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Cricket's new look Walker Shield T15 Blast given a big tick

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...

Chris Underdown matching it with NZ's best archers

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...

Another golden performance from Sadler

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 —...

Northern Knights in safest place

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...

Golf Roundup

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...

Primed, ready for Bays battle

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...

Into the season’s business end

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...

Craven chasing those runs

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...

First blood to Australia

But New Zealand riders still in hunt and chasing hard

Winning 50th for Brown

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...

Numbers high for BMX racing night

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...

Bay out to keep up the good work

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...

Worthy singles champions to be crowned

“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...

Whiteman skips Kahutia team to Ella Gibson Fours

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...

History revisited

GOLFDAVID Smail would probably prefer not to remember it. Peter Hakiwai will never forget it. About 30 years ago, Hakiwai stunned Smail in an interprovincial matchplay golf clash between Poverty Bay-East Coast and a star-studded Waikato side featuring...

King of the Coast is back

GOLFJORDAN Rangihika doesn’t need to be told seeding means nothing when it comes to matchplay golf. The Waikato school teacher, who hails from Kawerau, was No. 1 seed at the 2018 King of the Coast, only to be bundled out in the first round by...