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RUGBYUnlucky is not the right word. Yesterday the Gisborne Boys’ High School under-14s struck a very good Hamilton Boys’ High School team on Day 2 of the Colquhoun Invitation Tournament and lost 29-0.“Gisborne threw the kitchen sink at us from...

RUGBYGrit your teeth and get on with it. That’s what Hicks Bay are going to do at 3pm this Saturday. Game 2 of the East Coast rugby double-header at Whakarua Park in Week 13 pits sixth-placed Hicks Bay (20 competition points) against Hikurangi...

Arnold Hutchins, John Harvey, Allen Moy and Amy Moy are the 2018 Tom Duffin fours winners. They defeated Andrew Richard, Pauline Stone, Adam Rickard and Rachael Rickard 12-10, after a deciding end was required to find the winners. Hutchins’ team had...

SURF LIFESAVINGSIXTY young surf athletes from the three Gisborne surf lifesaving clubs travel to Whangamata tomorrow for the Eastern Regional Junior Championships and some top prospects are among them. Dawson Building Midway have the biggest team of...

Some scores without stories are meaningless. And the story of Gisborne Boys' High School's first 15 Super 8 rugby clash against Napier Boys' High in Napier is an example of that. Gisborne Boys' High lost 24-0 on Saturday, but kept a clean sheet for 20...

NEW Zealand’s triathlon mixed relay team finished seventh in a pre-Olympics event at Tokyo yesterday. Competing at Odaiba Marine Park, where the Olympic triathlon races will be held next year, the New Zealand team of Ainsley Thorpe, Gisborne’s...

GisborneHusband and wife Steve and Kay Goldsbury were each winners, as were father and son Jamey and Ashli Ferris when Gisborne Bowling Club completed its pairs championships at the weekend. Also keeping it in the family, mother and daughter Barbar...

SATURDAY, June 29 — Pak’n Save TournamentSession 1North/South East/WestEileen Lee, Robyn Cheyne 61.90 Vicki Taylor, Ann McCombe 65.18Jillian Ramsey, Peter Ramsey 59.52 Helen Kerisome, David Johnstone 62.50Anna Powell, Anne Barrowclough 57.14...

CRICKETPOVERTY Bay cricketer of the year Craig Christophers has given a big tick to the new-look Walker Shield T15 Blast competitionThe Blast, which starts on October 19, is the brainchild of Poverty Bay operations manager Nicholas Hendrie, as he...

ARCHERYHOMETOWN archer Chris Underdown matched it with some of the country’s best at the Gizzy Vegas shoot here at the weekend. Underdown won the combined (compound/recurve bows) division and was fourth in the recurve in a huge couple of days for...

Five races, six gold medals. No wonder Gisborne Athletics Club member Jack Sadler is feeling “pretty good” after his Colgate Games performances in Hamilton and Dunedin over the past two weeks. The Campion College student — Year 10 this year —...

It’s the safest place to be . . . if you want to play a three-day game of cricket on grass in late September. Harry Barker Reserve and Poverty Bay Cricket have turned it on for the Northern Knights in what has become an all-Northern Districts...

Gisborne ParkBO Huhu can identify with the angst Geoff Hill suffered in falling at the last hurdle of the men’s shootout final on Saturday.?If you have a story, tournament to promote or results you wish to have printed,contact The Gisborne Herald...

THE region’s first major surf lifesaving carnival for the year is in Ohope this weekend and the three Gisborne clubs will be well represented. About 45 athletes from Gisborne will be involved in the Champion of the Bays carnival. It was to double as...

RUGBYTHIS weekend YMP travel to Te Karaka to face Waikohu in a top-of-the-table clash to decide who will take the competition’s top spot going into the Queen’s Birthday Weekend break. After five games, the two teams are separated by just one...

DEREK Craven couldn’t turn down the chance to score the two runs he needs to post 1000 for Pirates. When stand-in skipper Brad Reynolds rang Craven to ask if he was available for tomorrow’s opening Nines cricket game against Tamarind High School...

GISBORNE/Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie is through to Round 3 of the EDP Billabong Pro Cascais in Portugal. The opening day at the World Surf League Qualifying Series event provided surfers with bumpy, overhead waves affected by a strong cross-shore...

Fireworks in the sky and fireworks on the track will draw one of the biggest crowds of the season to Eastland Group Raceway tomorrow night. The Jukes Carriers-sponsored Fireworks Meeting has traditionally produced one of the entertainment highlights...

GOLFIT was cheers over a well-earned glass of bubbly for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay last night after a winning end to section play at the national women’s interprovincial golf tournament in Auckland.“Everyone’s so stoked,” HBPB No. 1 Tess...

SPEEDWAYGISBORNE saloon car racer Ethan Cook returned to the top of the podium when he won the New Zealand Saloon Grand Prix on Saturday night. Cook lost his national crown when he finished fourth at the national champs in Huntly 10 days ago, but at...

National title to MillarGISBORNE’s Peter Millar combined with two Napier sailors to win the Noelex 25 national championship on the Ahuriri waterfront yesterday. Millar’s regular crew of Colin Shanks was racing at another regatta so he joined...

GISBORNE Girls’ High School’s Maddie Wilson retained her junior girls’ high jump title at the New Secondary Schools Track, Field and Road Championships in Hastings. The Year 11 student, who was also named in the NZSS Championship paper team at...

Hat-trick for Adams puts him in golden-boot lead

But New Zealand riders still in hunt and chasing hard

A BIG turnout of 60 riders took the start gate for Gisborne BMX Club’s weekly meeting on Tuesday. In the striders’ and half-track racing, Alex Kelly had a good day’s riding. It was his first race day with no trainer wheels. Ada Lasenby, her...

IT was a 50th that could not have been any sweeter. Poverty Bay-East Coast paid tribute to William Brown chalking up a half-century of matches in his ninth men’s national golf interprovincial with the upset of the day on the Mangawhai course in...

RUGBYPoverty Bay will be looking to take their form from last weekend into their clash with Wairarapa Bush tomorrow. The game, to be played at Tremain Field in Napier, will be a good test for the Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay team. Last year...

“I CAN”, “I have”, “I am”.That’s what bragging rights allow you to say if you win a Gisborne East Coast centre singles title. The prestigious women’s and men’s singles crowns are up for grabs this weekend. Twenty-two players have...

Glenys Whiteman skipped Kahutia clubmates Holli Elkington (lead), Ngamiro Allen (two) and Lucy Shanks (director) to victory in the Ella Gibson Women’s Open Fours at Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s greens. They had six wins and a draw to go through the...