EASTLAND Group Raceway hosts one of the meets of the season over the next two nights when the Burger King super saloon series comes to town and the Gisborne connections in the field are expected to perform strongly. The 29-car field includes several...
SNOOKERGISBORNE Cossie Snooker Club president Steve Wood rises to the occasion when it comes to the Burnie Hart Memorial tournament. Defending champion Wood made it a second title in his third consecutive championship final appearance in the popular...
Family teams Ruahine Black and Ruahine Green went head to head in their Brezz’n Sports Club deferred darts match on Sunday. Ruahine Black won 8-7. Players to shine for them were Sin Tupene, who scored her first 180, Pots Te Kira, who scored most...
POVERTY Bay Kayak Club’s crew of Courtney Hoskin, Britney Ford, Kim Thompson and Sarah Guyot won the open women’s K4 200m on the first day of the New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro yesterday. Their time of 38.08s was just...
First open title to WoolfFormer Gisborne surfer Kai Woolf yesterday won her first event in the open women’s division of the New Zealand Surf Series. Woolf, 17, had a two-wave score of 11.0 in the final to win the Manu Bay Pro open women’s...
TAYLER Reid's fantastic season racing triathlon continued at the weekend, with a second-place finish in the standard-distance male elite race at the Kinloch Triathlon Festival. Two other Gisborne triathletes — brothers Josiah and Matthew Ney —...
Thistle are underdogs heading into the Pacific Premiership football derby against United at Childers Road Reserve tomorrow. But Jags coach Garrett Blair has confidence his side can lift for the occasion.“We know it’ll be a tough game but I’m...
MONDAY — Women's competition: Masters 43 (Wanita Tuwairua-Brown 17, Reremoana Bartlett-Tamatea 14) Ngati Porou 56 (Bronya McMenamin 18, Jayda Waititi-Leach 15, Ata Mangu 9) - Q1 Ngati Porou 17-16, HT Masters 29-22, Q3 Ngati Porou 43-37. Ritana To...
Four nights of intense hockey action lie ahead next week as eight teams vie for places in Gisborne's club finals. Due to the Alert Level 2 restrictions on gatherings, one playoff game will be played on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker Reserve...
THE Motu Trails cycle trail could be in line for a boost to the attraction’s international appeal, following personnel changes to the Motu Trails Charitable Trust. After more than three years as chairman of Motu Trails Charitable Trust, Dave Emslie...
NETBALLYMP will be set to bring Horouta Gold back to reality tomorrow night in Gisborne premier-grade netball at the YMCA, and Ritana Senior A can expect to play a different beast in Whangara Old Girls. Whangara and Ritana from Lytton High School...
Results of the show hunter categories at the Larsen Sawmilling Jumping and Show Hunter Championships at Showgrounds Park at the weekend (riders from Gisborne unless stated otherwise) —NRM Open High Points: Merran Hain (Untouchable) 1; Sophie...
THE Aotearoa national waka ama sprint championships culminated in a massive day of finals on Lake Karapiro today. And Tairawhiti paddlers, particularly members of the Horouta Waka Hoe club, were playing a major role in 29 back-to-back finals, which...
FORTY goals thudded into the back of the nets on the LJ Hooker Turf in Round 6 of the Poverty Bay senior hockey competition at the weekend, and YMP sides again scored heavily. The YMP men’s and women’s teams continued their impressive and...
AN injured Ricardo Christie ended the world title hopes of Brazilian Filipe Toledo in a stunning upset at the Pipe Masters in Hawaii this morning. Nursing 10 stitches after the fin of his board gashed his leg as he came off a wave yesterday, Christie...
It's no wonder they're excited. Well might Tokararangi supporters anticipate a great season — they have three committed men to lead their sports club onwards and upwards. Israel Brown has taken over from Morgan Wirepa Jr as head coach (though, as...
