PremiumPremiumSportDRAWSCyclingGisborne Cycling Club events — visitors welcome. Saturday — GCC Saturday Summer Series, Race 3. Sign-on: 1.30pm to 1.50pm at Kaimoe Road. Race start: 2pm. Marshals: Ian Chatfield, Barry Hyland. Graded race: Pehiri Road. Sunday — Group ride...17 Mar 02:22 AM
PremiumPremiumSportHoping to end NZ ?stay with a flourishPOWER TUMBLINGEMILIE Morawietz had just arrived from Germany for a year of study in Gisborne when she watched her host compete in power tumbling. She decided to give it a go and quickly followed in the footsteps of Gisborne tumbler and gymnast Amy...17 Mar 02:22 AM
PremiumPremiumSportBoys’ High building towards Super 8RUGBYBig rugby is just around the corner for Gisborne Boys’ High School. Ryan Tapsell’s first 15 are steeling themselves for their second-last pre-Super 8 game — at 12.30pm tomorrow against Feilding Agricultural High School at Whitmore Park...17 Mar 02:22 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGOLF ROUNDUPIf you have a story, tournament to promote or results you wish to have printed, contact The Gisborne Herald at 869-0633 or email sports@gisborneherald. co. nz17 Mar 02:22 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTuranganui a Kiwa Darts Association resultsIndividual HIGHLIGHTS180s: Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2 (Young Guns); John Love, John White (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men (140): Te Kotahi Kaio 4, Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard (Young Guns); Tahuna Irwin, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Heath Woollett (Tigers); Matty...17 Mar 02:22 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTournament ‘biggest and best yet’RUGBY SEVENSThis year’s Turanga Sevens tournament was the biggest and best yet, with 11 teams playing in a festival of rugby. Hawke’s Bay team MAC beat Waikohu 19-17 in the final to win the tournament. Campbell Hall, of Waikohu, was the...17 Mar 02:22 AM
PremiumPremiumSportNow for next challengeWAKA AMA by John GilliesCHALLENGES have been met and more lie ahead for Horouta Waka Hoe paddlers still glowing from their success at the Waka Ama New Zealand National Sprint Championships at Lake Karapiro. Horouta won the club points trophy for the...17 Mar 02:21 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGisborne Club Darts Association results: Marcus Leach, Jono Griffiths (both from RSA Men of Mayhem); Tobias Campbell-Ratapu (2NZ Vikings); Matt Reedy, Monty Reedy (Cossy Done & Dusted).Mike Jones (Roseland); Kayne Arahanga, Tyson Eyles, Irie Eyles (2NZ Kings); George Vaotuua (2NZ...17 Mar 02:21 AM
PremiumPremiumSportIncentive for Waikohu is outright third placeNETBALLWAIKOHU (1) have plenty to play for when they take on competition leaders YMP at the YMCA tomorrow. A win or a bonus-point loss would see them move into outright third place on the table. Heading into the two games tomorrow, YMP Sunshine...17 Mar 02:21 AM
PremiumPremiumSportVisit to Tauranga a drought-breakerA SMALL team from Tu Mana Toa Martial Arts travelled from Gisborne to Tauranga to break a Covid-induced drought of sporting contests. The Bay Open taekwondo tournament was held during Queen's Birthday Weekend and although it was scaled down to...17 Mar 02:21 AM
PremiumPremiumSportWaikohu, Horouta in challenge roundNETBALLLYTTON High School’s strong performance against Whangara Old Girls, where they went within a whisker of a major upset, and two fine wins to Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A were highlights of netball grading games on Saturday. As...17 Mar 02:21 AM
PremiumPremiumSportCream of NZ junior crop in actionGISBORNE’S rising surf lifesavers are pitting their skills against the best young talent in the country at Oceans ’17 on Mt Maunganui’s main beach. Hundreds of junior athletes are at the Mount for the New Zealand under-14 national...17 Mar 02:20 AM
PremiumPremiumSportFive-four women's split decidedGISBORNE women’s hockey splits into top-five and bottom-four divisions from this weekend. YMP A, GMC Kowhai, GMC Green, Ben Holden Fencing Ngatapa and Paikea filled the first to fifth places on the table. The bottom four teams are Emerre and...17 Mar 02:19 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGolf roundupTolaga BayTHE target hole at the Ray Scragg Motors King of the Coast men’s open proved a challenge for many and a disaster for at least one poor schmuck over the weekend. Club member Mike Brooker ran the hole — the par-3 eighth — and got to...17 Mar 02:19 AM
PremiumPremiumSportBadminton players in Rotorua for last round of 2018Eastland badminton players will be in Rotorua tomorrow for the final weekend of the 2018 inter-association super veterans Division 2 competition. All nine teams in the competition will be there, and Eastland will play Auckland (2) and North...17 Mar 02:19 AM
PremiumPremiumSportAround the greensPoverty BayTHE club’s traditional first tournament of the new year was for the Graham Shield. It was a mixed graded fours event sponsored by Evans Funeral Services played last Wednesday. Thirty-two players braved the searing heat — over 30 degrees...17 Mar 02:18 AM
