PremiumPremiumSportYMP A favourites but Waituhi ‘capable of anything’: ScraggThe Poverty Bay club hockey spotlight is on YMP A and Waituhi tonight in what should be an excitement-packed opening to the weekend’s play. Defending champions YMP are the favourites heading into the 6pm Premier 1 match but Waituhi cannot be...21 Jul 09:27 AM
SportTitanic challenge aheadThe motto of the Special Air Service is “Who Dares Wins.” The Duane Hihi-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 have it all to play for in their last Super 8 home game of the season tomorrow. They face world schoolboy rugby titans of the...21 Jul 09:26 AM
PremiumPremiumSportMāhaki muster to feature Kiwi Ferns starMāhaki Warriors rugby league club is in revival mode and on Sunday it will have some star power to help its cause. Kiwi Ferns international Krystal Rota will be in town for a Māhaki Warriors age-group muster at the Ngatapa sports club base in...21 Jul 09:22 AM
SportFrom Makauri School football star to Super Rugby championFergus Burke is a keen student of Super Rugby. The talented all-round sportsman’s journey and experiences as a Crusader — understudy to the brilliant Richie Mo’unga in the competition’s longest championship streak — has given the...21 Jul 09:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportRepresentative fixture at the Bay over weekendHawke’s Bay and Wellington masters will get a valuable taste of what lies ahead of them in November when they compete in a quadrangular in Gisborne this weekend. Prospective Poverty Bay-East Coast Freyberg Masters and national interprovincial...20 Jul 09:36 AM
PremiumPremiumSport‘I hate to tell him but he was my favourite player’: MetcalfWarriors half Luke Metcalf grew up idolising Shaun Johnson. He even snapped a photo with his idol in Sydney as a child, though Metcalf was too nervous to ask and his brother had to approach the Warriors star. Fast-forward a decade and Metcalf is not...20 Jul 09:35 AM
PremiumPremiumSportHonours to Vintage in Thistle derbyNever underestimate the passion in a football game between two teams from the same club. Nearly always, the players of one side are recognised — on paper at least — as the better team, and that’s all the motivation the other lot need...20 Jul 09:34 AM
PremiumPremiumSportFundraising tournament surpasses expectations, raising $32,000 for injured golfer's rehabilitationThe fundraising tournament for seriously injured Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golfer Andrew Higham exceeded organisers’ expectations. Held at the Poverty Bay course over the weekend, it raised $32,000 for the Higham whānau as Andrew...20 Jul 09:29 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGOLF ROUNDUPPOVERTY BAY TWO sexagenarians will take on two rising stars young enough to be their grandsons in the 2023 final of the Gisborne Motors Barns-Graham Cup men’s pairs. Richard Owen and John Van Helden will be getting the shots but giving away...20 Jul 09:28 AM
PremiumPremiumSportMVP honours to Ngatapa’s WestruppNgatapa midfield back Khian Westrupp’s first season of Poverty Bay club rugby ended on a high as the Premier competition’s Most Valuable Player winner. MVPs were chosen by neutral parties in Week 1; clubs selected MVPs from their own teams using...20 Jul 09:23 AM
SportHundred years of YMP hockeyOne hundred years is a lot of memories, a lot of stories and a lot of fun. YMP Hockey Club marked that century milestone with an official dinner in Gisborne on Saturday night, which became a walk down memory lane for many of the 140 in attendance...18 Jul 09:40 PM
SportShanks, Pinn eighth at NZ champ of champs pairsKahutia club bowlers Lucy Shanks and Karen Pinn did not qualify for post-section play but beat two of the stronger teams at the national champion of champions women’s pairs in Dunedin. They placed eighth out of 17 women’s pairs from around the...18 Jul 09:37 PM
SportSingles scalp but no post-section for Gisborne’s HawesCarol Hawes of Gisborne Bowling Club represented Gisborne-East Coast in the national champion of champions women’s singles in Hastings. In the first round, Hawes lost to Nicole Toomey, of Stokes Valley Bowling Club, 21-12. Hawes then had a bye. In...18 Jul 09:35 PM
SportCoast final ‘awesome experience’: refereeTerry Reeves did a great job for sport on Saturday. Controlling the Ngati Porou East Coast men’s club rugby final is no easy task for any referee, let alone one from their closest neighbours Poverty Bay. But with the support of local officials Joe...18 Jul 09:33 PM
SportSports drawsNetball PAK ‘n SAVE Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Seniors — Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put bins out: Uawa Hinekura & Campion MacKillop. 9am: 1, Whatatutu v OBM OG (Annie, Kaki); 2, Horouta Taiman...18 Jul 09:31 PM
SportChallenging night ahead of Ngatapa, YMPNgatapa and YMP (2) face another tough night out in mid-week Premier grade netball at the YMCA. The first of the Pak’nSave Premier games tonight features Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A against Farmlands Ngatapa at 6pm. Girls’ High are fifth on...18 Jul 09:29 PM
Sport$100k for rugby union in NZCT funding allocationA total of $208,935 was granted across Tairāwhiti to help out in the community in the latest funding round of New Zealand Community Trust. Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union was allocated the largest amount, $100,817.63. This will be spent on travel...18 Jul 09:27 PM
