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CRICKETHIGH School Old Boys have reasserted their No. 1 standing in Poverty Bay cricket’s DJ Barry Cup.“I was thrilled we performed the way we did,” Bollywood Stars HSOB captain Scott Tallott said after an emphatic statement from his side...

Coaches proud of how teams respond

A LATE penalty by midfielder Grant Jones won the Poverty Bay Cup for United (3) at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. It was the start of a good day for team coach Chris Adams. He hit the winning spot kick for United firsts in the Bailey Cup penalty...

HSOB Presidents stay on top

Horouta Te Waka get their groove back before Christmas

Friends for life made through rugby

STU Blair and his good Marist mate Kevin Ford were tired but still joyous after the All Blacks’ successful defence. Following the semifinal victory against the Springboks, Stu detoured off to Poland. There he enjoyed the attractions of Krakow and...

District golf roundup

WaikohuTop honours were shared around the clubs at the Waikohu Ladies Open on Saturday. The six winners came from six different clubs. Wairoa’s Fairlane Wesche (83) won the 0-18 gross, Gisborne Park’s Carney Pipi (73) the net and Poverty Bay’s...

Majstrovic, man of many talents

RYAN Majstrovic won’t like me calling him “Mr High School Old Boys” . . . but it’s a title he fully deserves for the amount of work he does for a club that once dominated local cricket. In recent seasons, as Tamarind HSOB struggled to reach...

Badge marks '50' milestone for Whiteman and Jefferson

GLENYS Whiteman preferred tennis to bowls, but her husband Alex’s encouragement wore her down and she tried the game at Riverhead, near Kumeu north of Auckland, in the late 1970s. Almost 40 years later she has reached the milestone of 50 centre...

Gisborne judoka bring back 24 medals

Gisborne Judo Club members came away from the Western Bay of Plenty Area Judo Championships with nine gold, nine silver and six bronze medals. Twenty Gisborne athletes were represented in all fighting classes — from juniors to masters — in the...

Poverty Bay club hockey's golden day

“LET the Games begin” will ring out over Rio tomorrow when the 2016 Olympic Games are officially opened and it is fitting that Poverty Bay club hockey’s champions will be decided on the same day. The intensity, thrills, agony and ecstasy of...

Three teams unbeaten at end of first day’s play

Waikato Valley will take some beating. The Valley were in mighty form first-up at the Northern Districts Emerging Youth Cricket Tournament at the Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. They, Counties-Manukau and 2021 champions Bay of Plenty Coastlands won...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Poverty BayTHE pundits are picking a William Brown-Andrew Higham senior men’s club championship final . . . but there are a few players planning to defy the favouritism. Glenn Morley, who qualified 14th, provided the upset of the champs so far...

Overseas travel a bonus with academy selection

GISBORNE teenager Daeleigh-Michelle Waihi is looking forward to her first trip overseas — to an Australian softball tournament at which she will compete this month. The Lytton High School student is in a New Zealand academy under-14 girls' team...

Father-son combinations to the fore

CRICKET Time is precious — and short. Four father-son combinations made the most of a rare opportunity to play club cricket regularly together this season. The Trowells (Malcolm, 42, and Nathan, 14), Fosters (Mike, 41, Matthew, 15, and Dylan, 13)...

Amber extends the sporting line

SIXTEEN-year-old Amber Phillips is showing the type of football ability that thrust her father Neal into a champion Gisborne City team straight from school. Amber lives with her parents Neal and Wendy in Ashhurst, just outside Palmerston North...

Thistle lifeline for Team Gizzy

GISBORNE Thistle AFC chairman Ronnie Young will meet with Team Gisborne board members next week in the hope they reconsider their decision to withdraw the Pacific Premiership champions from the 2016 competition.“Failing that — and I’m speaking...

The only game in town: Hicks Bay, Waiapu to play catch-up

It's time to play catch-up. With round-robin play concluding last Saturday, only one competition game will be played tomorrow ahead of next weekend's semifinals of Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby. Hicks Bay will be at home to Pango...

HSOB look polished,OBR and Horouta record emphatic wins

HIGH School Old Boys, Horouta and Old Boys Rugby opened their DJ Barry Cup campaigns with comfortable wins in the 40-over competition at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. In the match of the day, Bollywood Stars HSOB beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates...

Long journey, rich reward

Gisborne trampolinists, tumblers return from NZ nationals with medals galore