sugar Stallions).(P = pairs won. S = singles won. T =...
Gisborne netballer Manaia Hutana has been selected for the Waikato-Bay of Plenty off-season training squad for next year’s national netball league. Her selection follows the Waikato-Bay of Plenty national netball league open trials last weekend. The...
CRICKETOBR hammered certain cricketing truths home on Saturday when they beat Horouta by 10 wickets in the 1 v 4 semi-final to confirm their status as white-hot favourites heading into next weekend’s Senior B Hope Cup club final. The Bollywood High...
CRICKETThey’ve turned a corner. Gisborne Boys’ High School’s first 11 showed signs of improvement in their 32-run loss in a 30-over cricket game against Napier Boys’ High School in Gisborne on Monday. Yesterday, as the Poverty Bay...
The Gisborne Boys' High School under-15 rugby team have momentum. But despite their 52-36 win against a Whakatane High School mixed side at the Rectory a fortnight ago, the Trevor Crosby-coached crew have to keep pushing. At Rugby Park, Whakatane, at...
POVERTY Bay coach Mana Otai says he can see “light at the end of the tunnel” as he prepares for Saturday’s crucial Heartland Championship rugby match against Thames Valley in Te Aroha.“One of the things that I place a lot of emphasis on when...
LYTTON High School pulled off the upset of the round when they beat Wainui Sharks 3-0 in Eastern League Division 1 football at Lytton on Saturday. Bottom of the table at the start of the match, Lytton moved to seven points, one point above QRS Wairo...
SUPERB — that’s the best way to describe the Gisborne Basketball Association (GBA) under-11 teams’ showing at the Rotovegas Invitation Tournament at the weekend. The boys rebounded from a first-up loss to beat the the same team in the u11...
TENNIS has the Williams sisters. So does waka ama. Gisborne siblings Akayshia and Rangi-Riana Williams repeated history at the waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karapiro yesterday. With similar power to tennis’s most famous sisters (Serena and...
TWO Gisborne players remain in the hunt for senior men's division glory after the opening matchplay round of the NZ 66th National Veteran Championship at the Poverty Bay course. Electrinet Park member Anaru Reedy and home course player Alister...
He's got a common name but there was nothing ordinary about Tom Smith's scoring at the Halberg Foundation Eagles Golfing Society fundraising tournament on Sunday. Waikohu member Smith ran away with the men's net, thanks to a round of...
It was a grand final moment to savour. Gisborne Boys’ High School Black became only the third college team to claim a Gisborne Basketball Association premier senior club championship crown in beating Uawa 74-47 in the men’s final at the YMCA on...
MOTORSPORTTHE heyday of New Zealand motor rallying will be relived again at the end of this month when the 2018 Silver Fern Rally races its way over gravel roads to the west of Gisborne and, as always, it will be a test of driver and car. The 1970s...
Gisborne Tennis Club is joining more than 150 tennis clubs across New Zealand for the annual Love Tennis national open weekend on Sunday. Tennis NZ chief executive Julie Paterson says tennis is a sport for everyone and Love Tennis Weekend is the...
BADMINTONEastland travel to Auckland this weekend for the playoffs of the 2019 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2B badminton competition. After two weekends of competition, Eastland were placed third in their group, so in the morning they...
Former Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 captain Isaia Walker-Leawere has earned a run-on debut for the Maori All Blacks against the USA Eagles in Chicago tomorrow. Walker-Leawere, 21, is a 1.97-metre, 122-kilogram lock with club side Poneke. He...
LEIGHTON Shanks will represent Poverty Bay-East Coast at the New Zealand Under-18 singles finals in Wellington in late August. He defeated Jareth Gaskin 12-6 in the local final. A record 21 junior u18 bowlers took park in the event. The eight bowlers...
GISBORNE surf lifesavers Jack Keepa, Lachie Falloon and Jack Leeper were in top form at the inaugural Grom Challenge at Mount Maunganui. Wainui’s Keepa was first overall in the under-14 division, with Midway’s Falloon third. Leeper (Waikanae) was...
Pistols at dawn became drivers at 9am this morning as George Brown and Tene Goldsmith teed off on finals day of the Gisborne East Coast veterans' open tournament. The pair emerged triumphant from semifinal battles yesterday on their home Awapuni...
Pirates 99, Olly Tilley 37, lost to OBR 100/4, Ian Loffler 39. GHHS (1) 77, Clarence Campbell 3-7, lost to Horouta 80-1, Marty Brandos 26no. Campion 197-6, James Torrie 98no, beat HSOB 181, A Kumar 68, Patrick Mathers 5-45, Caleb Greaves 3-16
WAIKANAE, Midway and Wainui surf lifesavers will be among over 800 athletes from 31 clubs taking part in the Eastern regional championships at Mt Maunganui this weekend. Among those competing are Olympians, Black Fins and New Zealand representative...
CRICKETTo think that Poverty Bay’s Kirk Cup win against Hawke’s Bay on Sunday was a thrashing would be a mistake. It was cricket on a knife-edge. While the margin was eight wickets, the best way to describe Bollywood Poverty Bay’s first game...
Eastland Kart Club last weekend held the first points meeting of the club's 10th year. The club, started by the late Murray Michie, has some big meetings coming up this season. Judging by last Sunday's racing — which was top notch — the action on...
HOCKEYGMC, Gisborne Girls’ High School, YMP and Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits all tasted victory in the opening round of senior hockey at the weekend. The YMP women’s team got the delayed season under way on Friday night with an 11-0 victory over...
For Leityn Swann, basketball is more than a sport, it's a lifetime passion. Swann played for Lytton High School team Ritana and Gisborne's representative Division 2 team the Rising Suns.“Representing Gisborne was a big thing for me, so to be able...