RUGBYA TRIO of young Poverty Bay rugby players will be part of a Hurricanes age-group training camp next month. Loosehead prop Jordan McFarlane, the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 captain, will join fellow prop Sione Mafileo, flanker Khian...
RUGBYIt was The Maunga’s moment in the sun. Hikurangi capped their centenary weekend — 100 years of one of the East Coast rugby competition’s great clubs — by eclipsing Tokomaru Bay United 87-5 on Saturday. Coach Doone Harrison’s side...
RUGBYWhen Renee Holmes made the Black Ferns Northern Tour squad she told the Gisborne Herald it had always been a dream to play for her country in front of her grandmother. This morning, Holmes was named to start at fullback for her first test cap as...
POWERBOATINGA CLASSY field will contest Round 1 of the New Zealand offshore powerboat championship across Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay tomorrow and Sunday. Taan’s Thunder in the Bay has attracted 15 boats and crews. The event begins with the...
Rugby lightning struck twice there. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 beat Tauranga Boys’ College 22-10 for the Moascar Cup, the “Ranfurly Shield of New Zealand secondary schools rugby”, at Tauranga in 1983. And they beat TBC 22-9 to...
A change of mindset has Gisborne’s Tayler Reid believing more than ever that he can medal at the ITU World Triathlon Grand Final on the Gold Coast next month. Reid is home for a couple of weeks after two full-on months of training and competing in...
SOFTBALLTHREE sides put together convincing wins in the latest round of Tairawhiti senior softball. Gisborne Boys’ High School shut out Uawa 12-0 at Waikirikiri Park on Friday. Boys’ High pitcher Caleb Kingi was unstoppable and Corban Richter was...
CRAMP did its level best to upset a few competitors on Saturday . . . but 2015 Coast Duathlon champion Terry Scott held on to just enough of a lead he built on the bike to survive a cramp-affected run to the finish at Te Puia as his lead was...
FOOTBALL - TWO passages of play with a touch of magic kept Gisborne United at the top of football's Pacific Premiership on Saturday. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United beat reigning champions Port Hill 2-0 in Napier, thanks to goals from Corey...
The last Bowls Gisborne East Coast Centre tournament of the 2018-19 season, the 2-4-2 Mixed Pairs, takes place at the Gisborne Bowling Club this weekend starting at 8.30am tomorrow and finishing on Sunday afternoon. The event was scheduled to be...
Poverty Bay club rugby, premier: GT Shearing Waikohu 19 Farm Vets Young Maori Party 38. HT: 21-14 (YMP).Larsawn Ngatapa 38 High School Old Boys 12. HT: Ngatapa 21-5. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates v Enterprise Cars OBM deferred. Most Valuable Player...
FORMER Poverty Bay batsman Carl Carmody roared with laughter when it was put to him that he could be the man who stops Pirates from winning their third successive Doleman Cup cricket final, at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow.“I’ve only been back...
SHARKS beat Stallions by five games in the Brezz N Darts Competition, although Stallions struck first in the singles. Stallions’ Kayne Arahanga defeated Ken Lewis 2-0 but Lewis’s teammates responded smartly. For Sharks, Nikki-Jean Stevenson...
WHANGARA Old Girls bounced back from an inconsistent start to round 2 of the Pak’nSave Gisborne premier competition in style with a win over IMS High School Old Girls on Saturday. In the pick of the two games at the YMCA on Saturday, Whangara beat...
LOOSIE Tulsa Kaui and No. 8 Tapu Dixon shared the match honours as Aon Waikohu stormed back from 22-8 down at halftime to beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates in a thriller at Rugby Park on Saturday. Tries to prop Dan Tutauha, first five-eighth Jordan...
RUGBYIt was gritty. The Thames Valley under-18 rugby team beat their Ngati Porou East Coast opposites 19-12 yesterday, but left Whakarua Park in Ruatoria knowing they’d been in a fight.“We pinched lineout ball from them — as they did to us —...
SPEEDWAY by Murray RobertsonTHE Gisborne Speedway Club has been forced to cancel its next scheduled meeting for the season this Saturday night due to some drivers and cars not being available. Met Service forecasts showing rain and south-easterlies...
FATHER-and-son sidecar duo Deane and Rob Miller will ride again together this weekend in a one-off comeback at the Rosebank track in Auckland. The pair ended their nine-year racing career together with victory in the Auckland championships at...
WAIROA was the venue for the Gisborne-East Coast champion of champions triples bowls events. Men’s and women’s club champions in open grade and in divisions for those with up to eight years of bowls experience turned out in force to contest the...
HOROUTA Gold and Gisborne Girls' High School were big winners in the first of the challenge round netball games last night. Gillies Electrical GGHS Senior A defeated JT Contractors Horouta Taimana 60-43 in the first of two Pak'nSave competition games...
CALLUM Gordon and Kendra Tate conquered extremely muddy conditions to take home the trophies in the Motu Special mountainbike races on Sunday. Gordon was men’s winner in the 50km Weka Special while Tate was women’s winner in the 25km Falcon...
Gold medals to Waikanae’s Chloe Kapene and Midway’s Harry Hayward and Ella Sutton were Gisborne’s highlights of the last two days of the Oceans 19 New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships that ended yesterday at Mount...
GISBORNE golfer Tini Hawea comfortably made the cut for today’s final round of the New Zealand men’s age-group strokeplay on the Bridge Pa course at Hastings. In windy conditions yesterday, Hawea added 5-over 77 to his opening round of 78 for...
CRICKETOne game went down to the wire, while the other wrapped up rather quickly. Old Boys Rugby (2) recorded their second win of the season in 29 overs of cricket’s 30-over Hope Cup competition at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. They beat Campion...
KahutiaKAHUTIA Bowling Club wound up its 2015/2016 season with the Liquorland sponsored Classic Fours on Saturday. Sixty-four players, including a good representation from the Gisborne and Poverty Bay clubs, took the greens. Sixteen teams of four...
Tairawhiti ki o rahi athletes will showcase their skills on home soil this year when the region hosts the New Zealand Secondary School Ki o Rahi National Tournament this month. To help make the event happen, the tournament organising committee...
Enterprise Swim Team won the award for top club overall at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay winter swimming championships in Hastings. This was the club’s 19th overall team title in the past 30 years at this meet. Club member Tyler Finau, 15, swam the...
LAWN BOWLS by StarweedThe Centre Open Mixed Pairs was completed late Sunday afternoon. With 22 entries the top 16 qualifiers went through to post-section Sunday. The others went to a consolation. After qualifying, the teams were seeded with top...
RUGBYA NEW club eager to expand their footprint in Poverty Bay rugby take the field when the new season kicks off on Saturday. Pirates-GMC are an amalgam of the Buccaneers, who could not field a team last season because of work commitments, and GMC...
The men's and women's junior teams from Bowls Gisborne East-Coast will play their annual Waitangi Day junior intercentre fixture against their Hawke's Bay counterparts at Wairoa Bowling Club on Monday. Both centres agreed to include junior players...