PremiumPremiumSportSue wins snooker singles crown close to her heartUncle would have been proud. Sue Hart made the trip from Tauranga to Gisborne for the 20th anniversary Burnie Hart Memorial handicap singles a fittingly winning one on Sunday. Hart, the niece of the late Burnie Hart, won all her matches on the...11 Aug 05:28 PM
PremiumPremiumSportTop player honour to Bay’s NepiaPoverty Bay finished the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 series winless but provided one of the individual highlights. Prop Hayze Nepia was named player of the series which finished with a doubleheader weekend in Bulls. Nepia and Poverty Bay teammates...11 Aug 05:04 PM
PremiumPremiumSportON THE MATSTalented Poverty Bay East Coast bowler Matthew Foster flew the district flag high as a member of the North Island team in their annual clash with the South Island in Ashburton. Foster, 19, played lead in the men’s fours team alongside Ali Wilson...11 Aug 05:01 PM
PremiumPremiumSportBombs away on ‘Trey Tuesday’Week 2 of the men’s premier basketball league was mind-boggling stuff. A raft of the Gisborne Basketball Association’s best three-point shooters drew a bead and hit the target on a Tuesday night to remember. Weighn Wilson hit four of Green...11 Aug 04:57 PM
PremiumPremiumSport‘Best and fairest’ focus of Hina 9sIt’s not about winning or losing. It’s about learning and experiencing something different. That was the ethos of the Trish Hina Rugby League 9s Primary Interschool tournament held at Waikirikiri Park this week. Youngsters got a taste of a sport...11 Aug 04:53 PM
PremiumPremiumSportAll or nothing in Poverty Bay club hockey semifinalsSudden-death semifinals in the Poverty Bay club hockey competition offer some juicy prospects this weekend and it all starts tonight with GMC Kowhai playing Te Aowera on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The winners of that game go through to the...11 Aug 11:30 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTimes change but work-versus-football dilemma remainsBear with me. When my dad was coaching Gisborne City 55 years ago (it was the first year of the name change from Eastern Union), players would come to him with the work-versus-football dilemma. Every time he would say: “Work comes first. This is...11 Aug 09:29 AM
PremiumPremiumSportCoast out to hit ground runningSaturday morning is expected to be frosty. And from 2.30pm an overcast sky and a nor’ westerly breeze will greet Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast and their Round 1 Heartland Championship opponents Wairarapa Bush. Dealing with the Reece...11 Aug 08:31 AM
PremiumPremiumSportSemifinal thriller raises Y roofYMP (1) are a win away from retaining the Premier Grade crown but only after squeezing past a committed Whangara Old Girls (1) in the 1 v 2 semifinal at the YMCA on Wednesday night. The defending champions won 48-45 in a semi that went down to the...11 Aug 08:27 AM
PremiumPremiumSportActions to do most of the talking for TaylorGold Coast-based Gisborne lifeguard Cory Taylor will captain the New Zealand Black Fins team at the International Surf Rescue Challenge (ISRC) in Texas next month. Taylor has been in the team since 2009 and this will be his second time as captain...11 Aug 08:25 AM
PremiumPremiumSportBuller first step as Wekas look to rise up the Heartland rankingsPoverty Bay’s 2023 mission to climb back up the Heartland Championship ranks begins at home tomorrow against Buller. High School Old Boys is hosting the Round 1 game at the Oval, kicking off at 2.30pm. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas’...11 Aug 08:19 AM
PremiumPremiumSportStudents excel in celebration of speed, daring and staminaThe true rugged nature of ladies’ club basketball roared forth on Monday. Gisborne Girls’ High School won their clash with In Living Colour 48-40 in Game 3 of Week 2 — a celebration of speed, daring and stamina. Girls’ High’s first-year...10 Aug 12:06 PM
PremiumPremiumSportWainui derby from the top shelfOut at Wainui, they like their football to be of the champagne variety — full of bubbles and life. Clubmates 1st Class Decorators Wainui Salty Dogs and Coates Associates Wainui Demons turned on a seven-goal spectacular at Wainui in Eastern League...10 Aug 12:00 PM
PremiumPremiumSportMangapapa shines at Trish Hina Interschool Rugby League TournamentMangapapa School’s Reef Mullooly tries his best to get through two Te Wharau School defenders during the Trish Hina Interschool Rugby League Tournament at Waikirikiri Park yesterday. The focus of the tournament was on participation and...10 Aug 11:42 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGisborne - East Coast golf roundupPOVERTY BAY Richard Foon carded one of the men’s rounds of the year net-wise on Saturday but it bears a possibly concerning resemblance to his performance almost a year ago. Foon fired 77-13-64 off the blue tees to take an iron grip on Division 2...10 Aug 11:29 AM
PremiumPremiumSportWinning momentum for CoastThe Sky Blues got back on the horse. Having lost a historic clash with Central Hawke’s Bay 18-17 at Otane Domain the previous weekend, Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast Kaupoi (Cowboys) made a gorgeous Saturday one to savour with 400 in...10 Aug 11:20 AM
PremiumPremiumSportSports drawsNetball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, senior semifinals — semifinals cannot end in a draw). All games are 4x10-minute quarters with two-minute first-quarter and third-quarter breaks, and a three-minute halftime. Duty teams to put up the...09 Aug 11:24 AM
