HIGH School Old Boys skipper Tyler Phelps says his team won’t need motivating for tomorrow’s Doleman Cup cricket clash against Pirates at Harry Barker Reserve.“It’s all the boys have been talking about ever since Sunday’s win against...
Competition intensity increased as teams reached the third week and halfway mark of the BIZminton3 league. Many players have improved markedly, and the noise is getting louder as the rallies get longer. Results from Week 3: Sport Gisborne defeated...
THE development shown by the Lytton Old Boys A men’s hockey side in the past month will be tested tonight when they take on the unbeaten YMP A on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The other major highlight this weekend comes right at the...
The Gisborne Intermediate Year 7 girls’ team were undefeated as they won their division of the Super 11 Bay of Plenty/Poverty Bay Intermediate Schools Touch Tournament in Rotoru
One of the first signs that autumn is upon us is here, with the final week of the regular season cricket tomorrow. With the leaderboard rankings of both Galaxy World Gisborne Boys' High School and Horouta solidified, this weekend will be a dress...
Eastland Masters will restart their 2020 interprovincial badminton season this weekend in a revamped competition in Rotorua. Eastland started their 2020 season in March, before the Covid-19 lockdown. Badminton New Zealand has made a few adjustments...
Gisborne surfer Jay Quinn celebrated his return to major New Zealand competition by progressing to the semifinals of the Backdoor King and Queen of the Point at Manu Bay, Raglan, yesterday. The talent-laden fields were whittled down to the final four...
WHEN Bob Davie arrived in Gisborne in 1964 there were only a handful or so of surfers, many riding mere “planks of wood”. By the time the Australian-born champion surfer and revolutionary surfboard shaper left in late 1966 the Gisborne surfing...
GISBORNE’S Matt Scott has moved a stroke closer to qualifying for the world open water championships in winning the New Zealand men’s 10-kilometre title in Taupo on Saturday. The Enterprise Cars Swim Team member won a sprint finish after the top...
The first songs that greeted OBM’s players in their clubrooms were We Are the Champions and (Simply) the Best, and after a 65-5 rout of their opponents, no one could argue with that. Enterprise Cars OBM lifted the Lee Bros Shield for the first time...
RUGBYSuper 8 competition is the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15’s main focus. And just over a month out from their Round 1 clash with Palmerston North here, head coach Ryan Tapsell and his Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 spent an...
The Gisborne Speedway Club has now decided to allow fans to attend the club day planned for tomorrow, to open the season for 2021-22 at the Eastland Group Raceway. Covid Level 2 requirements thwarted plans the club had for a major season-opening...
Those keen on playing netball on the sand will be excited to know Gisborne Netball Centre is bringing back beach netball over summer. The six-week Beach Netball League league, sponsored by Jenny Murray of Bayleys, starts on Tuesday, February 2, and...
Spectators were treated to high-class club rugby and players were rewarded accordingly as Poverty Bay's one-off Money Round became a “game of three halves” at Rugby Park on Saturday. Play was moved from Barry Park to Rugby Park for three...
IT is almost as if it was scripted. Coming into the European leg of the men’s World Surf League Championship Tour it looked like South Africa’s Jordy Smith or Hawaiian wunderkind John John Florence had the world title in the bag. After Smith...
NetballPAK’nSAVE Gisborne Netball, SaturdaySenior semifinals (2). Junior finals week. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Primary and intermediate prize-giving will be held downstairs in the pavilion as soon as possible after the 11.30am round...
Ngatapa can take a lot out of Saturday's game with Pirates. The green-and-whites had lost their previous match against YMP by 19 points, but at the weekend first five-eighth Ricardo Patricio — arguably the competition's form player — converted...
Points will be critical for Gisborne Girls' High School Senior A when they take on Waikohu (1) in premier netball at the YMCA tomorrow morning. JT Contractors Horouta Gold have put the squeeze on the third and fourth playoff places, by virtue of...
The YMP A women and Lytton Old Boys top side went on scoring rampages in Gisborne hockey at the weekend, scoring 38 goals between them. Sizeable scores were also recorded by Ngatapa, Gisborne Boys' High School and GMC Green. LOB HPY Advisors...
A wheelchair rugby programme tomorrow afternoon has had a change of venue. The session, part of Rugby Awareness Week in Poverty Bay and which will feature a visit from Black Ferns player Charmaine McMenamin, will be at Lytton High School from 3.30pm
SPEEDWAYGISBORNE saloon car racer Daniel Cook drove his car (77G) to victory at Baypark Stadium, Mt Maunganui, on Saturday night to win back-to-back North Island saloon car titles and he was rapt about it. The 27-year-old started out with 24 other...
CENTRAL lost their fourth and fifth games at the national under-21 hockey tournament at North Harbour. Against Southern on Wednesday, Central lost 5-0 in a game where they had enough of the play to do much better. Yesterday they lost 6-3 to Capital...
YMP A won through to the premier men’s final, Gisborne Girls’ High School striker Brooke Willock scored six goals and GMC Kowhai beat Ngatapa — they were the highlights of local weekend hockey. The demolition job the YMP A women did on Paike...
Gisborne kayak paddler Alicia Hoskin has her first international medal and is looking forward to more success with Olympic great Lisa Carrington. Hoskin and Carrington, who also has Tairawhiti family links, teamed up in the K2 500 metres and took...
SURFINGTHE standard teenager Stella Smith sets for herself was reinforced by her reaction to making history at the ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship in China yesterday. Smith, 16, placed third in the final of the open women’s stand-up...
BASKETBALLIT'S a kind of sporting deliverance. The biggest Gisborne Basketball Association leagues in history will continue at the YMCA and John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre this week. GBA chairman Dwayne Tamatea is thankful that both the men’s...
A line-up of 26 teams will take part in the annual Kathleen Henderson tournament at Victoria Domain this weekend to open the netball season in the district. Gisborne Netball Centre manager Allisa Hall said it was “awesome” to have so many teams...
Gisborne Boys’ High School basketball players showed their resilience in Rotorua yesterday afternoon. Hamilton’s Hillcrest High School beat the Keenan Ruru-Poharama-coached GBHS in Game 1 of the AA Zone 2 Premierships 72-58. This was despite the...
CRICKETOBR'S season in Poverty Bay premier-grade club cricket has ended in a whimper. They forfeited their final game against Horouta on Saturday. OBR, the 2019 DJ Barry Cup champions, defaulted in two of their last three games in this year's...
BMXGISBORNE BMX rider Jett Larby’s dream of one day becoming a professional rider came one step closer to reality last weekend. Larby dominated the amateur field of the first annual New Zealand BMX Park Nationals in his first competition. He said he...