PremiumPremiumSportRocketships on wheelsgisborne Speedway Club tonight hosts the fastest machines in the sport in New Zealand — sprintcars. Seen by many as the pinnacle of speedway racing, the 800-horsepower winged warriors produce amazing racing. They can get around the track at an...16 Nov 06:47 PM
PremiumPremiumSport‘Vibe of the guys’ has Van Der Nagel heading to Te Puia Springs for the East Coast OpenBay of Plenty masters representative Craig Van Der Nagel isn’t far away from becoming an adopted Tairāwhiti local. And he will move a significant step towards that this weekend when he heads up State Highway 35 to play in the East Coast Open at...16 Nov 06:45 PM
PremiumPremiumSportSeniors going homeThe return of all senior club cricket to the Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow is great news. In Round 4 of the 40-over Premier Grade Doleman Cup matches to start at 12 midday, Bollywood High School Old Boys will clash with Breakers Horouta Te Waka on...16 Nov 06:43 PM
PremiumPremiumSportLuca Vita dominates with three wins at Eastland Kart Club meetLuca Vita won all three A Group races when Eastland Kart Club members met on Sunday for their second points meeting of the season. But Lyn Lyle, at 70-plus, was not far off the pace, taking two second placings in this group. Drivers did timed laps...15 Nov 08:36 PM
PremiumPremiumSportChallenge Cup’s Round 3 sees closest contest yetThe Life Guards beat the Blues and Royals by four runs in a brilliant finish to their Gisborne Boys' High School T20 Challenge Cup derby. Off the first ball of the 19th over of this Senior C Grade cricket match, pace bowler Robbie Newlands had...15 Nov 08:24 PM
PremiumPremiumSportGisborne teenager tops quality NZ field in first competitive drifting eventMOTORSPORT Gisborne youth ministock speedway racer Corbyn Wilson demonstrated his versatility and burgeoning skill when he won a major drifting event in Auckland at the weekend. The 15-year-old won the first round of the MSC Drifting Challenge at...14 Nov 11:23 PM
PremiumPremiumSportHorouta’s Singh cracks first century of Poverty Bay club seasonNobody has pushed them yet. The Dave Castle-led Bollywood High School Old Boys’ last campaign netted year all three Premier Grade trophies in a perfect season and they are on track to retain the 40-over Doleman Cup, having beaten Gisborne Boys’...14 Nov 11:19 PM
PremiumPremiumSportTairāwhiti softball drawDraw for Tairāwhiti senior and junior softball, all games at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday — Senior division, 12.30pm: D2, Moana Toa v Expendables; D3, Maori Smurfs v More or Less. Emerging Sox Intermediate Softball (Years 7 and 8), 11am: D1...14 Nov 11:16 PM
PremiumPremiumSportGold, silver and bronze success for Tairāwhiti fourARMWRESTLING A growing number of Tairawhiti competitors are emerging as forces in the sport of armwrestling. Father and son Nukumai and Malachi Jansen, Neil McMillan and dual masters world champion John Leach brought medals home from the National...14 Nov 11:14 PM
PremiumPremiumSportHusband, wife duo claim winsHusband and wife Steve and Kay Goldsbury were both winners in the centre pairs tournament held on Gisborne Bowling Club greens at the weekend. Steve Goldsbury and skip Malcolm Trowell won the men's competition, while skip Kay Goldsbury and Janice...14 Nov 04:49 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGisborne club and junior cricket resultsPremier Grade, Saturday, Harry Barker Reserve, Doleman Cup 40-over competition, Round 3 — Bollywood High School Old Boys 51-4 in 10.3 overs (Graham Sharp 25; Johnathan Gray 2-14) beat Gisborne Boys’ High School 50 all out in 17.4 overs (David...14 Nov 04:47 AM
PremiumPremiumSportBRIDGE RESULTSCongratulations Caroline Taylor and Jean Turnbull for their score of 75.42 on Friday. Monday, November 6 — Turanga Pairs 2 (Howell movement) Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 61.43 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 59.52 Carolyn McMurray...14 Nov 04:47 AM
PremiumPremiumSportRoll out the barrelsThe “Kegged” team of experienced surfers set up to help instruct the district’s young boardriders held a successful workshop for the “groms” at Pines, Wainui Beach, last weekend. It attracted 30 riders under the age of 18. “The kids all...11 Nov 05:03 AM
PremiumPremiumSportMonkey off Tairāwhiti’s back: Masters wooden spoon handed on to SouthlandThere is a huge difference between 14th and 15th at the Freyberg Masters men’s national interprovincial tournament . . . the length of a wooden spoon to be exact. Tairāwhiti men’s team know that all too well. For the past three years, under the...11 Nov 05:01 AM
PremiumPremiumSportThompson on cue on Cossie Club tablesPhil Thompson emerged the champion from Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s President’s Trophy held last weekend. The trophy brings together winners and runners-up from all club competitions over the year and is played off handicap. A full...11 Nov 04:59 AM
PremiumPremiumSportSolomann ends BoP star’s winning streakHe’s known to most as “Solly” but David Solomann has earned himself another nickname at the Freyberg Masters men’s interprovincial tournament in Gisborne this week . . . “Afternoon Specialist”. Solomann collected a huge scalp as his host...09 Nov 10:16 PM
PremiumPremiumSportTrio wins annual ‘Fun Day’Poverty Bay Bowling Club members held their annual Melbourne Cup Fun Day Tournament on Tuesday. The winners, with three wins and 15 ends won, were Dayvinia Mills (skip), Marion Jones (director) and Margaret Parsons (lead). The runners-up — Bruce...09 Nov 10:13 PM
