RUGBY LEAGUEAFTER losing twice to Seeka Falcons in the Gisborne Tairawhiti club competition, including the 1 v 2 second-life semifinal, Paikea Whalers won the one that counted . . . the grand final. The Whalers saved their best for last and made it...
Monday (March 29) — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Open Championship Pairs 1North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 57.99 Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 63.89Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 56.25 Pippa Williams, Helen Kerisome...
SURF LIFESAVINGGisborne’s Matt Cairns (pictured) has been appointed coach of the New Zealand Surf Lifesaving open Black Fins team for the next world championships, to be staged in Italy in September 2020. Cairns was coach of the junior team who won...
Gisborne's Finn Vette topped the scoring in the round of 32 for under-18 boys at the National Surfing Championships in Dunedin yesterday. Vette posted 13.3 points out of 20 in his heat, comfortably seeing off Luke Rogers (Dunedin), Bill Byers (Piha)...
Andrew Ball (skip), Lorna Reeves and Diane Doyle were awarded the Joyce Boustead Tray for winning the RSA (Women's Section) Mixed Triples Tournament played at the Poverty Bay Bowling Club last Friday. The runners-up were Kathy Carroll (skip), Bruce...
RowingGisborne rowers Cody Wright and Oscar Ruston won gold and silver at the North Island Secondary Schools Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro last Friday. Competing for Gisborne Boys’ High School, they won the boys’ under-16 double sculls by...
WE have found our first men’s finalists. Gisborne club basketball’s No. 1-seeded Old School beat fourth-placed East Coast 70-32 at the YMCA last night to advance to the club grand final on Saturday week (September 16).The Coast could not repeat...
Gisborne Thistle got their first point in Pacific Premiership football this season with a 1-1 draw against Napier Marist in Gisborne on Saturday. Meanwhile, in Hawke’s Bay, a Josh Adams hat-trick propelled Gisborne United to a 6-2 victory over...
Eastland had a win and a loss in the final rounds of the 2019 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Auckland. They lost to Auckland (2) 5 matches to 4 and beat Hawke’s Bay 6-3. Eastland team members were Kevin Lee...
Gisborne Trampoline Club’s power tumblers will get their first taste of competitive action on a new air floor at the North Island Championships at Electrinet Sports Centre in Gisborne, starting on Friday.“We’ve had the floor, bought with the...
GISBORNE/Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie has suffered a tough Round 3 loss overnight in the EDP Billabong Pro Cascais in Portugal. Surfing in messy, overhead waves, Christie had a difficult time finding the right waves and could put together a score of...
JONO Griffiths threw three 180s in Round 7 of grading in Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association play on Tuesday night. Griffiths, of Te Kuzzyz, threw the trio of 180s in his team’s 10-5 victory over the Tigers. Teammates Errol Tamihana and Toby Ratapu...
A Napier boat and crew landed a 119kg striped marlin in the New Zealand Sports Fishing Competition being held this week. Fishing off Wahoo, Pete Draper caught the marlin east of Penguin Rocks and it took an hour to get the fish into the boat. The boat...
Been there, done that. And the plan is to do it again and again and again after Tony Leggett and Brad Reynolds became the 2018 Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs champions at Gisborne Park Golf Club on Sunday. Leggett and Reynolds defeated gallant lone...
STEVE Goldsbury has won his fifth Bowls Gisborne-East Coast player of the year award, and Glenys Whiteman has won the women’s award a third time. These awards were presented at the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast annual prize-giving function. These awards...
SWIMMINGComet Swimming Club recently had a team of 33 swimmers at Napier to compete at the East Coast swimming championships. A total of 12 clubs were represented at the champs, with Comet having the third-largest team, after Napier Aquahawks and...
GREG Bothamley, or “Pacos Bill” as he is known around these here parts, cleaned up the Cowboy Action Shooting Gaddums Hill end-of-year competition here at the weekend. The Gisborne gunslinger, who is national champion in the long-range...
CyclingKonica Minolta Gisborne Cycling Club races, SATURDAY — TMS Sport series, race 5 (final) MTB race, sign on at Waiteata Park on Russell Street from 1.30-1.50pm, with a 2pm start. MTB race: Two courses, long and short option (9km shorter than...
HAWKE’S Bay reclaimed the Kirk Cup with a 10-wicket win against Poverty Bay in Napier yesterday. Batting first, Poverty Bay were bowled out for 98. The home side reached their target without loss.“We made a good start, after Sam Tallott was out...
THE high-flying Freestyle New Zealand team take centre stage at the Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night and another awesome show of freestyle motocross can be expected. The team wowed the crowd when they performed at the track last year.“They put...
TALK about hectic. Mackeys and the GBA under-15s produced the first tied game, 39-all, of the women’s club basketball league championship round at the YMCA. Only four teams took the court on Tuesday. The Honey Badgers had a bye and Lytton High...
BASKETBALLFirst it was a dream, then a goal — and now a reality. The Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior A team under Dwayne Tamatea have qualified for the Basketball New Zealand Schick AA National Championship Tournament. They’ve hit the big...
RUGBYTWO weeks ago I would have put a Ngatapa-High School Old Boys clash down as a certain four, maybe even bonus-point win to the men from Patutahi. After Saturday’s matches, the boot is on the other foot heading into this week’s premier game...
WAIROA turned on the weather and the community support for the Tairawhiti Secondary Schools Mountain Bike Challenge at Papa Paihikara Maunga, the Wairoa mountain bike park, on Thursday. The event was a cross-country event, which meant a mix of uphill...
FOOTBALLMATT McVey was the beating heart of a Lytton High School team who defeated QRS Wairoa Athletic 4-1 in Eastern League Division 1 football at Lytton on Saturday. Central midfielder McVey was the standout player of the game, making his presence...
The greats of the game came out to play on Saturday in a hard-fought game between Poverty Bay Legends and Ngati Porou East Coast Legends. Despite some grey hairs and ageing bodies, both teams put on a showcase of skill in a high-scoring affair won by...
Poverty Bay Kayak Club has topped the medal tally at this year's New Zealand and Oceania Canoe Sprint Championships. With 17 gold medals across the weekend of racing, the Gisborne club finished with one more gold medal than Arawa Canoe Club. Local...
180s: C Waikawa (2NZ Tao Spartans); P Stewart 2 (Sugar & Spice); A Taukamo-Pohio 2, A Kaiwai (2NZ Tao Vikings); L Kaa (2NZ Rebels); J Witika (Cossy Eastland Asphalts); J Love, I Kaio-Wynyard 2, J White, T Kaio (Cossy Done n Dusted); T O'Neill (Sugar...
GISBORNE shooter Aaron Manson was a man on a double mission as he prepared for the South Island International Practical Shooting Confederation championships in Dunedin. And it proved a case of mission accomplished when the North Island IPSC open...
CLAYDENS Waikohu are on the verge of making premier-grade netball’s top four after a 62-35 win against Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A on Saturday. The win, in what was Waikohu’s last points competition game of the Gisborne Pak’nSave...
BOWLSThe Gisborne Blind Foundation indoor bowls team came home with a New Zealand title from this year’s national championships. Nola Burgess, with guide Wendy Davies, won the women’s singles in the total blindness category. Every year in October...
RUGBYGISBORNE’S Charmaine McMenamin has been nominated for Black Ferns player of the year. McMenamin, a loose forward for the Auckland Storm and New Zealand Black Ferns, is up against Kendra Cocksedge (Canterbury) and Ayesha Leti-I’ig...