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TOKA ON TOP

Tokararangi are setting the pace four weeks in. Under Rapata Haerewa, the Te Araroa-based club have won three of four games but have unbeaten Hikurangi Te Maunga, with a game in hand, breathing down their necks. Placings in the seven-team H Blackbee...

Gisborne fight back in Super 8 clash, but damage done by PNBHS

Palmerston North have never put together a better first half of rugby than their hat-trick hero Tom Illston-Park’s side did in their 59-21 win here on Saturday. They launched a seven-try blitz to make heads spin in the opening 35 minutes of their...

BIZminton business house league: Asure Quality win, but only just

The fourth night of the BIZminton business house league produced close ties and plenty of excitement in the Social Grade. A countback on points was required to determine the winner after a 3-all tie between Asure Quality and Slammers. Quality got...

Sports draws

Hockey Poverty Bay club hockey, Intermediate — Tuesday (June 6), 4pm: Gisborne Intermediate Wha v TKKM Whatatutu; Gis Int Toru v Campion Mackillop. 4.40pm: Ilminster Kea v Ilminster Weka; Kaiti Toa v Gis Int Ono. 5.20pm: Patutahi Taiohi v Gis Int...

Top guns fight out goal-less draw, Round 1 honours to YMP A men

A hard-fought draw between the top women’s teams, heavyweight men’s side Lytton Old Boys fending off Gisborne Boys’ High by a single goal, two from two for ‘The Ladies in Pink” and a brave effort from LOB Masters were among the highlights...

Electrinet Park reign supreme

No champagne cork-popping jubilation. No Viking-like bellows of victory. No changing shed roof-raising team chants. Electrinet Park (1)’s successful defence of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants title on Sunday was marked with reflection...

Local sportspeople caught on camera

Gisborne Herald photographer Paul Rickard was out and about capturing local sport on camera on Saturday and Sunday. His busy weekend featured the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby clash between YMP and Waikohu at Te Karaka; Gisborne Boys' High School's...

DAN THE MAN AS PARK WIN PENNANTS

THE Oligoi Jug trophy remains in Electrinet Park hands after a one-way matchplay final of the men’s interclub pennants competition on Sunday. Park (1) whitewashed Poverty Bay 8-0 in the 36-hole decider on the Poverty Bay course. The team of Anaru...

Brexit played part in move Down Under

GISBORNE Thistle’s latest recruit might never have come to New Zealand if it hadn’t been for Brexit. English midfielder Hugo Elwood, 23, arrived in Gisborne from Australia last week and was expected to make his debut in football’s Central...

Gisborne’s Hutchings and Majstrovic to help coach Fins

Caption Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) has announced the management team for the 2024 Lifesaving World Championships in Australia and two members of them are from Gisborne. Caption The group has been selected for crucial roles in coaching...

Final Frontier: City club showdown to decide Oligoi Jug pennants champions

Snap! The same four who ended Electrinet Park’s 11-year Oligoi Jug interclub pennants title drought last year will defend the silverware in the 2023 final tomorrow. Anaru Reedy, Daniel Collier, Tony Akroyd and Pete Stewart will wear the Park (1)...

Hockey clash: rivalry set to bring out best in top two

The top two men’s teams took centre stage in the hockey round last weekend and tonight it will be the turn of the top two women’s teams in what will be another replay of last year’s grand finals. GMC Green and defending champions YMP A match...

YMP put foot to the floor in big win over Ngatapa

by Sherrill Beale A classic game of two halves between Horouta Koura and Gisborne Girls’ High and another big performance from YMP made for enthralling Premier Grade netball in the YMCA on Wednesday night. Horouta Koura defeated Girls’ High...

Skipper Samupo scores four as Toka cut loose

Tokararangi versus Ruatoria City at Te Araroa Domain could be a beauty. Tokararangi are second behind Hikurangi three weeks into the H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club rugby season. Hikurangi, who have the bye tomorrow, have...

Boost for Thistle as they return to Fed League action

Gisborne Thistle have been without Federation League football for three weeks, but are still in touching distance of the frontrunners. And they have strengthened their squad with the addition of a midfielder who has come through English professional...

Defence key to Super success

Gisborne Boys’ High School have a big game in them. And tomorrow first 15 rugby will take centre stage at the historic Rectory ground for the second week in a row. A week after hosting Napier Boys’ High in Round 1 of the Super 8 — a 29-5 loss...