BASKETBALL

THE OBR cricket club's experienced campaigners know what it takes to win Doleman Cup finals. Players such as Jimmy Holden, Matt Cook and captain Jonathan Purcell have been there several times before. Others, such as Paul Stewart and Travis Mitchell...

Centre Ngani Laumape grabbed a hat trick and first five-eighth Richie Mo’unga scored his first test try among 22 points as a second-string All Blacks team overwhelmed Japan 69-31 in their one-off rugby test. Mo’unga also kicked a penalty and...

Defending Lee Bros Shield champions High School Old Boys beat Tapuae 37-19 in the opening round of Poverty Bay premier rugby at Tapuae Sports Ground in Wairoa on Saturday. But HSOB coaches Jamie Hutana and Scotty Leighton had nothing but praise for...

Highlight of Day 3 for the Black Fins at the Lifesaving World Champs in Italy

GISBORNE saloon car racer Ethan Cook piloted his 76G car to first place in the Waikato championships at Huntly Speedway on Saturday night. Sidecar pairing Rob Miller and “Red” George (8G) were runners-up in their class at the same meeting. A field...

THE quarterfinals of Gisborne Basketball Association’s women’s club competition are being played at the YMCA TONIGHT. The draw is —5.45pm: Paikea Nation (1st) v Lytton High School (2nd).6.45pm: Campion College (3rd) v YMCA Riverin...

Liz Burke, Shirley Hyland honoured at Gisborne Dressage annual prizegiving

POVERTY Bay lost their opening game in the Basil McBurney Trophy cricket competition to Hamilton B by 42 runs at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. Hamilton set a target of 248-8 on the back of a fourth-wicket partnership of 152 from Mike Dodunski (131)...

HockeyPoverty Bay club competition, women: YMP A 6 JNL Paikea 0; YMP B 1 Ben Holden Ngatapa 5; GMC Green 14 GMC Gold 0; Roseland Tavern Te Aowera 0 Amber Dental Gisborne Girls’ High School 8. Men: Gisborne Boys’ High School 3 YMP B 2; Lytton Old...

GLENN Sherriff has spent the past dozen years going from English summers to New Zealand summers, playing polo and training and selling horses. It's a real balancing act — pursuing his sport, keeping fit and paying the bills. The downside for the man...

RUGBYPOVERTY Bay have a tough early draw in the Heartland Championship but captain Ken Houkamau says the province’s rugby team are not intimidated. They play the Meads Cup champions, Thames Valley, first up and then the 2018 beaten finalists, South...

POVERTY Bay opener Thorn Parkes posted the first century of the North Districts senior secondary schoolboys tournament with a magnificent unbeaten 101 against Northland at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. Unfortunately for the home side, the...

YMP and OBM go into their Poverty Bay premier club rugby championship match tomorrow knowing that the losers could be replaced in the top four by Waikohu. With five games remaining before the playoffs, defending champions Woodbank High School Old...

NEW Zealand streetstocks champion Aaron Brown capped another great season by being named competitor of the year at the Gisborne Speedway Club awards night on Saturday. A packed house of more than 230 club members and supporters filled the Hotel...

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Shane Horne (2NZ Rebels), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Thao Duncan (2NZ Say My Name Again), Corey Kaio (2NZ Titans), Rio Edwards (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters), Craig Watson (2NZ Corys 6-Shooters), Kevin Morrell...

RUGBYNervous Nellies need not apply. Ngati Porou East Coast open their Heartland Championship season against Buller in Westport tomorrow and fans at home, across the country and overseas naturally want to see the Sky Blues start well. They can. The...

George Bridge may not come across as a bundle of worry on the eve of his first start for the All Blacks but his mother admits she is getting nervous already. Nervous and excited. Chick Bridge, who co-ordinates the Gateway careers programme at Gisborne...

MONDAY, October 15 — Turanga Pairs 3North/South East/WestYvonne Key, Joy Marden 56.00 Anne Maclaurin, Graham Maclaurin 61.00Eileen Lee, Bette Parker 54.00 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 58.00WEDNESDAY, October 17 — LJ Hooker Pairs 3North/South...

BRUCE Ball and Steve Berezowski won the masters’ 60-and-over optional pairs tournament held at Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s greens last week. The entry was only 12 teams, the hot weather possibly putting off some who might otherwise have entered. To...

Tairawhiti crews dug deep in some tight races on day three at the waka ama sprint nationals in testing conditions on Lake Karapiro yesterday. The first final of the day was the closest. Horouta Waka Hoe crew Mairangi's Tanes beat Mareikura Waka Am...

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Cris Kiri (Cossie Titans), Sha Hohipa (Cossie DONE & Dusted), Mike Jones (Roseland).Best start (156): Gary Grant (RSA Rose and Thorns).Best finish (145): Tom Irwin (2NZ Bulls).Most high scores (15): Lorenzo Kaa (2NZ...

THE first New Zealander to play professionally in softball’s United States Fastpitch league, Lara Andrews understands the pressures faced by young athletes. She has experienced them. She is studying them. The White Sox infielder and top-class batter...

ARNOLD Hutchins and John Harvey won the David Moore Pharmacy Centre Open Pairs 11-5 against David Lynn and Lois Lamont. In the nine-end final, the score was 6-3 after four ends, with three-time national champion Hutchins playing superbly. Lynn managed...

RUGBYGEORGE Bridge’s family got a good view of his try for the All Blacks on Saturday night.“It happened right in front of us,” his mother Chick Bridge said.“We were pretty much on the try-line.“That certainly got us out of our...

BASKETBALL by Ben O’Brien-LeafSome call it “a feeling-out process”. Others refer to it as blowing away the cobwebs. Opening night in the 2018 Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club league threw up these results: at the John McFarlane...

The future of the district's surf lifesaving strength will be on show this weekend when over 400 youngsters line up for the Eastland Port Eastern Regional Junior Surf Life Saving Championships at Midway Beach. They will compete tomorrow from 8am and...

The Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union is giving away a Poverty Bay jersey, replica 125, to a supporter each week. And this week’s winner is the boy to the right. Gisborne Herald photographer Paul Rickard will take a photo of the crowd at each...

Gisborne-East Coast men's, women's teams perform creditably despite disruptions

Some of the best quad bike riders in the country will descend on Whangara this weekend for the North Island ATV MX Championships. Five of the six best male riders in the country and the former and current women's No. 1 riders will be racing. Organisers...