Bay of Plenty yesterday claimed the tightest ever title race at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships at Makorori Beach, defeating runners-up and hosts Gisborne by 75 points. Bay of Plenty posted 7790 points to Gisborne’s 7715. Canterbury...
GisborneTHERE are not many sports in which father and son and mother and daughter can compete on equal footing. But that’s what happened when the Gisborne Bowling Club held its senior fours championships at the weekend, underscoring the beauty and...
POVERTY Bay head to Ashburton to play Mid Canterbury in the Heartland Championship Lochore Cup semifinal — after booking eighth spot with a 35-34 win against Thames Valley in Te Aroha on Saturday. Mid Canterbury finished fifth, losing out on...
RUGBYA POVERTY Bay Rugby Football Union judicial committee last night imposed a total of six weeks suspensions on three players and sanctioned another after last weekend’s brawl involving OBM and YMP premier players. YMP forward Simonne Akurangi...
WINLESS after five games in the first round of the Poverty Bay premier championship, Ngatapa made it two from two in the second round with a 30-26 victory over Waikohu at Patutahi on Saturday.“It’s great to get another win,” said Larsawn...
CRICKETGISBORNE players are making their mark for Northern Districts at the national under-15 tournament in Whanganui. ND have had a win and two losses so far in their 30-overs games. Kayley Knight scored an unbeaten 50 as ND made 135-9 chasing...
NGATI Porou East Coast coach Willie Waitoa got the dry track he wanted for Saturday’s Heartland Championship rugby clash against Wairarapa Bush at Whakarua Park . . . but not the result. The Coast lost 45-5 — their seventh straight loss this...
NETBALLSIXTEEN teams competed in an interschool netball tournament that ended in a final between Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Uri a Maui and Manutuke School. Both of these teams went through their pool round-robin games unbeaten, and the final was...
NGATI Porou East Coast were given a reality check of just how tough this season’s Heartland Championship is going to be when they were thumped 64-14 by Thames Valley in Ruatoria on Saturday.“We took a belting but I’d rather it happen now and...
A HAT-trick is on the cards for Whanganui racehorse trainer Kevin Myers. He is the trainer of Scapolo, who has won the last two runnings of the Poverty Bay Cup at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s annual races, and he plans to bring him here again this...
National champion Ricardo Christie and Billy Stairmand will fly the flag for the Kiwis in the men’s competition as they begin their hunt for a World Tour berth. Weather forcasts suggests Newcastle is set to be hit by decent swell as high as 3m just...
MONDAYOpening Night: Michelle England and Ann McCombe 1; Katrine Matthews and Hans van der Kuijl 2. Summer Pairs: Katrine Matthews and Hans van der Kuijl 1; Trish Corson and Bette Parker 2. Beetham Lifestyle Village Pairs: Vicki Taylor and Ann...
MONDAY, June 20Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Open Championship 5 (Howell movement):Carolyn McMurray/Elizabeth Jackson 60.12;Trish Corson/Bette Parker 55.95;Delwyn Arthur/Vincelle Marvin 55.95. WEDNESDAY, June 22Craigs Investment Partners Championship...
Zone 2 isn’t for the faint-hearted. Campion College Cougars found that out yesterday morning when they hit basketball’s version of a brick wall in the shape of nationally ranked Rotorua Boys’ High School in Pool D. Rotorua beat the Cougars...
Local drawsGisborne sports draws will be published in The Gisborne Herald tomorrow. Holmes, Tapsell in Marist squadPoverty Bay rugby player Jake Holmes has been called in to the New Zealand Marist squad to play against the Heartland 15 on...
NGATI Porou East Coast now hold the Basil Simpson Trophy contested annually with Eastern Bay of Plenty. The teams drew 15-all in Opotiki on Saturday. Normally the holders retain a trophy in the event of a draw, but 89-year-old Basil Simpson was...
As sports around New Zealand continue to restart, some global codes are still suffering from the full force of Covid-19 with no easy end in sight. Local triathlete Tayler Reid has raced only twice this year. His last race was in March at Mooloolab...
PUTTING a ham on the Christmas Day table brought out the golfing gun in several players at Patutahi’s Xmas Hams open tournament on Saturday. A field of nearly 120 filled the Tahi course over the day, including contingents from Opotiki and Mahia. But...
SQUASHCATHERINE Harbott continued a family tradition in Napier last week. She was a member of the C Grade women’s team who won the national title in their division for Gisborne’s Surf City Squash Club. Twenty years before, her mother Carolyn Baty...
It's a top-of-the-table showdown in premier-grade cricket tomorrow as High School Old Boys and OBR clash. With their first-round match cancelled, tomorrow's game will be the first time Bollywood Stars HSOB and Coastal Concrete OBR have met in 50-over...
Gisborne surfer Saffi Vette has been doing her bit for the New Zealand cause at the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championships at Huntington Beach, California. The Kiwi effort has been led by Whakatane surfer Jack Lee, who advanced into the final...
NETBALLCLUBmateS clash in premier-grade netball at the YMCA tomorrow morning and it should be a tight game. Claydens Waikohu (1) and Waikohu (3) meet at 9am.“There were only two goals in it when they last met, so I am expecting another close...
RUGBYYMP continued their run of good form last weekend, dispatching High School Old Boys 52-10 to stay at the top of the Lee Brothers Shield competition table. It would be no winning celebration for Contract Consultants HSOB winger Cory Reihana in...
Midweek premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night produced two close games enjoyed by a large crowd of spectators. In the first match-up, Horouta Gold beat Gillies Electrical Gisborne Girls' High School Senior A 59-53, after the students had led...
Andrew Rickard teamed up with his 12-year-old son Adam and 17-year-old daughter Rachael and won the last local centre tournament of the year, the Centre Closing Trios. They had a 7-5 victory over North Island representatives Nathan Trowell and...
THE hockey spotlight falls on the match between Paikea and GMC Green in a two-versus-three contest in the women's competition this weekend. Both teams have a lot to play for. The clash between the two YMP men's teams tonight will also excite a lot of...
A fast heat helped Gisborne’s Quaid Thompson advance to the semifinals in his ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships debut in Portugal last night (NZ time).The 20-year-old Poverty Bay Kayak Club member placed seventh in his K1 1000 metres heat at...