LUKAS Ludwig, Jade Swann and Ella Arthur are Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay junior gymnastics champions. They were overall winners of the Level 3 boys’ and Step 5 and Step 1 girls’ competitions respectively at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Junior...
CRICKETIt will take a big effort for anyone to beat Hope Cup leaders Horouta with just two weeks of the club cricket season to go. Coastal Ultrasound Horouta and Stirling Logging Ngatapa Green Caps both have 24 competition points, Campion College...
Monday, May 9 — President's Pairs 2 (Howell movement)Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe 64.76 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 56.67Mark Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 52.38 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 51.90Caroline Kirkpatrick, Robyn Cheyne 51.43 Katrin...
RUGBYIt was excruciating to watch. The Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 lost their Super 8 rugby opener 32-25 to Palmerston North BHS at the Rectory field on Saturday. A week after losing their last Tranzit Coachlines pre-season game 50-0 to...
CRICKETA SINGLE off the last ball of the innings brought up Mel Knight’s century for Gisborne women against Hastings on Sunday, but it wasn’t enough for victory. Poverty Bay, playing as Gisborne in the Supercity women’s cricket competition run...
It was as if Poverty Bay fielded two different teams on Day 2 of the Northern Districts Emerging Youth Cricket Tournament. Yesterday morning the Cohen Loffler-led Bay recorded their first win of the tourney — by nine wickets against the ND...
Jean Foot waited 25 years for the perfect shot and when her hole-in-one arrived on Saturday, it didn’t seem too much out of the ordinary.“You hit it and you think, ‘That looks all right’,” she said today, recalling her one wood off the tee...
NETBALLWHANGARA Old Girls face a litmus test when they take on premier-grade netball table-toppers YMP at the YMCA tomorrow night. YMP Sunshine Brewery have beaten Whangara twice in the Pak’nSave competition this season. But in the past few weeks...
BADMINTONNorthern regions dominated the under-15 national teams badminton competition in Palmerston North this week. Division 1 was won by Auckland (1), with North Harbour second. All teams in Division 1 were from the northern region. Waitakere won...
THEIR margin of victory was three runs. Bain Construction Old Boys Rugby beat Bollywood High School Old Boys on Saturday to add the Walker Shield Twenty20 title to their 2017 Doleman Cup 40-over cricket championship. OBR won the toss, batted first and...
POVERTY Bay Kayak Club finished second on the medal table for the New Zealand and Oceania Canoe Sprint Championships that ran for three days at Lake Karapiro, ending yesterday. Arawa Canoe Club topped the table with 26 gold, one silver and 20 bronze...
Shootout finals were held at Poverty Bay, Electrinet Park and Tolaga Bay golf clubs on Sunday. The shootout is a hole-by-hole contest in which the player with the worst net score (off handicap) on each hole is eliminated. If there is more than one...
A try to OBM captain Rikki Terekia in the 84th minute gave his team a 31-27 win on a stormy Saturday afternoon at The Oval. After a series of penalties in the Larsawn Ngatapa 22, Terekia found his way to the line at the back of the maul to score the...
Welcome to Stoke of the Winter. It’s a four-month contest combining surfing and photography. Gisborne Boardriders Club is running the contest, with the emphasis on surfers “sharing their stoke” about riding waves. Club surfing development manager...
Andrew Tauatevalu was the hat-trick star of a Poverty Bay side who maintained their dominance over Ngati Porou East Coast with a 58-18 rout in the annual Queen’s Birthday derby at Tolaga Bay on Saturday. But the long-striding High School Old Boys...
Kahutia Bowling Club’s Glenys Whiteman (skip), Marie Wright, Francie Adair and Dayvinia Mills capped off a memorable season for them when they won the champion of champions senior women’s fours. It was the last centre event on the local lawn...
A JOSEPH Mason try two minutes from time gave Boys’ High School a 22-14 win against New Plymouth Boys’ High School in a Super 8 clash at the Rectory on Saturday. Awarded a penalty by referee Caleb Greaves in the 68th minute, Ngati Porou Seafoods...
GISBORNE Herald photographer Paul Rickard will take a photo of the crowd at each Heartland Championship home game, and a Herald staff member will pick a person at random from these photos. Winners can collect their jersey at the rugby union office in...
Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie has been eliminated from the Pipe Masters event in Hawaii, bowing out in the round-of-16 heats this morning. Christie, who pulled off a big upset eight days ago when he defeated world No. 4 Filipe Toledo, from...
Arlo Willis was the star of the show yesterday. Willis, 12, returned the remarkable figures of five wickets — all bowled — for five runs in 14 balls in Poverty Bay's third game in Year 7B 30-over section play at the Riverbend cricket camp. The Bay...
Gisborne Speedway Club continues to enjoy a stellar season as the list of New Zealand-numbered cars grows. On Saturday in the New Zealand production saloon car championships, Dave Gooch and his daughter Crystal Peach earned the 1NZ and 3NZ numbers...
TEAM Gisborne will not defend the Pacific Premiership title in 2016. And this time it is official. On February 14 this year, The Gisborne Herald ran a story stating Team Gisborne would not be entering a side in the 2015 competition, which otherwise...
The number of entries was not the biggest but the quality was certainly there. Those who made the trek to Gisborne for the Larsen Sawmilling 32nd Equestrian Championships were hugely appreciative of another top show. It was a Gisborne trifecta in the...
SPEEDWAYEastland Group Raceway will be superstocks heaven tomorrow night when more than a dozen of the smash-and-bash machines sort out the McCafferty Metal Cartage superstock challenge champion. A field of 12 to 15 cars will compete over three heats...
MT MAUNGANUI won the Eastland Port 2018 Champion of the Bays surf lifesaving contest at Midway Beach over the weekend. They were comfortably ahead of second-placed Waikanae at the end of two days of competition that drew nearly 300 athletes. The event...
Gisborne Trampoline Club’s Kaiya Huta finished 29th from 64 trampoline competitors at the world age-group championships in St Petersburg, Russia. Huta was competing in the 15-to-16-year division and, while Huta was disappointed with his placing...
Central School students and staff members be warned. There will not be a special assembly to mark the occasion, nor is it likely to make the first newsletter of the year, but principal Andy Hayward will be more than happy to recount in extensive and...
MONDAY, August 13 — Emerre & Hathaway Pairs 2North/South East/WestCarolyn McMurray, Trish Corson 57.50 Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 56.00Joy Marden, Bette Parker 54.50 Helen Kerisome, Sally Knight 54.50WEDNESDAY, August 15 —...
Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s Dave Hooper became the third identity well known in local rugby circles — along with Ray Young and Peter Clay — to win a junior centre champion of champions title this season when he skipped Joy Davis to victory in...