Mainlander Olivia Robertson had been hoping to make her Larsen Sawmilling Showjumping Championships debut on board a “Coastie”. One of her top horses is locally-bred Ngahiwi Cisco, who also made the trip to Gisborne but has been scratched after...
HECTIC — that’s what Game 3 of Gisborne men’s club basketball league could be tonight, when the firebrands of City Lights take on Pure Sound. The Pound drew 30-30 with SE Systems last week and City Lights had the bye. Rust could be an issue for...
Gisborne hockey's Olympic and World Cup umpire Amber Church marked her 100th international game this month when she officiated in the fourth and final transtasman test between the women's Black Sticks and the Hockeyroos. Church officiated in all four...
RUGBYTHE look on Poverty Bay skipper Tamanui Hill’s face said it all after his side blew a great opportunity to put themselves into contention for a top-four spot in the Heartland Championship. They lost 37-34 to Thames Valley in a thriller at...
Fantastic — that word fairly describes the Paikea club’s ground-breaking exploits in Queensland, Australia, last week. In Paikea’s first 15-a-side foray overseas they won the under-13 section of the 24th Gold Coast Rugby Carnival. Three months...
CRICKETA GOOD young cricketer has left his mark. Kelan Bryant scored his maiden century yesterday — 115 not out off 58 balls — in the last interschool game of the season. He hit eight sixes and 13 fours in Gisborne Intermediate’s 108-run win...
Congratulations this week go to Sue Hayward and Noel Minnaar for their score of 76.19 yesterday. Carolyn McMurray, Trish Corson 63.49 Yvonne Waide, Eileen Lee 61.11John Rouse, Graham Maclaurin 58.73 Helen Kerisome, Stephen Franks 50.79Robin Corson...
SPEEDWAYA JAMMED gearbox off the start line in the last heat of the finals cost Gisborne’s Ben Holt (4G) any chance of a podium finish in the New Zealand stock car championships. He was the only Gisborne driver to make the finals and finished...
FLY FISHINGTHREE-time national fly fishing champion Cory Scott has one or two competitive events left in him before he hangs up his rod. The Gisborne angler is preparing for the world championships to be held in Tasmania from November 30 to December...
It's as rough and tough as the biggest bucking bull in the round-up. Such is rugby's Barry Cup. The sub-union trophy held by Waikohu will this year, for the first time in its 98-year history, come under the auspices of New Zealand Rugby. Gone are the...
STEFAN Destounis scored three tries on debut as Ngati Porou East Coast ended a 10-year drought with a 26-8 win against LeaderBrand Poverty Bay at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria on Saturday. The 25-year-old Tokomaru United openside flanker celebrated his...
GISBORNE'S Tongan community came out in force to celebrate their team’s win over the Kiwis in the Rugby League World Cup on Saturday. The game was held in Hamilton but a crew of 40 to 50 Tongan supporters here made a big effort to get behind their...
THE Green Machine went back to back in the Poverty Bay senior women's hockey championship on Saturday and YMP 2 hoisted the Covid Cup in the men's final. GMC Green defeated YMP 2-1 in a thrilling end-to-end contest to decide the women's title for...
GISBORNE United player-coach Stu Cranswick scored a hat-trick in his side’s 4-1 extra-time win against Massey Celtic in Federation Cup football in Napier on Monday. The news wasn’t so good for Gisborne Thistle, who lost 4-2 to Red Sox Manawatu...
The mighty Tūranga Mana Wāhine will take the field for the last time this year tomorrow. They take on Thames Valley Vixens at the Oval — kick-off at 12.30pm. Last weekend the Wāhine turned on a try-scoring clinic in their 73-3 win over Ngāti...
HOCKEYIT’S good to be back, says Black Stick Mac Wilcox. The 22-year-old has been staying with his parents on their sheep and beef farm near Tolaga Bay this week. Training with the national men’s hockey side starts on Monday. The Black Sticks men...
YMP proved they have the potential to take out club rugby's premiership with their performance at the Oval on Saturday. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates struggled to get a foothold against the storming East Coast Farm Vets YMP team, who were 69-20 winners...
CricketPressure is fertile soil from which good cricketers grow. That’s what Grace Levy, Liam Barbier and the rest of the Bollywood Stars bowlers proved on Wednesday night, holding it all together to beat High School Old Boys Pups by 21 runs. Round...
OLIVIA Corrin is having a great year in the water. The Gisborne surf lifesaver, who competes for the Midway club, has been named co-captain of the New Zealand youth team — the Junior Black Fins — for the International Surf Rescue Challenge this...
BAY of Plenty returned to the top of the table after a big day at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships at Makorori yesterday. They have lost only one of 12 surfers in the event and that was more to illness than performance. The good start to...
They had their chances. The Gisborne team lost 65-40 to Rotorua in the final of the inaugural SAS Sports Conference Basketball League women’s competition on Saturday. The home team led 15-13, 30-22 and 45-29 throughout in front of nearly 100 fans at...
Pacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United v Western Rangers. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: HBR1, Heavy Equipment Services United v Lytton High School. 2.30pm: Wainui, Sunshine...
?RUGBYFORMER Poverty Bay Heartland rugby captain Mark Jefferson has taken over from Tom Cairns as Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 head coach.“Tom is in charge of rugby overall at the school so having his experience will be invaluable,”...
An open ironman victory to Jack Keepa from Waikanae and the same for Midway's Sophie Petro in the under-17 girls' iron were the outstanding Gisborne results at the Whangamata Classic surf lifesaving carnival on Saturday. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae head...
BASKETBALLThey never were one-dimensional. But on Monday night, City Lights proved more than that their interior defence is the equal of their perimeter shooting. They proved that the hard edge around the hoop remains — even ramps up — when the...
TRAMPOLININGKAIYA Huta and James van Aswegen were among the stars at the Gisborne Trampoline Club’s North Island Championships, held at the Electrinet Sports Centre. Huta, 16, won two gold medals — on tramp and double mini — and a silver on...
The strangest things happened in men’s club basketball at the YMCA last night. It was thought that Campion College would outsize Lytton High School in the Week 8 opener, Old School were expected by many to give Gisborne Boys’ High School...
WAKA ama paddler Gaibreill Wainohu has taken out the supreme award at the Tairawhiti Maori Sports Awards. Wainohu had an extraordinary meet at the Va’a world sprint championships in Tahiti in July last year, including winning the junior 19...
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HASTINGS club Western Rangers filled a bus with players, team veterans, sponsors and supporters for their Pacific Premiership football game at Childers Road Reserve in Gisborne on Saturday. They were thrilled with the 7-0 victory over ALH Gisborne...
HOCKEYA REMATCH between YMP A and THC headlines Poverty Bay club hockey this weekend at Harry Barker Reserve, and THC have a long way to come back from the thrashing they got last time the two sides met. YMP A dished out an 8-0 whitewash when the...
GisborneTwo bowlers barely in their teens — Ashli Ferris, 14, and Nathan Trowell, 13 — caused a buzz of excitement around the greens when the Gisborne Bowling Club’s pairs championships were decided at the weekend. The youngsters battled hard...
BadmintonNorth Island interprovincial masters’ Division 3 competition, second round: In Rotorua, Eastland defeated North Harbour (4) 8 matches to 4; Eastland def Counties Manukau (2) 8-4. GolfPoverty Bay (1) have retained the Oligoi Jug men’s...
Campion College beat Gisborne United 2-1 in extra time of their Braybrook Cup semifinal to give themselves a chance of the league-and-cup double. Campion will play the final of the knockout competition of Gisborne women's football against Bohemians...