Old Boys' Rugby lead the DJ Barry Cup. The Nick Greeks-led OBR took a maximum competition points in the opening round over the weekend. They earned four points for their lead on first innings and six points for outright victory over Galaxy World...
WaikohuLOCALS ruled as Waikohu officially opened its 2019 season on Saturday. Home-course duo Uma Chambers and Cheryl Te Rito won the Canadian mixed foursomes with 40 points, two ahead of Te Puia Springs pair Peter Harrison and Georgin...
NETBALLTHE hot weather on Saturday was reflected on the courts of Victoria Domain when the Kathleen Henderson Memorial Shield netball tournament produced hot, exciting play across all four grades. The major trophy in the Pak’nSave pre-season...
DO it for those who came before you. For the communities. For club. For whanau. And, of course, for yourselves. That will be the message drummed home to members of the Waikohu team before they take the field for their historic first appearance in the...
AFTER wearing out two new dart boards in his parents’ garage, a nervous Tahuna Irwin, just turned 18, put it to his grandpa that he was ready to play club darts with the big boys. He membered-up at the Gisborne RSA and got started on the Right...
Several junior athletes from Gisborne did well at the Bay of Plenty junior (under 14) surf lifesaving championships at Waihi on Sunday. Sophie Petro from Dawson Building Midway won the u14 surf race, and was second in the board and third in the...
The Waikohu (3) premier-grade netballers produced another outstanding performance on Saturday morning and again went close to knocking over their higher-ranked clubmates. Claydens Waikohu (3) led for half of their game against Waikohu (1) in their...
Gisborne/Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie warmed up for his Championship Tour return with a solid showing at the Sydney Pro. He was eliminated in Round 5 of the Qualifying Series 6000-point contest at Manly Beach. Christie, 30, was narrowly beaten by...
GISBORNE premier netball heads into the Queen’s Birthday holiday break with reigning champions YMP (1) still undefeated and Farmlands Ngatapa still looking for a win. There will be no games this weekend but in Wednesday’s Pak’nSave competition...
SATURDAY, 3.30pm: Ngatapa v Paikea (umpires, GMC Green, Morgan Tuhou).5pm: INA Contracting GMC Green v YMP A (Ngatapa, Jo Cumming).TOMORROW, 6.30pm: Te Aowera v GMC Kowhai (YMP B, Waituhi).SATURDAY, 2pm: YMP B v Waituhi (Kowhai, Te Aowera).FRIDAY...
GISBORNE BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL 41 (Izaiah Fox 2, Dylan Bronlund, Ben Phelps, Cohen Loffler, Kaia Gate, Luka Russell, tries; Fox 2 conversions, Carlos Hihi con) beat Western Heights High School 0. Half-time: 17-0. GBHS under-15s 52 (Tyrese Nikola 2...
Hikurangi 17 (Kris Palmer try; Palmer 4 pen)Uawa 15 (Leiman Davies, Hayden Pardoe tries; Te Ahu Baker pen, con).HT: 17-3.“Tough wet-weather rugby in a mudbath.”That’s how Hikurangi lock Te Rangi Matanuku Parata summed it up after leading the...
It was a day for heavy scoring in Poverty Bay premier-grade rugby on Saturday. At the Oval, defending champions Waikohu beat Pirates 62-14 and OBM beat High School Old Boys 53-18. At Patutahi, YMP beat Ngatapa 50-31. Civil Project Solutions...
Gisborne teams Thistle and United had winning starts to their campaigns in out-of-town football competition on Saturday. In their first game back in the Central Federation League after a three-year absence, Waikanae Top Ten Thistle beat Whanganui...
This is Week 1 of Round 3 of Gisborne senior netball. All games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put out bins: Ritana Senior A, Tyre General Ngatapa. 9am: 1, FarmCare HSOG v Claydens...
CROQUETBarry Memorial Croquet Club has been awarded the President’s Trophy for having the largest membership percentage increase of any croquet club in the country in the past 12 months. The Aberdeen Road club attracted 17 new-to-croquet members...
