WHATEVER happens in the 2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championships, Gisborne’s Blake Briant is certain of one thing — he could not be more ready. Two years of preparation come down to two days of performing when Briant hits the water tomorrow in the...
SURF LIFESAVINGby Murray RobertsonThere was disappointment and some tears for Gisborne junior athletes yesterday when after three days oftough competition in sizeable surf, they were denied a chance to race in finals due to Covid-19. The change back...
WINTER sport?You would have thought more like spring as mild weather made for pleasant conditions for players and spectators alike around Gisborne sports venues on Saturday. Gisborne Herald chief photographer Paul Rickard had the lens cap off at...
Poverty BayMARG Colebourne’s vein of form reached a rich high with victory in the Primo Cup final on Saturday. Colebourne had three birdies, including a two, in her 83-16-67. In the Primo Cup format, a player takes their net score for the front nine...
New Zealand Golf confirmed one spot. The other remained up in the air until Tuesday after the rule book was brought out to decide an Oligoi Jug men’s interclub semifinal at Electrinet Park course on Saturday. Defending champions Poverty Bay (1) will...
BOWLS By CrackerjackThe 2021 National Interclub Sevens in Christchurch recently was a great four-day tournament. This year, Bowls Gisborne East-Coast men’s team was represented by Te Karaka Bowling Club and a composite Kahutia-Wairoa represented...
POVERTY Bay-East Coast are on the board. The bottom-ranked province at the national men’s golf interprovincial in Invercargill pulled off a minor shock this morning in sharing the honours 2½-all with hosts Southland. PBEC No. 2 William Brown notched...
Canterbury yesterday claimed their first ever team title at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships. In a three-way battle with defending champions Bay of Plenty and Auckland, Canterbury triumphed after the lead switched several times...
ONE of the longest serving and most valued members of the Kahutia Bowling Club, John Raymond George (Johnny) Jones, passed away recently. Johnny was a real gentleman who loved his bowls but who always put his family first. He had a friendly...
They’re two big names in East Coast club rugby. The late Kath McLean and Jury Harrison, revered stalwarts of the game on the Coast, lent their names to the first and second-round memorial trophies. Uawa won the Kath McLean last Saturday; tomorrow...
Both Gisborne teams in football’s Pacific Premiership pulled away from the Hawke’s Bay chasing group after Saturday’s round of games. Gisborne Vehicle Testing Thistle are top of the table with 18 points after their 3-0 default win over Hastings...
GISBORNE golfer Tessa McDonald is finding her groove after her late call-up for the Toro women’s national interprovincial in Ashburton. McDonald, playing at No. 5 for Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay yesterday notched her first win of the teams’...
HOCKEYGISBORNE’s international hockey umpire Amber Church has been selected to officiate at her second Olympic Games and the appointment has thrilled her. The 31-year-old schoolteacher obtained her international umpiring qualification in 2010 at...
RUGBYTokararangi completed their perfect seven-game season in front of at least 100 adoring fans on Saturday. Te Araroa Domain was a joyful mishmash of red and black as the hosts beat Tihirau Victory Club 13-12 in the 2020 Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou...
THE region’s netballers cannot wait to get back out on the court. They have fingers crossed for a swift transition from Covid-19 Alert Level 3 down to Level 2 and on to Level 1 so they can play. Hopes remain high that they will see some competition...
NETBALLJUST two goals separated the finalists in Gisborne’s premier netball championship last time they met this season and Whangara Old Girls and High School Old Girls can be relied upon to repeat that performance tomorrow. They meet at the YMC...
Defending premier netball champions YMP suffered their second defeat in a row on Saturday, this time at the hands of High School Old Girls. The match was again decided by a substantial margin. In the previous weekend’s Pak’nSave Gisborne netball...
Gisborne Thistle Reserves had to use players who had already played that day to field a full team for their Pacific Premiership game against Maycenvale on Saturday. With the first team playing at the same time on the other pitch at Childers Road...
Outstanding results from the women were key to Gisborne-East Coast’s Challenge Trophy victory over Hawke’s Bay in inter-centre bowls at the weekend. It was only the second time this century that Gisborne-East Coast had won this annual...
Khadyn Kahukiwa-Kora and Tyla Kahukiwa-Larby . . . remember those names. Te Kaupapa Māori o Nga Uri a Maui Year 10 student Khadyn won gold and Gisborne Girls’ High School prefect Tyla silver at the Boxing New Zealand national championships in...
THE draw for senior club rugby on SATURDAY is —Civil Project Solutions premier grade, 2.45pm: Barry Park 1, YMP v Ngatapa; Te Karaka 1, Waikohu v Pirates; Oval 1, OBM v HSOB. Senior 1, 12.45pm: BP 1, YMP v Ngatapa; Oval 1, Pirates v Nuhaka. 1.30pm...
THE Badminton Eastland business house league started last Thursday. Eight teams have entered this year, with some having changed names. WSP have returned, after not playing in 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions, and two new teams — Team IFL and...
Kahlenberg Cup women’s pairs qualifying, four-ball best-ball stableford: J Utting/F Pell 43, C Skuse/S Spence 40, , A Gemmell/R Spence 38, J Williams/Morag Shanks 38, L Fletcher/P Gayford 38, G Young/V Fraser 37, J Steele/M Allan 37, M Williams/...
180s: Te Kotahi Kaio (Assassins); John White, Willie Edwards (Tigers).Highest straight start (140): Te Kotahi Kaio (Assassins).Highest double start (122): Shiloh Henry (Tigers).Highest finish (110): Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Assassins).Most tons (31): Te...
SWIMMINGIT was a day of domination for the winners at the Gisborne Girls’ High School swimming championships on Tuesday. Junior swimmer Sierra Blumfield, intermediate Jodiesha Kirkpatrick and senior Ava Smith together had 14 first-place finishes...
RUGBYTHE title aspirations of TVC got a massive boost while Ruatoria City returned to action with a vengeance in Week 2 of Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby. TVC beat Uawa 26-20; City — who did not have a team in the competition last year —opened...
RUGBYSEEING is believing is a saying at least as old as the hallowed turf of Whakarua Park — which is to say, at least 93 years. And tomorrow Ngati Porou East Coast rugby fans (who are among the most loyal, proud and colourful in the Bunnings...
A glorious day in the district made for ideal conditions for sporting endeavours . . . and other excursions. The the Victoria Domain courts, the sole premier-grade netball game of the day was between YMP and Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A — YMP...