SportSecond-half Black Ferns blitz seals Pacific Fours Series crownA 14-woman Black Ferns had to come from behind to beat the United States 39-17 and win the Pacific Four Series in Canada on Saturday. Kelsey Teneti started on the right wing and played the full 80 minutes while fellow Gizzy local Renee Holmes came...18 Jul 09:58 AM
SportON THE MATSThe Poverty Bay-East Coast Under-18 team were far too good for their Tauranga counterparts on their way to winning the Alison Cowan Junior Challenge Trophy with ease. In the first round of pairs and after a long drive through to Whakatane, PBEC...18 Jul 09:30 AM
PremiumPremiumSportComeback win to WhangaraMomentum swings were the story of a hotly-contested Premier Grade game between Whangara Old Girls (1) and Waikohu on Saturday. Whangara won 58-53 but had to do it the hard way after Claydens Waikohu (1) bolted to a 10-goal lead in the first 15...18 Jul 09:28 AM
PremiumPremiumSportKeeper Stewart-Hill stands out as Thistle win one, lose oneGisborne Thistle goalkeeper Mitchell Stewart-Hill led from the back with two outstanding performances in Central Federation League football at the weekend. Team captain Stewart-Hill kept his side in with a chance before they eventually lost to...18 Jul 09:25 AM
PremiumPremiumSportRelay silver for Reid at worldsAn Olympic Games medal is in the sights of Gisborne’s Tayler Reid and his Kiwi teammates after a podium performance at the World Triathlon Sprint and Relay Championships (WTCS) in Hamburg, Germany, yesterday. Reid, Kiwi superstar Hayden Wilde...18 Jul 09:21 AM
SportBridge resultsCongratulations this week to Patricia Corson and Joy Marden for a top score of 70.24 percent on Monday. Once again, Patricia featured in the top three results every day last week. Monday, July 10 — Woodward Chrisp Restricted Pairs 2 (Howell...18 Jul 09:19 AM
PremiumPremiumSportHistory Makers: Century-long wait over as Hicks Bay are crowned Coast championsThere has never been anything like it. On many levels, nothing to remotely approach the 2023 H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club rugby final has occurred in the Sky Blue union’s 102-year history. Hicks Bay won the Rangior...18 Jul 09:14 AM
PremiumPremiumSportDoubles to Rickard, McMenamin in YMP winYMP women set the tone for their men in the curtain-raiser to the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby final on Saturday. YMP and Waikohu women went head-to-head in their first 80-minute fixture of the season at Barry Park — hosts YMP winning 20-0. The...15 Jul 06:17 AM
PremiumPremiumSportCity titan Fyfe loses illness battleTime and tide wait for no man, and footballers have no special privileges. Players who in their prime seemed indestructible grow old and die, like the rest of us. Word comes from Australia that a titan of the Gisborne City defence of the mid-1970s...15 Jul 06:15 AM
SportGritty Horouta give YMP tough workoutHorouta Koura produced probably their best result of the season so far in pushing Premier Grade table-toppers YMP (1) all the way at the YMCA on Wednesday night. YMP won 43-39 while Horouta earned themselves a richly deserved losing bonus point. As...15 Jul 06:13 AM
PremiumPremiumSportThundercats are go for WaikanaeA team of Waikanae racers will be in action next week in the Australian inflatable rescue boat championships at Kingscliff Beach in northern New South Wales. The championships start on Thursday and go for four days. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae’s well...15 Jul 06:11 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGizzy double troubleGisborne’s Kelsey Teneti got the second start of her international rugby 15s career for the Black Ferns this morning in their Pacific Four Series clash with the United States in Canada (8am kick-off NZ time). Teneti, 20, was on the wing for her...15 Jul 06:09 AM
PremiumPremiumSportStudents give champs a frightGisborne Girls’ High School First XI went close to pulling off the upset of the season in Poverty Bay women’s club hockey when they met YMP A in a catch-up game on Tuesday night. Defending champions YMP won 2-1 on the turf at Harry Barker...13 Jul 10:08 AM
PremiumPremiumSportOPPORTUNITY KNOX: Two debutants named in Wekas Heartland squadHead coach Miah Nikora has named his Poverty Bay Wekas 2023 Heartland Championship squad including two new caps and some players who were unavailable last year. Nikora said he was really happy with the squad and building on the foundation laid last...13 Jul 10:07 AM
PremiumPremiumSportDOUBLE HEADER WEEKEND FOR JAGSThe shortest day was three weeks ago and Gisborne Thistle get their first home game of the season tomorrow. Their Central Federation League match against Palmerston North Marist at Childers Road Reserve at 2.45pm will be the first of seven home...13 Jul 10:06 AM
PremiumPremiumSportSenior netball draw for SaturdayPAK ‘n SAVE Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Seniors — Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put bins out: YMP Hine Taiohi Whakato & ATS OBM Blue 9am: 1, YMP Hine Taiohi Whakato v ATS OBM Blue (Kaki, Tessa); 2...13 Jul 10:05 AM
PremiumPremiumSportWho will rule the Coast?The quest for the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield for 2023 ends this Saturday when Hicks Bay take on TVC in the final of the Ngati Porou East Coast Premier men’s club rugby competition (2pm kickoff, Whangaparaoa). Hicks Bay last weekend turned the...13 Jul 10:04 AM