GRANTSNEW ZEALAND Community Trust grants totalling $297,221 were allocated to the Gisborne region in February. The three biggest grants were:• $110,000 to the Gisborne Netball Centre for salaries for the officials and netball co-ordinator, youth...
HOCKEY by ScraggyGMC GREEN had a slow start in their clash with Te Aowera last night and the score reflected a closer game than most expected. The 9-0 score reflected a GMC side that kicked into gear in the second quarter to take control, but credit...
RUGBYHe’s been flanked by giants before. And Brian Leach — the newly appointed head coach of East Coast Farm Vets YMP — appreciates the club’s 110-year history and that YMP stand for more than just rugby to generations of supporters.“This...
FOOTBALLTWO extraordinary results changed the landscape at the top of football’s Eastern League Division 1 at the weekend. Carpet Court Thistle Massive no longer sit at the top of the heap after their 6-5 loss to Gisborne Thistle Youth. Their place...
FOOTBALLGISBORNE Thistle finished third in their group at football’s Napier City Rovers Under-19 National Tournament at Park Island, Napier, at the weekend. Thistle kept four teams goalless as they won three of their group games, lost one and drew...
GISBORNE’S Tayler Reid paid his own emotional tribute to fellow Kiwi Hayden Wilde after his teammate’s bronze medal performance in the men’s triathlon yesterday. Reid was 18th overall after coming out of the swim leg fifth, being part of the...
FOOTBALLNIC Somerton and Raul Medina scored two goals each as Thistle Massive got their Eastern League 1 campaign off to a winning start at Childers Road Reserve. But Massive had to endure a tense finish as Heavy Equipment United came from 4-1 down...
A depleted Gisborne Thistle side travelled by road to Palmerston North and did better than expected against Massey University. They lost a Central Federation League match at Massey’s ground 3-1 but the killer third goal came from a disputed penalty...
Gisborne teams United and Thistle are in the last 16 of Central Football’s Federation Cup knockout competition. Both sides could be considered favourites in their matches in Napier tomorrow, but their circumstances are different. Heavy Equipment...
Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys Presidents 177-8 (Jeff Chambers 38, Ollie Needham 25; Keanu Makiri 2-14, Akira Makiri 2-21, Lukas Fry 2-27) beat Gisborne Boys’ High School (2) 121-4 (Bekko Page 29 not out).Civil Project Solutions Ngatap...
The defending champions are hanging from the edge of a cliff by chewed fingernails after the latest rounds of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub series. Losses to Te Puia Springs and Electrinet Park (1) in rounds 5 and 6 on Saturday have Poverty Bay on...
The task of batsmen has always been to score as many runs as possible. David Gray did that last night in his superb unbeaten 173 in the Sonrise-Lytton High School combined team’s 192-run win against the Gisborne Boys’ High School Blues and Royals...
CRICKETHorouta are paddling into the unknown. Tomorrow The Waka must pull off one of the biggest upsets in the 125-year history of Poverty Bay cricket if they’re to get back to the Senior B final for the first time since 2019. From 2pm on Harry...
Gretchen Ivess, Jean Bennett 63.58Rosemary Rowell, Murray Owen 61.24Mark Fleming, Linda White 56.48Sally Knight, Elizabeth Jackson 55.79Caroline Taylor, Yvonne Waide 50.48Robin Bennett, John Rouse 48.63Joy Marden, Bette Parker 61.46Sue Hayward...
SURFINGThe last surfing competition of the year for Gisborne Boardriders was one of the best events of the year. Over 60 local surfers competed in a star-studded line-up that included Ricardo Christie and brothers Maz and Jay Quinn. Maz Quinn said on...
SENIOR and junior cricket draws for the coming week are —Harry Barker Reserve 1, Coastal Concrete OBR v Horouta (umpire Stewart Patrick); HBR 2, Bollywood Stars High School Old Boys v Gisborne Boys’ High School (Jason Trowill).HBR 3, Ngatapa v...
Good teams from great clubs get up for big games. The rivalry between Enterprise Cars OBM and High School Old Boys has produced many memorable clashes in the 26 years since the union of Old Boys and Marist, and OBM will host the Danny Boyle/Wayne...
Gisborne Boys’ High School cricket was reborn at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. Following a 291-run loss to Tauranga Boys’ College in their Pool 2 Super 8 opener and a 162-run loss to New Plymouth BHS in Round 2, the Malcolm Trowell-coached...
HOCKEYGMC Green started their A grade round one hockey campaign with a one goal winning margin over Ngatapa from which the country team would have taken considerable heart. The Green Machine won it by the narrow margin of three goals to...
GOLFTHE “new boy” of the Poverty Bay-East Coast team saved his best to last at the Freyberg Masters interprovincial in Hamilton yesterday. Former Poverty Bay cricket representative Glenn Morley notched his first victory as a PBEC golf rep on the...
Gisborne “iron” athlete Olivia Corrin produced her best results so far in Australia’s elite ironwoman series this summer, and she was thrilled about it. The 21-year-old finished 10th out of 20 women across the six rounds of the Nutri-Grain...
RUGBYTo win a home game in their second-to-last wearing of the colours would mean everything to them. That is motivation aplenty for at least seven Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 rugby players who are set to take on four-time defending Super 8...
(Jasmine Sparks 9) (Harata Hailey 12, Monique Carmichael 10, Wanita Tuwairua-Brown 9) Masters Q1 10-7, HT 24-11, Q3 44-11.(Jamieson Tapsell 15, Natalie Mackey 11) (Lindsey Pihema 13, Peyton Riri 8) Manu Toa Q1 10-4, HT 19-8, Q3 37-15. Ngati Porou...
Senior A basketball team doing all they can ahead of Super 8 tournament
The Poverty Bay men’s and women’s hockey champions for 2021 will be crowned over the next three days, and the four finals have quality written all over them. Covid-19 forced hockey administrators to radically restructure their playoffs and finals...
“A BIT of a surprise” was how Di Webb described her women’s shootout final victory on Saturday. Webb headed off 17 hopefuls to claim the net hole-by-hole elimination title. And she did it in style. The 40-handicapper’s final victim was Blanche...
HOCKEYMOST score sheets showed big goal tallies for the second round of the Poverty Bay hockey competition, but the scoreline was tight in two men’s games. Gisborne Boys’ High School started their season with a 3-0 loss to the new Waituhi team...
They share a fierce passion for rugby at Tihirau Victory Club. Yet they are as unassuming an outfit as can be imagined off the field of play . . . or away from the sideline. That detachment, allied to skill and alertness, enabled them to beat Pango...
Boon McIlroy and Dianne Phillips won the first centre event of the season, the Diane Bruce Memorial Trophy, at Gisborne Bowling Club. They beat Les Whittington and Jessie Davis-Law 15-12 in the 12-end final. It was the third time McIlroy and Phillips...