A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Father-and-son new-ball attack George and Jonah Reynolds made Poverty Bay club cricket history on Saturday.
Playing for Rawhiti Legal Old Boys Rugby in Round 2 of the Hope Cup, they dismissed the Gisborne Boys' High School second 11 for 11 runs in 8.1 overs — the lowest score in 126 years of senior club cricket.
Jonah, who with the wind swung the ball into left-handed batsmen from a great line and length, took 4-6 in 4.1 overs, bowling one leftie and two right-handers.
George's left-arm in-swingers yielded 6-5 in four overs. He hit the stumps five times, and was named the OBR MVP (most valuable player).
Second 11 captain and first drop Nathaniel Fearnley made their top score of five off 20 balls.
OBR's margin of victory was 201 runs.
OBR won the toss, chose to bat on Harry Barker Reserve No.3 and posted 212-8 in 30 overs.
No.2 Thom Berry (60), left-hander Peter Stewart (21) and No.7 Mana Taumaunu (47 not out) consolidated for OBR after they lost captain Craig Christophers (4), first drop Heinrich Putter (9) and fourth man in Matt McFatter (2) — all bowled by Year 9 left-armer Caleb Taewa (3-23 in six overs).
Of the 10 bowlers used by Boys' High, Taewa coped best with the gusting south-easterly.
GBHS wicketkeeper Kavindu Withanage held the sharpest catch of the OBR innings — off a flashing cut shot by the powerful Berry — standing up to diminutive off-spinner Ted Gillies (1-14 from four overs).
Boys' High vice-captain Jett Whitaker said his side's fielding standard was, on the whole, good.
Clearly, though, the students need to work on their batting.
“We know we need to move our feet and create a solid defensive position against the good-length ball.”
Bollywood High School Old Boys Presidents defeated Horouta Te Waka by 23 runs in the closest game of the round.
Presidents' Kyle Jean-Louis led his team's batsmen with 31, No.2 John Phelps made 26 and wicketkeeper Glen Udall, 22 not out, as HSOB posted 148-8.
The wide count for Horouta was costly — 33.
Game-day captain Billy Morse, who can swing the ball, and nip it in and away off the seam, produced some fine deliveries to take 4-23 from five overs.
Mike Tapp, one of two canny left-arm orthodox spinners to try the patience of opposition batsmen, bowled out with 3-25.
Alan Knight made 37 — the highest score of the match — at No.7 and wicketkeeper-batsman Riley Horsfield, 27 at 8, as Horouta gave the chase for 149 a real push.
Jean-Louis took 2-16 in three overs, while Yegan Lanka, also capable of swinging the ball both ways, grabbed 2-20 off six.
For HSOB, Tom Crosby bowled his left-arm spin tightly for 1-13.
Te Waka's batsmen ran hard between wickets in an exciting innings that closed four balls into the 30th over at 125 with a classic dismissal.
Matt Jefferd, a tall bowler with a high action, got an off-break to curve away late and bowl Tayla Hollis (2).
HSOB captain Ollie Needham, who won the toss and chose to bat, had made the point in the lead-up to the game that Horouta were second in round-robin play last season and he couldn't remember the last time his Presidents had beaten them.
Morse emphasised the value of batting partnerships, such as that shared by Phelps and first drop Needham (18) for HSOB, and Horsfield and Jason Brookes's support of Knight.
Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps are enjoying themselves.
Ever since they first entered a side in Senior B club cricket, their team spirit and enthusiasm for a team who train only once a week — pre-match — is a feature of the grade.
On Saturday they handed the Campion College first 11 their second loss of the season, by six wickets, on HBR 2.
Campion captain Hamish Swann won the toss and elected to take first knock against the Green Caps.
The College were bowled out for 78 in 28.3 overs.
Up-and-coming all-rounder Connor Starck made an unbeaten 35 from No.5, the highest individual score in the match.
He shared a fourth-wicket stand of 54 with fellow Year 10 student Aidan Armstrong, who was second on the list of Campion's run-scorers with 13.
That partnership, the biggest of the match, offset to a degree the loss of their first three wickets for five runs. But Campion lost their last six wickets for 19 runs.
Ngatapa spearhead Thor Crombie took 3-10 in 5.3 overs and EJ Nepe, 2-7 from three overs.
Old hand Richard Briant held two catches at silly mid-on.
In reply, the Green Caps reached 79-4 in 13.5 overs with left-handed opener Briant making their highest individual score — 27.
Swann ran out Briant's opening partner Raju Karki (9) with the score at 30 and also took 2-16 in 2.5 overs bowling first change.
Campion never gave the game away.
From the best seat in the house, Ngatapa wicketkeeper Simon Wilson witnessed both their young opponents' tenacity with the bat and the quality of a pitch that offered a little movement of the ball off the wicket but also the consistency of pace and bounce that gives every cricketer a chance.