Results of equestrian events at Gisborne's A&P Show (riders from Gisborne unless otherwise stated) —Saddle hunter — PoniesNovice saddle hunter pony not exceeding 138cm (0-2 wins): Iyve Speirs, Miss Candy Floss, 1; Zoe McNaught, Mr Riley, 2...
GISBORNE’S Holly Drain has a dream to represent New Zealand at the Oceania junior Olympic weightlifting championships at New Caledonia in July. But the 19-year-old, who is in her second year studying physiotherapy at Auckland University of...
MONDAY, October 29 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Open Championship 9North/South East/WestPhilip Beale, Michelle England 60.42 John Hudson, Vicki Taylor 57.41Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 58.04 Ron Janes, Yvonne Doole 54.50Linda White, Norma Miller...
SPARTANS continued their winning ways with a 10-0 victory over a young Tolaga Titans team in Tairawhiti men’s softball at the weekend. With only four of last season’s team on the diamond, Spartans did not get away from Tolaga until the fourth...
A century from Dane Thompson and a team bowling effort were key to an OBR victory over High School Old Boys in Doleman Cup cricket on Saturday. Coastal Concrete OBR scored 220-6 and then in the 33rd over snared the last Bollywood Stars HSOB wicket...
AN “awesome team-building trip” resulted in Enterprise Cars Swim Team returning home with a stack of medals from the Waikato championships in Hamilton. Ten Enterprise swimmers competed and it was the first experience of out-of-town racing for...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Matt Reedy (Cossy DONE & Dusted) 2, Charlie Reiri (2NZ Rebels), Tom Irwin (2NZ Bullz), Ernst Spreiter (Cossy Chaos).Best start (160): Junior Akurangi (Roseland Dilligaf).Best finish (127): Denise Renata (2NZ Vikings).Most...
COMET coach Andrew Bull was hugely satisfied with the way his young team performed at the Hawke’s Bay Poverty Bay summer champs in Gisborne last weekend. Comet were dominant in the junior age groups, with a minimum of two red (Comet) caps appearing...
Daniel Taylor and Jake Callaghan crossed the finish line together in a tie for first place in Eastland Kart Club's 10-lap feature race yesterday. The feature race came at the end of the club's “test and tune day” and produced the best finish seen...
Competition is expected to be red-hot when over 150 surf lifesavers take part in the Gisborne-Tairawhiti junior championships at Midway Beach this weekend. Athletes from Bay of Plenty clubs Omanu and Whakatane are coming to compete with Gisborne’s...
CROQUETFRANCIS Yates won a singles golf croquet tournament that Barry Memorial Croquet Club held for new members and corporate challenge players. Yates beat Murray Woods 9-6 in the final of a keenly contested tournament. Twelve players — all new to...
A YMP whitewash and a one-goal thriller made for a contrasting two games of Pakn’Save premier netball at the YMCA on Saturday. Reigning champions YMP (1) continued their unbeaten run with a 74-48 win against Farmlands Ngatapa. The earlier game...
A hat-trick by Josh Adams set up Gisborne United’s 4-2 victory over Eskview in Pacific Premiership football at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Despite the two-goal difference, Eskview were in this game to the closing stages, scoring two...
Black Ferns loose forwards Kennedy Simon and former Gisborne Girls' High student Charmaine McMenamin will play their first test of the year after being named to start against Australia in Christchurch on Saturday night. The pair are both returning...
GISBORNE waka ama paddlers training for the world sprint championships in Hawaii have lost the event that was the focus of their efforts. The 2020 International Va'a Federation (IVF) World Elite and Club Sprint Championships have been cancelled. They...
That’s how the best of the best respond. Defending Hurricanes under-15 rugby champions St Patrick’s College Silverstream ended a fantastic run by Gisborne Boys’ High School, beating them 51-17 in a semifinal yesterday. Gisborne were to play last...
WITH silver and bronze medals from the Colgate Games under his belt, Gisborne sprinter Jack Sadler has been receiving top-notch coaching this week. The 15-year-old is in Wellington for a New Zealand sprint relay squad camp. The camp brings together...
Tolaga BayALL 18 holes were needed to decide the Bartram Cup men’s finalists on Sunday. Trent Higgs beat Jerry Murphy 1-up while Neil Hansen pipped Joe Lincoln by the same margin. The King of the Coast men’s open is at Tolaga Bay this weekend. As...
EQUESTRIANGISBORNE rider Merran Hain added the 2018 Working Hunter of the Year title to the numerous Horse of the Year titles she has won in her equestrian career. This time she did it on Untouchable, a 17-year-old thoroughbred by Warsaw Pact out of...
Gisborne ParkLEO Lexmond has fond memories of his days with Gisborne Thistle AFC. So it was fitting that he produce a special round as a tribute to the club and one of its more colourful characters at the Thistle AFC annual golf tournament on...
ONE of the rugby comebacks for all time was completed when the fulltime whistle blew in the Women's Rugby World Cup final. In October of last year Gisborne Girls' High old girl Charmaine McMenamin feared she may never again play the game she loves. On...
A Hawke’s Bay teenager dashed hometown hopes in the Burnie Hart Memorial Handicap Snooker Tournament last weekend. Marcus Moat was one of four Hawke’s Bay teens in the 32-strong field for the two-day competition held on the Cosmopolitan Club...
Victory off the last ball of the final over, with the last man in, against the reigning champions . . . that was High School Old Boys Presidents' weekend in a nutshell. Bollywood HSOB Presidents lead Senior B cricket's Hope Cup competition but had to...
BMXA wintry Sunday saw the Gisborne bmx club host their round of the Central Region Winter Series. A good field of riders from Hawke’s Bay, Tauranga and Taupo took on the local riders, with points scored going towards their club’s tally. These...
It has come around quickly. Week 8 of the 12-team Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club league — the quarter-finals — tip 5.45pm today for both A Grade teams at the YMCA and B Grade competition in the John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre...
THE hockey round this weekend produced a second sensational result when THC lowered the YMP A colours last night. THC took control in the second half of their senior men’s clash on the LJ Hooker Turf to hand YMP A their first loss of the season —...
Ngati Porou beat Lytton High School 56-40 in the final of the Gisborne women’s club basketball competition at the YMCA last night. A report will appear in The Herald tomorrow
EIGHT of Poverty Bay-East Coast’s youngest indoor bowlers were in devastating form in Hamilton, winning the Membery-Pearce Shield under-18 representative event against Tauranga, Waikato, North Taranaki, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki for the second...
FOOTBALLGisborne United remain top of the Pacific Premiership after thrashing mid-table Havelock North Wanderers Reserves 5-1 at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United are one point ahead of local rivals Thistle...
WAKA AMAHOROUTA Waka Hoe won the trophy for top club at the IVF Va’a World Sprint Championships in Tahiti, but the Tahitians showed they were the masters. That frank assessment came from Horouta club president Walton Walker. He attributed his...
GISBORNE born and bred driver Daniel Corrin powered way to win the New Zealand saloon car championship here on Saturday night — a title he said “means the world” to him. The 22-year-old now races out of Mount Maunganui’s Baypark speedway but...