Weekend hockey started with a sensational performance from Gisborne Boys' High School last night when they went within six minutes of a draw with last year's men's champions. The HPY Advisors Lytton Old Boys side won the game 1-0, but it took them...
SoftballSATURDAY — Waikirikiri Park, women, 1pm: D1, Rovers 2 v Uawa Magic; D2, Uawa Scorpions v GGHS. 3pm: D2, Lytton Gems v Rovers 1. Men, 1pm: D3, Steelers v GBHS 2.3pm: D1, TWK Rams v GBHS 1; D3, Spartans v Tolaga Titans. The Reid Reihana (men)...
Gisborne Harrier Club’s popular River Run summer series will start on Tuesday and continue until the end of daylight saving at the end of March. Again, 2.5 and five-kilometre races will be run weekly at 6pm from the Marina reserve, using the...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Thao Duncan (2NZ Say My Name Again), Richard Pohio (2NZ 3).Best start (140): Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again) 2, Mike Hughes (2NZ Bullz), Lorna Wynyard (2NZ Rebels Wahine Toa), Vern Marshall (Roseland Dilligaf).Best...
FORMER Gisborne croquet player Mike Crashley has had a hand in New Zealand’s world championship success in golf croquet. A member of Gisborne’s Barry Memorial Croquet Club until this year, Crashley managed the New Zealand team at the golf croquet...
Medal chances beckon for nearly 60 Gisborne junior surf athletes at Mount Maunganui, where Oceans 19 starts tomorrow. The New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships have attracted more than 850 athletes aged 10 to 14 years from across the...
IF absence makes the heart grow fonder, when we emerge on the other side of Covid-19, there will be bear hugs, sloppy kisses and waterfall tears at the reunion with my lifelong mate — sport. We were pretty tight before the world went viral. Cricket...
He has returned with legions. Gisborne Boys’ High School head coach Dwayne Tamatea’s campaign to get GBHS back to the national championships for the first time in 27 years resumes tonight at the YMCA. Last season, for the first time in the history...
FootballEastern League, Division 1: Played on Wednesday, Thistle Massive 3 Gisborne Boys’ High School 1. On Saturday, Heavy Equipment Services United defeated Shipwreck Bohemians by default, Wainui Sharks v Carpet Court Thistle Reserves cancelled...
THE rain eased on Sunday for the Tourism Eastland New Zealand Circuit Grand Slam beach volleyball event next to the Olympic Pool. Julia Tilley and Shaunna Polley won the women’s division from Danielle Quigley and Francesca Kirwan second and Meliss...
Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie competes (above) in the seeding heats of the MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro at Supertubos, Peniche. Christie placed third in his heat to drop into the elimination round of the penultimate contest on the 2019 World...
TOUCHSTUDENTS got out of the classroom and mixed with the community in a mixed touch rugby tournament run by EIT yesterday. Teams such as the Gisborne Fire Service and a combined Gisborne Police and Te Karaka School side competed against various...
KAIYA Huta and Finn Vette have become the first Gisborne trampolinists to be picked for the New Zealand team — to compete at the world championships in Denmark in December — since 2007.“The last Gisborne trampolinists competing at the worlds...
THEY'RE in good hands. The Gisborne Basketball Association boys’ and girls’ under-11 teams competing in Rotorua this weekend will be guided by the two best point-guards in Rising Suns history: GBA head coach Dwayne Tamatea and former New Zealand...
THE Sri Lankan U19 side go through their training before their clash today with Poverty Bay/Northern Districts. See Poverty Bay/Northern Districts play Sri Lanka?
The Silver Fox wrote himself into Speedway New Zealand folklore on Saturday night when the 65-year-old took out the New Zealand production saloon car title, a win made even sweeter as his daughter joined him on the podium. Dave Gooch, previously 7G...
SOFTBALLUNBEATEN Gisborne Boys’ High School are through to the final in softball’s Division 2 North Island Secondary Schools Championships. The two top qualifiers — Boys’ High and Te Aute College — squared off at Waikirikiri Park in...
NICKY Land scored a hat-trick as Gisborne Thistle beat Red Sox Manawatu 5-1 in Central Federation League football at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. The result keeps Thistle third on the table but with little more than a mathematical chance of...
Lytton High School gave Whangara Old Girls some anxious moments and High School Old Girls were too good for Waikohu in Pak’nSave premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night. In the first of the two games, Whangara Old Girls were just six goals...
SURF LIFESAVINGBOTH New Zealand teams — the Black Fins and Junior Black Fins — are in battles with Australia at the Lifesaving World Championships in Adelaide. The youth team, the Junior Black Fins — coached by Gisborne’s Matt Cairns — lost...
WHETHER you love them, hate them, bear them or occasionally join them, longboarders had a big day out at the weekend. They came from as far away as England, Australia, Germany, Holland, Northland and Hawke’s Bay to compete in the 23rd Makorori...
FORMER Poverty Bay representative cricketer Glenn Morley knows all about clutch situations. So when he was down and facing the prospect of being bowled out of the Poverty Bay men's open yesterday afternoon he produced a match-winning knock. The BDO...
DAYVINIA Mills was a clear winner of the Gisborne-East Coast centre award for women’s bowler of the year. Locally, Mills had wins in the open singles, open fours and Ella Gibson Trophy, and nationally she won the New Zealand club championship...
Gisborne United twice came from behind in their Pacific Premiership football match against Eskview, then scored two second-half goals to win 4-2 at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Eskview had nearly pulled the pin on the match on Friday. Eight...
GOLD COAST — One of New Zealand’s early success stories at the Commonwealth Games has revealed how he was abused by competitors mid-race over the strategy that almost saw him pull off a massive upset in the men’s triathlon. Tayler Reid, 20...
A last-gasp ride earned Gisborne surfer Finn Vette victory in the under-16 boys' division of the King and Queen of the Point competition at Manu Bay, Raglan. The ride, in the last 10 seconds of the final, earned Vette 6.5 points and an overall score...
Angling amid snow, gales and tiger snakes was one wild way for Cory Scott to bow out from top-echelon competitive fly fishing. Scott, from Gisborne, is a three-time national champion and he competed at the world championships in Tasmania this month...
MONDAY, July 27 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 6North/South East/WestRobin Bennett, Jean Bennett 61.57 Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 56.48Stephen Francks, Amanda Matthews 57.64 Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 55.79Diana Styche, Joy...
WHEN I turned up at Rugby Park yesterday for the Hurricanes open training session I thought I was at the wrong ground. All I could hear and see at one part of the pitch was a lot of laughing, yelling and players having fun playing games. Head coach...
Gisborne swimmer Tyler Finau has been one of the stars so far at the New Zealand National Age Group Championships in Auckland. The Enterprise Cars Swim Team member yesterday racked up her third and fourth titles in the girls’ 12-13 years age group...
New Zealand's young rider team have drawn first blood in the opening round of the transtasman clash at the Larsen Sawmilling Jumping and Show Hunter Championships. Double clear rounds came from Kiwis Ally Carson (Putaruru) and Emelia Forsyth...
A LOT of positives and no regrets was YMP coach Steve Smith’s summation of their season after ending it with a 19-0 defeat of Athletic in Wairoa on Saturday. YMP captain Willis Tamatea scored two tries and Meke Brown also dotted down for the black...
MT MAUNGANUI won the Battle of the Bays beach challenge at Midway yesterday. The triathlon part of the competition was being held today. Defending champions Gisborne Intermediate finished a close second in yesterday’s beach challenge, where the...