Eight great basketball teams are now only one win away from the biggest game in town. And the six finalists and two grand finalists will be known before the weekend: work commitments have necessitated the men's Premier Grade 1v2 final between Green...

NOVEMBER is a top month for local athletic events. Last weekend was a double-banger, with the Coast Duathlon and Gisborne Herald Quarter Marathon. Entries have now opened for the annual Matokitoki Classic Half Marathon on the last Sunday of this...

Kiwi kayak great Lisa Carrington has powered to an exhilarating golden double at the canoe sprint world championships, adding the K1 500-metre title to the K1 200m crown she banked earlier. Carrington, who has family links to Gisborne, obliterated...

Enterprise Swim Team’s Tyler Finau and Jack Keepa each won six gold medals in their age groups at the Waikato long-course swimming championships in Hamilton this month. Both also won three medals in open company. Finau took silver in the 100-metre...

NETBALLWHANGARA Old Girls booked a place in the premier grade netball finale when they beat YMP by two goals last night in a match that had all the intensity of a grand final. Fortunes swung widely in the final quarter of a close, physical contest...

BASKETBALL

Pony PRE 1.C: Amelia Samuels, Snoopy, 1; Anna Devescovi, Winged Foot, 2. Pony PRE 1.D: Amelia Samuels, Snoopy, 1; Anna Devescovi, Winged Foot, 2. Horse PRE 1.A: Amanda Macpherson, Frieden Star, 1; Danielle Taylor, Ramoon, 2; Amy Thompson, Pine Hollow...

World No. 2 Peter “Snakebite” Wright proved too good for Gisborne’s Tahuna Irwin in the first round of the Auckland Darts Masters last night. Irwin, 21, described his first time on “the big stage” as “nerve-racking” after falling 6-3 to...

RugbyHeartland Championship: South Canterbury 40 Contract Consultants Poverty Bay 29; Mid Canterbury 22 Ngati Porou East Coast 15. Barry Cup: Waikohu 45 Matakaoa 20. FootballMen, Federation Cup: Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 6 Wanganui City...

GISBORNE surf lifesavers were among the top placings in the Mount Monster at Mount Manganui on Saturday. Midway’s Matt Scott and Tayler Reid were part of the winnning team in the gruelling multi-discipline event comprising a five-kilometre beach...

Vern Marshall has had a bumper season on the district’s bowling greens. His latest success was as skip of the Tolaga Bay team who won the men’s title at the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast senior fours champion of champions tournament at Poverty Bay...

Waikohu and Ngatapa went to the wire at the weekend as the teams fought hard to the final minute. It was a wet-weather affair with GT Shearing Waikohu coming out victorious against Larsawn Ngatapa 22-20 in the Civil Project Solutions Premier...

ORGANISERS are hoping for late entries to ensure Gisborne bowling’s premier event for over 100 years, the Burton Cup, is contested this weekend. Entries were to close at 4pm today and, at 10am today, the tournament was two teams shy of a viable...

It's been a long time coming but Whakatane will finally host one of surf lifesaving's largest junior events this weekend. The two-day Eastern Region Junior Championships start at Ohope tomorrow morning, with sunshine and light winds forecast for the...

Gymnastics runs in some families, and this was evident at Gisborne Gymnastics Club’s annual competition last weekend. Head coach Nicola Ludwig said she ran the competition for the first time 18 years ago, shortly after she started coaching for the...

HSOB v YMP was the only game of the weekend that didn't come down to the final minutes in the premier league. Strong starts in each of the halves gave Eastland Farm Vets YMP the upper hand as they beat Contract Consultants HSOB 47-30 in the race for...

RUGBYThat explains everything. The Wellington under-16s hit Poverty Bay like a Mack truck at the start of yesterday’s Division A game in the Hurricanes Youth Rugby Council tournament . . . for good reason. They had been 17-0 down at the 20-minute...

BASKETBALLIT is huge, it is iconic and that’s where they’re going. Gisborne junior basketballers Jerome Tamatea, Jiraiya Patuwai, Riley Lewis, Ariana Kepa and Jorjah Tuapawa are destined for Melbourne on their 2019 Basketball Pacific under-12...

THREE down. One to go. Chum Aramakutu is a swing away from achieving a unique hole-in-one feat at Gisborne Park. The 70-year-old left-hander earlier this month aced the 14th hole at his home course to make it three holes in one on three different...

THRILLS, spills and fun aplenty for participants, and wowed crowds were all part of Saturday’s Actvsk8 event. Sport Gisborne-Tairawhiti events adviser Debbie Hutchings was thrilled by the large turnout of young and older social skaters and scooter...

THE Poverty Bay premier club rugby final at Rugby Park highlighted another busy Saturday of sport in Gisborne. YMP and Waikohu turned on a fitting finale to the competition, with YMP triumphing 28-24. Not far away, on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve...

DOUG Moore just can’t get enough of trail running. Fresh from last weekend’s win in the Remax Matokitoki Classic Half Marathon, Moore will be back in competition action this Saturday. With a bunch of marathons — ultra trail, road, trail and...

Gisborne United and Campion College left everything on the field in a 2-2 draw in Women's Eastern League football on Sunday. The third game this year between Campion, the second-placed team, and United, the third, was hotly contested at Harry Barker...

YMP A underlined their status as the top team in the men's hockey competition on Saturday with a second win this season against arch-rivals and defending men's champions Lytton Old Boys. The final match of the weekend on the Hain Farming turf at...

You could point out they are among the very best in New Zealand women’s amateur golf. You could say that getting to the 17th hole against such quality players is a success without the glory. But Gisborne’s Tessa McDonald will probably take...

Ten-man Gisborne Thistle held off a strong-finishing Taradale side to win their Pacific Premiership football match 2-1 at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. That leaves Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle still second, a point behind Heavy Equipment...

Country gets behind Black Ferns for campaign

RUGBYIt takes three months to plan but it’s worth it. The 10th annual New Zealand Junior Rugby Festival in Taupo, which begins at Owen Delany Park tomorrow and concludes with prize-giving on Sunday, will have more than 100 teams taking part across...

180s: Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2, Te Kotahi Kaio (Rangatahi); Fabian Waihape (Ruahine Tahi); John White (Whanau Magic).Highest start, men (140): Ihaka Kaio 4, Te Kotahi Kaio (Rangatahi); John White (Whanau Magic).Highest start, women (125): Mihi Awatere...