Latest from Sport

Solid wins a highlight

HOCKEYSOLID wins to Gisborne Girls’ High School and GMC Gold, and Te Aowera’s first played competition points of the season were highlights of women’s hockey on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve at the weekend. A big win by YMP B against Lytton...

Brothers have big chances

The Cook brothers will be serious contenders for the New Zealand saloon car championship title that will go on the line over two nights at the Meeanee Speedway in Hawke’s Bay. Daniel (77G) and Ethan (76G) begin their campaigns with qualifying...

Last-minute try denies Athletic historic victory

Stefan Destounis was the toast of a High School Old Boys side who beat Wairoa Athletic 17-14 in a premier rugby game at the Oval on Saturday. Playing in his first game of the season, Destounis scored a try in the final play of the game to deny...

Absence of sun fails to spoil the fun

THE sun may have been absent from the Fun in the Sun meet, but 70 riders tackled challenging conditions at Gisborne BMX Club’s track at the weekend. MALE CRUISERFormer Gisborne rider Troy Greaves took out the day’s competition, from Bully Halley...

Taking on the C2C

Two endurance athletes, two genders, two age groups, two motivations. Both have just one thing in mind . . . to conquer the Coast to Coast in two days. For one it has been a decade-long wait. Jo Teesdale and George Williams are on the west coast of...

Close battle for top honours

Saffi Vette’s effort in making the under-16 girls’ final helped propel the Gisborne team into second place as the National Scholastic Surfing Championships entered the final day of competition today. Bay of Plenty held on to first place as...

Challenge accepted

ALL-local. All talented. All loving the prospect of taking on the country’s best. A daunting task lies ahead of the two Gisborne Tairawhiti teams competing in the New Zealand Representative Challenge on Monday. But the predominantly fresh-faced...

TOP OF THEIR CLASS

CAMPION College completed a football treble and Gisborne Girls' High School netballers won promotion in a great week for Gisborne school sport. Campion won the Grant Jarvis Tournament in Palmerston North, winning all eight of their games, scoring 47...

United win comes at a cost

TWO goals by Josh Adams kept Heavy Equipment United ahead of the pack in Eastern League Division 1 football on Saturday. United beat Carpet Court Thistle Reserves 2-1 at Childers Road Reserve to stay four points clear of their closest rivals, Thistle...

Run, jump, throw

All the events at the primary interschool athletics day at Awapuni Stadium last week came down to the three basic disciplines. Mangapapa School finished first overall, with Wainui Beach School second and Te Wharau School third

Top two seeking direct route to final

Top-of-the-table YMP and second-placed High School Old Girls will fight it out at the YMCA tomorrow night to see who goes straight through to the Pak’nSave premier grade netball grand final . . . and what a battle it promises to be. Just four goals...

Teamwork pays off for Waikanae

THREE-TIME world ironman Cory Hutchings says Waikanae’s second placing at surf lifesaving’s Eastern Regional Championships was the result of teamwork right across the board.“It was also a reflection of the work put in over the past four to...

Around the greens — bowling club news

GISBORNEArthur Hawes (skip), Hugh Mackenzie and Ginny Sherriff won the Jack Clark Single-entry Open Triples, sponsored by Gisborne Carpets, on Labour Day. They were the only team to win all four of their games. Second place went to Larry Kaloucav...

Gisborne fighters compete with distinction

MARTIAL ARTSEast Ocean Jiu Jitsu sent a large team to the New Zealand Grappler No Gi Nationals in Auckland last month. Competitors at this event came from diverse martial arts backgrounds. They included exponents of judo, wrestling, Brazilian jiu...

Sidecar nationals postponed to tomorrow

THE weather got the better of Gisborne Speedway Club last night in the qualifying rounds of the New Zealand sidecar championships. The event has been shifted to tomorrow afternoon at Eastland Group Raceway. The club had just started last night's...

Scoreboard

FootballPacific Premiership: In Gisborne, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 6 Hastings Western Rangers 3; Napier, Napier Marist 0 Gisborne Thistle 3. Eastern League, Division 1: Heavy Equipment Services United 1 Carpet Court Thistle Massive 2...