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Recognised for their contribution to all things dressage

Liz Burke, Shirley Hyland honoured at Gisborne Dressage annual prizegiving

Bay get a pass mark

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)...

Injecting youth into Masters Games

Youth is not a word associated with the New Zealand Masters Games but there will be plenty of the wrinkle and grey hair-free brigade among the 5000 competitors at the 30th anniversary edition in Whanganui. This will include Gisborne...

Winter a cold shock after Sri Lanka visit

BRRRR, it is getting chilly. I might be a little sensitive, though, having just returned from Sri Lanka and all. I was getting used to surfing right-hand, sand-bottomed point breaks all day in 30-degree Celsius water, in even warmer weather. Sri Lank...

Scoreboard

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...

Twelve years of summer

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...

Tough game first up

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...

Parkes hits unbeaten ton

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...

PADDLES TO THE MEDALS

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...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

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...

Play the long game

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...

On the mats

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...

Bridge, McMenamin families on hand

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...

Opening action on two courts

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...

Stars of the future on show

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...

You are a winner

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...