In a change of fortune, Gisborne Boys' High School were on the other end of a game going down to the final delivery, losing to Horouta in spectacular fashion. With two balls to go, Horouta needed four runs to win with just one wicket in hand. They...
AS ALWAYS, the tides control race times, and this year the first race, for the Tolaga Bay Event Cup for non-thoroughbreds, will run around 11am. There are seven races all up, each 600 metres. The aim is to run a race every half-hour and each race...
Gisborne Girls’ High School and Horouta Gold both won their Pak’nSave premier-grade netball games last night — Girls’ High in a canter, Horouta by one goal.“Two surprises at the YMCA” was how netball commentator Sherrill Beale put...
PIRATES tail-ender Aku Smith celebrated his 200th game for the club with a match-winning unbeaten 13 not out against High School Old Boys in a third-round DJ Barry Cup 40-over cricket game at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Thirteen runs may not...
The Gisborne women’s and junior football draws for the weekend are —Women’s Eastern League, SUNDAY, 10.30am: Nelson Park 1, Bohemians v Tatapouri Marist Thistle; Wainui, Gisborne Laundry Services Wainui Riverina v Heavy Equipment Services...
YMP leapfrogged OBM into second place on the premier rugby championship table with a nailbiting 14-12 victory over Ngatapa at the Oval on Saturday. Farmvets YMP have 16 points, seven behind HSOB and two more than OBM, who lost to HSOB at the...
NINE paddlers from Mareikura Waka Ama Club brought home medals from last weekend’s long-distance national championships in Hawke’s Bay. The club won the master mixed W6 28-kilometre race, took silver for the open women’s W2 16km and master...
FOOTBALLWAINUI last won football’s Eastern League Division 1 title in 2005, when they also won the Bailey Cup. It was the first time the club had won the league. A check of Gisborne Herald sports draw pages shows 1990 as the first year senior teams...
Masters badmintonBadminton Eastland defeated Auckland (3) 9 matches to 3; defeated Horowhenua-Kapiti (1) — match score 6-6, game score 14-14, Eastland won points countback by 27. HockeyLocal hockey results —Men: THC 10 Lytton Old Boys Masters 1...
Poverty Bay Cricket is hitting its straps. With the premier grade already back under way and several Poverty Bay teams competing in the Riverbend cricket camps in recent weeks, the Senior B club competition is set to resume from 2pm tomorrow at Harry...
A promotion for rugby league in Gisborne has done the trick, with about 80 youngsters registering their interest in playing the sport. Gisborne Tairawhiti Rugby League district co-ordinator Ally Tamihere said the organisation planned to run...
POVERTY Bay cricketers Courtney Hayes, Tayla Hollis, Lucy McHugh and Phoebe Taylor have been named in a 13-strong Northern Districts under-18 squad to compete in an invitational tournament in Papakura next week. Cricket Wellington, Northern Districts...
SURFINGASIA Braithwaite completed the full set of podium placings when she was under-14 girls’ runner-up in the Billabong Grom Series surfing competition at Piha on Saturday. Two weeks ago she was third in the series event at Whangamata and...
Te Karaka Bowling Club hosts two more centre tournaments this weekend with the men’s Peace Shield Fours and the women’s Ella Gibson Memorial Fours being contested there over two days. The relatively low number of entries means that only one green...
Gisborne ParkA NEW name will appear in gold under senior men’s club champion on the Gisborne Park honours boards this weekend. Brad Reynolds and Rob Taylor will battle it out over 36 holes on Saturday, both men searching for a breakthrough title...
Poverty Bay age-group cricket teams fight to be competitive. The need to do so breeds character, and despite losing their first two T20 games in Pool B at the Northern Districts boys’ senior secondary schools’ tournament in Rotorua yesterday, the...
GISBORNE Thistle striker Jimmy Somerton has signed for Hawke’s Bay football powerhouse Napier City Rovers. Somerton, who turns 17 on December 20, is in the midst of Year 12 exams but a return to Gisborne Boys’ High School is not in his plans for...
THE hard courts of Victoria Domain will be traded for the sand of Midway Beach. And singlets, sunglasses and hats will be part of team uniforms when Gisborne Netball Centre presents a fun and social curtain-raiser to its 2017 schedule. From February...
CRICKETYou just had to be there. Round 4 of the Colts T15 nine-a-side cricket league yesterday produced superb performances in all three matches at Nelson Park. In Gisborne Girls’ High School’s eight-wicket win against the Dnature Dragons, seamers...
Bowls Gisborne East-Coast has named its senior rep teams to play Bowls Waiariki at Ohope Bowling Club on Saturday and Bay of Plenty's senior rep team at Whakatane Bowling Club on Sunday. Senior men: Charlie Ure, Tim Sherriff and Steve Goldsbury...
SWIMMINGGISBORNE swimming clubs Enterprise and Comet had a successful meet at the 2020 Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Summer Championships. Over 100 local athletes competed across the weekend in the final competitive event to be hosted by Gisborne’s...
Fifty-four kilometres from Gisborne on State Highway 35, dwell blue giants. And for Uawa — East Coast club rugby champions of the past two years and Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield holders — July 4 and Week 1 of the season can't come soon...
Port Hill United, of Napier, lead football's Pacific Premiership by three points. They have completed their league programme. Second-placed Gisborne Thistle have one game to play . . . against Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United. Should Gisborne...
The Master Blasted. Smash Palace Bail-breakers stand-in captain Nick Hendrie last night played a hand regular franchise captain Jak Rowe would have been proud of — 111 not out off 54 balls with five sixes and nine fours — as the Breakers avenged...
Poverty Bay-East Coast planned on giving their opponents more than just a fright as the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial teed off on Halloween at Motueka today. PBEC started a physically and mentally demanding week-long teams' matchplay...
PETER Millar knew he was on to a Sure Thing but the Gisborne sailor had to negotiate nine races before sealing the deal at the Noelex 25 National Championships in Hawke’s Bay on Sunday. Millar skippered the Barry Coulam-owned Sure Thing to victory...
A PATHWAY straight through to the premier grade netball grand final beckons tomorrow night for either YMP (1) or Waikohu (1).Based on results to this point of the season, YMP would have the edge. Their semifinal at the YMCA at 7.30pm tomorrow night...
YOUTH will have a voice on sporting issues affecting them, thanks to the rebooting of the Tairawhiti Secondary Schools Student Sports Council. Two student councils comprising Year 12 and 13 students are being established, one representing town and...
TUESDAY, October 23 — Turanga Pairs 4North/South East/WestEileen Lee, Bette Parker 59.58 Vicki Taylor, John Hudson 60.00Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 52.50 Jean Turnbull, Diana Styche 53.33Elizabeth Jackson, Carolyn McMurray 52.50 Michelle...
Poverty Bay’s Kayley Knight produced a Most Valuable Player performance as Northern Districts posted three wins at the national under-18 girls’ tournament in Wellington this week. Knight, Rubi Perano and Mia Reeves flew the Gisborne flag in the...
DESPITE Ngati Porou East Coast finishing bottom of the Heartland Championship, centre TK Moeke has been named in the New Zealand Heartland XV squad to play three games next month. The side are to face New Zealand Marist at Masterton on Saturday...
A GradeINDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Tahuna Irwin 5, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Tracey Te Kira, Willie Edwards (Tigers); Te Kotahi Kaio 3 (Young Guns); Sha Hohipa (Done & Dusted).Highest start, women (160): Cynthia Tupene (Wehi).Highest start, men (180)...