Horouta Waka Hoe Club won the Matapihi Trophy for top waka ama club in Aotearoa for the fifth year in a row, and for the seventh time in the eight years it has been contested. Horouta had 212 paddlers competing in 34 teams and/or as individuals in...
WILLIAM Brown has contributed several success stories to the Poverty Bay-East Coast golf history books. This week's national interprovincial men's golf tournament in Ashburton may well be his greatest. Brown finished the week as he started it as PBEC...
RugbyPoverty Bay club premier final, Lee Bros Shield: Enterprise Cars OBM 65 YMP 5. Senior 1 final, Lew Patterson Cup: Roseland Tavern Tapuae 19 Nuhaka 3. East Coast club semifinals: Uawa 51 Hicks Bay 3; Tihirau Victory Club 12 Hikurangi 5. Schools: St...
FOOTBALLWAINUI Sharks continued their early-season run of form with a 5-0 Bailey Cup victory over Riverina in Gisborne football on Saturday. Meanwhile, Lytton High School showed plenty of spirit to beat QRS Wairoa Athletic 5-4 on penalties in...
A goalscorer and a goal creator were Gisborne Thistle players of the day against Napier Marist Reserves on Saturday. Matt McVey scored a hat-trick and Max Logan was instrumental in four of the goals in Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle’s 6-0 win at...
GYMNASTICS“I was born ready!”That was the answer a Gisborne Gymnastics Club member gave another club’s coach during the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Open Championships.“What a fantastic way to express their confidence, their complete focus for...
BOWLSDAYVINIA Mills is reserved by nature, but don’t let that fool you. Beneath that demure facade runs a competitive streak that comes to the surface every time she steps on a bowling green. It served her well last month, when she won the women’s...
Tentative dates have been set for Gisborne netball's premier grade preliminary finals and senior finals day. The premier preliminary finals will be held on Wednesday night next week, and the senior finals will be held on Saturday next week.“We have...
There should be plenty of action on the greens this weekend when the Centre Champion of Champions Fours get under way at 8.30am tomorrow and carry on through to Sunday. The Tolaga Bay Bowling Club will host the senior and junior men’s sections...
TE AOWERA, a team of battlers, last night recorded their first win of the season in Poverty Bay senior women’s hockey, and they did it in a penalty shootout to make a final. Te Aowera defeated YMP B in a shoot-out on the LJ Hooker turf at Harry...
POVERTY Bay will have to wait another year before bringing home the Jeremy David Memorial Trophy after they lost 53-17 to Wairarapa Bush at Rugby Park on Saturday. Wairarapa Bush have now won the past five Trophy matches. While they were worthy...
PIRATES skipper Mitchell Turner scored his maiden century and backed it up with four wickets against High School Old Boys to help his side book a place in Saturday’s DJ Barry Cup cricket final. Turner and his Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates teammates...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS, from May 31180s: J Griffiths (Men of Mayhem); M Evans (Sugar Spandangles); M Awatere (2NZ Wahine Toa).Highest start (140): M Reedy 2 (Cossy Done n Dusted); S Harris, A Wildbore (Cossy Eastland Asphalts); T Irwin (Sugar Men of...
MONDAY, July 18 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Open Championship 6 (Howell movement): Philip Beale/Michelle England 69.79; Hans van der Kuijl/Katrine Matthews 57.87; Herman Koenders/Glenys Evans 54.17; Ann McCombe/Eileen Lee 52.60. WEDNESDAY, July 20 —...
TAIRAWHITI'S sporting community will be out in force on Friday night for the 2017 Logans Sporting Excellence Awards. The awards are being held on Friday (SUBS: Nov 10 ) at the Showgrounds Event Centre and will celebrate our community’s finest...
Hicks Bay made their bed and had to lie in it. No team in Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby can afford to concede 20 unanswered points to last year's finalists away from home without it being an uphill climb from there. Such was the...
A GradeINDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: John White (Whanau Magic); Willie Edwards (Tigers); Te Kotahi Kaio, Tristan Reeves (Rangatahi).Highest start, men (180): Willie Edwards (Tigers);Te Kotahi Kaio (Rangatahi).Hightest start, women (100): Kino White...
JAMES Warren joined the High School Old Boys premier “100 club” when he played in the 36-24 win against Ngatapa in the Lee Bros Shield semifinals on Saturday. Evergreen front-rower Kolo Fonohema tops the “club” with 131 games, followed by...
Gisborne pushed Napier hard on Saturday. Napier Boys' High School at home beat the GBHS first 15 24-17 in the second game of Gisborne's Super 8 campaign. Napier retained the Football Challenge Cup which they took with a 21-20 win at Napier BHS in...
GISBORNELast weekend the club championship fours were contested in ideal conditions. Fifteen ends were played with a two-and-a-half-hour time limit in the early rounds, but there was no time limit for the potential finals, or the finals. Queenie...
GISBORNE sidecar teams Rob Miller with Hamish White and Deane Miller with Pete Steigenberger “survived” a night of carnage at the opening meeting at the Western Springs speedway last weekend. The two Gisborne combinations had what Rob Miller...
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The Poverty Bay club rugby season is expected to come to an explosive end on Saturday when Waikohu meet YMP in the grand final at Rugby Park. The teams have clearly established themselves as the top two, with Waikohu winning round 1 and YMP round 2...
THC got back into the winners’ circle in senior men’s hockey at the weekend, but Lytton Old Boys gave them a reasonable run for the points in a game that could have gone the other way. A brace of goals to prolific THC striker Tamanay Tuhou...
Poverty BayThe Val Smith Mixed Pairs tournament held last weekend was an enormous success. Charlie Ure and Ginny Sherriff came out at the head of a field of 24 teams for this premier event of the Poverty Bay club’s programme. Glenys Whiteman and Ray...
Containment was the call as Tūranga Mana Wāhine beat Thames Valley Vixens 38-22 in a women's rugby match at the Oval on Saturday. The Wāhine ended their 2022 campaign on a high with a dominant second-half performance after trailing by eight points...
CRICKET It's not quite time to say goodbye for Gisborne Boys' High School and Campion College. Tomorrow they will do battle for the second and last time in round-robin play on Harry Barker Reserve ground No. 1. Regardless of the result, they will face...
They had a pretty good idea the announcement was coming but it hurt all the same. Gisborne waka ama representatives Raipoia Brightwell, Walton Walker and Kiwi Campbell said cancelling the sprint world championships at Hawaii this year was an expected...
To win two championships takes something special. The Paul Morunga-coached Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic beat Roseland Tapuae at Rugby Park in 2021 and made more history last weekend. Wairoa Athletic returned to the big stage to beat Anthony...
HOCKEYTHE weekend comes early for the district’s senior hockey players this week and what a start it promises to be, with two cracking matches in store tonight to conclude the women’s round-robin play. The playoffs start for both senior men and...
DEFENDING Lee Bros Shield rugby champions High School Old Boys will play their bogey team Ngatapa in one semifinal on Saturday while OBM take on YMP in the other sudden-death decider. Competition leaders Woodbank HSOB came from behind to beat...
Horouta Gold had another nailbiting win in Gisborne netball's Challenge Round for senior grades on Saturday. Playing to retain their Premier Grade place, they beat Tapuae 47-44 after trailing at the end of the first quarter. On Wednesday, in one of...
From the sublime to the ridiculous. Mad-keen golfer Richard Foon experienced the fickle extremes of the great game in successive rounds at his home Awapuni Links course. Last Saturday afternoon, Foon celebrated the second hole-in-one of his 12 years...
NETBALLIT’S crunch time at the YMCA tomorrow night as one team tries to cement top spot in premier-grade netball’s top four, and two other teams vie for better positions. A month ago the 7.30pm clash between YMP Sunshine Brewery and Taste One...