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Two more losses for Central

CENTRAL lost their fourth and fifth games at the national under-21 hockey tournament at North Harbour. Against Southern on Wednesday, Central lost 5-0 in a game where they had enough of the play to do much better. Yesterday they lost 6-3 to Capital...

YMP men and women in premier finals

YMP A won through to the premier men’s final, Gisborne Girls’ High School striker Brooke Willock scored six goals and GMC Kowhai beat Ngatapa — they were the highlights of local weekend hockey. The demolition job the YMP A women did on Paike...

Tairawhiti junior softball draws

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First international medal: Gisborne’s Hoskin teams up with Lisa Carrington

Gisborne kayak paddler Alicia Hoskin has her first international medal and is looking forward to more success with Olympic great Lisa Carrington. Hoskin and Carrington, who also has Tairawhiti family links, teamed up in the K2 500 metres and took...

Stella Smith makes history in China

SURFINGTHE standard teenager Stella Smith sets for herself was reinforced by her reaction to making history at the ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship in China yesterday. Smith, 16, placed third in the final of the open women’s stand-up...

A kind of sporting deliverance . . .

BASKETBALLIT'S a kind of sporting deliverance. The biggest Gisborne Basketball Association leagues in history will continue at the YMCA and John McFarlane Memorial Sports Centre this week. GBA chairman Dwayne Tamatea is thankful that both the men’s...

‘Awesome’ field for season-opening tournament

A line-up of 26 teams will take part in the annual Kathleen Henderson tournament at Victoria Domain this weekend to open the netball season in the district. Gisborne Netball Centre manager Allisa Hall said it was “awesome” to have so many teams...

Two wins and a loss for GBHS basketballers

Gisborne Boys’ High School basketball players showed their resilience in Rotorua yesterday afternoon. Hamilton’s Hillcrest High School beat the Keenan Ruru-Poharama-coached GBHS in Game 1 of the AA Zone 2 Premierships 72-58. This was despite the...

Good return from waka nationals

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...

Double won in year of first league title

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...

Weekend scoreboard results

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...

Thistle title drive continues

. . . but missed chances could be their undoing

‘I want runs’: OBR out to put Presidents to the sword

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...

Rugby League Roadshow generates interest among juniors

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...

Four PB players in u18 squad

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...

Braithwaite completes podium set

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...