CRICKETGisborne Boys’ High School cricket reinstated a long-lost tradition before their game against High School Old Boys on Saturday. For the first time in over three decades, the first 11 had a capping ceremony, where players received their...
Gisborne surfer Saffi Vette placed sixth in the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship yesterday — a courageous result after her campaign started in the worst way possible last week. The 17-year-old New Zealand representative contested 11...
DANNY Gibbs has replaced Sam Tallott as Poverty Bay captain for their remaining three games of the representative season, starting with this weekend’s two-day game against Counties Manukau in Manurewa. Tallott is unavailable as he is preparing to...
GISBORNE’S Tayler Reid and three of his Commonwealth Games New Zealand teammates overcame a 40-second deficit to win the Oceania mixed team relay triathlon at Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, at the weekend. The victory came a day after Reid finished...
History was made at Rugby Park on Saturday. The 171st Poverty Bay-East Coast clash ended with Ngati Porou East Coast defeating Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay 31-28. It was the Coast's 41st win against the Bay and — in their centenary year —...
There won’t be scenes of jubilation tonight — only relief and heartbreak. YMP Black meet the Dream Team in the men’s club basketball top four at the YMCA at 5.30pm, followed by YMP White versus Gisborne Boys’ High School in the bottom four...
ROOKIES Matt Henwood and Craig Christophers overcame shanks, nerves and dogged opposition to win one of the club’s most coveted titles — the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs — on Sunday. In their first season at Electrinet Park, the Lytton High...
YMP got the double done in premier-grade hockey when their men's and women's A teams won their Poverty Bay club hockey finals on Saturday. The YMP men's side completed a perfect winnng season with a 3-1 win over arch-rivals HPY Advisors Lytton Old...
KARTING by Rockin’ RobinThe racing was keen at Eastland Kart Club’s seventh points meeting of the season. In the rookies class, wins went to Conrad Gooch (2) and Nixon Gooch. Second placings went to Nixon (2) and Conrad. This is a great learner...
A MORE experienced Hawke’s Bay girls’ cricket team won both Twenty20 games against Poverty Bay at Harry Barker Reserve at the weekend. School holidays meant some players were unavailable, so both sides drew on representative teams ranging from...
Gisborne Giants had to settle for fifth place overall at the New Zealand superstock teams’ championship in Palmerston North on Sunday. The Giants qualified for the semifinals after a brutal win over the BayPark Busters, followed by a clinical...
The Gisborne Giants go into battle tonight in a bid to qualify for the ENZED Superstock Teams Champs finals in Palmerston North and team captain Peter Rees says they are ready to rumble. Young Gisborne driver James Kirk (331G) will make his debut...
BASKETBALLPut it on for a good cause, and Gisborne people come out. About 150 supporters of Campion College basketball did just that on Saturday, for the Gizzy It’s in the Bag! Quiz Night hosted by MC Walter “Whizz” Walsh at the RSA. The evening...
GISBORNE streetstock racer Brenden Gooch, who normally has the number 10G on his car, will proudly display 1NZ when he next drives his vehicle out on to the Eastland Group Raceway. Gooch won the Cleanways Ltd New Zealand Streetstock Championship with...
A place in the Federation Cup final is at stake when Gisborne United play Wanganui City at Harry Barker Reserve at 2pm tomorrow. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United clinched the Pacific Premiership title with a last-minute 3-2 victory over...
CyclingKonica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club races, SATURDAY — TMS Sport Series, race one, sign on at Bell Rd, 1.30-1.50pm, with a 2pm start. Handicap race: Lavenham Rd plus Patutahi Quarry Course, 49 kilometresNon racing ride also available, 75-90...
OVER 100 students from Bay of Plenty and Poverty Bay intermediate schools took part in the Super 11 ultimate frisbee tournament at Gisborne Intermediate School on Friday. Astros, the top-ranked of the four teams entered by the hosts, beat a Mount...
