THE challenge phase in Poverty Bay netball kicks into gear at Victoria Domain tomorrow as the top and bottom teams across all grades go head to head for promotion or relegation. The main events are the crossover games between Gisborne Girls’ High...
HONOURS were shared in a classic battle of the bays women’s Lucy May-Bays Bronze representative golf encounter at Waipukurau. Poverty Bay won the Lucy May silver matchplay tie 13-11 while hosts Hawke’s Bay reversed the score in the Lucy May...
Gisborne Girls' High School will look to repeat their Round 1 victory over Whangara in the second of two premier netball matches at the YMCA tonight. The 7.30pm Pak'nSave premier division clash between Gillies Electrical Girls' High Senior A and...
This team stepped up. The Tairawhiti under-11s excelled at the New Zealand Maori Rugby League Tamariki Tournament at the Hopuhopu Sports Ground in Ngaruawahia. As newcomers, they were in the Rohe section and won all five of their round-robin games...
GISBORNE Herald chief sub-editor Chris Taewa continues a series on his favourite sporting memories
Poverty BayTHE importance of a referee for the big occasion was underlined as Andrew Higham claimed a sixth Poverty Bay senior men’s club championship crown on Saturday afternoon. Higham defeated top qualifier William Brown 1-up in a 36-hole...
Gisborne Thistle's top two football teams face tough challenges away from home tomorrow. ALH Gisborne Thistle play Manawatu club North End at Memorial Park in Palmerston North at 2.45pm tomorrow. North End had their first Central Federation League win...
COMET 10-year-old swimming machines Angus Blair and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick have started the winter season with a ferocious roar that has been heard all across the Central North Island. In the space of two swim meets, between them they scooped up 41...
TWO national surfing events descend on Gisborne from tomorrow with the Primary School Champs and the Scholastic Champs taking place over seven days. The two-day Sticky Johnson Primary School Champs presented by Skullcandy kicks off the action...
She started the week with a win. She finished the week with a win. Gisborne's Tessa McDonald played a major part in Hawke's Bay-Poverty redeeming themselves at the national women's matchplay interprovincial tournament in Auckland. HBPB fell just short...
Poverty Bay women’s cricket representatives Tayla Hollis and Kayley Knight will play for the Northern Spirit’s A team against their Auckland countertparts in a 50-over cricket game in Auckland tomorrow. Hollis, who plays for Kevin Hollis Glass...
YMP and Waikohu could not be separated in Pak’nSave Gisborne premier-grade netball at the YMCA last night. They drew 44-all amid wild crowd support for both teams. Claydens Waikohu held a one-goal lead after the first quarter and still led by one...
PatutahiFORMER Poverty Bay and Waikato first class rugby player Chris Humble made his holiday home a successful one on his parents’ golf course. Humble, the son of Patutahi members Gordon and Helen, won the junior men’s net on Christmas Eve...
Ngati Porou East Coast are primed to perform in Game 1. Hosea Gear's Sky Blues will host Horowhenua-Kapiti in the Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Rugby Championship season opener at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, at 2.30pm tomorrow. In the...
Games don’t come any closer than the Brezz N Darts Club game between Scorpions and Hawkz. Scorpions won a rollercoaster match 11-10. Scorpions captain Victor Mackey set the pace early with the only 180 score for the night, against Crevice Lewis. It...
An extraordinary six-gold haul from Waikanae beach sprinter Briana Irving highlighted the opening day of the New Zealand Surf Life Saving championships in Mount Maunganui yesterday. The 16-year-old achieved a clean sweep of all three beach women’s...
THE mere thought of them can make stomachs churn. They put a man’s character under club rugby’s most powerful microscope. They are the East Coast one-versus-four/two-versus-three semifinals set for 2.30pm tomorrow. Defending champions Hikurangi...
WHANGARA Old Girls turned the tables on YMP in the YMCA last night to book themselves a place in the premier grade grand final. The defending champions bounced back from a big loss to YMP a week ago to convincingly win last night’s 1 v 2 top-four...
YMP A turned around last weekend’s 7-2 loss to THC and beat the same team 3-2 on the LJ Hooker Turf last night to qualify for the senior men’s hockey final next month. The first of the senior playoff games was a thriller. Alex Hyland, Kohere...
FootballGisborne Championship Division 1 — SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment United v Coates Associates Wainui Demons. 2.30pm: Wainui, Sunshine Brewery Wainui Sharks v Carpet Court Thistle Massive; Lytton, Lytton High...
GISBORNE paddlers ended the elite and club sprint world championships as they started it, with golden performances in Australia on Sunday. The Horouta junior 16 and junior 19 women’s crews continued Gisborne’s powerful performance in those age...
Trish Corson, Bette Parker 55.95= Janet Joblin, Frank Nieuwland 60.71Beverley Evans, Glenys Evans 55.95= Margie McKee, Nigel Pollock 59.23Diana Styche, Joy Marden 55.65 Raewynne Cook, Anne Roberts 54.76Bette Parker, Robin Corson 59.05 Bobby Thomson...
CricketMercantile cricket is on at Harry Barker Reserve at 5.30pm TONIGHT. Senior men, Harry Barker Reserve, SATURDAY, 1pm: HBR1, OBR v Pirates; HBR3, Campion v Horouta; HBR4, Gisborne Boys’ High School v High School Old Boys. Junior cricket...
Jack Richardson couldn’t believe it when he was named Ngati Porou East Coast’s player of the year at the end-of-season prize-giving in the Tokomaru Bay clubrooms.“Mate, I had no idea. I thought it would be someone like Sammy Parkes (halfback)...
IT’S a story four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy has told maybe a hundred times, and he tells it as if he’d be happy to tell it a thousand more. And, no, it’s not about his “Lap of the Gods” record at Mount Panorama. He told it before...
PIRATES skipper Brad Reynolds laughed when told his High School Old Boys opposite Scott Tallott had claimed the underdogs tag heading into tomorrow’s Doleman Cup semifinal at Harry Barker Reserve.“Mate, I always think we’re favourites, no...
Big weekend in store for hockey fans
Horouta Waka Hoe won the award for club with most points at the Va'a World Sprint Championships at Dorney Lake, Windsor, near London. Six gold-medal-winning performances on the last day of the championships put an exclamation mark alongside the...
YMP have stormed into the final of Poverty Bay rugby’s premier club competition but Waikohu gave them one hell of a workout in an epic encounter that went to extra time. Even after 100 minutes, the drama was not over at Rugby Park on Saturday. Down...
BOWLSTHE Burton Cup is back. A new format, new date and $2500 in prize money are expected to restore the prestige of a lawn bowling contest that in the past made the Burton Cup one of the most prized trophies in the sport. The Burton Cup Classic Fours...
Semifinal hockey promises electrifying action this weekend as teams fight to keep their season alive at the business end of the competition. It all started last night for YMP B and GMC Kowhai, with points on the line to determine the top-placed team...
Stockcar racer James Clarke (29G) made the final of the New Zealand Stockcar Championship at the Meeanee Track in Hawke's Bay on Saturday night. Clarke's effort was huge, given there were 244 cars involved in qualifying for the top 30 for the...