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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...

Whangara to face litmus test

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...

Wilson defies the odds at the Poverty Bay Open

Brown, Akroyd and Reedy join him in the semis

Junior nationals decided

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...

OBR win Walker Shield

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 second on medal table

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...

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...

A stellar speedway season

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...

Pacific champs pull out

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...

Appreciate top show despite challenges

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...

Heavy metal thunder

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...

Two from two for the Bay

Perfect start for Year 7s at Riverbend tourney