Southland Sports News

In her 138th and final national league match, long-standing shooter Bailey Mes bowed out in style when her team, Avis Magic, pipped the Ascot Park Hotel Steel 53-52 in a thrilling finale to both teams’ seasons in Invercargill on Sunday. In a riveting contest and with neither team able to change thei

Guided by an almost perfect shooting performance by Maia Wilson, the Robinhood Stars have taken a stride closer to the ANZ Premiership Finals Series with a 58-47 victory over the winless Ascot Park Hotel Steel in Invercargill. Wilson continued to produce a career-best shooting this season with a 98

A final quarter squeeze by the AVIS Magic has denied the Ascot Park Hotel Steel their first win of the season, with a 52-45 victory at home in Hamilton. It was the Magic’s first win in five matches – and the desperation of both sides to claim victory was obvious from the outset. The Steel […]

Te Wānanga o Raukawa Pulse managed to clinch a fifth straight win but had to wait until the final four seconds before pinching a 44-43 win over a brave Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in Invercargill on Saturday. In rare territory, the home side took a five-goal lead into halftime, the Pulse recover

The Trident Homes Tactix would have been happy to pocket the points after grinding out a hard-fought 50-31 win over the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in Dunedin on Sunday. In a low-scoring spectacle, the high-flying Tactix were kept honest by a dogged Steel team, inflating the score with a flurry

New centurion Tiana Metuarau led her Te Wānanga o Raukawa Pulse side in their continued march up the leader-board with a 62-38 victory over the Ascot Park Hotel Steel in Wellington. Metuarau, at 22, became the youngest player to notch up 100 games in the national league, and gave a polished performa

The racing was intense from the first race until the last when Southland hosted the 2023 New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships at the weekend. The MotoSouth, KTM and Kawasaki-sponsored annual school holiday event was run over three days, from Friday through until Sunday, at The Sandpit track on

The Robinhood Stars were pushed all the way before returning to winning ways when posting a heart-stopping 49-47 win over a resurgent Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in Auckland on Saturday. Still searching for their first win in an injury-challenged season, the Steel had their best outing to date,