CRICKETWhat a performance. Fifteen-year-old Max Briant on Saturday produced the best bowling figures in Poverty Bay club cricket so far this season. The Year 10 student took six wickets for eight runs in four overs, two of them maidens, in Campion...
Poverty Bay’s under-20 rugby team are preparing for a three-game series and their first assignment is at Rugby Park on Saturday. They take on Horowhenua-Kapiti u20s before heading to Palmerston North for a double-header against the Wanganui and...
TWO teams of Barry Memorial Croquet Club golf croquet players travelled to the Bay of Plenty to play teams from the Whakatane club. Each team had four players, and each player took part in four doubles and two singles games. This was the first time...
HOCKEYTHE Gisborne Girls’ High School/Campion College combined hockey team remain winless after three rounds of the Rosemary O’Brien Tournament on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The local girls, who lost to Napier Girls’ High (2)...
TAYLER Reid has struggled to 21st place in the weekend's instalment of the Super League Triathalon series in Munich. Reid was unable to keep pace on the first bike leg after struggling with sickness in the lead-up to the race. A monumental swim saw...
Poverty Bay Bowling Club members held their annual Rex Rigney Christmas Mixed Triples Tournament last Thursday, and followed it with Christmas dinner. Teams played three one-hour games. The winners — Dave Hooper (skip), Steve Berezowski (director)...
SPEEDWAYGISBORNE saloon car racer Daniel Cook got the top podium finish he had been after all season when he won the North Island title at Huntly Speedway on Saturday night. Going into the weekend, Cook’s best results had been second in a Speedweek...
The Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s recent handicap doubles tournament was the first big contest for some of the club’s new members, and they took to the lawns with gusto. There were nine pairs split into two pools. In Pool A, which had five pairs...
RUGBYLOCAL rugby is in good hands. The Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union annual general meeting at Rugby Park this week was as much about high-quality people, the health of the game here and acknowledging selfless long service as it was a run-through...
GISBORNE surfer Maz Quinn is on track to match the all-time record of five national titles after an explosive performance on Day 2 of the national surfing championships in Dunedin. The swell built throughout the day from one metre to two metres at St...
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. nzGisborne ParkA “MARSTERLY” performance led the way as golfers dominated golf course in...
Matthew and Dylan Foster have won the North Island Eastern Zone Pairs Tournament for players with one to five years of indoor bowls experience. The tournament was played at the Whakatane Indoor Bowls Stadium, and the win there qualifies the brothers...
NEW member Graeme Dickey is hunting one of the most sought-after pieces of men’s silverware as his first success at Electrinet Park. Dickey, whois from Whakatane but has been playing regulary with Park’s Friday crew, has combined with Darrel...
SURFINGFINN Vette has taken the New Zealand Grom Series in style by winning the final event of the season at Piha last weekend. Coming into the 2021 Super 16, Vette was locked in a tough battle for first place with Mount Maunganui’s Jack Hinton for...
TUESDAY night results from Brezz’n Darts Club competition —INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Tyson Eyles, Harley Ngarangione. Highest start (120): Stacee Fraider, Harley Ngarangione. Highest finish (124): Teretiu Te Moananui. Most high scores (17): Tahun...
RIVERINA and Wairoa Athletic completed league-and-cup doubles for Eastern League second and third division football on Saturday. Riverina won the Chris Moore Cup for Division 2 teams when they beat Gisborne Vehicle Testing Bohemians 4-2 on penalties...
Points countback determined the results of three ties in an exciting third night of the BIZminton business house league. Two of those were in the social grade — Stanley Family beating 3 + 1 by 132-124 and Social Fruitworx beating JT Contracting...
RUGBYA RAMPANT King Country were too strong for Ngati Porou East Coast in the opening game of their Heartland Championship rugby season at Te Kuiti on Saturday. King Country’s 11-tries-to-three, 75-17 victory means the Rams join Poverty Bay and Mid...
NINETEEN-year-old gymnast Taylah Crago decided to have one more crack at the national championships, and she had her younger brother to help her get there. Taylah started gymnastics 12 years ago, in a recreational class. When coaches spotted her...
Gisborne Trampoline Club coach Alissa Thomas showed she could walk her talk at the Rotorua championships.“Alissa coaches our adults’ class and hasn’t competed for 20 years,” club head coach Doug Callahan said.“But she showed she had not...
Campbell Chrisp produced a display worthy of a Tiny White Medal winner when he inspired Larsawn Ngatapa to a 26-25 comeback win against YMP in the opening round of Poverty Bay premier rugby on Saturday. Down 20-0 after 24 minutes and looking as...
Athletic rugby coach Jimmy Whaitiri says the best way to beat premier division leaders Waikohu is to deny them possession.“The hard part is doing it, and doing it for 80 minutes,” said the wily Whaitiri, whose Charteris Choppers Athletic side...
A king tide that kept the water high and the track tight made for plenty of exciting racing at Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club beach nationals at Makorori. Motocross bikes ruled the sand in the senior open class. Try as they might, road warriors...
Talk about an arm-wrestle. The Heith Hawea/Matt Evans-coached Larsawn Ngatapa beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates at Patutahi on Friday night in the closest game of Civil Project Solutions Premier Rugby to date. The 400-strong crowd at Paddy’s Park saw...
Gisborne United player of the year Josh Adams and Lytton High School student Matt McVey are preparing for the football trip of a lifetime. Striker Adams, 19, and midfielder McVey, 17, have been picked for the Pulse Football Academy 18-man squad to...
GISBORNE girls Renee Holmes and Raven Stevens featured in the New Zealand Under-20 Girls (Kahu) ultimate frisbee team’s victory over a top German club side in Munich this week. They beat Munich Chickadees 13-12 after trailing for most of the...
FORWARD power looks set to decide the Lee Bros Shield grand final at Rugby Park tomorrow afternoon, with the big guns likely to fire in the High School Old Boys pack. Based on form leading up to the finale of the Poverty Bay premier club rugby...
RUGBYIt’s the East Coast rugby experience for the Taniwha. The Northland Development 15 under head coach Corey Anderson, manager Mick Sweetman and captain and blindside flanker Aorangi Stokes arrived at Hinepare Marae yesterday afternoon, and today...
ARMWRESTLINGGIZZY Lock N Drop Armwrestling Club members celebrated their staging of the national armwrestling championships at Gisborne’s ShipWreck Bar by winning four of the titles themselves. It was the first time the championships had been held...
The season got under way for Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association at the Brezzn Darts Club Hall on Tuesday. 180s: Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (2), Tristan Reeves, Te Kotahi Kaio, Tahuna Irwin, Mihi Awatere, Potts Te Kira, Corey Kaio. Highest start (180)...
CRICKETIt was his day. Lukas Fry produced the bowling performance of the season to win the Poverty Bay Cricket T30 Colts League final for the Bollywood High School Old Boys’ Pups at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. The 13-year-old left-arm...
JUNIOR SPORT by Jack MalcolmPrimary school sport got back under way last Friday for interschool rugby and netball competitions. Awapuni School rugby coach Stu Barclay said the children had been excited for weeks and were “keen as” to get out and...