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Senior 1 HSOB player suspended for ‘tip tackle’

RUGBYA HIGH School Old Boys Senior 1 rugby player has been suspended for four weeks for a tip tackle. Noah Tonga was ordered off by referee Paul Brown, who had already given him two warnings for dangerous tackles, in the game against Waikohu on May...

Slow start, big finish as Whangara roll on

It was another slow start but a strong finish as Whangara Old Girls overpowered Ngatapa 60-38 in premier grade netball at the YMCA last night. Farmlands Ngatapa trailed by just two goals after 15 minutes, three at halftime and seven at the...

Now for a Ranfurly Shield challenge

Premier club champions Waikohu have been rewarded for an outstanding season with seven of their players named in the Poverty Bay Heartland Championship squad to take on Taranaki in a Ranfurly Shield challenge match at New Plymouth on...

Grading to set up challenges

NETBALLGISBORNE netball teams have plenty to play for when the Pak’nSave competition starts with the first round of grading at Victoria Domain tomorrow morning. Grading defines the challenge rounds of the competition and the eventual make-up of the...

Young darts gun on adventure of a lifetime

DARTSGISBORNE’S Tahuna Irwin is off to the Palace . . . Not Buckingham but Alexandra Palace to take on the world’s best darts throwers from December 13.“It’s a dream come true, the trip of a lifetime, playing at ‘the Palace’ in the...

A curtain-raiser befitting the main event

They brought Rugby Park to life before the big boys moved in.“They” were the Poverty Bay and Ngati Porou East Coast women's teams, who produced a superb contest for the Rerepuhitai Trophy in the curtain-raiser to the Heartland Championship men's...

Poverty Bay women head Interclub field

Poverty Bay won the senior women's division of the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast Interclub competition, played over two days. They headed a four-strong field, accumulating 12 points and a plus-45 differential. The winning team comprised — Singles...

Newbie’s story reminder of the beauty of surfing

SURFING is a beautiful sport, or lifestyle, pursuit, hobby — whichever you prefer to call it. But that very ambiguity over how to define it is why I love it so much. For some it is a sport, as it can be competitive and adrenaline-pumping; from...

Around the greens - club bowls news

Poverty BayTHE Poverty Bay club junior and open fours championship winners acquitted themselves well in the centre champion of champions competitions at the Gisborne club greens this month. Although three out of four of the Poverty Bay teams had to...

A good win for the Pups

You would want to win the toss if you were playing the High School Old Boys’ Pups . . . otherwise you could be chasing a large total. Pups captain and opening batsman Blake Marshall — the only centurion in either of the Saturday or Wednesday...

Longboarders to the fore

It was a mixed bag for Gisborne surfers on Day 4 of the national surfing championships at Piha as the longboarders and under-14 surfers took to the water. With shifting conditions throughout the day, some local surfers excelled while others struggled...

Extra-hoop long shot breaks deadlock

Barry Memorial Croquet Club members started their summer season with the Jenny Virtue Golf Croquet Handicap Doubles. Nine pairs played off in two sections. It was a good opportunity for three members who joined the club only a week earlier to be...

Boys’ High prepare for farewells

It's a team and a season that the Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 of 2020 will never forget. As the 2019 side came within one point of victory, 21 to St Patrick's College Silverstream's 22, here last year and were pipped 24-21 by Napier BHS on...

Talent of the future on display

Up-and-coming surfing talent was showcased when 91 children from across Tairawhiti descended on Midway Beach on Friday. The grommets had highly contestable conditions that suited them for the OPSM Tairawhiti Junior Champs, Gisborne Boardriders Club...

YMP beat Whangara in convincing fashion

YMP (1) head into the Gisborne premier-grade netball playoffs next week with real momentum after they soundly beat defending champions Whangara Old Girls at the YMCA last night. They won the top-of-the-table clash 63-46 ahead of a rematch next...

Plugging the leaks

COREY Adams knows his side can score goals . . . 43 in 11 Pacific Premiership games. But the Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United player-coach wants his side to stop conceding them.“Twenty-four in 11 matches is not what you want if you want to...