GMC Kowhai’s Kim Koia controls the ball with Paikea’s Amber Church lurking in the background in a Poverty Bay women’s club hockey game on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. Paikea won 2-1. Pictures by Liam Clayton
It is winter and we expect rain but it's been a ridiculous year weather-wise, which continued on Gisborne sports fields over the weekend.
The Ngatapa-OBM Poverty Bay Premier club rugby game at Patutahi's Paddy Park turned into a mudbath, with spectators at time finding it hard to distinguish which team
was which.
OBM overcame the conditions to win comfortably, thanks to a superior second-half display.
Hockey is played on a water-based artificial turf but when the heavens opened up on Saturday afternoon, play was called off at Harry Barker Reserve.
Paikea and GMC Kowhai women managed to get a game in earlier, and it was a cracker, with Paikea sneaking home 2-1.
