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Vets champions crowned today

CHAMPIONS were crowned at finals day of the Ryman New Zealand veterans golf championship on the Poverty Bay course today. But to the woman behind the organisation of this popular annual tournament significantly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic...

All on the line

Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls will produce a spectacle of fast, free-flowing netball in the YMCA tomorrow as they fight for the right to call themselves 2019 Gisborne premier-grade champions. The Pak’nSave competition finale starts...

Chasing hoops and dreams

It is enormous and the Gizzy Hoops academy are there. Four teams — under-16 boys development, u14 boys, u14 girls and u14 girls development— are competing under the Gizzy Hoops banner at the fourth annual HoopNation Event in Tauranga. A party of...

Wairoa clinch Eastern League Division 3 title

WAIROA Athletic clinched the Eastern League Division 3 football title with a 3-0 victory over Gisborne Boys’ High School (3) at the Rectory field on Saturday. Meanwhile, runners-up Smash Palace Shockers had another setback, this time a 5-3 loss to...

Giants through to semifinals

THE Gisborne Giants superstock team won their way through to tonight’s semifinals of the national teams event at Waikaraka Park speedway in Auckland, but they face a tough challenge to make the final. The Giants were beaten in their first...

Poverty Bay bolstered

CRICKETFRESH off a hundred, Thorn Parkes will wear the Poverty Bay cricket colours tomorrow. The 19-year-old batting prodigy fits in matches for Poverty Bay when he can but Northern Districts A and age-group cricket have often prevented it. Parkes is...

Waiting game for Quinn in quest for fifth crown

GISBORNE surfer Maz Quinn will compete for a record-equalling fifth open men’s title at the national championships in Dunedin tomorrow. The event was on hold this morning due to onshore winds producing a lack of swell. It is forecast to pick up...

Poverty Bay district golf roundup

Gisborne ParkTHE top qualifiers and the defending champions face potentially hazardous challenges in their round of 16 clashes of the Te Kanawa Cup men’s pairs this weekend. Top seeds Brad Reynolds and Tony Leggett and 2017 winners Geoff Hill and...

Cyclists off to fly the flag for Gisborne at Age Group Road National Champs

Four cyclists from the Gisborne Cycling Club will contest the Age Group Road National Championships in Waipukurau this weekend. Nan Baker, Neil Robinson, Craig Hoskin and Peter Blake will fly the flag for the Gisborne district. Of the Gisborne riders...

ABs head coach Foster comes to town

Poverty Bay club rugby was treated to a special audience at the Oval on Saturday with the appearance of All Blacks head coach Ian Foster at the Tiny White memorial opening day. Foster took over the reins in 2019, succeeding Steve Hansen, and will be...

Aiming to have draw by Monday

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...

Gisborne athletes head north

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...

Heat on Spirit from the start

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...

Trampoline club medallists

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...

Vette siblings still there

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...

A Bay bolter?

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...