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Nail-biter as Ngatapa and OBM lock horns

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...

Sharing the stoke . . .

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...

Demo derby

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 four champions — qualify for nationals

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...

ON THE BALL

Open title win 'pretty cool'

Gisborne fight back for win

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...

You are a winner

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...

Playing it safe under Alert Level 1

Health precautions

Gisborne Central School principal, Andy Hayward, has holiday hole-in-one story to tell

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...

Bridge results

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 —...

Hooper and Davis unbeaten

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...

Gisborne Bridge Club results

Teams just one win away from finals

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...

'Classic' not to be underestimated

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...

K1 golden double

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...

Swimmers tackle long-course champs

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...