Last round-robin matches of the premier grade DJ Barry Cup

Poverty Bay failed to kick on from their Heartland Championship-opening 27-22 win against Wairarapa Bush in August. The Bay finished 11th in the 12-team competition, bettering only neighbours Ngati Porou East Coast. Wairarapa went on to book a home...

MIDWAY youngster Sophie Petro heads off to the Oceans 19 New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships next week determined to do her best and aiming to make national finals. The Gisborne Girls’ High School student, who turns 13 next month, was...

Pleasing — that’s what Saturday morning’s clash with the OBM under 13 weight-restricted rugby grade team was from the point of view of High School Old Boys’ coach Gus Heuser.“Our forwards never stopped working — that extra training last...

HockeyNo Thursday games will be played this week. Poverty Bay Hockey will trial a “Super Saturday”.WOMEN — Friday, 6pm: YMP A v Ngatapa (GMC Green/Paikea). 7.30pm: GMC Green v JNL Paikea (YMP A/Ngatapa).Saturday, 12.30pm: GMC Gold v Williams...

Monday, August 22 — Village Butchery Teams Final ResultsTracy Clayton, Katrina Duncan, Stephen Francks, Amanda Matthews 85 IMPsJeff Allen, Caroline Kirkpatrick, Carolyn McMurray, Helen Kerisome, Frank Nieuwland 64 Bette Parker, Trish Corson...

Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls would be favourites to win their Pak’nSave premier-grade netball games at the YMCA tonight but neither side can afford to take their opposition for granted. Whangara play Horouta Gold at 6pm in a match...

Monday, September 26 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 8 (Howell movement)Stephen Francks, Amanda Matthews 63.10 Murray Owen, John Rouse 58.33Annette Prebble, Trish Corson 55.77 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 55.77Sue Minot, Joy...

BOWLSMENGisborne Bowling Club’s Jamey Ferris has cemented his claim for the singles berth in the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast team to play in the Bowls NZ Intercentre event this season. He won the Martin Cup Centre Men’s Open Singles at the weekend...

YOUTH player Temple Edwards scored her first official 180 in Brezz’n Darts Club competition on Tuesday night. INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Temple Edwards, Wi Brown, Toby Ratapu, Joe Kiri snr, Kayne Arahanga, Hayden Kiri. Highest start (157): Joe Kiri...

The first round of Badminton Eastland's first two-week relay tournament was held at the Badminton Centre on Wednesday night. Organisers were delighted with the enthusiasm of the 20 players who took part. Top masters and super veterans mixed with...

KATH Willis had to settle for bridesmaid in the Poverty Bay women’s club championships last week. Not so on Wednesday. Willis, beaten in the intermediate final of the champs, combined with Anne Witters to claim the top prize in the Taste One First...

It is unprecedented. Until tonight’s game between Campion College and Lytton High School, no school team will have won the women’s Gisborne club basketball final: fact. Former Gisborne Basketball Association president Steph Beattie, who coached...

Club cricket — DJ Barry Cup, Saturday, 1pm: Horouta v Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys, Harry Barker Reserve 2. Hope Cup, Saturday, 2pm: Campion College v Ngatapa, HB4; Gisborne Boys' High School Colts v Coastal Ultrasound Horouta second 11...

THE Sri Lankan under-19 cricket team and their officials were hoping for better weather today after rain interupted their scheduled 50-overs match yesterday at Harry Barker Reserve. The tourists, playing a Poverty Bay/Northern Districts selection...

Yes, that’s correct. Ten-test wing, All Black No. 1097 Zac Guildford, will play for Ngati Porou East Coast in the Heartland Championship this year. Thirty-year-old Guildford — who made his test debut at the Millennium Stadium in Wales a decade ago...

“We’re not here to take part, we’re here to take over.”So said Scott Tallott after his Bollywood High School Old Boys side advanced to this weekend’s Walker Shield twenty 20 club cricket final. HSOB beat Gisborne Boys’ High School first...

IT is said that every cloud has a silver lining, and so it was for the 22 players who fronted up for Poverty Bay in a 64-0 hiding dished out by a classy New Zealand Universities side at Rugby Park last night. Following the 10-tries-to-none defeat...

Kaiya Huta made a successful return to competitive trampolining, winning gold and silver at the Manukau championships in Auckland. The 16-year-old student at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Uri a Maui won gold on double mini and silver on tramp in the...

GOLFPoverty Bay-East Coast this morning sharpened their swords for one last assault at what has been a Battle of Hastings for the country’s smallest golfing union. Sitting bottom of Section 2 at the national men’s interprovincial being staged on...

Gisborne United came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with league leaders Napier City Rovers Seconds, and almost snatched a win in Pacific Premiership football at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Meanwhile, at Childers Road Reserve, Gisborne Thistle came...

WHANGARA Old Girls went from 10 goals down to one goal ahead in the last quarter of their premier netball playoff against Ngatapa at the YMCA on Saturday. Last year’s Pak’nSave premier runners-up beat Farmlands Ngatapa 50-49. Ngatapa, playing in...

MORE than 70 youth ministock racers will start tomorrow night in the annual Eastland Ministock 100 and several Gisborne drivers are in with a chance of winning it. The two-night programme begins at 7pm tomorrow night with heats in the Heavy Equipment...

ENTERPRISE Cars Swim Team had a hugely successful weekend at the Hawke’s Bay Poverty Bay winter championships in Flaxmere over the weekend. The Gisborne club won the overall top club trophy and the senior trophy. Eight of its members won age group...

THE smiles said it all after Akayshia Williams and twin sisters Cory and Kody Campbell (pictured) completed a stunning waka ama trifecta at the va’a world sprint championships in Australia. Williams won the V1 500 metres final in the junior 19...

RUGBYThe Coast are on the move. Ngati Porou East Coast continued their march towards the Heartland opener against Buller on August 24 with a 61-14 win against Bay of Plenty Maori on Saturday. In good conditions at Rotorua, the Coast outscored the home...

SOFTBALLA CLOSE loss and a close win — Uawa women softballers had a dramatic afternoon at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday. They had a double-header in the Tairawhiti club competition and, against a determined Whatatutu outfit first up, they were...

Hain Herefords on Waikura Station at Pehiri kicked off the Gisborne rising two-year-old bull sales season yesterday afternoon with a near sell-out and a better average than last year. About 50 prospective buyers and supporters gathered at the...

THISTLE Massive are Eastern League Division 1 football champions for the second year in a row, and United pushed them to the brink again. They drew 4-4 on Saturday, United rising like Lazarus from 4-2 down with two goals in two minutes to set up...

GIRLS' rugby in Gisborne and on the East Coast is on the rise, says former Black Ferns world cup winner Trish Hina, who coaches the Lytton Academy and is the Ngati Porou East Coast women’s rugby development officer.“We’ve just had the final of...