Badminton season startingTHE winter badminton season starts in Gisborne next week. At the Badminton Centre in Roebuck Road, Kiwi Badminton Club starts on Monday at 4.30pm. Year 3 to Year 7 players are welcome, and rackets are available. Junior...
Eastland Kart Club members held their club championships on Sunday. Intermittent light rain made conditions tricky. All scheduled races were run. The track was good but a bit slippery, while the wind made conditions cold. Whoever drove well to the...
Monday, August 1 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 6North/South East/WestAmanda Matthews, Stephen Francks 62.18 Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 63.83Vicki Taylor, John Hudson 60.71 Joy Marden, Diana Styche 57.09Bette Parker, Trish Corson 57.67...
CLAYDENS Waikohu rediscovered their attacking mojo in premier-grade netball last night and opponents Gisborne Girls’ High School helped them do it with a determined effort. Waikohu started strongly and led 17-11 at the end of the first quarter...
Ethan Cook finished the five rounds of the inaugural North Island V8 saloon car series with two series wins, a fourth and a fifth — and that was enough for him to win the overall series, by just four points. The entertaining, courageous young...
In the last 20 years, there hasn't been a better one. Twelve-year-old David Gray's 94 for Sonrise Christian School against Gisborne Intermediate yesterday was as good an innings by a cricketer of his age here since the inception of the National...
GISBORNE-born boxer Shay Brock has kept his undefeated record after going blow for blow over eight rounds for a draw with the more experienced Gunnar Jackson. New Zealand super-welterweight champion Brock looked the goods for the first half of the...
Sobering — the Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior A and Year 9-10 basketball teams had tough losses to Rotorua Boys’ High School in Gisborne on Sunday. The seniors lost 86-52, the juniors 72-64, but Y9-10 coach Ray Noble is pleased about his...
FOOTBALLWAINUI and Gisborne Boys’ High School were the big movers in Eastern League 1 football last weekend. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks beat Carpet Court Thistle Massive 4-2 at Wainui, while Boys’ High beat Thistle Reserves 2-1 at Childers...
TWO Gisborne married couples finished first and second in their section of the Morrinsville Golf Croquet Handicap Doubles Tournament. Ross and Betty Thomson played consistent croquet to win their section. Finishing second to them were fellow members...
Hot weather and even hotter action made Round 1 of Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach racing series a success. The track was so fast, engines blew up left, right and centre. In the senior open class, the sand flew as Graham Wedlake (Kawasaki...
Kahutia Bowling Club members had a double whammy for their Christmas Tournament. Cards were completed to decide placings for the Harold Powell Memorial Shield competition, while a lucky draw determined who got what in the Heavy Equipment...
DEMOLITION derby veteran Neil Gooch — in his 100th derby — was the “last man standing” at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night, but the winner was a woman. The 20 cars in the entertaining finale to Gisborne Speedway Club’s last...
GISBORNE Boys’ High School lost their playoff game in a penalty shoot-out at the Super 8 football tournament at Hastings last week. It meant they finished sixth of the eight North Island high school teams taking part. Since 1999, the highest...
Midway Surf Life Saving Club rebounded from a disappointing Eastern Regional Championship showing by dominating the Gisborne-Tairawhiti junior champs at the weekend. The district's up-and-coming surf athletes produced a memorable carnival in which...
Irie Eyles 2, Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Kings); Sean Gooch (Cossy Spandangles); Jono Griffith 3, Tahuna Irwin 2, Hukanui Brown 3, Toby Ratapu (RSA Men of Mayhem).Tahuna Irwin (RSA Men of Mayhem).Jono Griffith (RSA Men of Mayhem).Paul Waihape (2NZ Tao...
Danielle Blair went out on a limb to compete in Step 4 gymnastics this year. The Gisborne Gymnastics Club member missed one of the qualification scores last year. It meant she had to continue in Step 3 this competition season, but she has already...
FOOTBALLBOTH of Gisborne football’s travelling teams face tricky assignments tomorrow — lower ranked teams playing at home with nothing to lose. In the nine-team Central Federation League, Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle will play North End...
POVERTY Bay Cricket Association district manager and women’s development officer Mel Knight says having eight Gisborne cricketers playing in the Northern Premier League “shows the quality of girls coming through here is of a high standard”.The...
A Grade veterans Old School and the Filthy Dozen don’t take it easy on young teams — and nor should they. Tonight in A Grade club basketball action at the YMCA, both Old School and the Filthy Dozen will be out to play hard against Gisborne...
SoftballTairawhiti club senior softball: All at Waikirikiri Park, Friday, slow pitch, B grade, 6pm: D2, Mini Sheep v Downers; D3, Whatatutu v Spartans; D4, Minions v Lytton High School; D6, Umpdy Dumpties v Turanga Health. Senior A women: Thursday...
BASKETBALLBehind every good man is a great woman, so the saying goes. But the rebirth of Gisborne Girls’ High School basketball this season is down to a man whose understanding of the game, knowledge of it and ability to get what needs doing across...
The weekend hockey round should get off to an enthralling start when Ngatapa and GMC Green go head to head at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. INA Contracting GMC Green will step on to the Hain Farming Turf unbeaten so far in the women's competition...
They fought the good fight. But lost. Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 had victory in their sights in Saturday’s First 15 Festival of Rugby Round 2 clash with St. Patrick’s College Silverstream at the Rectory. The Wellingtonians ended up...
HAMISH Harris and Brian Pohatu plan to deliver the ultimate defiance of the seedings in the first matchplay round of the men’s club championships this Sunday. Harris is No. 16 seed in the intermediate division and Pohatu is likewise in the...
Sam Royston found a way to banish big-match nerves when he made his first start for Gisborne United in football’s Pacific Premiership. He opened the scoring 10 minutes into their 4-0 win against Napier Marist Seconds at Park Island, Napier, on...
GISBORNE claimed the 2019 New Zealand Representative Challenge crown with a 20-point victory at the first Surf Life Saving New Zealand national event of the year. Held at Gisborne’s Midway Beach on Monday, the day after the Eastern Regional...
North/South East/WestJoy Marden, Diana Styche 66.20 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 57.87Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 65.74 Caroline Kirkpatrick, Jeff Allen 56.02Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 57.64 Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 55.32North/South...
The Poverty Bay Bowling Club recently completed the first of two twilight series of three evenings of bowls. Played on Thursdays, the games started at 5.30pm — a much better time to play in the hot weather that Gisborne has been having. Bowls 3x5...
GOLFIT’S probably a good thing Tony Tian was reserve for Waikato at the Booth Shield junior interprovincial tournament here last weekend. Had his Saturday scores counted, Waikato would have won the 54-hole teams’ net tournament by even...
It's been a crazy two weeks for Sydnee Andrews. The Gisborne judoka won a bronze medal at the recent Prague European Open in the Czech Republic and has taken another step towards qualifying for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, which run from July...
Campion College cricket is fizzing. The Hamish Swann-led Campion side won two out of three games at the Hawke's Bay Year 10 Cricket Camp this week to get their season rolling in the right direction. Against St Patrick's College Town in the tournament...
Pure Sound 55 Lytton 28They won Game 1 — Pure Sound marked that famous basketball team’s return to the club league with a 55-28 win against Lytton High School. Player-coach Jackson Leach’s young Lytton team showed spirit and flair, but Pure...