Poverty BayTHE club’s traditional first tournament of the new year was for the Graham Shield. It was a mixed graded fours event sponsored by Evans Funeral Services played last Wednesday. Thirty-two players braved the searing heat — over 30 degrees...
THE Poverty Bay years 7 and 8 cricket team went down to Whanganui in the opening game of the Riverbend tournament in Hastings yesterday. Batting first, the Bay posted 175-8 from their 40 overs. Cohen Loffler (30) Nathan Trowell (27 not out) Liam...
SOME of New Zealand’s top female waka ama paddlers met in Gisborne at the weekend for final selection trials for the Va’a World Sprint Championships. The championships will be held on Australia’s Sunshine Coast in May. Paddlers selected from an...
IT is known in motocross circles as the “must-do” of all cross-country events. So a small group of Gisborne riders “did” and did it well at the Tarawera 100 Cross Country Race at Te Teko last weekend. The five-strong Gisborne contingent all...
If Gisborne Boys' High School versus Green Up was the main event in men's club basketball this week, the Raiders-City Lights clash in Game 1 got the juices flowing. Lights skipper Scott Muncaster (13 points), so often the point of the sword for his...
Wayne Tautau’s list of snooker achievements got a little longer when the President’s Trophy was decided at the Cosmopolitan Club. The trophy, played off handicap, brings together players who have won or been runner-up in Gisborne Cossie Snooker...
SURFINGGISBORNE surfer Hannah King finished second in the under-16 girls’ division of the Backdoor Oceanbridge Manu Bay Pro at Raglan yesterday. King finished with a heat score of 6.40 in the final. The winner, Raglan’s Brie Bennett, boosted her...
REPRESENTATIVE stalwart Tony Akroyd could write a book about his golfing successes over the years. Yesterday he added another chapter. Akroyd racked up two wins as Poverty Bay-East Coast were pipped twice on the penultimate day of the Freyberg Masters...
CRICKETKeegan Martin’s unbeaten century was the mainstay of Horouta’s victory over Campion College in Hope Cup cricket at the weekend. Martin came to the crease with his side in trouble at 11-2 and smashed 17 fours and three sixes on his way to...
BOWLS by Jack MalcolmBOWLING brought Carol and Arthur Hawes together over 40 years ago and on Sunday they were made life members of Gisborne Bowling Club. It is the first time the club has awarded life membership to a husband and wife. Life-member...
DOWNPOURS were the talk of the First Light Frozen/Taste One Xmas Hams open tournament on Sunday. Wet weather resulted in some non-appearances and others pulling the pin during their round but amid this there were several impressive scores. The rain...
When talking rugby, the salt of the earth — Ngati Porou East Coast — don't go the airy-fairy “We're disappointed”.They say, “We gave it death, mate; lost 42-16.”The Hosea Gear-coached Coast under Hone Haerewa make no excuses: they were...
BASKETBALLThey were amazing. The Gisborne Basketball Association’s under-11 boys coached by Adam Tapsell, and the u13 girls coached by Thomas Tindale have returned from their tournaments in Franklin at the weekend as champions. The u13 girls, led by...
Referee James Doleman makes his Super Rugby debut tomorrow night as the man in charge of the Rebels-versus-Lions clash in Melbourne. His Gisborne grandmother, Rose Doleman, was proud to hear of James's appointment today. An avid sports fan, Rose...
The Kaupoi got a lot right last Saturday. And to that end, Ngati Porou East Coast rugby head coach Hosea Gear has named the same starting 15 and 23-man squad for tomorrow's away game with the Mid-Canterbury Hammers, as those who lost 32-14 at home to...
OBR’s unbeaten run in all forms of the game this season was ended by Pirates in round 5 of the Walker Shield twenty20 competition at Harry Barker Reserve. Pirates posted 140-5, then restricted their opponents to 137-8. Dane Thompson celebrated his...
