The call is out for anyone who wants to play social summer netball, starting next week at Gisborne Netball Centre's courts. The league is run by the GNC youth activation group and will be a Fast5 format. Teams have five players on the court at a time...
A FIRECRACKER of a game kicked off the second week of the Fulton Hogan secondary school rugby competition on Wednesday. Gisborne Boys’ High School under-15 colts beat the first 15 of Campion College 19-5 in a senior competition game under lights at...
POVERTY Bay teams have made successful starts to under-13 hockey tournaments in Stratford and Levin. The PB boys’ team have had two wins at the Curtis Cup tournament in Stratford. They beat Manawatu 2-1, with goals to Noah Torrance-Cribb and William...
NEARLY 300 athletes will converge on Midway Beach this weekend for the combined Gisborne and Bay of Plenty senior surf lifesaving championships. The Eastland Port 2018 Champion of the Bays will draw on the best of the best from local and visiting...
Poverty Bay-East Coast put up a gritty fight without reward in their final clash at the national interprovincial golf tournament in Auckland on Friday. PBEC lost 5-0 to Southland on the Whitford Park course but all five of the matches were close. PBEC...
Year 5 and 6 students did battle on the LJ Hooker Turf this week at the inter-primary school hockey tournament. Ten schools were drawn to compete in the Te Hapara School-run event and after pool games and playoffs, St Mary’s emerged champions...
CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events — visitors welcome. Saturday — GCC Saturday Summer Series Race 4. Sign-on: 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Campion College. Race start: 2pm. Marshals: Phil Rowland, Steve Wolter. Graded race: Campion to top of Harris Hill...
FRANK Ball finally has his hands on a trophy he should have won nine years ago. The left-hander defeated Bernie Rothschild in the Challenge Cup championship 8 final at the Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Poverty Bay Senior Men’s Open on the Poverty Bay...
The first Surf Life Saving New Zealand pool rescue national championships in two years will take place this weekend in Auckland, and 10 athletes from the Gisborne surf clubs will take part. Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the SLSNZ pool nationals...
CRICKETComprehensive — such was Campion College’s 31-run win against Gisborne Boys’ High School in Round 5 of T20 C Grade cricket at Nelson Park on Wednesday. Campion won the toss and made 168-4, with captain Max Briant (33 retired from No. 1)...
footballPacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Fujitsu Maycenvale United AFC Premiers. 3pm: St Leonards 1, Hastings, Western Rangers Premiers v Heavy Equipment United. Eastern League 1...
SPEEDWAYTHE Gisborne Giants superstock team lost to the Christchurch team at that track last weekend and at the same meeting 1NZ streetstocker Brenden Gooch from Gisborne scored a win, a fourth placing and a fifth in a 20-car field. The Giants raced...
The finals of the men's and women's shootouts on Saturday will be played with a tinge of sadness. But that's not what Chic Brown would have wanted. Chic passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74 and will be dearly missed by his Park clubmates. If...
TEAMS had lots of fun and some used a little bit of deceptive play to win points in Week 2 of BIZminton4. Serving has improved, and rallies have got longer. Teams are now divided into two round robins — the Championship Group, made up of all the...
Surf Life Saving New Zealand sport manager Mike Lord describes Cory Taylor’s win in the fifth round of the Nutri-Grain Ironman Series at Surfers Paradise on Saturday as a “huge achievement” and says everyone in the New Zealand surf lifesaving...
RUGBY - TWO tries with less than eight minutes on the clock had YMP fans jumping for joy as their team snatched victory from Ngatapa. The 31-27 win for East Coast Farm Vets YMP was a bitter pill to swallow for Larsawn Ngatapa, who had led from the...
Mercantile badmintonBIZminton 2 started last Wednesday night, with enthusiasm and a lot of laughs. Many of the teams had played in BIZminton in August. Some close matches had only a point separating the teams, but some mismatches were also...
RugbyHeartland Championship: North Otago 34 Contract Consultants Poverty Bay 30; Thames Valley 43 Ngati Porou East Coast 15. Hurricanes under-18s: Poverty Bay 20 Hawke’s Bay Saracens 10; Wanganui 40 Ngati Porou East Coast 14U16s pre-season: Bay of...
BASKETBALLThey’re bursting. For 300 youngsters, Pettigrew Green Arena at Taradale, Napier — the venue for NBA centre Steven Adams’s camp today — is the centre of everything. Weighn Wilson, selected as the Meadow Fresh winner for Adams’s...
DARTSTHE Mad on Darts tour comes to Gisborne this weekend, with competition at Brezz’n Darts Club’s base in Derby Street tomorrow and on Sunday. Mad on Darts was started to introduce new players to the sport, says tour organiser Craig Dunn.“We...
RUGBYWeek 6 can be like that. Most years at this stage of the season, Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby produces unexpected results and clear indicators. Unbeaten competition leaders Hicks Bay have now won five games straight and amassed 25...
GISBORNE Park women’s golf team’s short trip down the road ended in a district title on Monday, and it could ultimately reap national glory. The Park crew of Jean Foot, Carney Pipi, Blanche Walker and Wiki Morrissey won the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty...
JAMES van Aswegen collected three medals — gold, silver and bronze — at the New Zealand trampolining championships in Auckland.“James won gold in the 10-years-and-under synchronised, along with Jacob Scholefield,” Eastland Port Gisborne...
'It is hard to mention special players as it was the whole team working as one'
AUCKLAND — New Zealander Paddy Chapman has been crowned world croquet champion, coming from behind to beat four-time winner Reg Bamford of South Africa 3-2 in a marathon final in Wellington. Chapman, 30, prevailed 26-19 0-26tp 0-26tp 26tp-11 26tp-9...
HERE they come. City Lights will defend their Gisborne club basketball crown against Old School at the YMCA on Friday, September 22. In last night’s semifinal, City Lights beat the Dragons 57-40 on the back of phenomenal three-point shooting by Ryan...
Gisborne Thistle coach Garrett Blair will be without one of his key players but welcomes back another for tomorrow’s Pacific Premiership match against Maycenvale United at Childers Road Reserve at 2.30pm. Midfielder Olly Tilley faces a mandatory...
SURF LIFESAVINGMIDWAY won the points competition by a big margin in the Gisborne/Tairawhiti junior surf lifesaving championships at Midway Beach on Friday and Saturday. They accumulated 380 points, with Wainui second on 170 and Waikanae third on...
Poverty BayIF bouncing back from adversity is a a reflection of character, Darren Patumaka and Deevon Gray showed plenty of it in the Enterprise Motor Warehouse men’s open foursomes on Saturday . . . or perhaps they were simply beyond caring...
Te Karaka Taekwon Do members had their own tournament at Kaiti School last weekend. The Taekwondo calendar had been so busy, with so much travelling, that instructors Kevin and Sally Cale, and Rebekha Upston decided to run a tournament in Gisborne so...
FAMILIES featured at Eastland Kart Club's end-of-season prize-giving at the Cosmopolitan Club last Sunday. Shanan Gooch won the Rotax class and his son Koby won the Junior KTs. Conrad Gooch won the Rookie class, Nixon Gooch was third in the same...
BRIAN “BJ” Morrissey teed his ball up on the 10th, banged it down the middle, put his second shot to three feet from the pin and slotted the putt for birdie. It was his first hole of the day and set the tone for the veteran as he added another...