RUGBYThe first away game of a season can be very revealing. So, although the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 played top rugby in the 66-12 win at home against Lindisfarne College last Saturday, their fans should expect tomorrow’s 12pm clash...

GISBORNE Thistle is to field a team in the 2016 Central Federation Premier League. Jags chairman Ron Young told The Herald yesterday the club committee unanimously decided to make the step up. The team will be coached by Fred Robertson, with Liam...

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: None. Best start (160): Ora Taukamo-Pohio (2NZ 3).Best finish (124): Cris Kiri (2NZ Rebels).Most high scores (15): George Vaotu’ua (2NZ Bullz).All games won in the match: Thao Duncan (2NZ Say My Name Again), Webby Lewis...

Defending Poverty Bay men’s hockey champions THC will look to pick up where they left off when they begin their 2018 campaign on the LJ Hooker Turf at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. The season opens tonight and tomorrow afternoon with seven...

FOUR local players have been selected in this year's NZ Heartland XV squad ahead of the only game of their campaign against the New Zealand Barbarians. Ngati Porou East Coast captain and loose forward Hone Haerewa, first five-eighth Te Rangi Fraser...

Waikohu and Whangara Old Girls take the floor at the YMCA in tomorrow's premier netball game and a close encounter can be expected. The Pak'nSave premier grade competition game starts at 9am. Claydens Waikohu (1) will back up from their midweek win...

COMET Swimming Club young gun Jodiesha Kirkpatrick aims to carry her record-breaking form from the Auckland Swimming Association junior championships into the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay summer meet, which start this afternoon at the Olympic Pool. The...

GOLF is predominantly an individual sport. You're the only one hitting that small stationary white ball. It's you making the mistakes, you producing the brilliance, you often deciding your fate. But at events like the national interprovincial...

TWO local sporting stars have been recognised for their success, being nominated for the Nga Whetu o Matariki Awards. Kiwi Campbell has been nominated as a finalist for Te Waita Award for Sport and Jessie Smith has been nominated for Te Whetu Maiangi...

Gisborne BMX Club hosted riders from all over the North Island — and Christchurch — at two meetings over one weekend this month. Both meetings were classed as qualifying events for the nationals in Tauranga at Easter. The Bikeys Gisborne meeting...

HOCKEYTWO cracking games tonight usher in the weekend’s action in Poverty Bay hockey and both senior women’s matches are too close to call. At 6pm, JNL Paikea meet GMC Kowhai and hockey commentator Tony Scragg has sat firmly on the fence.“I...

It’s done. The Turanga Health Rising Suns have finished their 2015 SAS Sports Conference Basketball League season in Round 7. They lost 130-62 to the Waikato Pistons and 83-70 to St John’s College in Hamilton on Saturday, and 124-42 to the...

GISBORNE’S Cory Taylor is sitting 13th on the rankings after the first two rounds of the prestigious Nutri-Grain Ironman surf lifesaving series on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Gold Coast-based Taylor, making his ironman series debut, was 11th in...

Bill Raggett won Gisborne Cosmopolitan Snooker Club’s handicap singles championship this month. In the final, he defeated Tiny Thompson — in the decider for the third year in a row — two frames to one. Qualifying was played in four sections...

CricketFRIDAY — WALKER SHIELD T15 BLAST, 5.45pm: — HBR 1, Auto Tyres Eagles v Eastland Broncos. Bollywood Stars have defaulted to Smash Palace Bail Breakers. SUPERSTARS, 3.45pm: HBR 1, Mixed Schools PBCA years 2-6 v Wainui Wizards; HBR 2, Makauri...

Two new Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti staff will be based on the East Coast, supporting efforts to keep tamariki active and contribute to community well-being. Rawinia Parata is joining the team as a “community connector” and Victor Herbert is an...

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

JONATHAN Purcell took a hat-trick in five overs of spin mastery that yielded seven wickets for 14 runs in Doleman Cup cricket on Saturday. Purcell’s heroics helped OBR maintain their unbeaten run in all competitions this season. The Bain...

FARMVETS YMP moved into second spot on the premier rugby table with a 46-16 victory over Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates at Barry Park on Saturday. The magical Magpies outscored Pirates seven tries to three. One of the YMP tries was scored by player-coach...

GISBORNE rider Sam Spence, riding Driving Ambition, finished fourth in the Equestrian Sports New Zealand Seven-year-old Series event at the Fiber Fresh Taupo Christmas Classic. The same combination finished sixth in Category A of the FEI World...

What went up came down hard in New Plymouth yesterday. Gisborne Boys' High School senior premiers basketball captain Sebastian Wilson was superb in Game 1 and fingers are crossed that the skipper is fighting fit on Day 2 of the Super 8...

Two softball teams have requested that games scheduled for this weekend be deferred. Consequently, the Uawa-versus-Whatatutu and Lytton Gems-v-GMC games have been deferred. The only women’s game being played at Waikirikiri Park tomorrow will be that...

TRAVIS Gooch now equals his brother Brenden’s haul of three North Island championships.“It feels awesome to win, really good,” he said.“I was driving in third thinking I had the title sewn up, then I got spun. Luckily I got over the line...

MULTISPORTWORD has got around about the Maunga to Moana multisport adventure race. Registrations for the March 7 event on the East Coast close today but they already exceed 100. Last year's event was the first time it had been open to the public and...

RUGBYEverybody is up for it. The 16-week quest for East Coast club rugby’s prize — the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield — begins tomorrow with four lively clashes to get the heart-rate up from 2.30pm. The big men of Uawa host Waiapu in Tolag...

PIRATES will play OBR in the Doleman Cup final on Saturday after wins in the top-four cricket semifinals at Harry Barker Reserves today. Defending champions, Pirates posted 227 then dismissed Horouta for 140. OBR scored 201-8 from their 35 overs...

EQUESTRIANGisborne showjumper Tess Clark is ecstatic to have been included in the New Zealand senior team to take on the Aussies at next week’s Horse of the Year Show in Hastings. The 28-year-old has had a strong season aboard Sinatra II but says...

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS180s: Thao Duncan (2NZ Say My Name Again), Kayne Arahanga (2NZ Say My Name Again), Charlie Reiri (2NZ Rebels), Lee Barbarich (2NZ Rebels), Pete Archbold (Roseland Dilligaf), Lance Cook (2NZ 3).Best start (180): Kayne Arahang...