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Under-13s flying the flag for their region

While many sports teams have had the disappointment of their annual tournaments being postponed, the Poverty Bay under-13 boys' hockey team have been given the go-ahead to compete in the 2021 Lower North Island Hockey Festival. With no other...

Three crowned junior champions

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...

Horouta have inside running in Hope Cup

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...

Gisborne bridge results

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...

Gisborne Boys’ High lose thriller

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...

Century not enough

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...

Northland bowlers keep most batters to single figures

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’s 25-year wait over

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...

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...

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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

Australian Freestone too good for Christie

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...

Willis stars for Bay

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...