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Close contest expected in build-up to playoffs

YMP 1 will wear the favourites tag but will be wary of a Claydens Waikohu side capable of upstaging them in a mouth-watering premier grade netball clash in the YMCA tonight. The teams take the court at 7.45pm for what should be a hard-fought...

Boys’ High gain credibility in defeat

RUGBYThey should be excited. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 lost their traditional rugby match against St Peter’s College here at the weekend — 21-10 — but they emerged with hard-won credibility. Where in 2018 they had led that...

Bay lose to Hamilton by 10 wickets

CRICKETFIFTY-over cricket can be a grind. Or to fall in line with the adage, a fast game’s a good game, as was the case with Poverty Bay in their match against Hamilton at the Northern Districts junior secondary schools tournament...

Opportunities knock

TOP New Zealand beach volleyball player Julia Tilley started her season with a win and she can't wait for the second stop of the national tour in Gisborne this weekend. The Gisborne Slam starts tomorrow and it will serve as a homecoming for Tilley...

Referees needed

A shortage of referees means only one game in men’s Eastern League Division 1 football will be controlled by an official tomorrow. Referee’s appointment co-ordinator John Jones said it was an unusual situation caused by the fact that four senior...

Winning return for Tom Cook

SNOOKERFORMER local player Tom Cook made a victorious return to his old haunts in the Gisborne Masters snooker tournament over Queen’s Birthday Weekend. Now based in Tauranga, Cook proved too good on the immaculate Cossie Club tables to win the...

Rice won demo derby that just kept giving

THE “demolition derby” field stole the show at Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday when their closely contested warm-up races turned it into the derby that went all night. A field of 25 cars were entered for the Gisborne Auto Spares-sponsored main...

Bring on the 'naki

A RANFURLY Shield challenge and a new team in the premier competition has Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union chief executive Marty Davis looking forward to the 2018 season.“We play Taranaki in New Pymouth on July 28 and Tapuae have been promoted...

A tradition rekindled

The Rongowhakaata Shield annual clash between Gisborne Boys’ High School and Te Aute College first 15 rugby teams was rekindled here on Saturd

Gisborne district sports draws

NetballSATURDAY — Pak’nSave seniors. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1/2) and take out bins: Thistle Phoenix, Claydens Waikohu 3. Duty team to control scorecard room for the day: Whatatutu. All games are 4 x 10-minute...

Reynolds stars with bat for Pirates

PIRATES vice-captain Brad Reynolds stole the show as the holders of local cricket’s Doleman Cup booked their place in Saturday’s final against OBR. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates, sent in to bat after losing the toss, posted 222-7 from their 35 overs...

Brenden Gooch club competitor of the year

SPEEDWAYSTREETSTOCK racer Brenden Gooch (1NZ) was named club competitor of the year at the Gisborne Speedway Club’s annual prize-giving last weekend. It was the second time Gooch had picked up the club’s driver-of-the-year prize.“It feels...

Gordon new King of the Mountains

GISBORNE cyclist Callum Gordon was “super-stoked” with his 10th-place finish and the King of the Mountains (KOM) title in the Elite and U23 Road National Championships in Napier.“It’s the first time I’ve raced in the elite division and the...

Imogen, 12, swims under open qualifying times

SWIMMINGImogen Amor-Bendall, at 12 years of age, not only won medals racing girls a year older at the national age-group championships in Auckland, but for the first time she qualified for the New Zealand open championships. It’s extremely...

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. nzWaikohuA father-son double highlighted the Waikohu Men’s Open on Saturday. William Brown won...

Northern in the zone

The Northern team’s stranglehold on the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay interzone women’s golf trophy continued in Gisborne this week. The host Northern side made it seven titles straight against their Southern and Central rivals on the Poverty Bay...