A CHARITABLE longboard competition aims to put an end to family violence here, one wave at a time. The Tauawhi No Violence Longboard Classic on Saturday supports the Tauawhi Charitable Trust, which supports the Tauawhi Men’s Centre to help raise...
RUGBYBeating Te Aute College at Te Aute will never be easy. But a very good Gisborne Boys’ High School under-14 team did beat their Hawke’s Bay hosts 41-26 while the Boys’ High u15s drew 26-all against Te Aute. The college has been a bastion of...
A collection of pictures from some of the sporting action that took place in Tairawhiti on Saturday. All pictures by Paul Rickard
Gisborne Speedway Club has postponed the big meeting planned for tonight because of the weather, with the track “saturated” by overnight rain. Eastland Group Raceway was to host the New Zealand Sidecar Grand Prix, and the Professional Fleet...
GISBORNE Harrier Club starts its popular River Summer Series tomorrow. It will feature weekly 2.5- and five-kilometre races on a traffic-free course alongside the city rivers. The series challenges runners to race regularly and see how much they can...
CRICKETMore of the summer game shall be played. The Cricket Championship begins at 3.15pm today at the Harry Barker Reserve. The Gisborne Boys' High School-based six-week competition features the Tairawhiti Women's Cricket Club Colts and three teams...
RUGBYRISING Poverty Bay referee Damien Macpherson’s Heartland Championship season is over after just two games. The 32-year-old farmer— who started refereeing in 2015 and was named in a 15-strong New Zealand Rugby high performance referees squad...
Pacific Premiership, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Childers Road Reserve 1, Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle v Napier Marist Reserves. 3pm: Premier Hastings Sport Park 1, Maycenvale v Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United. Eastern League 1, 12.30pm: CRR 1...
Campion College and Gisborne Girls’ High School this week had the first of two games organised to prepare them for tournament play. Girls’ High left-winger Emma Brownlie scored to give her side a 1-0 win. A return game will be played at the...
THE trophy winners from the Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Senior Men’s Open at Poverty Bay Golf Club this week enjoy their win
180s: Tahuna Irwin (5) (Falcons), T e Kotahi Kaio (2) Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Young guns), John White (2) (Done & Dusted), Tracey Te Kira (Tigers), Haimona Ratapu (Done & Dusted), Mihi Awatere (Manaaki), Sha Hohepa (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men...
If Poverty Bay keep to the standard of play they set on Saturday, they will win plenty of rugby games. They played with spirit, intensity and enterprise at Rugby Park and led for most of the match against a strong North Otago side, who pipped them at...
The year 2022 is one that Waiapu will not soon forget. Ten years after the Tripoli Poi-coached men's team won the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield, the women's team under Hugh Tibble beat the Hikurangi Mountain Maidens 36-5 to claim the Hamo Te Rangi...
Gisborne Thistle conceded a goal in the first minute of their Central Football Federation Cup match against Linton in Napier on Saturday. It proved to be just what they needed.“It felt like we hadn't quite got off the bus,” ALH Thistle head coach...
Waikanae were commanding winners in the Gisborne/Tairawhiti senior surf lifesaving championships that concluded at Midway Beach yesterday. They won the Ralph Morse Memorial Shield for the fourth year in a row with 355 points, followed by Midway on...
TUESDAY - Poverty Bay vets' stableford: B Read 38, B Morrissey 37, F Ball 34, G Brown 34, P Goodwin 34, R Veall 34. Twos: B Morrissey. Sunday - Men's stableford, division 1: J Situ 37, R Gibson 36, B Brown 36. Division 2: R Morgan 45, L Hewson 40, P...
Wainui Demons started and finished their Eastern League 2 game against Gisborne United Seconds in style on Saturday. Kaleb Jacobs scored in the second minute and Max Harris scored with three minutes to go, their goals bookending an entertaining game...
THE Coast Duathlon put its sadness behind it and arrived at Te Puia in great spirit on Saturday with a big field of old friends and new faces, most of them smiling. Fuelling the much-larger-than-usual entry was a special occasion for friends, family...
POVERTY Bay No. 8 Siosiua Moala and fullback Ethine Reeves have been named in the New Zealand Heartland XV to play NZ Marist in Timaru on November 4. Despite the Bay finishing eighth in the 12-team Heartland Championship, Moala and Reeves consistently...
Turanganui a Kiwa Dart Association’s 2019 winter league got under way on Tuesday night with Brezz’n Darts Club play. This season the club has 14 teams competing — a great platform for those taking part in out-of-town and in-house tournaments...
NEW Zealand surf pioneers had their day in the sun yesterday, as the open men and women had another day off in the national surfing championships at Makorori. The open men’s semifinalists were to be in the water today. Before this year’s...
SPEEDWAYGISBORNE speedway fans will have their eyes on the action at the Eastland Group Raceway and their ears on developments in the New Zealand Stockcar Teams Championship finals in Stratford tomorrow night. Gisborne Speedway Club will stage the...
SPEEDWAYGisborne Giants made it back-to-back titles at the Superstock Teams Nationals at Waikaraka Park Speedway in Auckland on Sunday night. The Giants won the title last year when they defeated Palmerston North Panthers in the final. They knocked...
BODYBUILDINGTHE lives of Ephraim and Arian Gudgeon just got a little more complicated. But they’re good complications. Ephraim Gudgeon, a wheelchair bodybuilder, has to work out with his wife how competing professionally will tie in with their other...
BASKETBALLIt makes you think. Week 7 of the Gisborne Basketball Association club leagues produced results that would have been unimaginable on opening night, June 18. Yet the improvement of the Gisborne Boys’ High School teams Red and Black...
Gisborne East Coast centre open triples titles go on the line at Kahutia Bowling Club this weekend. Six women's teams will play for the Judy Blair Cup while 10 men's teams contest the Terry Gardiner Memorial. In the women's competition, 2019 winners...
MONDAY, February 19 — Summer Pairs 3North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 64.24 Anne Maclaurin/Graham Maclaurin 68.25John Rouse/Murray Owen 54.17 Janet Joblin/Hans van der Kuijl 59.52Jean Turnbull/Robyn Cheyne 54.17 Jean...
GISBORNE darts player Tahuna Irwin featured in sudden-death drama during the World Darts Federation World Cup in Kobe, Japan, this month. Irwin, of Gisborne’s Brezz’n Darts Club, played a key role in New Zealand’s 9-8 team victory over...
FOOTBALLclubs are in federation football knockout action tomorrow. Carpet Court Thistle Massive and Heavy Equipment Services United are competing in the Central Federation Cup, which is open to senior sides who do not compete in the Chatham Cup. Both...
RUGBY“It was all we could do just to hang on to the ball — we couldn’t afford to let them play.”A crowd of 878 fans at Westport’s Victoria Square on Saturday would share Buller head coach Gus Martyn’s take on his rugby team’s 54-19 win...
Tomorrow is D-Day for Horouta's Hope Cup campaign. With the Senior B club cricket final only four weeks away, the Mel Knight-led Horouta and Ollie Needham's High School Old Boys' Presidents — teams three and four — both have 18 points with the...
November 9, 2006. Plenty of Freyberg Masters water has flowed under the matchplay bridge since then but not victoriously for the Poverty Bay-East Coast team. Just shy of nine years later, the 2015 edition of the men’s over-40s interprovincial tees...