GISBORNE-Mahia pro surfer Ricardo Christie has been knocked out in the first round of the Australian Open of Surfing. Gold Coast-based Christie could only muster a two-wave total of 9.40 (out of a possible 20) in wind-affected, waist-high waves at...
OFTEN in life — especially when young — we become fixated on the future, regarding the past as dull and unimportant. Surfers are no different. We are obsessed with the latest surfboards, wetsuits, wave pools, aerial manoeuvres — all flashing...
HIGH School Old Boys won last night’s crucial Walker Shield T20 cricket match against OBR by nine wickets to claim second place on the table with two rounds left before the final. The former students lost only the wicket of Jak Rowe as they chased...
St Mary’s are not resting on their laurels after winning the Gisborne inter-school years 5 and 6 hockey tournament last week. An 11-strong St Mary’s Wekas team are heading to Napier next week to compete at the Small Sticks hockey festival. They...
MANGAPAPA Hurricanes had a three-out-of three record in the primary school football competitions they entered this year. They won the Primary A Grade football league, the knockout cup and the primary school six-a-side competition. They played 13 games...
It's time to get back to rugby. On Friday, April 22, a muster for women's rugby will be held at Rugby Park, and on April 23 the “Tiny” White Opening Day for premier-grade club rugby will be held at the Oval. The first round of the Senior 1 club...
RIPPA RUGBYMangapapa School will represent their provincial team, Poverty Bay, and a Rugby World Cup participating country, Russia, when they play Rippa Rugby in Wellington from tomorrow. Fourteen primary school teams took part in the Gisborne...
POVERTY Bay's sole female flagbearer was in the qualifying hunt but the six-strong home men's challenge were teetering on the edge of oblivion heading into day two of the New Zealand amateur in Gisborne. Tessa McDonald opened 36 holes of strokeplay...
Tolaga BayDIVISION 1 winners at Tolaga Bay Bowling Club’s annual two-day triples tournament were Mark Bain and Marilyn Knowles of the Poverty Bay club and John “Hone” Burema of Tolaga Bay. Burema is one of the new members the Tolaga Bay club...
THE wet weather got the better of Gisborne Speedway Club at the weekend. After three attempts to stage the New Zealand sidecar championship meeting, the club postponed it until March. A wet track stopped the qualifying rounds on Friday night and...
GISBORNE Thistle’s Central Federation League game against Red Sox Manawatu, set down for Skoglund Park in Palmerston North tomorrow, has been postponed. Thistle coach Matt Hastings said that Central Football’s Manawatu operations manager, Donald...
SWIMMINGTHIRTY points separated the top three clubs at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships in Hastings. Gisborne’s Enterprise Swim Club and Comet Swim Club finished a close first and second respectively, ahead of the Napier...
A SCULPTURE depicting Gisborne’s historic association with surfing is planned to be installed later this year. GDC granted consent for the project in October 2017. Gisborne District Council Arts in Public Places Trust (AIPP) trustee Kay Crosby said...
A BLAST from the not-so-distant past turned up at the Olympic Pool on Saturday to inspire Comet Swimming Club youngsters preparing for the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay summer championships. Seven years ago, Emily Atkins (nee Thomas) represented New...
TRIATHLONTAYLER Reid and the New Zealand mixed relay triathlon team have had a confidence-boosting victory as they prepare for the Olympics. New Zealand won the relay at Edmonton, Canada, yesterday and Gisborne’s Reid was buzzing about the...
Poverty Bay Kayak Club members have made a strong start to the Canoe Sprint Junior and Under-23 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, overnight. Britney Ford and Kim Thompson are part of the New Zealand crew who advanced to the final of the u23...
TEAMS from Taradale, Ohope and Hastings won the three divisions of the Eastern Region Chartered Clubs Bowls Tournament at the Kahutia Bowling Club greens this week. Cam Parnell’s Taradale team won Division A, Des Connor’s Ohope four won Division...
AS QUICKLY as the swells arrived last week, they just as quickly disappeared. First we had one of the most pumping starts to the New Year with a two-day pulsing southeast swell lighting up Wainui, giving everyone a New Year barrel or 10. Then...
RUGBYSTEPPING past a defender and scoring a try for the Hurricanes against the Blues reminded Isaia Walker-Leawere of what it felt like playing rugby when he was a boy in Ruatoria.“It was kind of like when I was little at Whakarua Park, running...
SPEEDWAYA DEMOLITION ramp race, best pairs sidecars, production saloon car championship and a visit from Santa will finish off the year at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night. Gisborne Speedway Club president Neil Gooch said the Jukes Carriers...
Poverty Bay won all three of their games in the Northern Districts secondary schoolgirls’ cricket tournament in Tauranga this week. With play rained off on Monday and Tuesday, all games were played on Wednesday. Teams played three games of 10 overs...
It’s time to close the book on Twenty20 cricket for the season. Bain Construction Old Boys Rugby’s 1pm clash with Bollywood High School Old Boys on the rep wicket at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow will provide a fitting shorter-form finale for the...
NEW OBM coach Tom Solomon says he is more nervous than his players as they prepare for their first game in the 2018 premier rugby championship tomorrow. Enterprise OBM, who had the bye on the Tiny White Opening Day two weeks ago, play Tapuae at the...
BEING a nation of two skinny islands at the bottom of the South Pacific above the world’s most volatile ocean means our conditions are as temperamental as Donald Trump’s Twitter account. In the middle of winter it might be a scorcher while in the...
CRICKETPoverty Bay took six wickets off a strong Northland in the first round of 50-over games at the Northern Districts senior secondary schoolboys’ tournament here yesterday. The Graham Hudson-coached Bay made 150 and Northland replied with 152-6...
WAINUI Demons have done it again. They sneaked up on Carpet Court Thistle, coshed them and took off with three points. The Demons came from two goals down to beat third-placed Thistle 3-2 in Eastern League Division 1 football at Wainui on Saturday. It...
Gis Int up against ‘whirlwind’Gisborne Intermediate came up against a whirlwind pitcher who proved their undoing in the Bay of Plenty-Poverty Bay Intermediate Schools Softball Tournament boys’ final last month. Tauranga Intermediate beat...
Whether it is better to have loved and lost or to have been so near yet so far from victory, unfolded yesterday morning in Taradale. Poverty Bay lost their fifth and by far their closest 30-over game at the Riverbend/Hawke's Bay Year 6 Black Grade...
Swimmers from Gisborne were among the medals at the New Zealand Short Course Championships in Auckland. Enterprise Cars Swim Team’s Jack Keepa set a Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay age group record and won a gold medal in the 15 years boys 100 metres...
RUGBYIt sounds like fantasy. But after 60 minutes, OBM and Pirates had drawn 41-all in a remarkable game of rugby in the under-13 weight-restricted grade on Waikirikiri Park ground No. 1, while on No. 2 a strong Horouta side beat Eastland Vets Ngatap...
Poverty BayWHEN Tuki Sweeney teed off last Thursday, it had been a long time between 19th-hole drinks that he had felt the sub-80 love at Poverty Bay. Eighteen holes and 76 shots later, not only was he savouring the sweet taste of form, he was to...