Gisborne Thistle have been granted a Covid-caused deferral of their Central Federation League football game against Massey University. The match was to be played at Massey in Palmerston North tomorrow, but ALH Thistle have seven first-team squad...
Premier-grade knockout semifinals, 1pm: Rugby Park, East Coast Farm Vets YMP v Enterprise Cars OBM (match officials to be confirmed).3pm: Rugby Park, GT Shearing Waikohu v Larsawn Ngatapa (TBC).Senior One, 1pm: Barry Park 1, YMP v Matawhero Harvest...
Poverty Bay coach Lance Cairns has named five new players in his 12-man squad for 40-over and Twenty20 matches against the Northern Districts Maori side at Harry Barker Reserve this weekend. The newcomers are South Africans Bruce Kerr, who will keep...
CRICKETThe Poverty Bay boys’ Year 6 cricket team finished their tournament at Riverbend with a victory by six runs against Wellington Collegians Gold on Saturday.“The boys bowled and fielded outstandingly: they played to their potential,” said...
Poverty Bay sevens coach Brent Mokomoko has opted to “freshen players and rest injuries” instead of competing in a sevens tournament in Cambridge tomorrow. Mokomoko said the focus was on finalising the team for the New Zealand Sevens regional...
NETBALLONLY one premier grade game will be played in Gisborne netball tomorrow, and it promises to be a beauty. The Pak’nSave senior competition match between Ritana Senior A and Champers Horouta Gold at the YMCA gives both teams the chance to...
Kawa mate (carrying the deceased) ceremony prior to game 'spurred players on'
GISBORNE Clay Target Club held Round 1 of its club championships last Sunday. Results —Skeet (50)High overall: Rick Spence 46.A Grade: Rick O’Connor 46, 1; Paul Rutland 41, 2.B Grade: Kelvin Ellison 44, 1; Roger Hurlstone 42, 2; David Walker 42...
Thirty Year 7 and 8 students from Ilminster and Gisborne intermediate schools did battle for the Athol O’Connor Shield at Kahutia Bowling Club’s greens yesterday. Ilminster retained the shield, which is contested as an annual event
Wayne (Ursh) Heurea (Ruahine Rua); Mihi Awatere, Tangiwai Heurea (Ruahine Tahi); Chiarn Waikawa (Waihape Whanau); Tahuna Irwin 3 (Falcons); Dudley Reeves (Tigers); Tom HIndmarsh (Knights); Shiloh Henry (Tigers).Tahuna Irwin (Falcons).Tangiwai Heure...
HOROUTA Waka Hoe Club’s 20th anniversary year has got off to a great start. The club won the Matapihi Trophy for most points at the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karapiro last month. Horouta teams and individuals made 85 appearances in finals at...
SPEEDWAY by Murray RobertsonTHE Gooch family had a night to remember at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night. Travis Gooch came home for Christmas to win the demolition derby and Dave Gooch won the production saloon champion of champions...
A WELL-taken Jake Holmes penalty five minutes from time gave Leaderbrand Poverty Bay a deserved 32-31 win against Hawke’s Bay Saracens at Rugby Park on Saturday afternoon. It was just the workout they needed, Poverty Bay coach Mana Otai said. The...
THE second leg of his Australian contest double is off to a solid start for Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie. The 29-year-old advanced to Round 3 of the Sydney Surf Pro Qualifying Series contest at Manly Beach. Christie finished second in his...
Louis Sinclair has competed in the America’s Cup before but this time it will be with Team New Zealand. The Wairoa man was known for his immense power as a grinder when he was with Oracle Team USA in Bermuda in 2017. Oracle lost the finals series...
WAI-COA-BAY under-18s were no match for the Warriors Invitation side in the opening game of the Ruben Wiki Challenge Cup tournament, going down 46-16 in Rotorua at the weekend. But Paikea Whalers player Rylan Tuwairua Brown — who has retained his...
SURF LIFESAVINGWAIKANAE put up a gallant fight to finish worthy runners-up in a sensational weekend of surf lifesaving action in testing and thrilling surf at Midway Beach. Mount Maunganui took out the Tairawhiti/Gisborne Eastern Regional...
MONDAY, June 22 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 5North/South East/WestMurray Owen, John Hudson 56.67 Eileen Lee, Caroline Kirkpatrick 59.17Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 55.42 Joy Marden, Diana Styche 57.92WEDNESDAY, June 24 —...
In 2006, the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 played rugby at its best to beat Wellington College 32-7 here for the Hurricanes secondary schools’ title. A year later, with no provision in the rules for extra time, the teams drew 17-all here...
NUMBER one again. Gisborne’s Horouta Waka Hoe reaffirmed its status as the country’s top waka ama club at a record-breaking sprint nationals, which ended on Lake Karapiro on Saturday. Horouta finished well clear on overall points to retain the...
RUGBYIt was fire and blood. The fire was the passion the Uawa and Ruatoria sub-unions showed for Game 1 of the 2018 Barry Cup season in front of 400 fans. The blood was that spilled by Uawa first five-eighth Chris Richardson, with a cut above his...
SURFINGWITH the Tino Rangatiratanga flag on one sleeve and the New Zealand flag on the other, Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie surged to victory in his opening heat of the Corona Bali Protected Pro in Bali yesterday. From the moment he produced...
BASKETBALLStraight between the eyes — that’s the way 2015 Australian National Basketball League Coach of the Year Aaron Fearne gave players what they needed to know to get better. Fearne was in Gisborne last weekend as part of a two-week tour in...
RugbyPoverty Bay premier grade: Woodbank HSOB 26 Larsawn Ngatapa 28, Farmvets YMP 52 Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 22. Senior 1: Horouta 0 Wairoa Athletic 15, Nuhaka 30 OBM 21, YMP 12 Tapuae 34, HSOB 7 Ngatapa 53. East Coast club competition: Uawa 38...
Captain Hook features in Peter Pan, not Cinderella. But both are tales in which the underdog triumphs. On 2022 results, the Anthony Kiwara-coached Turanga Pirates go into tomorrow's Civil Project Solutions Senior 1 club rugby final at Rugby Park...
FROM first minute to last, the derby between United and Thistle held spectators captive. United skipper Kieran Venema scored from a last-minute penalty to give his side a 2-1 victory in Pacific Premiership football at Harry Barker Reserve on...
Gisborne's Kayley Knight was in Christchurch this week to play in the first games for the newly formed New Zealand under-19 women's cricket team. The team's first three games were on successive days against the New Zealand Police women's team. In the...
A cobbled-together team added another successful chapter to Northern's impressive history at the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay interzone competition earlier this week. Northern won the 27-hole aggregate team stableford competition held on the Hawke's Bay...
SYDNEE Andrews has returned from judo championships in Macau and Hong Kong with medals of every colour — a gold, silver and two bronze medals. Ella Kelso has a silver to add to the list. The two 16-year-olds, both Year 12 students at Gisborne...
SURF LIFESAVINGWAIKANAE club lifeguard Casie Fyall led the New Zealand surf lifesaving team to a hard-fought second placing in the international Sanyo Cup event in Japan last weekend. The 22-year-old was the lead beach exponent in the team and led by...
NEW Zealand longboarder Sasha Brownlie finished 17th-equal in the women’s division of the ISA World Longboard Surfing Championship in China. Brownlie, 38, has family links with Gisborne and Wairoa. She travelled to China having just won the...