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Braybrook Cup victory completes perfect season for Wainui Riverina

Six goals for six players . . . Wainui Riverina shared the joy around as they completed a Women’s Eastern League-Braybrook Cup double at Childers Road Reserve on Sunday. Gisborne Laundry Services Wainui Riverina had won the women’s league with...

Gisborne girls third at Central Region tourney

Thomas Tindale’s girls hummed in the capital. Head coach Tindale’s Gisborne team at the Basketball New Zealand Aon Central Region Under-13 Tournament were placed third out of six A Grade teams at the Akau Tangi Sports Centre. Last Wednesday, the...

Tautau rules Cossie tables

Prolific snooker title winner Wayne Tautau added another to his collection at the 2023 Gisborne Cossie Club grade championship. Tautau topped a field of 12 players in the A-Grade champs. Qualifying was played over three frames and the semifinalists...

South Canterbury comeback sinks Coast in Meads Cup semi

The Sky Blues were poised to upend the most dominant team in the history of the Heartland Championship’s Meads Cup. But the Kahu Tamatea-coached Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi — who led two-time defending champions South Canterbury 17-3 after 44...

Turanganui-A-Kiwa Darts results

October 5 Individual highlights 180s: Tahuna Irwin (3), Heath Woollett (Falcons); John White (Tigers); Te Kotahi Kaio (2), Tristan Reeves (Da Bros); Rob TeKira (Ruahine). Highest start (180): Tristan Reeves (Da Bros). Highest finish (147): John...

Poverty Bay keep Lochore Cup hopes alive

A “dead and buried” Poverty Bay produced a contender for comeback of the season in their Lochore Cup semifinal on Saturday. Down 28-7, the Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas mounted a resurgence from the 54th minute to stun North Otago...

Thistle win PB Cup

Upsets were in short supply in Gisborne football cup finals at the weekend, but passion was out in force. High School Old Boys completed an Eastern League second-division double by beating Gisborne Thistle Youth 3-1 after extra time in the Chris...

Goal of a century

Players and supporters of Gisborne Thistle AFC will celebrate the club’s 100th anniversary at Easter Weekend next year. Gisborne Herald journalist John Gillies sets the scene by looking back at the Jags’ history. A hundred years of history...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: J Noanoa (2NZEF Rebels); M Reedy, J Love (Cossie Done & Dusted); M Hawea, H Eyles, A Kaiwai, A Taukamo-Pohio 2 (2NZEF TAO Vikings); T TeKira, J White, T Irwin 2 (Brezz’n Gold); L Cook (2NZEF 2NZ3); T O’Neill...

From last year’s Lochore Cup win, Ngāti Porou East Coast look to contest for Heartland rugby’s highest silverware

The Sky Blues are in the Meads Cup equation. The 31-26 loss that the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi had to the Thames Valley Swamp Foxes on Saturday is now as water off a duck’s back. Having scored four tries and being within seven points of their...

Boardriders Club get $50k injection

Gisborne Boardriders Club has been awarded a grant of $50,000 towards the salary of its surfing development manager. The grant comes from New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT), which raises money for amateur sport, the arts, education, health and the...

Trowill hopes to develop umpires

Jason Trowill has big plans for Poverty Bay Cricket. Trowill, a member of the 12-man Northern Districts umpires’ development panel to be mentored by Bryan Keightley and Mike Friis, hopes to train 15 to 20 local people in 2023-24 with a view to...

Bring on the Lochore Cup

Poverty Bay have done enough to continue their Heartland Championship campaign and contest the Lochore Cup. Top-of-the-table South Canterbury beat the Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas 41-31 at Paddy’s Park, Patutahi, on Saturday. But at...

Bay of Plenty ride wave of wins

Bay of Plenty steamrolled their opponents at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships in Gisborne last week, claiming their first victory in six years. They secured two titles on the final day, Friday, with 10 of the 12 team members featuring...

Bridge results

MONDAY, September 25 – Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 8 (Howell movement) Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 62.92 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 62.38 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 57.14 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 57.14 Diana Styche, Joy Marden...

Surf City women’s F Grade take away national superchamps title

SQUASH Surf City Squash Club achieved one championship, two runners-up spots and two top-four placings in the national superchamps week held around the country. The women’s F Grade team won their tournament in New Plymouth, beating Geyser City...

Rub of the green impacts season

Gisborne Thistle had the second-best scoring record in Central Football’s Federation League, and the worst defensive record. Their goals for couldn’t keep pace with their goals against and so they finished second-last in a five-team competition...

ON THE MATS

Andrew Rickard, son Adam and daughter Rachael have won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls Centre Closing Trios in a one-sided final. They beat Malcolm Trowell, Lois Lamont and Mike Foster 11-5. After four ends of nine, the Rickards were in...