PremiumPremiumSportBay lose to WhanganuiTHE Poverty Bay years 7 and 8 cricket team went down to Whanganui in the opening game of the Riverbend tournament in Hastings yesterday. Batting first, the Bay posted 175-8 from their 40 overs. Cohen Loffler (30) Nathan Trowell (27 not out) Liam...17 Mar 02:18 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTop NZ women waka ama paddlers in GisborneSOME of New Zealand’s top female waka ama paddlers met in Gisborne at the weekend for final selection trials for the Va’a World Sprint Championships. The championships will be held on Australia’s Sunshine Coast in May. Paddlers selected from an...17 Mar 02:17 AM
PremiumPremiumSportRiders take on must-do eventIT is known in motocross circles as the “must-do” of all cross-country events. So a small group of Gisborne riders “did” and did it well at the Tarawera 100 Cross Country Race at Te Teko last weekend. The five-strong Gisborne contingent all...17 Mar 02:17 AM
PremiumPremiumSportRaiders, City Lights set the tempoIf Gisborne Boys' High School versus Green Up was the main event in men's club basketball this week, the Raiders-City Lights clash in Game 1 got the juices flowing. Lights skipper Scott Muncaster (13 points), so often the point of the sword for his...17 Mar 02:17 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTautau wins President’s TrophyWayne Tautau’s list of snooker achievements got a little longer when the President’s Trophy was decided at the Cosmopolitan Club. The trophy, played off handicap, brings together players who have won or been runner-up in Gisborne Cossie Snooker...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportHannah King second at Raglan surfing compSURFINGGISBORNE surfer Hannah King finished second in the under-16 girls’ division of the Backdoor Oceanbridge Manu Bay Pro at Raglan yesterday. King finished with a heat score of 6.40 in the final. The winner, Raglan’s Brie Bennett, boosted her...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportAkroyd shines at Freyberg MastersREPRESENTATIVE stalwart Tony Akroyd could write a book about his golfing successes over the years. Yesterday he added another chapter. Akroyd racked up two wins as Poverty Bay-East Coast were pipped twice on the penultimate day of the Freyberg Masters...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportMartin’s century sets up Horouta for victoryCRICKETKeegan Martin’s unbeaten century was the mainstay of Horouta’s victory over Campion College in Hope Cup cricket at the weekend. Martin came to the crease with his side in trouble at 11-2 and smashed 17 fours and three sixes on his way to...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportHusband and wife made life membersBOWLS by Jack MalcolmBOWLING brought Carol and Arthur Hawes together over 40 years ago and on Sunday they were made life members of Gisborne Bowling Club. It is the first time the club has awarded life membership to a husband and wife. Life-member...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGolf roundupDOWNPOURS were the talk of the First Light Frozen/Taste One Xmas Hams open tournament on Sunday. Wet weather resulted in some non-appearances and others pulling the pin during their round but amid this there were several impressive scores. The rain...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportStraight talk from Coast coach Hosea GearWhen talking rugby, the salt of the earth — Ngati Porou East Coast — don't go the airy-fairy “We're disappointed”.They say, “We gave it death, mate; lost 42-16.”The Hosea Gear-coached Coast under Hone Haerewa make no excuses: they were...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGisborne teams return with age-group titlesBASKETBALLThey were amazing. The Gisborne Basketball Association’s under-11 boys coached by Adam Tapsell, and the u13 girls coached by Thomas Tindale have returned from their tournaments in Franklin at the weekend as champions. The u13 girls, led by...17 Mar 02:16 AM
PremiumPremiumSportSuper Rugby debut for DolemanReferee James Doleman makes his Super Rugby debut tomorrow night as the man in charge of the Rebels-versus-Lions clash in Melbourne. His Gisborne grandmother, Rose Doleman, was proud to hear of James's appointment today. An avid sports fan, Rose...17 Mar 02:14 AM
PremiumPremiumSportGear sticking to his gunsThe Kaupoi got a lot right last Saturday. And to that end, Ngati Porou East Coast rugby head coach Hosea Gear has named the same starting 15 and 23-man squad for tomorrow's away game with the Mid-Canterbury Hammers, as those who lost 32-14 at home to...17 Mar 02:14 AM
PremiumPremiumSportPirates inflict OBR’s first loss of seasonOBR’s unbeaten run in all forms of the game this season was ended by Pirates in round 5 of the Walker Shield twenty20 competition at Harry Barker Reserve. Pirates posted 140-5, then restricted their opponents to 137-8. Dane Thompson celebrated his...17 Mar 02:14 AM
PremiumPremiumSportCaptain’s high-quality knockPatrick McInnes was superb. The Central Stags opener made a magnificent 84 not-out from No1 in Central's successful defence of the coveted, 85 year-old MCC (Marleybone Cricket Club) Bat at Nelson Park on Wednesday. McInnes' knock, an innings which...17 Mar 02:14 AM
PremiumPremiumSportTuranganui a Kiwa Darts Association resultsIndividual Highlights from Tuesday180s: Warren Coe. Highest straight start (140): Pots Te Kira (Pounamu) 2, Warren Coe, Willie Edwards (Tigers).Highest double start (105): John White (Tigers).Highest finish (89): John White (Tigers).Most tons, men...17 Mar 02:14 AM