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Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

OUTLAWS had their first win of Brezz’n Darts Club’s Tuesday night winter league when they beat another newby team, Ruahine Green, 9-6. Highlights of the clash were the match-high tally of 12 hundreds to Ruahine’s John Ahuriri, a 106 finish to...

Bay Year 7s impress coaches at Riverbend

The boys are working hard at Riverbend. The Poverty Bay Mixed Schools Year 7B cricket team at the Riverbend tournament lost to Central Hawke’s Bay Gold by 11 runs at Flaxmere Park yesterday morning and to Cornwall by 55 runs at Frimley Park in the...

Riders chase trophies

The East Coast Challenge beach racing meeting chews up the sand at Makorori tomorrow as riders go all out to win this prestigious event. Last season, open-class racer Graham Wedlake (Kawasaki KX450) came second in the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club...

Big finals day ahead

The YMCA has known some great days. But perhaps no three — yes, three — finals in Gisborne Basketball Association history could inflame club passion as those taking place tomorrow night. The largest crowd for a men’s grand final was that for the...

Gisborne Boys’ High in top 32 for the nationals

VOLLEYBALLSecondary school volleyball teams from Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay played a regional qualifying tournament in Gisborne last Friday and Saturday. They were vying for the right to compete in the national tournament in Palmerston North at...

Paenga-Morgan picked

RUGBYPOVERTY Bay under-16 rugby captain Anaru Paenga-Morgan has been selected for a Chiefs development day next month. Paenga-Morgan, from Gisborne Boys’ High School but set to do his schooling in Waikato next year, is one of 63 players picked for...

Breeze goes out a winner for Katie Laurie

KATIE Laurie may be a six-time winner of the FEI New Zealand World Cup Series, but she reckons her victory yesterday in the opening round of the 2017-2018 series is her best. She and Breeze headed home a quality 17-strong field in the Bayleys Real...

Outstanding performances from Gisborne gymnasts

GYMNASTICS by Jon LancasterGisborne Gymnastics Club members made an outstanding showing at the Manawatu Open Junior Championships in Palmerston North this month. In Step 1, Zeva Kinnaird had second placings on beam and floor, and a fourth at vault...

Old hands on deck for Gisborne's HSOB

HIGH School Old Boys coach Jamie Hutana will have to call on “stalwarts of the club” as he prepares for the opening round of the Poverty Bay premier competition — the Tiny White Memorial Day — at Wairoa on Saturday.“We’ve got Siosiu...

Local players predominate

Apart from two loan players, Poverty Bay coaches Mana Otai and Dwayne Russell have gone for an all-local squad for Saturday’s first-round Heartland Championship rugby clash against Wairarapa Bush at Rugby Park. Former Tasman Makos tighthead prop...

Double gold for Oakley in Auckland

OAKLEY Brown-Terekia won two gold medals at the Auckland International Judo Championships. Gisborne Judo Club member Oakley won the junior boys’ over-45-kilogram division and the junior boys open. Competition was tough at the Auckland event, with...

Mates off field, rivals on it

Pirates skipper Dane Thompson and High School Old Boys co-captain Scott Tallott are good mates off the field. But their friendship will be put on hold tomorrow when they they clash in a 40-over Doleman Cup elimination semifinal to decide who will...

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. nTolaga BayShelley Robertson’s star shone brightest as plenty of sizzling scores were posted...

Kapene strikes MVP jackpot

JESSE Kapene has made no contest of the race for Poverty Bay premier division’s Most Valuable Player award. The Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic loose forward has an unassailable lead with two games remaining for the black and whites. Kapene, who...

Coach confident softball team will do well

TAIRAWHITI under-15 softball coach Ray Noble is confident the team can do well in the North Island u15 tournament, which starts in Gisborne tomorrow and finishes on Sunday.“The boys have put in a lot of good work over the past 10 weeks,” said...

Reedy on title track but work to be done

HISTORY beckoned but remained a couple of wins away for local golfer Anaru Reedy heading into the semifinals of the Ryman national veterans golf championship here today. Electrinet Gisborne Park member Reedy surged into the senior division last four...