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Yee flag flies high

THE Yee family flag flew high at the Poverty Bay B Grade snooker championships. David Yee won the title while father Pang got to the semifinals after both topped their section in qualifying. Pang’s title hopes were ended by Nathan Coombs in the...

Moving on up to a superboat

THE name Briant is set to return to the superboats cauldron for the next New Zealand jetsprinting season. Gisborne driver Blake Briant confirmed to The Herald that he had “found a new home” for his current Group A class engine and had lined up...

Not yet time to celebrate

THISTLE Massive won Eastern League football’s Division 1 showdown against Heavy Equipment United on Saturday. But they still can’t call themselves league champions . . . United have a mathematical chance of overhauling them, although it would...

Bay face uphill fight against frontrunners

LEADERBRAND Poverty Bay will be putting their heads on the chopping block tomorrow when they are away to Wanganui in a third-round Heartland Championship rugby game. The Butcher Boys have won all 12 Heartland games against the Bay since the...

Hikurangi handle conditions

Saturday, May 13: The wet, windy conditions ensured problems for the backs and a tough forward battle. The Hikurangi backs, fed by halfback Kahu Ward and first five-eighth Haki Waihape, handled the conditions better than their opponents in the first...

Golf Roundup

Gisborne ParkEVAN Parkin got a nice surprise when he tallied his score in the men’s stableford on Saturday — a career-best round of 75-13-62, for 46 points. The 66-year-old, who has been playing “for a long time”, says he’s not one to worry...

School teams head to head

ALL three premier-grade netball games in the YMCA tomorrow should produce close, exciting play and winning could come down to which teams make the fewest mistakes. Lytton Senior A and Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A start the premier programme...

‘Perennial battlers’ triumph

Defending champions beaten in thrill-a-minute game

OBR fall to students

ROBBIE Tallott was in outstanding form with bat and ball at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday as Gisborne Boys’ High School (1) ended OBR’s unbeaten run in Doleman Cup cricket. The Boys’ High skipper top-scored with 72 as his side posted 166-5...

All friends together

RUGBYA COUNTRY rugby club came to town in 1957 and its leader on the park was Bill Maxwell. On Saturday, the former Ngatapa captain turns 90, coinciding with Tiny White Day — the opening round for Poverty Bay club rugby. Ngatapa had been a sub-union...

Hat-trick for Adams in nerve-jangling win

FOOTBALLA JOSH Adams first-half hat-trick set up Gisborne United for a nerve-jangling 5-4 victory over Taradale in Pacific Premiership football in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Heavy Equipment Services United led 4-1 at halftime, Taradale fought back to...

Saving best for last: top men's hockey teams to go head to head

The best will very definitely be left till last in the hockey this weekend when the two top men's teams go head to head and Lytton Old Boys number one will be out to get one back over YMP 1. The win went in-form YMP 1's way when they met earlier this...

Coast Duathlon to run its 30th birthday race

“Commemorating 30 years of glory and pain.”So reads the header on the entry form of the 100-kilometre Coast Duathlon for 2018. Glory for some, pain for some. But always a sense of achievement. The run/cycle/run race up the East Coast highway has...

Gisborne surfers make finals

GISBORNE surfer Kai Woolf made two finals in the Backdoor BayBash surfing competition in Hawke’s Bay at the weekend. She finished third in both the under-17 and under-20 women’s divisions. Two other Gisborne surfers, Finn Johnson and Saffi Vette...

OBR will provide stern test

The blue-and-whites did it without fuss in Round 1 of Doleman Cup premier-grade cricket. But a week on from their five-wicket win against the Galaxy World Gisborne Boys' High School first 11, the Carl Shaw-led Bollywood High School Old Boys are to be...

Treasured trophies on the line

Three treasured memorial trophies are at stake when Gisborne Speedway Club stages its penultimate meeting of the season tomorrow night. The Law-Cartmell Memorial Trophy for sidecars, the Ashley Scott Memorial Trophy for stockcars and the Terry Hunt...

Wanderers look the goods

Havelock North Wanderers had the look of Central Federation League champions in their performance at Childers Road Reserve yesterday. They beat Waikanae Beach TOP10 Gisborne Thistle 4-1, yet for over 80 minutes out of 90 the Jags were within a goal...

Holmes raring to go

Renee Holmes hasn't let the turmoil of Covid-19 inhibit her ambition as she gears up for a big end to 2020. The sporting prodigy is back in New Zealand and training with the Waikato women's rugby team in preparation for the upcoming Farrah Palmer Cup...