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Wrap-up of equestrian results

The last of the equestrian results from the 2022 Poverty Bay A&P Show (competitors from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —Show Hunter HorsesIntroductory (no Horse of the Year qualifying points) “LP” 70cm: Grace Cooney (Wairoa) Dancing Star...

More challenging, more competitive

NETBALLTHE four unbeaten teams in Pak’nSave premier grade netball grading face their first real tests tomorrow and the bottom three teams have the chance of more evenly matched competition. Defending champions Sunshine Brewery YMP, Claydens...

Games abandoned on rain-affected day

RAIN halted local cricket after three hours of play on Saturday. All premier and Hope Cup games were abandoned. The rain came at the perfect time for Galaxy World Gisborne Boys' High School and Coastal Concrete OBR after they had looked in trouble...

Out to turn the season around

Tomorrow the Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 will have 70 minutes to turn their Super 8 season around. They play New Plymouth BHS on Gisborne's Rectory No. 1 at 11am, with the second 15 fixture on at 9.30am. The Rectory faithful know that the Duane...

Gisborne riders in Opotiki Showjumping and Show Hunter Show

THE neighbouring Otara River offered a cooling close to a day of competition for riders and horses at the Opotiki Showjumping and Show Hunter Show at Memorial Park this month. Gisborne equestrians travelled through the Waioeka Gorge to take...

Masters of the snooker table

Gisborne Bridge Club results

MONDAY, March 19 — Beetham Lifestyle Village Pairs 3 (Howell movement): Joy Marden/Helen Kerisome 64.06; Yvonne Key/Ann McCombe 60.19; Trish Corson/Elizabeth Jackson 58.85; Katrine Matthews/Hans van der Kuijl 54.17; John Jones/Norma Miller...

Golf Roundup

If you have a story, tournament to promote or results you wish to have printed, contact The Gisborne Herald at 869-0633 or email sports@gisborneherald. co. nzGisborne ParkSTEVE Phillips will tee off at the Gisborne Thistle AFC tournament this Sunday...

Tyson crowned Coast king,Tops one of the best fields in Tolaga Bay tourney’s history

HE didn’t need a dragon. Or an army. Tyson Tawera’s “swords” proved sharp enough to win a golfing Game of Thrones as the 2017 Ray Scragg Motors King of the Coast was crowned on a winter-blasted Tolaga Bay battlefield on...

Champion of champions singles and fours found

BOWLSKAHUTIA players made the most of home-green advantage in the junior divisions of the champion of champions singles bowling tournament this month. But Te Karaka made a clean sweep of the open competition, David File and Sarah Brown winning the...

No Gizzy glory at Nationals

GISBORNE does not have a national surfing champion for the first time in 31 years. Just four Gisborne surfers made it to Dunedin for the national surfing championships held at St Clair Beach last week. Maz Quinn, Jacob Kohn and Buck Woods competed in...

Waikanae's Chloe Kapene and Lachie Falloon win gold at NZ U-14 surf life saving champs

SURF LIFESAVINGChloe Kapene helped get Waikanae off to a good start by winning two gold medals at the New Zealand Under-14 Surf Life Saving Championships at Orewa Beach yesterday. Kapene won the u11 girls’ run-swim-run and board race. Clubmate...

A rare southern win

The Sky Blues won a nail-biter down south on Saturday. The Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi held out against Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship heavyweights Mid-Canterbury Hammers 36-34 — only the visitors' second win at the Ashburton...

Four-year ban for Nield

A PLAYER who appeared in three Heartland Championship rugby matches for Ngati Porou East Coast as a loan player in 2016 has received a four-year ban for possession of a prohibited substance. Jacob Nield, 22, made an early guilty plea to possession of...

Five return with 10 trampolining medals

EASTLAND Port Gisborne Trampoline Club competitors were in medal-winning form at the Auckland champs. The five trampolinists returned with 10 medals — seven gold and three silver.“I was rapt, especially with the performances of the younger age...

Kya dreams of staying on the pitch for big game

Wainui Beach School’s Kya Solomon is no stranger to the experience of being on the Westpac Stadium pitch before an international match, in front of 37,000 fans. The nine-year-old football fanatic was one of 22 schoolchildren — aged six to 10 and...