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Question time

Gisborne United Premiers are steamrolling their way to football's Eastern League 1 title. And while Wainui Sharks have an outside chance of hauling them in, United could be forgiven if their thoughts turn to the question: what next?They have shown...

From Tikitiki to the Tactix

East Coaster Kimiora Poi says her decision to accept an offer from the Mainland Tactix for the 2018 ANZ Premiership season is the best decision she ever made. The 20-year-old centre capped an outstanding season by being named in the Silver Ferns...

Series helping to prepare horses and riders

A WET start did not deter many riders from attending the second day of the winter showjumping practice series being run by the Gisborne Pony Club. The series is running over four Saturdays. The first two days were on May 7 and 28, and the next two...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

180s: Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Kings), Hunter Eyles (2NZ Kings) start, John Love (Cossy Done & Dusted), Sha Hohipa (Cossy Done & Dusted), Mythias Reeves (RSA Outlaws), Ani Kaa (2NZ Wahine Purotu).Highest start (180): Hunter Eyles (2NZ Kings).Highest...

Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

Gisborne ParkA NEW face looks set to be a familiar face on the golfing scene after Anuresh Chandra’s senior men’s club championship final victory on Sunday. Chandra, who bar the club champs matchplay has played only two official 18-hole rounds at...

GBHS see their plan through

It's one thing to have a plan, but quite another to see it through against quality opposition. Yet that is exactly what the Keenan Ruru-Poharama-coached Gisborne Boys' High School did to beat premier-grade veterans The Raiders 63-60 in the 4v5...

Boys’ High hold off United charge

A 2-2 draw between United and Gisborne Boys’ High School showed why hardly anyone gets rich betting on sport. Boys’ High held Eastern League football’s perennial title contenders at bay for the last, hectic 20 minutes of their match at Anzac...

Poverty Bay rep head coach, Miah Nikora, to the rescue

Call for more people to take up the whistle

Centuries for Tallott, Scott

A MAMMOTH second-wicket partnership of 219 between Robbie Tallott (108) and Drew Scott (100 not out) propelled Gisborne Boys’ High School to a 23-run victory in a vital DJ Barry Cup cricket match against Horouta. Boys’ High made 236-2 after being...

Poverty Bay top of pennants table

GOLFPOVERTY Bay surged into the overall lead in Round 2 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants at Patutahi on Saturday. The defending champions trounced Electrinet Park (2) 10-2 to move ahead of Park (1) after those teams were tied at the top...

Key players step up, putting OBR in DJ Barry Cup final

Thom Berry, Ian Loffler and Jimmy Holden are three of the most influential players in OBR's cricket history. Their match-effort in Coastal Concrete OBR's 43-run victory over Siteworx Civil Horouta on Saturday put their club in the DJ Barry Cup...

Bay Thunder back

DRAMATIC BACKDROP: Auckland boat Fairview flies across the water with a logging boat in the background during the Thunder Out East round of the New Zealand Offshore Power Boat Racing series last February. Gisborne will host the first round of the...

Fun Run, Quarter Marathon postponed

The Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti and Gisborne Herald Fun Run and Quarter Marathon for 2022 has been postponed. The annual event is highly anticipated each year and was due to go ahead on Sunday 3 April. Prior to the Government's most recent...

Season under way with good rider turnout

The Gisborne BMX Club’s summer season is well under way, with 42 riders attending the last club night. STRIDERSIndia Gill and Damien Smith moved from the strider track to the tail end of the big track and rode it well. Ivy Lasenby, Scott Pheasant...

Games ‘too hard to call’

HOCKEYEVEN contests look likely for many of the hockey games in Gisborne this weekend. Several are too hard to call. The match between LOB NZ Fruits and YMP B at 1.45pm on Saturday could go either way.“That could be the game of the weekend,”...

Bay five do district proud

“GIRLS cricket is on the rise across the country.”So says Northern Districts under-15 girls team coach and Poverty Bay Cricket Association district manager Mel Knight — a point reinforced by the standard at the national u15 tournament in...