These guys are thriving. New umpires Marty Bennett and James Raroa love their cricket, want to improve and are improving by the week. In their first season as officials at Senior B club level, the pair are four games into a 16-round schedule that...
POVERTY Bay start their representative cricket season this weekend with two short-form games against Northern Districts Maori. Bay coach and former New Zealand test all-rounder Lance Cairns says it will be the start of this group’s understanding of...
RUGBYTihirau Victory Club make their first trip to Kahuitara — home ground of Hikurangi — in the modern era tomorrow, and it will be hard work. TVC know that their 52-0 win v Ruatoria City was a case of stretching their legs, as opposed to...
It was organised chaos at the start of a repechage race at the MTF Finance New Zealand Stockcar Championships in Gisborne. This was one of two repechage races to decide the last six spots for the 30-car finals on the Eastland Group Raceway track and...
JAMES Grogan cannot wait for the Poverty Bay’s Heartland Championship opener against Ngati Porou East Coast in Ruatoria on Saturday.“That is if I’m picked,” said the LeaderBrand Poverty Bay loose forward, who laughed when The Herald...
You can never, ever take your eyes off Stu Cranswick in a football match. No one knows this better than Thistle Massive coach John Stirton. He even had a plan for keeping the Gisborne United player-coach in check. Cranswick still scored a hat-trick in...
Mareikura-Hiro, a new intermediate boys’ team coached by waka ama pioneer Matahi Brightwell, won two gold medals and a silver at the Waka Ama New Zealand national sprint championships at Lake Karapiro last month. And one of the crew, Jarrod Hill...
A Groups of All Blacks will visit Gisborne next week. Just a day after the selectors name their 2019 Rugby World Cup squad, some All Blacks will fly into the city to meet fans. They will also travel in groups to Whangarei, Hamilton, Taurang...
Glimpses of potential were there for all to see as some of Poverty Bay’s best rugby players clashed in Town against Country. PGG Wrightson Country prevailed 26-21 at MoreFM Rugby Park in Gisborne on Saturday but needed a late surge to get the...
POVERTY Bay were the big movers in round 2 of the women's interclub pennants at Te Puia Springs on Saturday. The round was held as part of the Te Puia women's open opening day tournament. Viv Bell led the city club assault as Poverty Bay claimed the...
GISBORNE surfer Saffi Vette won her first repechage heat at the 2017 Vissla ISA World Junior Championships in Japan yesterday. Vette topped her heat with a 10.37 two-wave total, overcoming her three competitors from South Africa, Guam and Italy. The...
Just three and a bit years ago, Redcliffs Bill was running wild with the rest of his Kaimanawa herd. This year, it’s likely he will be lining up in the prestigious Pony of the Year class with his rather besotted owner Georgia Bouzaid. The Cambridge...
The Nga Whetu o Matariki Awards 2020 function, to be held in Auckland, has been cancelled as we know it. The face-to-face component of the awards, scheduled for this weekend, was scrapped last night after the Prime Minister announced a return to...
Former Gisborne City striker Colin Walker recalled a key moment in his football career when he learned of the death of Leeds United great Norman Hunter last week. Walker posted the picture at right on Facebook, saying he was proud of it because it...
WAKA AMATHE vagaries of open-water waka ama racing paid a visit to Mareikura Waka Ama Club’s Tairawhiti crew in the Takapuna Beach Cup last month. The team finished second in the open mixed division of the 18-kilometre race for six-person teams...
Ormond Te Wharau won the boys' round robin and Hinemoana (Horouta Wananga) won the girls' at the 2022 Primary School Interschool Badminton Competition held at the Badminton Centre this month. Schools taking part were Te Wharau, Waikirikiri, Te Kur...
GISBORNE surfer Finn Vette's hopes were still alive in all three of his divisions heading into this morning's action at the national surfing championships in Dunedin. Vette, the youngest surfer in the open men's field at 15, is also contesting the...
Open mixed: East End (Joel Meuli/Julia Padrutt) 1; Mairangi Bay (Samuel Mayhew/Rachel Clarke) 2; Waikanae (Christy Tate/Quaid Thompson) 3. Open female: Briana Irving (Waikanae) 1; Sophie Sandford (Mt Maunganui) 2; Madison Kidd (Whangamata) 3. Under-19...
TRIATHLONGETTING “hammered” in training by one of the country’s best triathletes may sound rough, but a young Gisborne up-and-comer sees that as a win. A 2019 Eastland Port sponsorship recipient, Josiah Ney recently signed on with...
OBR club captain and top-order batsman Ian Loffler has thrown down the challenge to the Pirates batsmen ahead of tomorrow’s Doleman Cup 40-overs final at Harry Barker Reserve.“I’m biased but we have the best bowlers in Gisborne . . . there...
Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 play the biggest game of their rugby season to date in Rotorua tomorrow. The Duane Hihi-coached and Nathaniel Hauiti and Carlos Hihi-led GBHS challenge Rotorua Boys' High School for the Ranfurly Shield of secondary...
SURFINGKiwi surfer Ella Williams has provisionally qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, securing the Oceania slot after placing the highest of the Oceania surfers at the ISA World Surfing Games presented by Vans yesterday. Williams will be part of...
Eastland team members had a great opportunity to develop their skills and game tactics at the under-15 national teams’ badminton competition in Palmerston North this month. While the team had some big losses, many of the games within the ties were...
Eight-year boys80 metres: Jack Holden 1, Luca Alexander 2.60m: L Alexander 1, J Holden 2.300m: J Holden 1, L Alexander 2. Nine-year girls80m: Ruby Sadler 1, Leila Watters 2.60m: R Sadler 1, L Watters 2.300m: R Sadler 1. Boys60m: Jerome Tamatea 1.300m...
GISBORNE Boys’ High School will face a fired-up OBR side in Doleman Cup cricket tomorrow, after the reigning champions lost their opening game two weeks ago.“The loss to Pirates was a disappointing start to the season,” said Bain Construction...
GISBORNE had a successful Marist football tournament in Birkenhead, Auckland, at the weekend. Tatapouri Marist Thistle won the cup for the social competition and a shield for being “most social team”, Hollie Murrell and Kerry Tomlinson were...
It was a great Gizzy day at Round 3 of the Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club’s beach racing series. Riders put it all on the line to get extra points for the final round. In the senior open class, it was good to see Warren Martin back beach racing on...
EIGHT titles were awarded at the national surfing championships in one-metre swell at Piha yesterday. The premier open men’s and women’s titles are likely to be decided in expected bigger conditions on the final two days of the event, which ends...
YEARS from now, Auckland No. 1 Brent Patterson probably won’t remember all the players he beat as his side won the Freyberg Masters interprovincial golf title on home soil yesterday. But it is highly likely he won’t have forgotten the one he lost...
It’s a fair old battle. And in 2019, Taradale came out on top in their winter sports exchange with Ilminster Intermediate School. Under the exchange, which began in 2005, both schools travel and host. This year, Taradale won five events and lost...
Former Gisborne Boys High School first 15 winger Penikolo Latu will start for Tonga against the All Blacks tonight. Latu played first 15 rugby for GBHS from 2009 to 2011. In 2010 he was selected in the New Zealand under-17 squad. The following year he...
RUGBYIt would take a series of upsets for the points table to change in the last Saturday of the regular season of the Poverty Bay premier club rugby competition. But in these strange times it seems nothing is impossible, including the potential...
GOLFA Gisborne golfer’s mission to return to single-figure handicap status has been accomplished without swinging a club in anger on the course. The player turned up to his home Poverty Bay fairways on Sunday for his first 18-hole round in more...