WHILE many were enjoying a sleep-in, were out for breakfast or catching up on the All Blacks test, this lot were pounding the roads for 21 kilometres in the Matokitoki Classic yesterday. See more pictures on our Photo page
Women's net: J Ewart 89-23-66, M Philip 94-28-66. Men's stableford, 0-13: T Reeves 61, J Brown 63, E Brown Jr 67, H Brown 69, P Molloy 69. Junior division: M Smith 63, S Pittar 63, J Neilson 65, M de Luze 66, D Skudder 66. Women's net: M Philip 69, S...
Ngatapa club day at Patutahi has a marvellous vibe. Third division championship-winning former Poverty Bay head coach Kiwi Searancke said, “Performances create occasions and not the other way around.” Larsawn Ngatapa might remember that, even as...
The Bowls Gisborne East Coast Centre open singles championships get under way with section play tomorrow. Post-section play will be on Sunday. The Martin Cup is at stake in the men’s event, and 24 bowlers will be on the greens at Kahutia Bowling...
Fleet-footed Waikanae beach sprinter and flags exponent Seven Mapu has got his summer off to a flying start, showing his opponents a clean pair of heels in his opening carnivals. The 15-year-old’s star is on the rise in surf lifesaving this season...
FANTASTIC defence was a feature of the two women’s hockey matches on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve last night. Top teams YMP A and GMC Green struggled to beat less fancied opponents. Ben Holden Fencing Ngatapa lost 2-1 to GMC Green and...
FOR one team, it’s the end of the season; for another, it’s their favourite time of year. Waiapu go to Whakarua Park this Saturday for the last game of the round-robin. Lying in wait will be competition leaders Hikurangi, who in Week 17 led...
BASKETBALLThey didn’t lift a finger . . . they didn’t have to. Defending women’s club basketball champions Lytton High School beat eighth-placed Gisborne Girls’ High School by default in Game 1 of the club quarterfinals at the John McFarlane...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Jesse Noa Noa (2NZ Rebels), Lorenzo Kaa (2NZ Rebels), Cris Kiri (2NZ Titans), Te Kotahi (TK) Kaio (2NZ Titans), Mike Hughes (2NZ Bullz), George Vaotu’ua (2NZ Bullz), Ngata Monik...
RECENTLY deceased All Black great Waka Nathan was one of those players who “put bums on seats”.It was no different when he played a pre-season charity match at Gisborne’s Rugby Park on March 28, 1964. He led his own Waka Nathan XV to a 36-19...
HOCKEYA draw between defending women’s champions YMP A and arch-rivals GMC Green in the opening game of the Poverty Bay A-Grade division highlighted Poverty Bay senior hockey fixtures at the weekend. YMP A had been dominant over the season so far...
CricketEASTLAND Broncos all-rounder Robbie Tallott is not the only threat to Smash Palace Bail Breakers in Walker Shield T15 Blast cricket at Harry Barker Reserve tonight from 5.45pm. Tallott, back from Otago University, sounded a warning to the T15...
NETBALLWHANGARA Old Girls bounced back big time and Ritana Senior A turned in another sterling performance in premier grade netball at the YMCA last night. Whangara Old Girls were all over Claydens Waikohu and and beat them 52-37 in the Pak’nSave...
VICTORY in the optional pairs tournament for those over 60 was a first for Maurice Allan at Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s greens last week. Allan teamed up with Robin Jefferson to achieve his first success at this level. Fourteen teams — seven of...
JETSPRINTINGGISBORNE’S Blake Briant and Kate Hoogerbrug have dipped out of the New Zealand Jetsprinting Championship with a couple of rounds to go. The Harvey Transport Bar’s Bugs team made it into the top nine of the superboats class at Hastings...
KahutiaVISITORS from Poverty Bay, Gisborne and Tolaga Bay bowling clubs added to the sense of occasion when Kahutia Bowling Club held an open triples tournament last week. Kahutia senior player Murray Owen skipped the winning team in the Beetham...