GISBORNE Athletic Club results from the club night last WednesdaySeven-year boys60 metres: Archie Cook 1, Zane Taylor 2.100m: A Cook 1, Z Taylor 2.200m: A Cook 1, Milan Cox 2,Z Taylor 3. Long jump: M Cox 1. Eight-year boys60m: Jack Holden 1, Luc...
BODYBUILDINGA year and a half ago Ephraim Gudgeon was paralysed from the waist down after jumping into the water at Omanawa Falls near Tauranga. Tomorrow night the 25-year-old Hamiltonian will compete in the National Amateur Body-builders’...
Magic — that’s the best way to describe the Lytton High School Rugby Academy’s Hurricanes Championship win in Levin. In only the academy’s second year, the Trish Hina-coached Lytton under-15 girls beat Wanganui 66-0, Feilding 42-0 and Kapiti...
A SPORTS challenge between Gisborne man Cory Hutchings and former All White striker Noah Hickey gave both athletes a taste of what competitors will face in the largest multisport event on the planet in 2017. Hickey and three-time surf lifesaving...
Winners of the Tairawhiti Secondary Schools Triathlon races held this month —GizzyterraYear 7 and 8 female: Erica Butt (Waerenga o Kuri).Year 7 and 8 male: Hamish Swann (Campion College).Junior female: Ella Arthur (Campion College).Junior male...
A small group of Gisborne competitors enjoyed success at the National Showing Champs in Hastings. Sam Brooks — the only Gisborne boy to compete — Olivia Briant in only her third show, Harriet Savage in her last year on ponies, Briar Herries and...
It was another busy day of Saturday sport in the district including these three battles — YMP versus Ngatapa in premier club rugby at Barry Park; Waituhi v YMP in Poverty Bay women's hockey at the turf at Harry Barker Reserve; and Whangara Old...
DARTSIt was a night of close margins in the 2NZEF Association Summer Darts League. Dart stalwarts Stu and Ange Leach, back from over “the ditch”, 2NZ 6 Shooters winter league captain Alf Cross and 2NZ Say My Name team member Aimee Collier this...
The men have been separated from the boys — now to find the cream of the crop. It has taken seven weeks but the where-were-you-when-it-happened moment of the 2017 men’s club basketball league has arrived. In Game 4 tonight, Scott Muncaster’s...
AUCKLAND’S loss is Gisborne’s gain, says Tairawhiti Softball Association committee member Ray Noble, on the appointment of Roy Timoti as the new development officer for junior softball.“Roy hasn’t been in the district long but already the...
The Ngati Porou East Coast under-15 girls' rugby team have had two superb days. Coaches David Newton and Laman Davies and manager Frankie Tihore are thrilled with their team's performance at the Hurricanes tournament in Levin. The Coast lost 30-14 to...
Mareikura paddlers were there at the start of the waka ama national sprint championships in New Zealand in 1990 and have been at every one of the annual regattas since. Members celebrated their club’s attendance at all of the sprint nationals by...
Claydens Waikohu take on arch-rivals Horouta Gold in a game that could go either way
THE Gisborne under-15 netballers won their final against Trust Waikato Hamilton City Netball Centre Year 9 Blue in the North Island championships in New Plymouth to finish third in the C Grade of the tournament. The Gisborne girls dominated the final...
Poverty BayABRAHAM PLATE — Wednesday, September 20, sponsored by Ryman Healthcare. The format was mixed graded fours played over four games of 90 minutes. The winning team — Jeff and Joy Davis, Dave Hooper and Trish Leach — were unbeaten. They...
The annual gathering of Gisborne Boardriders Club (GBC) members is an opportunity to award the year's notable surfers, announce entries to the Hall of Fame, and life memberships. The surfer of the year award went to Saffi Vette, and the most improved...
GISBORNE Archery Club members Chris Underdown and his daughter Chloe won gold in their divisions of the Royle Hutton Annual Tournament. This is a national postal shoot held on Waitangi Day every year. It commemorates Royle Hutton, the founder of youth...