BADMINTONEASTLAND Masters had a successful start to a new badminton competition organised for this pandemic-affected year. Eastland beat Waitakere (4) 8-4 in the first tie and Auckland (3) 7-5 in the second on one competition day in Rotorua this...
It's an opportunity they've earned. Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 captain and openside flanker Amos Roddick, 18, and his teammate, first five-eighth Nic Proffit, 17, have been selected to attend the New Zealand Barbarians-Hurricanes age-grade...
CRICKETIt never looked so good. The 2019-2020 Hope Cup club cricket season opened on artificial pitches at Gisborne Intermediate School and Campion College the Sunday before last, but tomorrow returns to the quality grass wickets of the Harry Barker...
GISBORNE teenager Finn Vette negotiated his way through his round 1 heat before one of the biggest active storms around the globe halted action early on the first day of the National Surfing Championships in Dunedin. Less than two hours of surfing...
A FINAL-day victory for the Kiwis in the Trans Tasman Young Rider Test at the Larsen Sawmilling Showjumping Championships in Gisborne was not enough to give New Zealand the overall win, but it made the loss more palatable. Australia headed into the...
FOOTBALLKIEV, Ukraine — For once in a Champions League final, Cristiano Ronaldo will yield some of the spotlight to another player sweeping up adulation and personal acclaim. While five-time world player of the year Ronaldo is chasing a record...
DEFENDING champions Thistle Massive lost their 100 percent win record in Eastern League football at the weekend but their coach is not complaining. If anything, Johnny Stirton almost seemed pleased to share the spoils 0-all with Gisborne United in...
Abbreviated scoreboards for DJ Barry Cup games in premier-grade club cricket —HSOB 235 (Sean Wills 44, Baxter Mackay 44, Dave Castle 41, Carl Shaw 26; Hasantha Vithanage 2-19, Akshay Akshay 2-/27, Bruno Judd 2-35, Gaurav Kashyap 2-48) beat Horout...
SURFINGPART 2 of the Triple Crown ended for Gisborne-Mahia surfer Ricardo Christie and a fellow Kiwi played a part in his demise. Christie was eliminated from the Vans World Cup of Surfing at Hawaii’s Sunset Beach yesterday. He placed third in his...
GISBORNE surfer Saffi Vette will be hoping to earn Olympic qualification after travelling to El Salvador for the World Surfing Games. There are seven slots for women from the last event to earn qualification before the games starting in two months. In...
Auckland, after years of disappointments in the Mitre 10 Cup, are sitting top of the Premiership ladder — unbeaten, with Tasman and North Harbour — after beating Northland 28-12 at Whangarei. Northland led 12-7 lead at the end of 40 minutes. But...
Congratulations to Eileen Lee and Ann McCombe for their score of 71.73 in Gisborne Bridge Club play on Monday. Monday, March 28 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 2North/South East/WestDiana Styche, Joy Marden 61.31 Eileen Lee, Ann McCombe...
A weekend of waveski surfing action is in the line-up for Gisborne from tomorrow. With the arrival of cyclone-generated ocean swell, with big gaps between sets, ideal conditions are expected for the Turanganui open waveski surfing championships on...
THE Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union is giving away a Poverty Bay jersey, replica 125, to a supporter each week. This week’s winner is the woman in the picture to the right. Gisborne Herald photographer Paul Rickard takes a photo of the crowd at...
The fourth round of BIZminton 5 was completed last Wednesday night. GDC held on to beat Monday Madness 3 matches to 2, with one match drawn. Enterprise continued their winning streak, although some of the matches against Slammers were close, the...
Results of the Gisborne Pony Club Sports this month were —Class 1, 70-centimetre, Introductory A1 Art 238 1.1: Cindy Kershaw (Brian Richard), Paula Newman (Tessa), Harriet Savage (Teekays Lone Ranger), Tyson Kamo (Rover), Rebecca Watson (Kilmac)...