TRIATHLONTAYLER Reid won the Sea 2 Sky Challenge in Christchurch at the weekend by over two minutes. The result is another accolade in a successful summer of racing for Reid, who has consistently finished either first, or second behind New Zealand...
HOCKEYTHE bottom four teams in the women’s hockey competition begin the weekend hockey round tomorrow night and both games should be more evenly matched now the division has been split. GMC Kowhai, GMC Gold, Roseland Tavern Te Aowera and YMP B will...
The inaugural Gathering of Stoke Gisborne Longboard Classic scored epic waves at Gisborne’s Midway Beach on Easter Sunday with local surfers Daryn McBride and Hannah Kohn the victors in the premier open men and women longboard divisions. An...
THE Pak’nSave premier grade netball competition has already thrown up some enthralling outcomes and that could continue tomorrow night at the YMCA. Based on recent results there is an air of unpredictability to both games tomorrow night. YMP...
By ending the season as holders of the Challenge Cup, the Gisborne United Pacific Premiership football team earned the right to have their name engraved on the cup and hold it over summer. It will be defended at home games next season. Eight-year-old...
Gisborne Thistle will next year play in the Central Federation League — a step up from the Pacific Premiership they contested this year. Thistle were invited to apply for membership of the 10-team league after all three winning teams of the...
HOCKEYSOLID wins to both the student teams and more than 40 goals in the other five matches were highlights of weekend hockey on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry Barker Reserve. Gisborne Boys’ High School beat Lytton Old Boys Masters 5-2, after they...
BASKETBALLThere’s nothing soft about this. The week 8 quarterfinals in women’s club basketball were furiously tough, competitive contests. Fans at the YMCA saw competition leaders Lytton High School beat Paikea Nation 43-34 and sixth-placed YMC...
ARCHERY“SHOW me the money” will be the catchcry when top archers from throughout the North Island line up at the Gizzy Vegas Shoot here over the weekend. Gisborne Archery Club is hosting the popular shoot, which does not differentiate between sex...
RUGBYMcLean Park is the home of Mark Ozich’s Hawke’s Bay crew. And at 3.05pm tomorrow, it’ll play host to something else. That something else will be none other than Ngati Porou East Coast under Hosea Gear, who will challenge head coach...
BOWLSThe flag of Ireland was flying high for the 72 bowlers who decked themselves out in green for Kahutia Bowling Club’s Saint Patrick’s Day tournament, The Wearin’ of the Green. Bowlers came from Wairoa, Tolaga Bay, Poverty Bay, Gisborne and...
It was a great way to bow out. Ngati Porou East Coast finished their Heartland Championship campaign with a 34-19 win against Wairarapa-Bush on Saturday. In a dominant performance, the Sky Blues outgunned the Bush by six tries to three in Masterton...
HOCKEYWAITUHI celebrated for the second weekend in a row on Saturday with their second consecutive victory in their return season to the Poverty Bay women’s hockey competition. They did so in one of several thrilling matches across the weekend...
Malcolm Trowell and Steve Goldsbury won the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre men's pairs held on the Poverty Bay club's greens. Gisborne club pair Trowell (skip) and Goldsbury beat Omarunui Bowling Club's Trevor Murtha (s) and Maurice Williams 20-9...
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RUGBYRUGBY referees will get top-flight tuition in Gisborne this month. The session focuses on coaching referees and it will be the first time New Zealand Rugby has brought one of its regional referee development workshops to Poverty Bay. Former test...
The Gisborne Netball Centre has welcomed the announcements on Wednesday from the Government about the changes to the Covid “traffic light” requirements. From midnight tonight there will be no restrictions on the number of people able to attend...
Midway Surf Life Saving Club competitors came home with three gold, seven silver and five bronze medals from the Surf Life Saving New Zealand Pool Rescue Championships in Auckland at the weekend. Mt Maunganui Lifeguard Service took out the Paul Kent...
SURF LIFESAVINGTHE junior surf athletes from Midway brought home 13 gold medals, 13 silver and nine bronze from the eastern regional junior championships at Ohope at the weekend. Their club finished third overall on points. Omanu took the overall...
BOWLS By CrackerjackA WINNING streak on the second day of the tournament won the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast Rahiwi Cup for a Te Karaka team skipped by Mere Nepia. Eight teams contested the trophy for the centre women’s open fours title. Games were...
They have always had good first 11 sides. And Napier Boys' High's 2020 edition continued to live up that tradition with in their innings-and-86-run win over Gisborne Boys' High School this week. The home side, put into bat in the first innings, were...
FIFTEEN-year-old Tayla Hollis took a hat-trick for the Northern Spirit Maori women’s cricket team against Cook Islands at a tournament in Rarotonga. She was one of three Gisborne women to give standout performances in the side, who won all four of...
Olympic Games would be the ultimate but Commonwealth Games is more attainable, says Gisborne Judo Club’s Bevan Brooking.“From 2022, judo will be a core sport at the Commonwealth Games, starting in Birmingham, England, and I’d love to be...
Te Puia SpringsTERE Lincoln transferred winning form from Patutahi to Te Puia Springs in the Coast club’s open opening day tournament on Sunday. Tolaga Bay member Lincoln won the men’s stableford with 73-11-62, for 40 points, on counback from...
Ngati Porou East Coast coaches Troy Para and Wayne Ensor have been forced to make two changes for tomorrow’s Heartland Championship rugby match against West Coast in Greymouth. Second five-eighth Teina Potae and No. 8 Buchanan Maxwell, who both...
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CricketSenior C — Today, Nelson Park, 3.30pm: Primary 7/8 v Campion, Primary yr6/7 v GGHS, GBHS v Wairoa. Bye: Lytton. Intermediate HardbalL — SATURDAY, Nelson Park, 8.30am: Campion Gold v Gis Int Aces, GGHS X1 v Gis Int FireBirds, Ilminster v Gis...
GISBORNE gymnasts Jade Swann and Sarai Gudgeon reached qualification scores for the national gymnastics championships when they competed at the Auckland Manukau champs at the weekend. The event drew 178 female gymnasts competing to achieve the scores...
DARCINA Manuel will become Gisborne Judo Club’s first Olympic Games representative after being named in the New Zealand team to compete in Rio.“She’s our first but won’t be our last,” says Gisborne and national women’s coach Kiki...
Bowls Gisborne-East Coast senior women's team met the cream of New Zealand bowling in the national intercentre final at the Browns Bay Bowling Club, Auckland, this month. In the singles, Dayvinia Mills struck three past or present Blackjacks in the...
Wayne Tautau, Kasi Lelea and Te Rina Hawkins ruled the tables as the Cossie Club grade champions were decided. Tautau once again won the A-Grade title. He beat Phil Thompson Snr two frames to nil in the best-of-three-frames final. Thompson knocked out...