North/South East/WestMurray Owen, John Rouse 55.06 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 56.55Katrina Duncan, Robin Bennett 53.87 Joy Marden, Diana Styche 54.76Beverley Evans, Sally Knight 53.27 Louise Goodhue, Gretchen Ivess 51.79North/South East/WestNol...

Poverty BayMarg Colebourne did a fine stand-in job as her President’s team defeated ladies’ club captain Vicky Fraser’s Captain’s side in their matchplay clash yesterday. Colebourne, assuming the presidential role in the absence of Anne...

Girls drawn from Gisborne, Wairoa and the East Coast had the chance to train under the guidance of Black Ferns Renee Wickliffe and Charmaine McMenamin. They both played in the Ferns’ World Cup-winning team in the tournament held in Ireland last...

The district’s surf lifesaving competitors will get a chance to race at Mt Maunganui this weekend after all, despite the cancellation this week of the Eastern Regional Championships. More than 1000 athletes, officials and supporters would have...

The big guy and his under-18s were outstanding. Poverty Bay’s 6ft 7in captain Max Briant led the Luke Bradley-coached side to victory 54-10 against Ngati Porou East Coast on Saturday.“We felt really good and were excited going into the game,”...

They’re a little bit underground and they ride on a subterranean sound and, like the above-ground cactus flower that blooms in a cosmic cycle, bass-guitar-driven band Subset BC’s live shows are rare but intoxicating. Self-described as New...

NGATI Porou East Coast welcome back skipper Perrin Manuel from injury for tomorrow’s Heartland Championship rugby game against Buller at Whakarua Park, Ruatoria. But such has been the form of Manuel’s replacement, Kareti Palmer, that Palmer will...

Teneti achieves Blacks Ferns goal well ahead of schedule

Hot on the heels of the news that Waikanae's Lachie Falloon will co-captain the Junior Black Fins at the world champs comes news that Midway's Cory Taylor will be vice-captain of the open team. Taylor was named yesterday as vice-captain of the Kiwi...

Gisborne Herald chief sub-editor Chris Taewa continues a series on his favourite sporting memories

Tairāwhiti and Wairoa clubs that competed in the Taupo junior rugby festival at the weekend acquitted themselves well. Pirates, Ngatapa, YMP, Uawa and Wairoa teams were among clubs from right round the country taking part in the festival.“The...

More than 142,000 laps of the Olympic Pool Complex's 50-metre pool were completed by those in this year's Swim The Distance Challenge. The 234 participants faced the task of swimming the equivalent distance of Midway to Mahia — 45.5km — over...

Gisborne Rowing Club crews have hit the water running for the 2019 competition season. The first regatta of the year — the Hawke’s Bay Cup — was held on Clive River earlier this month and Gisborne performed strongly in testing...

GISBORNE teenager Tuteari Te Rauna-Lamont will be ready to face the world’s best when he steps up at the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games in the United States tomorrow. The games are dubbed the world’s premier test to find the “fittest on Earth”...

SURF LIFESAVINGTHREE Midway club members have been named in the New Zealand Black Fins team for the 2018 Lifesaving World Championships in Adelaide in November. Cory Taylor, Chris Dawson and Olivia Corrin are in the 12-strong team coached by Jason...

A RESURGENT Waikohu take on YMP in premier-grade Pak’nSave netball at the YMCA tomorrow morning, and much hangs on the result for a Waikohu team battling to make the top four. Claydens Waikohu will have been encouraged by a result on Wednesday...

Waikanae IRB crews could miss out on the chance of national titles because remaining surf lifesaving sport events this season have been cancelled or postponed. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae had tremendous success in the North Island championships last...

Gisborne triathlete Tayler Reid completed his “best-ever season” with an 18th place finish at the ITU World Cup series in Salinas, Ecuador.“It’s not the way I would have liked to end the year but I can’t complain . . . it’s been a crazy...

Results from Brezz’n Darts Club’s winter league play on Tuesday night —A Grade: Rhinos 9 Tigers 12, Ford Falcons 21 Sharks 0, Stallions 7 Pumas 14.B Grade: Pythons 7 Ruahine 8, Humming Birds 3 Tao Matarau 12. Scorpions had the bye. Individual...

SURFINGNEW Zealand surfer Ricardo Christie loves Hawaii and has huge respect for the people, the culture and, of course, the waves. The Gisborne-Mahia surfer is at Hawaii’s famous North Shore for the last leg of his 2019 World Surf League season. He...

FOOTBALLGISBORNE teams Thistle and United are playing away from home in Pacific Premiership football tomorrow, and both could move up the table. Third-placed Thistle play second-placed Napier City Rovers Reserves at Park Island, Napier, and...

The game of golf is simple if you go by Rosie Spence's take on her first hole-in-one.“I stood on the tee, hit the ball, it went in the hole.”That tee was the sixth at Poverty Bay Golf Club last week. She was naturally surprised, not just by the...

GISBORNEChamp of champ foursGISBORNE club bowlers made three of the four finals but came away with only one title when the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast champion of champions fours were played on Gisborne’s Rawiri Street greens at the weekend. After...

HAVING too many players can be a headache for some coaches . . . who to pick, who to leave out, how to keep players happy. Gisborne Thistle first-team coach Matt Hastings is not of those coaches.“Since the start of pre-season training, I’ve had...

CyclingGisborne Cycling Club — Steve Wolter Plumbing Series, Race 5 (final race in series), SATURDAY — sign on from 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Te Karaka for a 2pm start. Race: Tarndale. A/B Grade 55km (Armstrong Rd); C Grade 40km (turn 7.5km before...

HOCKEY by Murray RobertsonPaikea got up to win the match of the weekend in senior women’s hockey when they defeated Ngatapa in a thriller on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. JNL Paikea beat previously unbeaten Ben Holden...

Jeff Allen, Sue Minot 60.95 Caroline Taylor, Jean Turnbull 56.67Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 55.08 Robin Bennett, Jean Bennett 52.86Amanda Matthews, Stephen Francks 52.08 Frank Roach, Mark Fleming 51.43Elizabeth Jackson, Trish Corson 61.00...

THE trek north paid off handsomely for South Island super saloon racer Campbell McManaway at the Eastland Group Raceway last night when he stormed out from pole to win Round 3 of the Burger King Pro Dirt Series. The 54-year-old McManaway (492I) came...

Cancellation of the waka ama sprint nationals due to Covid-19 has prompted local clubs to be resourceful in the ways they keep their paddlers motivated. Two weeks ago Horouta Waka Hoe held a successful simulation day, and tomorrow Gisborne's other...

Results from Day 1 of the Larsen Sawmilling Jumping and Show Hunter Championships (riders from Gisborne unless stated otherwise) —ShowjumpingOpen horse 1.2m (under seven years old): Oliver Croucher (Scotsmans Valley) Cambridge 1; Larina Dolman...