GISBORNE Thistle’s hopes of a second-place finish took a hit when they lost 2-1 to Havelock North Wanderers in Central Federation League football at Guthrie Park, Havelock North, on Saturday. Taranaki lead the competition with 31 points from 11...

Silver Ferns great coming to town

Poverty Bay women attended the Central Regional 7s rugby tournament in Levin at the weekend aiming to be the first Heartland women’s team to make it to the nationals . . . and they achieved that aim.“Being the only Heartland team in the...

Gisborne Cycling Club events — visitors and new cyclists welcome. Saturday — Club ride (group ride, no race): Group ride at 1.30pm from Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road. This is a friendly group ride, 90 minutes to three hours long. Sunday — Group...

BASKETBALLIt’s meant to make your head spin. Game 1 of Week 9 in the Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club competition — High Flyers versus Lytton High School — will be played at breakneck pace. Lytton captain Genesis Bartlett-Tamate...

Challenge Round club netball starts at the YMCA tomorrow night with two teams keen to prove they deserve to remain at Premier level. Round 1 grading games ended last weekend and the sides taking part in the Challenge Round emerged from these, pitting...

Gisborne United Premiers lead football's Eastern League 1 after they beat Wainui Sharks 7-3 in a top-of-the-table match at Harry Barker Reserve. The score was 1-1 when Wainui goalkeeper — and last man — Matt Wotherspoon was sent off for bringing...

OLD Boys Rugby club captain and No. 3 batsman Ian Loffler celebrated his midweek 40th birthday with an unbeaten 46 in his side’s eight-wicket win against Gisborne Boys’ High School in DJ Barry Cup 40-over cricket at Harry Barker Reserve on...

Tairawhiti junior softball games will be held at Waikirikiri Park on SATURDAY. The draw is —Junior Sox junior high school softball (Year 9-10), 11am: D1, GBHS Black v GBHS Red; D2, GGHS v Lytton. Bye: Campion. Cross-section friendly (Junior v...

THINGS are coming along nicely. The Dream Team, who had hoped to flatten Hearty Ngati by more than 28 points, had to make do with a 78-73 win last night in the final round-robin game of the 2015 Gisborne Basketball Association men’s club...

A “PUMPED-UP” Gisborne Girls' High School face a “hungry” YMP in a do-or-die premier-grade netball semifinal tomorrow night. The YMCA will be a cauldron for netball fans with two great games in store. Grand finalists Claydens Waikohu (1) await...

Defending champions Lytton High are back for Gisborne Basketball Association’s main event while Ngati Porou have the chance to regain No. 1 status in the women’s club final at the YMCA tomorrow. In a replay of last year’s final, the Jayd...

MAKO Fukushima and Rori Fukushima were the big winners at the Boardroom Summer Slam at the Pines on Sunday. The brothers went home with a LOST carbon wrap Quiver Killer surfboard, which retails at $1200.“Each year the board is awarded to a grommet...

SEPTEMBER 2 has been circled in the diaries of Alicia Hoskin and Alex Bermingham since November last year, when it was planned with coach Gergely Gyertyános that they would leave Gisborne and head to the 2016 Olympic Hopes regatta in...

They're in every game. The Poverty Bay Year 6 boys' cricket team lost to the Eastern Suburbs Tornadoes by two wickets and Karori by nine runs at the Riverbend tournament in Hawke's Bay yesterday. They earned the respect of opposition coaches...

WELLINGTON — Two more New Zealanders have been added to the Barbarians squad, which includes Gisborne’s George Bridge, to meet the All Blacks this weekend, meaning Kiwis now make up half the 26-strong invitation side. Former All Blacks Ben Franks...

IT was Gingernuts all round in the Stevenson truck as they headed back to Hastings after the Gisborne Show. Grace, 12, had a brilliant show with Maxwellton Dashing Dougall, winning supreme pony of show, supreme paced and mannered, champion show...

Tickets have gone on sale for next month’s Tairawhiti sports awards. The Bronwyn Kay Agency Sporting Excellence Awards will be held on Friday, November 8, at Showgrounds Event Centre. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti chief executive Stefan Pishief said the...

TRIES to man of the match Sione Ngatu and Anthony Karauria, both converted by Pete Livingston, helped Ngatapa gatecrash Waikohu’s 100-year celebrations at Te Karaka on Saturday. Larsawn Ngatapa won 16-12 but dropped from second spot to third on...

JIU JITSUFIVE members of East Ocean Jiu Jitsu returned from the Oceania Open Jiu Jitsu Championship in Auckland with eight medals. This event, held on February 21 and 22, was the first international jiu jitsu competition held in New Zealand under...

TAYLER Reid was still on cloud nine when he came into The Gisborne Herald office this morning following his selection for the New Zealand team to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.“It’s still sinking in,” said Reid, who...

Giant workhorse Jacob Mitchell and his 2022 New Plymouth Boys' High School team made rugby history in Gisborne on Saturday. The 6ft 5in (1.95m) blindside flanker became the first NPBHS first 15 captain to lead his side to victory — 29-14 —...

The super-heavyweights threw their weight around. Uawa, Tihirau Victory Club and Tokararangi formed East Coast club rugby’s winners’ circle on Saturday: competition leaders Uawa beat Hicks Bay 24-5, Tokararangi won a shoot-out with hosts Tokomaru...

But veterans still have a few tricks up their sleeve

They’ve done superbly. Uawa Sports Club members have spent the past two weekends raising $3000 for The Terrier Race Against Time registered charity on behalf of local people affected by breast cancer. Within that, at the clubhouse on June 30, Uaw...

SPEEDWAYGISBORNE sidecar duo Clive Ireland and Chris Symon earned a podium place and Rob Miller and “Red” George had success of sorts in the North Island sidecar champs at the Eastland Group Raceway on Saturday night. Ireland and Symon (56G)...

Gisborne Thistle will add to its illustrious history at the Lotto National Under 19 Youth Tournament in Napier this holiday weekend. A Garrett Blair-coached Thistle team will contest the satellite section of the Napier City Rovers-hosted...

Gisborne Basketball Association boys’ secondary schools league results from Division 1, Week 1 —Gisborne BHS Junior Diamond 48 (Kiwa Ria-Reneta-Kokiri 13, Rylan Crosby 8) GBHS Junior Black 35 (Jonario Edwards 14, Cruz Robinson 10). Q1, GBHS JD...

FOOTBALLUNITED take on Thistle tomorrow in local football’s last game of the season, aiming to make it two doubles in a row. Last year Heavy Equipment Services United won the Eastern League Division 1 title and the Bailey Cup knockout...

GISBORNE-born five-goal polo international Glenn Sherriff is in the Semco PDL team taking part in the Land Rover New Zealand Polo Open in Clevedon on February 18. The New Zealand Open started as a grassroots polo tournament in 1977. Now in its 41st...