PremiumPremiumSportKeepa strikes gold at Aussie nationalsWaikanae surf lifeguard Jack Keepa set an Australian record and won three titles at the 2023 Australian Surf Life Saving Pool Rescue Championships at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre at the weekend. Keepa competed alongside other Kiwi athletes who went...09 Aug 11:21 AM
SportMedals to Enterprise Swim Team membersGisborne swimmers were in the medals on Day 1 of the New Zealand Short Course Swimming Champs at the Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre. Enterprise Cars Swim Team members Helena Huettemeyer, 15, and Taylor Newman, 13, both made the podium...09 Aug 11:13 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGMC Green women, YMP A men make Prem 1 title statementsA resounding 6-0 victory to YMP A men and a hard-fought one-goal win to GMC Green were the outcomes as arch-rivals clashed in the lead-in to the Poverty Bay club hockey playoffs. James Torrie belted home three goals on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry...09 Aug 11:10 AM
PremiumPremiumSportFalcons win a fitting tribute to NateThe Falcons honoured a fallen club hero by winning the tournament that bears his name. The annual Nate Miller Tournament kicked off the Tairāwhiti Rugby League 2023 season. The Seeka Falcons beat Paikea Whalers 16-10 in the final at Barry Park on...09 Aug 10:53 AM
PremiumPremiumSportOlympics hopeful Andrews ‘doing all the right things’The Olympic Games fire burning in Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews has become a blaze after her latest international success. Andrews competed at the prestigious Hungary Masters in Budapest over the weekend. She won her women’s over-78 kilograms...09 Aug 10:50 AM
PremiumPremiumSportYMP, Whangara Old Girls keen to take shorter route to grand finalDirect passage to the Gisborne Premier Grade netball championship grand final beckons tonight in the YMCA for YMP or Whangara Old Girls. 09 Aug 10:47 AM
SportBridge resultsMonday, July 31 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 6 North/South East/West Diana Styche, Joy Marden 59.23 Murray Owen, John Rouse 61.31 Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 58.93 Katrina Duncan, Yvonne Waide 54.17 Robyn Cheyne, Caroline Kirkpatrick...08 Aug 09:03 AM
SportFirst Super 8 victory to Gisborne in three yearsThey got what they deserved. A Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 who stuck with SANIX world rugby champions Hamilton BHS and Tauranga Boys’ College to halftime have finally sealed the deal on the road. They picked up their first Super 8...08 Aug 09:01 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTough day at the office for WekasA well-oiled Hawke’s Bay Saracens gave Poverty Bay Wekas “a good eye-opener” heading into their Heartland Championship opener in Gisborne this weekend. Saracens proved far too strong for the Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas —...08 Aug 09:00 AM
SportTime-honoured start for compIt’s back with a bang. The Gisborne Basketball Association club leagues tipped off at the YMCA and John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre, Gisborne Boys’ High School last week in time-honoured, bump and pump style. Of teams new to club...08 Aug 08:58 AM
SportDown to the business endIf Saturday’s “dress rehearsals” are a taste of things to come, supporters are in for a roller-coaster ride in the Premier Grade netball semifinal playoffs which start in the YMCA tomorrow. The last games of Round 3 of the Gisborne Pak’nSave...08 Aug 08:55 AM
PremiumPremiumSportDouble to Somerton as Jags share honoursA two-goal halftime lead was not enough for Gisborne Thistle to keep Taradale at bay in Central Federation League football on Saturday. All the goals were scored at the same end in this game at Childers Road Reserve. It ended 2-2. Both of ALH...08 Aug 08:50 AM
SportVisitors leave with eyes openedVisiting badminton players who travelled to Gisborne by road left with more understanding of the challenges facing Tairāwhiti. Badminton Eastland hosted super veteran teams from Oroua, Hawke’s Bay, Auckland and Northland at the Badminton Centre...05 Aug 10:11 AM
SportGisborne Club Darts, Turanganui-a-Kiwa Darts resultsGISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180: S Ratima (Eastland Asphalts); J Horua, A Taukamo-Pohio (2), H Eyles, A Kaiwai (Vikings); Q Stevens (2) (Rebels); P Stewart (Gunz); M Reedy (2), M Leach (Done n Dusted); R Mason (Roseland); H...05 Aug 10:10 AM
SportGrant helps Thistle with travel costsNew Zealand Community Trust has awarded $17,500 to Gisborne Thistle football club to help cover the cost of fielding a team in the Central Federation League. The money is helping pay for flights for long-distance games, as well as ground and referee...05 Aug 10:08 AM
SportBoys’ High target away victoryOh, for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Put another way, the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 would treasure an away win against New Plymouth BHS. There being no second 15 match due to injuries to GBHS players, the first 15 clash at...05 Aug 10:07 AM
SportFoster brothers win pairs titleMatthew and Dylan Foster have won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Centre indoor bowls open pairs title. They beat Rachael Rickard and Royden Owen 13-2 in the final. After three ends of nine, the game was close . . . the Foster brothers led 3-2. But the...05 Aug 10:05 AM