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Girls High School stuns YMP Sunshine Brewery with 46-40 win

GISBORNE Girls’ High Senior A are the talk of the Pakn’Save premier competition after a sensational victory over defending champions YMP Sunshine Brewery last night. The students won a pulsating clash 46-40 in the YMCA, with the quarter scores...

Losing teams fight hard

YMP A and THC had solid victories in men’s hockey at Harry Barker Reserve last night but the opposition put up good fights in both games. The top YMP men’s team defeated Gisborne Boys’ High School 8-0.“That is not a bad result for the...

Twilight competition comes to an end

BADMINTONA TEAM called Salt’npepper — Mike Rice and Marsh Walker — won the twilight badminton doubles round-robin competition that ended last Thursday night at the Badminton Centre. A yankee tournament was held on the final night as all teams...

Second chances offer lifelines

EVERYBODY deserves a second chance. That’s exactly how YMP Black feel after their 25-point defeat — 69-44 — last night at the hands of Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates. The top four’s No. 2 team advanced straight to the men’s grand final of the...

Not enough to end the drought

ONE of the best individual performances in Poverty Bay-East Coast masters history was not enough to lift them off the bottom of the ladder at the Freyberg over-40s interprovincial this week. PBEC were beaten 3½-1½ by Tasman at New Plymouth’s...

Last dance

NETBALLTHE season will be over for either High School Old Girls or Waikohu at the end of their premier-grade netball sudden-death semifinal at the YMCA tomorrow. Whoever wins will go on to play YMP Sunshine Brewery in Wednesday night’s final...

Paikea in comeback

BASKETBALLThe late game is either a non-event or goes down to the wire. Game 4 of Week 7 in the Gisborne Basketball Association women’s club competition was the latter. Paikea Nation — who trailed Campion College by 10 points throughout the first...

Around the greens — bowling club news

KAHUTIAFor the first time in six years the Kahutia Bowling Club took out the Bill Edwards Tankard. On their home greens last Wednesday, the Kahutia bowlers triumphed by 15 points to 9. The Gisborne Bowling Club had won the trophy for the past five...

Chatham Islands team-building tour generates interest

Athletic Rugby Football Club has come up with a novel way to recruit players for the upcoming 2020 season — a tour to the Chatham Islands. Club players old and new have been fundraising — crutching sheep, splitting firewood, and cooking up kai...

A kilometre of hell to make world cup podium

GISBORNE'S Tayler Reid had to dig deep into his reserves of energy before clinching his first ITU World Cup elite podium finish. The 20-year-old, produced his best-ever Olympic distance race to place third in Karlov Vary, Czech Republic, and enhance...

Plenty in it for the spinners at Super 8 tournament

This Super 8 tournament is one for the spinners. In Pool 2 action at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday, Tauranga Boys' College captain and off-spin bowler Darcy Collett, Hastings Boys' High School leg-spinner Kulwant Singh, New Plymouth BHS leggie...

Naomi Shaw coaches Gisborne’s coaches

DURING coaching workshops this week in Gisborne White Sox coach and player Naomi Shaw praised the state of softball development in this region. The Softball New Zealand development officer was in town to run the workshops with Tairawhiti Softball...

Taylor wins his fourth ironman

New Zealand surf lifesaving stars Cory Taylor and Danielle McKenzie capped incredible national championship campaigns in Mount Maunganui yesterday, emphasising why they’re among the best surf athletes on the planet. Taylor, of Gisborne’s Midway...

Don’t hold back

Let it rip was the attitude when it came to unleashing the big dog at the New Zealand Amateur here last week. Gisborne Herald photographer and keen golfer Paul Rickard snapped many of the players hitting driver off the tee and was taken aback by some...

Napier get their name on the shield

BADMINTONNAPIER Boys’ High School won the Super 8 badminton competition hosted by Gisborne Boys’ High School at the Badminton Centre. This will be the first time Napier’s name has gone on the shield presented to the tournament winners. In second...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

It was another full-house at the 2NZEF Club as 10 teams vied for bragging rights. Of keen interest, however, were the two near-top-of-the-table clashes. The 2NZ Bullz hosted old rivals 2NZ Rebels and eventually won 8-7, while 2NZ Titans — away at...

Next national champs in Taranaki

SURFINGThe 2019 summer of surfing will start in Taranaki come January with New Zealand’s leading surfers competing at the Health 2000 National Surfing Championships. The longest-running surfing event in New Zealand will take place over seven days...

Pirates win epic under-13 battle

RUGBYPirates under-13 captain No. 8 David Gray led his weight-restricted team to an epic 19-17 win against Ngatapa under lights at The Oval on Wednesday. Ngatapa openside flanker William Matthews opened the scoring against the run of play with a try...