They're looking good. The Trevor Crosby-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School under-15s beat a willing Trident High School u16 side 55-7 at Rugby Park in Whakatane on Saturday. Gisborne’s Amenaki Henoa scored two tries, with one each to his locking...
NETBALLmidweek premier-grade netball went the way of the higher-ranked teams at the YMCA last night, although one match was close till near the end. The first of the Pak’nSave premiership games ended in a 65-34 victory to YMP Sunshine Brewery over...
RUGBYYMP seized the competition lead in Poverty Bay premier rugby with a 31-14 victory over previous front-runners OBM on Saturday. In the other premier game, Larsawn Ngatapa beat Contract Consultants High School Old Boys. East Coast Farm Vets YMP now...
RUGBYby Angela Thomas, Wairoa StarWAIROA College student Amelia Pasikala was named Hawke’s Bay Tui women’s rugby squad’s most promising player for 2020. Hawke’s Bay Rugby women’s high-performance manager Mary-Jane Durkin said the...
A penalty goal 90 seconds from fulltime secured a one-point win for Gisborne Boys’ High School second 15 at the Rectory ground on Saturday. Reserve second five-eighth Tupai Matenga kicked the winning penalty in Gisborne’s 20-19 victory over the...
BMXRACING has resumed at the Gisborne BMX Club’s Lytton Road track as the build-up for the nationals continues. StridersEmily Wells, Seth Hancock and Frankie Fraser had a good evening on their bikes with five good motos. Six to sevenJax...
MARY Allan emerged a double victor in the final of the Primo Cup on Saturday. Male and female qualifiers converged on Awapuni Links to decide the champs, and a hidden partners competition was held in conjunction with the cup. Allan and John Holmes...
TRAMPOLININGGISBORNE trampolinists are rejoicing over the installation of two new airbags that will greatly improve their ability to safely learn new moves. They are the only bags of their kind in the country and they allow local trampolinists to...
GOLFPARS are not good enough. That harsh lesson was learned birdie by birdie — with a couple of eagles thrown in — by Poverty Bay-East Coast at the national interprovincial in Auckland yesterday. PBEC were beaten 4-1 by Bay of Plenty on Day 3 of...
These Gisborne Boys’ High School second-15 players have bite. The Mike Kora-coached GBHS side under captain and No. 8 Noah Torrance-Cribb had their first Super 8 victory of 2022 at Coronation Park 2 on Saturday — a 22-16 win against their...
Liam Barbier showed fight yesterday. The 16 year-old leg-spinner, having come in at No. 9 against Hamilton, battled for an hour and 16 minutes with technique and application to face 96 balls and lead Poverty Bay’s run-scorers with 30 in...
BADMINTONTEAMS from Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Horouta Wananga finished first and second in a Year 7 and 8 interschool badminton competition held at the Badminton Centre this month. This competition was cancelled last year because of Covid-19 cancelled...
GOLFTHE East Coast sporting spotlight will shine on a certain famous rugby shield tomorrow, but golf will be centre of attention in Tolaga Bay. As Ngati Porou East Coast players run out on to Napier’s McLean Park for their Ranfurly Shield clash...
HOCKEYJunior hockey players got to test their skills against teams from around the North Island when they travelled to Hawke’s Bay for a festival of hockey last week. The Big Save Small Sticks Festival which is held annually for primary school-age...
RUGBYGisborne Boys’ High School won’t soon forget lessons learned against Kelston. Their guests won three of the four clashes in the traditional interschool rugby fixture here last Saturday: the first 15, 71-6; second 15, 31-10; under-15s, 32-22...
Tonight, 6pm, Paddy’s Park 1, Larsawn Ngatapa v Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates (referee Jackson Reuben-Swinton).TOMORROW: 2.45pm, Oval 1, Gisborne HSOB v East Coast Farm Vets YMP (ref Aaron Brown); Te Karaka Domain, GT Shearing Waikohu v Enterprise...
Poverty Bay Cricket Association has announced logistical guidelines ahead of this weekend as the threat of Omicron remains in the community. In a statement, the association said the decision was made with “significant consideration” for player...
An Olympic triathlon selection stoush is brewing after nominations for both the men’s and women’s team have been appealed. Triathlon New Zealand last week notified the eligible athletes it intended to nominate for Olympic selection and caused...
DANE Thompson smashed the first century of the year with a swashbuckling unbeaten 110 as Pirates opened their DJ Barry Cup 40-over cricket campaign with a 135-run win against Horouta at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates...
The outstanding performances of the district’s leading sportspeople will be acknowledged tonight in a sell-out Bronwyn Kay Sporting Excellence Awards. Television personality and journalist Brodie Kane will MC an awards night that will also...
As part of a build-up to Rio 2016, our sister paper, the New Zealand Herald is counting down our top Olympic towns. Gisborne sits at number five. Find out how the list was compiled below.‘I was the only guy who hadn't already won gold’On his...
Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys v Horouta, Harry Barker Reserve rep wicket. Coastal Ultrasound Horouta second 11 v Campion College, Harry Barker 1; Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys Presidents v Ngatapa, Harry Barker 3; Gisborne Boys' High...
Biggest weekend of 2022's local rugby to kick off at this Saturday
POVERTY Bay-East Coast racked up their first win at the Freyberg Masters men’s national interprovincial golf tournament in Taupo this morning. PBEC beat Otago 4-1 in the over-40s matchplay event at the Centennial course. No. 1 Pete Anderson and No. 2...
CyclingGisborne Cycling Club’s race 1 is on SATURDAY. Sign-on time is from 1.30 to 1.50pm at Bushmere Arms, with a 2pm startRace: Ngatapa (Totangi Road) return. Four groups, 49km. Sunday — There is a group ride at 8am from Avantiplus Maintrax...
Monday, June 27; Monday, July 4; Monday, July 11 — Open Teams:This event is played over three weeks. The results will not be available until after the completion of Week 3. Wednesday, June 29 — Singles 1North/SouthRaewynne Cook/Ann McCombe...
Tairāwhiti teams yesterday won their first gold medals of the Waka Ama New Zealand National Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro. Pipiwhakao, of YMP Waka Ama, won the Taitamahine (midget girls) W6 250-metre championship final in 1 minute 32.75...