It felt like summer at the opening round of the Fun5 beach netball competition yesterday
GRANTSDisabled tamariki and rangatahi (children and young people) will benefit from a new $3.6 million fund launched by Sport NZ this week. The fund, to be invested over three years, is to support initiatives and programmes that increase...
A DEPLETED Gisborne Boys’ High School side went down to one of the heaviest defeats in their first-15 history when they lost 52-3 to Sacred Heart College in an interschool rugby match in Auckland yesterday. Gisborne — who were without several key...
TRIATHLONA BRONZE medal in the mixed teams triathlon has whetted the appetite of Gisborne’s Tayler Reid.“I’m hungry for more medals,” said the 21-year-old, who anchored the team of Nicole van der Kaay, Ryan Sissons and Andrea Hewitt to third...
THE ECT rescue helicopter was called out on Saturday afternoon to airlift an injured rugby player to Gisborne Hospital from Tokomaru Bay with a serious ankle injury. The call came in from the Coast at about 3.30pm. The 28-year-old man had suffered...
All the preparation comes to a head tomorrow as Waikohu and YMP face off at Rugby Park to decide who will be local club rugby champions. At stake is the Lee Bros Shield, awarded to the winners of the Civil Project Solutions club rugby...
EASTLAND Kart Club organisers came up with a novel way of finding a winner from a three-way tie on Sunday: a piggyback race. It was the Gisborne Curtains best-pairs meeting, with 41 pairs taking part. Drivers were paired across different classes, so...
Transtasman young rider test (final points after three days of competition): New Zealand 16, Australia 13. Series results, Equissage Open Horse Grand Prix: Olivia Robertson (Christchurch) DH’s Ceniki 1, Katie Laurie (Mystery Creek) Dunstan...
Electrinet Park will launch an attack from two fronts in a bid to end a 10-year title drought when the 2021 Oligoi Jug men's interclub pennants tees off tomorrow. Park have two teams entered in this year's series, which starts at Te Puia Springs —...
RUGBYSemifinals are nerve-racking affairs . . . or blowouts. Uawa, the defending champions of East Coast club rugby, favoured the latter at home on Saturday. They beat Hicks Bay 51-3 in a 1 v 4 semifinal at Tolaga Bay. Uawa’s victory means they will...
HIGH School Old Boys coach Wayne Ensor is taking nothing for granted as he prepares for tomorrow’s clash with Aon Waikohu at the Oval. Woodbank HSOB lead the premier rugby competition by 10 points, with five games to play before the semifinals. But...
Tokararangi will face TVC in the final of the Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition this weekend. Top qualifiers Tokararangi proved too good for Hicks Bay in their semifinal at Te Araroa on Saturday — a 34-12 victory sealing...
A shared love of cricket is what’s behind this. On Saturday, Campion College won the Naden-Taylor Trophy for competition against the Horouta Cricket Club for the first time in the trophy’s short history. Named for the Naden family, three...
Vern Marshall and Ngamiro Allen were in familiar territory when they won the Val Smith 2-4-2 Mixed Pairs Tournament over the weekend. Presenting the Evelyn Mills Trophy to them for winning the tournament, Trevor Mills said Marshall had won the...
A FIGHTING skipper’s knock was the sole highlight as Gisborne Boys’ High School suffered another heavy loss at the Super 8 secondary schools tournament here yesterday. Captain Robbie Tallott scored 82 of GBHS’s 116-all out in a 50-over clash...
“THIS is our happy place” was one description of Eastland Kart Club's fun meeting on Sunday. Te Aroha Dirt Kart Club brothers Chris and Shane Grey would vouch for that after bringing over machines they built themselves. Racing in the rotax class...
BASKETBALLDay 1 was both tough and enormously rewarding. The Thomas Tindale-Adam Tapsell-coached Gisborne under-15 girls’ basketball team at the Aon National Tournament in Takanini, South Auckland, lost 65-50 to last year’s national champions and...