Tolaga BayEddie Brown junior transferred the high of his vital win at the Toro national interprovincial men’s tournament in Christchurch to Tolaga Bay’s Christmas tournament on Sunday. Brown jr, a late call-up to the Poverty Bay-East Coast side...
Nathan Trowell and Matthew Foster, representing Gisborne Boys’ High School, are the 2018 North Island secondary schools’ indoor bowls pairs champions. It was one-way traffic from start to finish in the pairs, held at Mt Maunganui. Foster was on...
Sport New Zealand’s 2017 participation survey examined how much people take part in sport and why. Among the findings:— Young people spend on average 11 hours in 5.4 sports and activities a week while adults average 5.3 hours in 2.3 sports and...
Poverty BayClose games were a feature of the Poverty Bay Bowling Club championship open pairs held at the weekend using the two-life system. The women’s final was won by Jan Powell (skip) and Kathryn Flaugere, who defeated Diane Christie (s) and...
Gisborne Netball Centre has cancelled the scheduled Twilight League due to issues relating to competition management under current Covid alert levels.“Upon discussing the latest level announcements, we are gutted to say we will be cancelling the...
RUGBYThere’s a buzz about Wednesday. Two weeks in, rugby’s Courage Cup is generating excitement and enthusiasm amongst players, referees and supporters. Hundreds are turning out to these games. Team Charlie Ngatai and cup holders Team...
They were the most hectic 48 hours in club basketball since opening night, 1998. The men on Monday and the women last night produced a head-spinning raft of close games. In the men’s A Grade, Gisborne Boys’ High School Black won their first game...
Gisborne Thistle must be crazy if they think they can travel to Palmerston North, play on unfamiliar artificial turf and take at least a share of the points from the second-placed team in the league. That’d be a good kind of crazy, mind. Sports...
All of the top three teams in Gisborne premier netball have now lost after YMP defeated previously unbeaten High School Old Girls at Victoria Domain on Saturday. YMP Sunshine Brewing produced their performance of the season so far in comprehensively...
PLAYERS and management of the Poverty Bay rugby team are deeply disappointed that the Heartland Championship has been cancelled this year, but are philosophical about it.“At the end of the day it is for the greater good,” Bay coach Tom Cairns...
BILL Raggett and Les Bryon won Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s handicap pairs competition last Saturday. They beat Neil Robinson and Tiny Thompson two frames to nil in the final. Raggett and Bryon had a handicap of 18, and Robinson and Thompson...
KARTING by Rockin’ RobinEASTLAND Kart Club’s decision to go ahead with the club championships on Sunday paid off. Committee members met at the track on Sunday morning, in view of the rain that had fallen on Saturday and early on Sunday. They...
The first of the challenges between centres takes place in Whakatane on Sunday, with Gisborne East Coast taking on Bay of Plenty. Open men and women plus junior men and women will play for the Endeavour Shield (for open-class competitors) and the...
May 11, INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Alf Cross (Cossy 6 Shooters), Apanui Kaiwai (2NZ Tao Vikings) Hunter Eyles (2NZ Kings).Highest start: 160 – Gary Poi (2NZ Rebels).Highest Finish: 125 – Murray Jukes (RSA1).Most starts game: 17 - RSA Men of...
ALL roads lead to Palmerston North for the annual national under-18 regional hockey tournament next month. Men’s and women’s teams from the eight regions around New Zealand — Northland, North Harbour, Auckland, Midlands, Central, Capital...
Bowls Gisborne-East Coast lost to Waiariki Bowls by two points in a senior representative match at Ohope Bowling Club last Saturday. The GEC men won three games, drew one and lost eight, for seven points with a minus-65 differential. Waiariki had 17...
GISBORNE rider Callum Gordon leads the King of the Mountain points standings after a dramatic first stage of the New Zealand Cycle Classic yesterday. Gordon, riding for Team Skoda, finished the 121-kilometre stage from Masterton to Castlepoint 47...
POWER TUMBLINGEMILIE Morawietz had just arrived from Germany for a year of study in Gisborne when she watched her host compete in power tumbling. She decided to give it a go and quickly followed in the footsteps of Gisborne tumbler and gymnast Amy...
RUGBYBig rugby is just around the corner for Gisborne Boys’ High School. Ryan Tapsell’s first 15 are steeling themselves for their second-last pre-Super 8 game — at 12.30pm tomorrow against Feilding Agricultural High School at Whitmore Park...
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Individual HIGHLIGHTS180s: Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2 (Young Guns); John Love, John White (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men (140): Te Kotahi Kaio 4, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Young Guns); Tahuna Irwin, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Heath Woollett (Tigers); Matty...
RUGBY SEVENSThis year’s Turanga Sevens tournament was the biggest and best yet, with 11 teams playing in a festival of rugby. Hawke’s Bay team MAC beat Waikohu 19-17 in the final to win the tournament. Campbell Hall, of Waikohu, was the...
WAKA AMA by John GilliesCHALLENGES have been met and more lie ahead for Horouta Waka Hoe paddlers still glowing from their success at the Waka Ama New Zealand National Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro. Horouta won the club points trophy for the...
: Marcus Leach, Jono Griffiths (both from RSA Men of Mayhem); Tobias Campbell-Ratapu (2NZ Vikings); Matt Reedy, Monty Reedy (Cossy Done & Dusted).Mike Jones (Roseland); Kayne Arahanga, Tyson Eyles, Irie Eyles (2NZ Kings); George Vaotuua (2NZ...
NETBALLWAIKOHU (1) have plenty to play for when they take on competition leaders YMP at the YMCA tomorrow. A win or a bonus-point loss would see them move into outright third place on the table. Heading into the two games tomorrow, YMP Sunshine...
A SMALL team from Tu Mana Toa Martial Arts travelled from Gisborne to Tauranga to break a Covid-induced drought of sporting contests. The Bay Open taekwondo tournament was held during Queen's Birthday Weekend and although it was scaled down to...
NETBALLLYTTON High School’s strong performance against Whangara Old Girls, where they went within a whisker of a major upset, and two fine wins to Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A were highlights of netball grading games on Saturday. As...
GISBORNE’S rising surf lifesavers are pitting their skills against the best young talent in the country at Oceans ’17 on Mt Maunganui’s main beach. Hundreds of junior athletes are at the Mount for the New Zealand under-14 national...
GISBORNE women’s hockey splits into top-five and bottom-four divisions from this weekend. YMP A, GMC Kowhai, GMC Green, Ben Holden Fencing Ngatapa and Paikea filled the first to fifth places on the table. The bottom four teams are Emerre and...
Tolaga BayTHE target hole at the Ray Scragg Motors King of the Coast men’s open proved a challenge for many and a disaster for at least one poor schmuck over the weekend. Club member Mike Brooker ran the hole — the par-3 eighth — and got to...
Eastland badminton players will be in Rotorua tomorrow for the final weekend of the 2018 inter-association super veterans Division 2 competition. All nine teams in the competition will be there, and Eastland will play Auckland (2) and North...