LYTTON High School won the girls' competition and Gisborne Boys' High School Red, the boys', in the inaugural junior interschool badminton tournament on Wednesday. The Tairawhiti Area Secondary School Principals Association, in conjunction with...
Gisborne surfer Finn Vette was in eye-catching form at the final event of the Billabong Grom Series, which finished at Piha Beach, Auckland, on Sunday
Australia marched off with the win in the Trans-Tasman Young Rider Test at Showgrounds Park, Gisborne, on Sunday. They beat the Kiwis by just three points in the transtasman contest that was a feature of the Larsen Sawmilling 32nd Equestrian...
Poverty Bay Kayak Club paddlers took home 20 medals — 14 of them gold — from the Blue Lake 2 canoe racing regatta at the weekend. Gisborne-led boats tallied six gold medals; however, several racers combined with other clubs' crews to find the...
It didn’t seem like a thrashing; it was more like the game that got away, goal by goal. Thistle Massive won the Bailey Cup by beating Gisborne United 6-1 at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. It was the final game of the football season in Gisborne...
FOOTBALLGisborne United and Thistle came away from Hawke’s Bay with victories again in Pacific Premiership football on Saturday. They had to battle torrential rain and blistering winds, with Heavy Equipment Services United beating mid-table side...
GOLF by Chris TaewaTHE Poverty Bay-East Coast team for the 2018 national interprovincial is taking shape. Anaru Reedy’s decision to make himself available for the week-long matchplay tournament, being held at Christchurch’s Clearwater course, has...
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GISBORNE Thistle AFC have pulled out of the Central Federation Premiership league after two seasons.“The committee made the decision that we would look at returning to the Pacific Premiership for the 2018 season,” said club president Shannon...
MONDAY, October 30 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 9North/South East/WestJohn Rouse/Murray Owen 56.25 Elizabeth Jackson/Carolyn McMurray 65.63John Jones/Dawn Wood 52.08 Eileen Lee/Ann McCombe 57.50WEDNESDAY, November 1 — Craigs...
Poverty Bay beat Ngati Porou East Coast 27-19 in their pre-Heartland Championship season Queen’s Birthday Weekend derby match in Ruatoria. The Coast will get the chance to balance the books when the sides clash in the Heartland Championship proper...
RUGBY by Grant MillerTHE last time Beaudein Waaka played rugby for Poverty Bay, he was still at school. Since then, he has played sevens for New Zealand, had several seasons with Taranaki and played semi-professional club rugby in Sydney. Waaka, 25...
Get physical or get carved up by Wanganui . . . it’s as simple as that as Poverty Bay prepare to take on “the Butcher Boys” in week three of the Heartland Championship at Rugby Park tomorrow. History is on the visitors’ side. They have never...
Club cricket, DJ Barry Cup, Saturday, 1pm: Landmark Homes OBR v Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys, Harry Barker Reserve rep wicket. Sunday, 1pm: OBR v HSOB, HB2. Hope Cup, Saturday, 2pm: Campion College v Gisborne Boys' High School, HB1; Bollywood...
Left midfielder Malcolm Marfell hit a first-half hat-trick in Gisborne United Premiers' 5-1 victory over Wainui Sharks in Eastern League 1 football at Harry Barker Reserve last Saturday. In fact, Marfell had a hand in all four of United's first-half...
RUATORIA City’s 14-8 victory over Tokomaru United in the early game at Whakarua Park on Saturday has moved them into the Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby competition’s top four. The pitch was sodden from overnight rain and it was still blowing...
Third round, Summer Cup (par) —Women: I Ngarimu +5; H Miratana +5; G Roberts +3; D Goldsmith +2; A Cook, R Ngatai -2. Men: N Dewes +6, J Devery +5; P Harrison +1; J Forrester, I Sykes A/S; B Clark, J Miratana, D Cook -2. COMING UP: SUNDAY — Fourth...