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Baxter ton sets up High School Old Boys’ win

A heroic Dave Castle limped out to help High School Old Boys dash OBR's hopes of a monumental comeback in premier cricket on Saturday. Bollywood Stars HSOB, at 152-4 and needing only 13 runs to win, looked as if they would coast home. But Coastal...

Uncle Chas’s shield back with Hikurangi

RUGBYThere are things far bigger than rugby. The tragic crash on Makorori Hill — and subsequent road closure — certainly qualifies and is the reason a number of town-based players were unable to turn out for their respective teams in East Coast...

Thistle raring to go

Thistle coach Garrett Blair says his side are looking forward to their Pacific Premiership football match against second-placed Port Hill United at Childers Road Reserve at 2.30pm tomorrow.“Port Hill are a good team but they’re coming to our...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Mike Hughes (2NZ Bulls), Denise Renata (Cossie Titans), Mike Jones (Roseland), John Kingsbeer (Roseland), Vern Marshall (2NZ RUNVS), Charlie Reiri (2NZ Rebels).Best start (140): Lorna Wynyard (Cossie Titans), Mike Price...

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 ParkBARRY Cox couldn’t break 80 in 2014. He’s done it twice in 2015. Cox ran away...

Big win for Edgecombe and Andrea

Waipukurau rider Brooke Edgecombe finally got her wish when she scooped up a garden seat as the winner of the Equissage Horse Grand Prix at the Larsen Sawmilling Jumping and Show Hunter Championships on Sunday.“I have been waiting for 25 years for...

All will be made known on Saturday

Finally, an end to Coasties’ speculations. The last games of the extremely close Ngati Porou East Coast preliminary club rugby competition round will be played on Saturday. Saturday will also bring to an end a preoccupation of Coast rugby fans in...

Maddie’s a champion

HEPTATHLONGISBORNE athlete Maddie Wilson has set a New Zealand under-18 record in heptathlon and claimed a gold medal at the Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville. Wilson, 17, scored 5179 points across the seven events, a personal best. She...

Sports draws

Rugby leagueThe draw for the Gisborne Tairawhiti rugby league competition on Saturday is —1pm: Manutuke Mustangs v Waengapu Stallions. 2.30pm: Paikea Whalers v Seeka Falcons. Bye: Turanga Panthers, Ngatapa Stags. FootballGISBORNE CHAMPIONSHIP —...

McDonald looking for fifth win at tourney

Gisborne golfer Tessa McDonald clocked up her fourth consecutive win but the run ended there at the women's national interprovincial tournament in Timaru yesterday. McDonald, playing at No. 1 in the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay side, defeated Taylor-Rose...

United clinch second place

FOOTBALLWATCHING Josh Adams cut back on to his left foot is like seeing Clint Eastwood spit chewing-tobacco “juice” in his film The Outlaw Josey Wales. You know what happens next. In Eastwood’s western, Josey Wales shoots someone. On the football...

Malone shows his class

FORMER Gisborne surfer Chris Malone was the standout surfer at the national championships at Piha yesterday. It was a short day of surfing yesterday, as the nationals headed towards a big finish and the large swell that forecast to pummel the...

United now to defend league title

A DISPUTED sending-off 10 minutes into the second half cast a shadow over Heavy Equipment United’s loss to Hawera in a Federation Cup football game in Napier at the weekend. United were the reigning Federation Cup champions. Hawera came from two...

GisInt girls win Super 11 sevens, boys 2nd

Gisborne Intermediate School took their show on the road with two excellent performances at the 2019 Super 11 Rugby 7s. The girls, placed third last year, won 6-6 at Mount Maunganui this time around to claim their second tournament title: scoring 30...

Te K all the way

“History makers”.One of many Waikohu banners at a packed Rugby Park said it all as the men from Te Karaka lifted the Lee Bros Shield for the first time with a 40-26 win against YMP in the Poverty Bay premier club rugby grand final on...

Picked in tournament team

POVERTY Bay loose forward Jordan McFarlane-Rofe was selected in the 2017 Hurricanes under-16 tournament rugby team in Whanganui this week. McFarlane-Rofe played No. 8 in Poverty Bay’s Division A third/fourth playoff against Manawatu on Thursday. The...