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Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: TK Kaio 2, J Noanoa 2, A Taukamo-Pohio 2, M Jones, A Charlie, Q Stevens, M Stevens, I Eyles, T Campbell-Ratapu, F Waihape, S Ratima, A Kaiwai, M Hawea, H Eyles. TEAM RESULTS (P = pairs, S = singles, T = tons) A GRADE...

Bridge results

Monday, August 21 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village Teams (final results) Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee, Bette Parker, Patricia Corson 77.83 victory points Pippa Williams, Helen Kerisome, Caroline Kirkpatrick, Amanda Smith 57.27 victory points...

ON THE MATS

Alex Reed, Matthew Foster, Dylan Foster and Mike Foster won the biggest fours event on the local calendar — the Robieson Fours — without losing a game . Reed travelled all the way from Auckland to contest the event and team up with the Foster...

Turanganui-a-Kiwa darts results

Individual results: 180s: (180) Te Kotahi Kaio (Da Bros) Highest Start: (180) Te Kotahi Kaio (Da Bros) Highest Finish: (124) Tahuna Irwin (Falcons) Most Tons: (18) Thao Duncan (Dartaholicz) Team Results: Dartaholicz 10 Knights 7: T Duncan 139, 137...

Te Wharau do the double at interschool

Te Wharau won both the boys’ and girls’ divisions of the 2023 Primary School Interschool Badminton Competition played at the Badminton Centre. A combined Ormond/Te Wharau team were runners-up in the boys’ division and Makauri were runners-up...

From Gisborne Boys’ High to the World

Wednesday night’s Wellington versus Tasman Ranfurly Shield match won’t go down as a classic, but Gisborne rugby fans may have noticed a former local talent in prop forward Sam Matenga playing for the South Islanders in their failed challenge...

Horouta claim big victory over Gisborne Girls’ High

At its best, the last 12 hours of the club basketball season was edge of your seat stuff. Since July 31, the four hour-long games in the ladies’ championship on Monday nights have been held at the Gisborne Boys’ High gym. Week 4 marked the...

Stars on the turf

Team glory eluded them but Lytton Old Boys and YMP A women received the top individual honours at the end-of-season Poverty Bay Hockey Association awards. Maia Rickard of YMP A won the Women’s Player of the Year while Lytton Old Boys Traktion...

Heartland leaders Old Golds a huge challenge for Kaupoi

A second straight Heartland Championship win for Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi at Ruatōria would be huge and it could happen. A week after their 19-8 home victory against Mid Canterbury, Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast have it in them to...

Gibson-Park had strong game as the Irish beat England

Gisborne Boys’ High old boy Jamison Gibson-Park sends the ball away during Ireland’s test match against England at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Gibson-Park had a strong game as the Irish beat England 29-10 in a clash highlighted by an acrobatic try...

Bridge results

Congratulations this week to Vicky Nickerson and Patricia Corson for a top score of 77.33 percent on Thursday. Monday, August 14 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village Teams (after four rounds) Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee, Bette Parker, Patrici...

Champs crowned on finals day at the domain

Spectators were entertained by some exciting games on the Victoria Domain courts as the 2023 Gisborne Pak’nSave senior competition ended with finals day. The biggest margin of victory over the finals was nine goals while, like the Premier Grade...

Near-perfect day for GMC and YMP A

The Green Machine hoisted the Prem 1 womens’ hockey trophy on Saturday in what was a huge finals day for the GMC club, while YMP A took the honours in the Prem 1 men’s showdown. GMC Kowhai won the Prem 2 women’s title and Gisborne Boys’ High...

Marist show their title credentials

Palmerston North Marist showed in Gisborne on Saturday why they will probably win football’s Central Federation League this season. They beat ALH Gisborne Thistle 4-0 at Childers Road Reserve, and looked every bit as good as their position at the...

Kiwi tri relay team 13th

The state of the River Seine cost Gisborne’s Tayler Reid and his New Zealand teammates a better position in the Paris Olympic test mixed relay on Sunday. All strong swimmers, the Kiwi quartet of Reid, Nicole van der Kaay, Dylan McCullough and Bre...

Rolling maul proves a deadly weapon in win over Mid Canterbury

A solid showing from the men in sky blue made Kaupoi Kris Palmer’s 50th match a winning one on their home Whakarua Park in Ruatoria on Saturday. Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi — as they did in their Lochore Cup final triumph...

Bay outfoxed but earn bonus

Poverty Bay are showing they are a force to be reckoned with in the 2023 Heartland Championship but had to settle for a bonus point loss in their Week 2 away clash on Saturday. Thames Valley earned their second win on the trot in beating Civil...

Extra-extra time decides Premier Grade champions: Whangara Old Girls 59 YMP 57

Whangara Old Girls hoisted the Jan Duncan Trophy for Gisborne Premier Grade netball supremacy on Saturday at the end of a cliffhanger grand final described as “one of the best”. There was pandemonium in the Gisborne YMCA when, after six minutes...