Patrick McInnes was superb. The Central Stags opener made a magnificent 84 not-out from No1 in Central's successful defence of the coveted, 85 year-old MCC (Marleybone Cricket Club) Bat at Nelson Park on Wednesday. McInnes' knock, an innings which...
Individual Highlights from Tuesday180s: Warren Coe. Highest straight start (140): Pots Te Kira (Pounamu) 2, Warren Coe, Willie Edwards (Tigers).Highest double start (105): John White (Tigers).Highest finish (89): John White (Tigers).Most tons, men...
Tairāwhiti tennis players enjoyed success at the annual Wilson and Garland shields doubles challenge in Hawke’s Bay over the weekend. Tairāwhiti men won all three of their ties to reclaim the Garland Shield, the women were third in the Wilson...
ALISON McKay held a few Hawke’s Bay swimming records in her youth. Freestyle was her stroke, and she cleaned up in her age-group. She’s still doing it. This week, former school principal Alison, 81, received confirmation she had set a New Zealand...
POVERTY Bay have registered their first win in the Hurricanes under-18 competition this year, beating Hawke’s Bay Saracens 20-10. Coach Willie Waitoa said beating a Hawke’s Bay team was a solid achievement and the players were happy. They lost...
THE Ruka Tupara Memorial trophy will be up for grabs at Patutahi's open closing tournament on Sunday. Tee-off is at 11am. There are Canadian mixed foursomes and men's sections. Inquiries to George Brown on 027-370-9860 or at horiboy1@xtra. co. nz...
FOOTBALL by Jason TrowillGisborne United won and Gisborne Thistle lost in Federation Cup football in Napier yesterday. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United beat Horizons Premiership side Feilding United 2-1, while Carpet Court Thistle Massive...
NETBALLTHE Gisborne Netball Centre has confirmed dates for the start of the competition this year, with the Kathleen Henderson pre-season tournament to be staged on March 27. The senior competition begins on April 10, along with the youth competition...
Jack Roberts is a solid individual. Two days into the Riverbend/Hawke’s Bay Year 6 White cricket tournament, the Poverty Bay captain is impressing as a student of the game who keeps things in perspective and leads by example. And that’s despite...
BOWLS by CrackerjackTE KARAKA teams won both the women’s and men’s senior champion of champions triples titles in Bowls Gisborne East Coast tournament play at Wairoa Bowling Club. Del Tamanui (skip), Mere Nepia (director) and Sarah Brown (lead)...
HISTORY-making driver Emma Gilmour has her eyes on another first when the New Zealand Rally Championship continues in Gisborne tomorrow. After becoming the first woman to win a New Zealand Rally Championship round — the Rally of Canterbury last...
CRICKETThe end begins tonight. A huge chapter of the 2018-2019 cricket season will close at the Harry Barker Reserve from 5.15pm today, with the grand final of the inaugural Walker Shield T15 Blast between favourites the Smash Palace Bail-Breakers...
It's that time of year again, when bowlers start heading to the greens. Poverty Bay opened last weekend, and Gisborne, Kahutia and Tolaga Bay officially open this Saturday. With Covid-19 ending last season early, and a lot of club tournaments and the...
HEAD coach Mana Otai and assistant Dwayne Russell have named the Poverty Bay squad for the 2017 Heartland Rugby Championships. The squad has its first training tonight in preparation for a pre-season game against Wairarapa Bush on August 12 in...
A LOT of sun. A lot of fun. And a lot of good golf. That nicely summed up the 2021 Poverty Bay Veterans' Open, which ended with finals day on the Awapuni Links course yesterday. Fittingly, the Open Challenge Cup Group 1 matchplay final featured...
The Mark Jefferson-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 has shown courage and resilience since the 2019 season began: never more so than at the Rectory on Saturday. Napier BHS — the first foe, since 1910 — beat the home team 22-19 in...
RUGBYIt will be remembered with feeling. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 wrapped up their rugby season with a spirited effort against Tauranga Boys’ College. Tauranga beat Gisborne 36-24 at Nicholson Field to claim the Kane Trophy held by...