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Rare feats in Wi’s sights

Tairāwhiti No. 1 William Brown is on a mission to play at the national interprovincials in every New Zealand golf province. And he’s well on track to achieving it. Brown ended his 15th consecutive national tournament yesterday in Wellington and at...

Loss for McDonald as HBPB book semi against Waikato

Defeat at the hands of Otago dropped Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay down the leaderboard at the women’s national interprovincial this morning. HBPB lost 3-2 to the southerners on the Waikanae course. Gisborne’s Tessa McDonald was among those to lose...

King in the Ring champ Coastie Parkes returns to fight in 75kg super middleweight

KICK BOXING East Coast kickboxer Sam “Cowboy” Parkes lost a semifinal bout to the eventual winner of the super-lightweight King in the Ring contest, and is sure of one thing: the weight restriction was five kilograms too light for him. Parkes...

Sisters carving up the paddock

The Olsen-Baker girls are on their way. The multi-talented sisters — Te Uarangi, 25, Te Mai Ora, 23, and Kaipo, 21 — have loved sports all their lives. Two-test Black Fern Kaipo and Te Uarangi are excelling in women’s rugby, and both are in...

Whangamatā Classic draws big field

Gisborne surf athletes will compete at their first big surf lifesaving carnival of the summer at Whangamatā this weekend. About 20 of them will travel to the Bay of Plenty for the Whangamata Classic, which has attracted a field of 370 competitors...

All tough days at the office so far for Tairāwhiti

It’s lonely at the top. It’s lonelier at the bottom. And that is where Tairāwhiti are sitting after suffering a wound-licking loss to Tasman in Round 5 of the men’s national interprovincial on the Paraparaumu Beach course yesterday. For the...

Gladiators ready to rumble in Palmy

The Gisborne Gladiators stockcar team will race in a big teams event in Palmerston North against nine other teams from around the North Island this weekend. They go into the competition tomorrow night fresh from their convincing victory over the...

Horouta v OBR to decide HSOB’s Cup final opponents

A place in Poverty Bay Premier club cricket’s Doleman Cup final is the reward when OBR take on Horouta at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow. Last year's champions in the 40-overs competition, Bollywood High School Old Boys, are unbeaten and lie in...

Radonich coaches online clients to podiums, wins team silver herself

‘We medalled in every race we entered’.

Nepia, Ball singles champions

Mere Nepia of Kahutia Bowling Club and Andrew Ball of the Gisborne club are the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre singles champions for 2023. Both are first-time winners of this event. Nepia was presented with the Brown Whanau Trophy and Ball, the J...

ND Māori outgun Poverty Bay boys

Taye McGuinness is the right man for the job. But the all-rounder's job as captain of the Poverty Bay team at the Northern Districts Youth cricket tournament in Hamilton is not without its challenges. Of their first-up seven-wicket loss to Northern...

HSOB bounce back from Walker Shield loss

The crown that slipped is once more in place. Doleman Cup and Walker Shield Premier Grade champions Bollywood High School Old Boys lost their Walker Shield stoush with Breakers Horouta Te Waka by six runs last Thursday, but hit back hard on...

BRIDGE RESULTS

MONDAY, November 27 — Bayleys Closing Night North/South East/West Elizabeth Jackson, Carolyn McMurray 67.01 Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 58.73 John Hudson, Vicki Taylor 59.72 Raewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 55.16 Bette Parker, Patricia Corson...

Narrow loss for Tairāwhiti in national interprovincial opener

Tairāwhti’s first national men’s interprovincial tie under its new association name proved a tight one in Round 1 of the 2023 champs at Paraparaumu Beach golf course this morning. Tairāwhiti were beaten 3-2 by Manawatū Wanganui in the...

Trowell makes NZ selection

Gisborne’s Nathan Trowell has been selected for the New Zealand indoor bowls team — “the Mat Blacks” — to play Australia at Pukekohe in May next year. Trowell is one of seven new caps in the seven-man/seven-woman team named for the 25th...

PBs, NZ records at German Cup

The New Zealand Blacks Fins, captained by Gisborne’s Chris Dawson, had an incredible showing at the International German Cup, breaking eight New Zealand records. The two-day pool rescue competition in Germany last month is an annual event that...

A century apiece for all-rounders

Nothing elevates the level of excitement in a cricket match quite like a duel between all-rounders. Ethan Ngarangione-Pearson’s unbeaten 110 for Breakers Horouta Te Waka and Seb Wilson’s 101 for Gisborne Boys’ High School (2) marked their...

Teens ready to write new chapter in Tairāwhiti golf

National interprovincial “veteran” William Brown knows exactly what rookie Marcus Gray is feeling as he counts down to the biggest moment so far in his rising career. Brown was just 16 years old when he made his debut at the annual teams’...