HOCKEYTHE district’s hockey players should know the draw for their competitions in a few days as time ticks by towards a start for the code here. First games for senior teams will be held on Friday next week. Secondary school competition starts the...
FIVE young athletes from Gisborne Athletic Club will be among 1500 competitors taking part in the North Island leg of the 40th anniversary Colgate Games. The Colgate Games are New Zealand’s junior athletics championships. The North Island event...
NORTHERN Spirit vice-captain Mel Knight and her young team will face a baptism of fire when they play Wellingon Blaze in the first round of the national women’s domestic competition this week.“We’ve lost a lot of senior players from last year...
Gisborne Trampoline Club members who won medals competing in the national trampoline championships —Hayley Rolls, gold. James van Aswegen, silver. Hayley Rolls, gold. Isileli Kamoto, silver. James van Aswegen, silver. Lily Arnold, gold. Tegan Hayward...
SURFINGGISBORNE surfers and siblings Saffi and Finn Vette remain in the mix at the Health 2000 National Surfing Championships in Taranaki. A solid west coast swell marched up the country on Day 2 of the Health 2000 National Surfing Championships...
Former Poverty Bay coach Jimmy Whaitiri is a good judge of a footballer. So when Whaitiri told The Herald at the start of the season to keep an eye on loose forward Jesse Kapene — “he could play for the Bay” — it was duly noted. Kapene, who...
CyclingGisborne Cycling Club events — visitors and new cyclists welcome. SATURDAY — Steve Wolter Plumbing/Barry Hyland Saturday Series, Race 4. Sign-on is from 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Kaimoe Road for a 2pm start. Course: A/B grades, Bushy Knoll Road...
Do you have what it takes to step into the ring in front of a capacity crowd?Registrations are being taken for the 2021 Fight for Life Gisborne — a fundraiser for the Patu Tahi Boxing Club. Aspiring boxers will have 14 weeks to train for the...
FORTY-six years ago, Karen Pearce won her first senior women’s club championship title. On Saturday, under her married name Karen Hay, she clocked up number 19. And there was a striking similarity between the first and the latest for the Gisborne...
Gisborne polo player Susie Hamilton will be in the thick of transtasman battle on Australian soil next weekend. Hamilton is in the New Zealand team to take on Australia in the Queensland Ladies International Polo Test on Saturday, June 16. Hamilton...
GISBORNE’S Glenn Sherriff is expecting a tough encounter when New Zealand take on England in a test match at Kihikihi for International Polo Day next month.“England have a young team of players who have already represented their country on many...
SURF LIFESAVINGGISBORNE athletes Chris Dawson and Briana Irving were among the medals again at the Lifesaving World Championships in Adelaide yesterday. Dawson, of Midway Surf Life Saving Club, won bronze in the 50-metre manikin carry competing for...
To get 98 percent in any national exam is outstanding. Poverty Bay Cricket umpire Jason Trowill has scored 98 percent in both the oral and written examinations for the first-class Level 4 Certificate. In the most recent batch of four Northern...
Rugby — Poverty Bay club, premier: Enterprise Cars OBM 60 GT Shearing Waikohu 22; Larsawn Ngatapa 25 YMP 19; HSOB 40 Pirates-GMC 21. Senior 1: Tapuae 13 Nuhaka 11; Ngatapa 27 HSOB 14; Waikohu 36 OBM 24; YMP beat Wairoa Athletic by default. East...
VERDON Bartlett makes his 60th appearance for Ngati Porou East Coast tomorrow when the Coast host Heartland Championship leaders South Canterbury at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria.“Verdon’s been a model of consistency for us over a number of years now...
Week 7: Second Round;Larsawn Ngatapa 31: Karl Hutchins-Mackie (2), Taylor Howatson, Nick Cave, Ihaia Kerr tries; Peter Livingston 3 con. East Coast Farm Vets Young Maori Party 50: Nehe Papuni (2), Taine Aupouri-Kaiwai (2), Andrew Tauatevalu (2)...
LEAH Scholefield is in her 10th year of competing in trampoline and has learned to cope with pressure situations. That will come in handy when she represents New Zealand at the Australian Gymnastics Championships next month. Scholefield, 15, will...
Poverty Bay in Heartland Championship clash with Whanganui side tomorrow
Gisborne ParkMAHIA golfer Wade Wesche blazed his way to two titles at the East Coast Fire Brigades tournament on Sunday. Wesche won the Fire Service members’ gross with 2-over 74 — the 10-handicapper’s round featuring 14 pars, three bogeys and...
It was sensational last Wednesday and round three of the Challenge Cup high school T20 competition at the Harry Barker Reserve promises excitement in spades today. The match-ups make for classic clashes: the Gisborne Boys’ High School Life Guards...
Six wins, one loss . . . and that was by only one goal. Poverty Bay flew the district’s flag high at the Curtis Cup under-13 boys’ development tournament in Napier. The Bonny Seymour-coached side recorded emphatic wins over Horowhenua (8-0)...
Te Puia SpringsJohn Puha ended the season on a silverware-winning note on Sunday. Puha’s 91-32-59, for 42 points, won him the Chaffey Cup stableford title — the last trophy up for grabs over 2018. Aomihi and Dick Cook, aka ACDC, won the McDowell...
RUGBYNORTH Harbour rugby has made national headlines with plans to abolish school rep teams, but such ideas are not new at Poverty Bay. Josh Willoughby, chief executive of Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union, said the union abolished its under-13...
BasketballSATURDAY — Miniball league, years 3/4, 10am: C1, Maui Tinihanga v Mangapapa Griffins, (Cinta, Paddy, Kaipo, Lilly); C2, Mangapapa Iversons v Wainui, (Petra, O’Neil, Kellann, Char); C3, Shakers Ballers v Manutuke, (Karlye, Xzavier...
Youth features in the Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowls team that selector Malcolm Trowell has chosen for the Paterson Trophy games in Napier. With Nathan Trowell, Matthew Foster, Dylan Foster and Akuhata Keelan all under 16, the team will be the...
The Cook Islands Football Association has announced former New Zealand and Gisborne City coach Kevin Fallon as the new coach for the national men’s team. Fallon is no stranger to the Cook Islands, having conducted football programmes on the islands...
Craig Stirton was “about five minutes away from defaulting” on Friday when he completed the scramble for a team to travel to Napier on Saturday. In the end, he had two subs — himself included — and ALH Gisborne Thistle Reserves earned their...
CRICKETPoverty Bay boys’ Year 6 cricket team signed off on an excellent season, winning the last match of their eight-game campaign against Hawke’s Bay’s Cornwall by 51 runs here on Sunday. “The boys’ will to win shone through as...
Gisborne streetstocker Brenden Gooch, now 2NZ, went agonisingly close to retaining his New Zealand title at the Paradise Valley Raceway in Rotorua on Saturday night. He finished two points behind the winner. Gooch qualified for the final along with...
These guys hit the mark. Clayden Hope and Blake Marshall were the toast of the Gisborne Clay Target Club with their most recent exploits at the gun club grounds at Manutuke. Campion College Year 12 student Marshall won the points score with 60-60...