GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald was beaten on the 18th hole as Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay halved with Otago at the national women’s interprovincial tournament in Napier this morning. McDonald, playing No. 1 for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay, lost 1-down...
GOLFTHE representative career of Gisborne teenager Ellen Ball took a huge leap forward in her national women’s interprovincial debut in Napier yesterday. Gisborne Girls’ High School student Ball was brought in at No. 5 in the five-woman Hawke’s...
FORMER Gisborne Boys’ High School and Thistle midfielder Jarom Brouwer has been named in Team Wellington’s youth squad and the Miramar Rangers under-19 team. But this apprentice electrician, who has yet to turn 18, has his feet firmly on the...
SUPER 11GISBORNE Intermediate have won the Super 11 open-weight rugby tournament for the first time. They beat Tauranga in golden-point extra time after levelling the scores with a late try in regulation time. The win was especially gratifying as...
BULLER maintained their bid for a spot in the Heartland Championship top-four playoffs with a 54-17 win against Ngati Porou East Coast at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, on Saturday. The home side were no match for a Buller team who took advantage of...
SOME weekends you don’t forget in a hurry. Such was the case for Te Tairawhiti at the New Zealand Maori Rugby League National Tuakana Tournament in Rotorua.“Dan Taituha and I had the time of our lives and we’ve been involved in rugby league for...
Nathan Trowell continued his great run of form, winning the zone final of the New Zealand Henselite Singles in Whakatane on his 16th birthday. He was in a league of his own, going through the day unbeaten with wins against Tauranga 16-10, Thames...
LOCAL favourites Ricardo Christie and Maz Quinn dominated Day 1 of the Health 2000 National Surfing Championships at Midway Beach, Gisborne, yesterday. Christie justified his early favourite tag by posting a 14.67-point total to move through to the...
THE Tauawhi No Violence Longboard Classic has been rescheduled to Saturday, December 2, after poor weather over the weekend. The charitable longboard competition was scheduled to run on Saturday at Makorori, but due to a large swell and strong...
They are on a roll in the capital. The unbeaten Gisborne Boys’ High School under-15s yesterday added the scalps of Rongotai College (20-10) and Hato Paora (50-5) to that of Porirua College at the Hurricanes Rugby Tournament in Wellington. GBHS...
THE defending senior men’s champion sent a strong message but it was another who earned the No. 1 seeding as club championship qualifying wrapped up on Sunday. Dwayne Russell has been putting plenty of work into his game and his “do the mahi, earn...
HEAVY Equipment United won a thrilling Braybrook Cup women’s knockout football final at Childers Road Reserve on Sunday. They defeated Tatapouri Thistle Marist 5-4 on penalties after the teams were locked 1-all at the end of extra time
YMP A and GMC Green produced the highlight match in women’s senior hockey at the weekend, and YMP men’s striker James Torrie was the standout individual across the eighth round. The YMP women’s determination and skill level was the difference...
THE Hurricanes are coming back to Gisborne and bringing their full Super Rugby squad, including former Gisborne Boys’ High School players Blade Thomson and Isaia Walker-Leawere and Ngati Porou son Nehe Milner-Skudder.“We’re rapt to have the...
Monday, February 28 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 1North/South East/WestCaroline Kirkpatrick, Robyn Cheyne 60.42 Pippa Williams, Helen Kerisome 57.41Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 56.55 Trish Corson, Bette Parker 56.33Glenys...
GISBORNE junior football draws for SATURDAY are —First Kicks 4 v 4, 8.15am: Watson Park 10, Bayleys Ngatapa Turtles v Te Wharau Kiwi; WP 9 Kaiti Horouta v Sonrise Wildcats; WP 1, Makauri Dynamos v Manutuke Rua; WP 7, Kaiti Takitimu v Makauri...
SWIMMINGGISBORNE teenager Michael Pickett has put himself in “development consideration” for the FINA world swimming championships. Pickett broke his own 16-year boys’ age-group record for the 50 metres freestyle at the national swimming...
GISBORNE Bowling Club teams won the Gisborne-East Coast men’s and women’s centre open triples on their home greens at the weekend. Bobbie Beattie (skip), Tanya Harrison and Barbara Gibson took out the open women’s competition to win the Blair...
DEEVON Gray showed he is a force to contend with as he advanced to the quarterfinals of the senior men’s club championships at the weekend. Among the matches played, Gray defeated last year’s runner-up Rodney Moore 2 and 1. To go any further...
TRAMPOLININGWatching Lily Rolls tumble down the mats, her coach remarks on the talent and potential the teenager possesses. The 13-year-old cartwheeled her way down the mat with ease and poise beyond her years. Rolls recently travelled to Auckland to...
Gisborne Bohemians have long been at the bottom of the table but have continued to improve phenomenally in the women’s football league this season. They lost 3-2 to Campion College on Sunday but it did not feel like it, Bohs player Tami Gooch...
RUGBYIt’s game 1. At 1pm tomorrow rugby fans will see the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 play their season opener at home against Lindisfarne College. GBHS head coach Mark Jefferson has as his team’s priorities the unchanging basics: “We...
BASKETBALL by Ben O’Brien-LeafLife, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a constant drive to be better: the Gisborne Basketball Association strives to achieve these goals. And the sporting body whose administrators rarely rest are putting on...
THE final shape of Gisborne premier-grade netball's top four will be determined at the YMCA tomorrow night. One result is highly predictable; the other is not. YMP (1) sit unassailably on top of the table followed by the equally uncatchable Claydens...
Be in no doubt that OBR will get back on track. And Craig Christophers’ Rawhiti Legal Old Boys Rugby — hitherto Senior B club cricket’s unbeaten competition leaders — will use tomorrow’s Round 14 clash with Siteworx Horouta to do so. OBR...
Nic Hendrie, Poverty Bay Cricket Association’s operations manager, who plays club cricket in Bay of Plenty, has helped his club win the Northern Districts (ND) club championship. His Tauranga club, Greerton, will represent ND in this year’s...
ALERT Level 2 guidelines were followed as 12 teams contested the second night of the Eastland badminton business house league. Despite the regulations — from sanitising after each game to social distancing — lots of fun was had and there were...
THE Poverty Bay mixed schools team suffered a defeat on Day two of the Year 6B Riverbend tournament. Friday, Round 2, 30 overs -Park Island 2Upper Hutt 131-6 in 20.4 overs ( - ) beat Poverty Bay Mixed Schools 127-9 in 30 overs (Matthew Langford 35...
It’s got all the flavour and whoop of classic country rugby. The historic Barry Cup for sub-union supremacy, held by Waikohu, will be on the line tomorrow for the first time this season. In Game 1 of the five consecutive Sunday challenges at the...
ATHLETICSNINE athletes from Gisborne Athletic Club are competing at the Colgate Games in Hamilton this weekend, and one will carry on to the South Island event the following weekend. Jack Sadler won two bronze medals in sprint events at last year’s...
YOUNG athletes from Gisborne are getting ready for a big trip to Taranaki to take part in the Colgate Games. All four from the Gisborne Athletic Club — Jack Sadler, Ruby Sadler, Evelyn Busher and Kaedyn O'Donnell-Hawkins — will enter sprint...
MAKARAKA retained the MCC Bat yesterday, beating Te Hapara in a game that came down to the last ball. Te Hapara needed three runs off the final delivery, bowled by Dylan O’Rourke. As Te Hapara went for a second run — which would have tied the...