PremiumPremiumSportMills bowls perfectlyImpressive draw bowls by Dayvinia Mills proved decisive in the final of the centre 2-4-2 mixed pairs completed at Gisborne Bowling Club on Sunday. Mills combined with Geoff Pinn to defeat Marcus and Jasmine Merrick 15-8 in the decider. The...09 Nov 10:11 PM
PremiumPremiumSportGreenless Tolaga win men’s interclub champsNo green, no problem. Tolaga Bay won the men's section of the senior interclub competition at the Kahutia Bowling Club on Saturday, even though their home green is still out of commission. Cyclone Gabrielle caused the Tolaga Bay green damage that...09 Nov 10:08 PM
PremiumPremiumSportGBHS look to end HSOB dominanceCan Gisborne Boys’ High School end the blue-and-whites’ dominance of Premier Grade cricket? Two weeks into the 40-over Doleman Cup season, Bollywood High School Old Boys’ margins of victory have been 156 runs against Breakers Horouta Te Wak...09 Nov 10:05 PM
PremiumPremiumSportTairāwhiti fall to neighbours at Freyberg MastersHawke’s Bay took the honours in their neighbourhood rivalry with Tairāwhiti in Round 6 of the Freyberg Masters men’s national golf interprovincial in Gisborne this morning. The men in black beat the host province 4-1 on the penultimate day of...09 Nov 01:21 PM
PremiumPremiumSportSanders Cup now East Coast CupGisborne Yacht Club son-and-father sailing team of Ross and Colin Shanks, representing the East Coast, have uplifted one of New Zealand’s oldest sailing trophies after a close-fought contest on Lake Rotoiti. The Sanders Cup was in its 99th year of...08 Nov 09:36 PM
PremiumPremiumSportGOLF ROUNDUPPoverty bay Darryn White and Marg Colebourne are the 2023 Primo Cup champions. White won the men’s title while Colebourne won the women’s crown, along with the hidden partners competition run alongside the Primo Cup final. White shot 77 off his...08 Nov 09:33 PM
PremiumPremiumSportBattling Tairāwhiti on the board at Freyberg Masters at Freyberg MastersGolf is a game of inches in a couple of ways. There’s the six inches between your ears that the great Arnold Palmer said were “the most important”. And there’s the inches out on the course where the smallest mistake can come back to bite...08 Nov 09:29 PM
PremiumPremiumSportCampion impress Senior B reigning champs NgatapaCampion College are getting better. Last season’s Senior B Grade champions the Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps beat Campion’s first 11 by 42 runs . . . after the Mark Naden-coached up-and-comers gave them a push. The younger set...08 Nov 09:28 PM
PremiumPremiumSportEx-Gisborne racer wins NZ Sidecars Grand Prix, Streetstock Champ of Champs title to RedingtonWhen it came to action-packed racing and breathtaking fireworks, Saturday night’s second meeting of the season at Gisborne Speedway had everything. A near-capacity crowd over 4000-strong packed the track for a 27-race programme at Eastland Group...07 Nov 07:34 PM
PremiumPremiumSportSolomann win only reward for TairāwhitiEvery sportsperson has had to lick their wounds on occasion. For Tairāwhiti men’s golf team, the tongues were out yesterday and a cold beer helped ease a little of the pain after two more defeats at the Freyberg Masters interprovincial golf...07 Nov 07:31 PM
PremiumPremiumSportHeartland XV campaign ends with loss to NZ Baa-BaasThe Heartland XV had a mountain to climb after the New Zealand Barbarians posted a halftime lead of 35-0. They got past base camp but the Baa-Baas held on to win 49-26 in Oamaru on Saturday. Poverty Bay rugby coach Miah Nikora, who was Heartland...07 Nov 07:30 PM
PremiumPremiumSportHorouta rebound with 80-run win over GBHSTe Waka were superb in Round 2 of premier grade Doleman Cup cricket. The David Situ-led Breakers Horouta rebounded from a 156-run loss to beat the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 11 by 80 runs on Saturday. Put in to bat on Harry Barker Reserve...07 Nov 07:29 PM
PremiumPremiumSportRibbons galore for Gisborne ridersGisborne riders have been doing well at equestrian events outside the district. Many have taken part in Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa and Taupō events. Molly McEwan competed at the Rotorua Spring Show in Taupō, and picked up two fourth placings in the...07 Nov 05:10 PM
PremiumPremiumSportTairawhiti masters fall 5-0 to TasmanTairāwhiti were whitewashed 5-0 by Tasman in Round 3 of the Freyberg Masters men’s national interprovincial on the Awapuni Links course in Gisborne this morning. With No. 1 Anaru Reedy being rested, reserve Neil Hansen made his Masters (over-40s)...07 Nov 12:16 PM
PremiumPremiumSportMaster blastersThe gradient of Tairāwhiti’s uphill battle quickly sharpened on Day 1 of the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial here yesterday. A historic day ended in a familiar story as the five-man home team — playing under the Tairāwhiti banner for...06 Nov 10:28 PM
PremiumPremiumSportUnder-12 Gisborne-Tairāwhiti girls claim second place in ‘frustrating’ tournamentGisborne-Tairāwhiti under-12 girls were runners-up in their age-group Central Football Federation tournament in Napier late last month. Yet they were left wondering what might have been, after going into the tourney undefeated this season. “It...06 Nov 10:26 PM
PremiumPremiumSportBRIDGE RESULTSMonday, October 30 — Turanga Pairs 1 North/South East/West Yvonne Waide, Katrina Duncan 59.23 Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee 57.74 Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 55.06 Caroline Taylor, Jean Turnbull 52.38 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 51.79 Helen...06 Nov 10:25 PM