Southland Sports News

Southland Strokeplay and South Island Strokeplay A high quality field contested the 54 hole Southland Strokeplay and Golf NZ South Island Strokeplay over the weekend at the Invercargill Golf Club played in perfect conditions. Carmeron Harlock (New Plymouth GC) took out the title in a play off with J

Defending champion Daniel Jones and New Zealand trail running star Ruth Croft have completed two of the best finishing times ever recorded to win a delayed 2021 Kepler Challenge in Te Anau today. Traditionally held on the first weekend of December, Covid uncertainty prompted organisers to move the e

WorldTour cyclist Shane Archbold and rising star Ally Wollaston grabbed the honours in the Criterium National Championships in Christchurch on Sunday. Archbold scored his first win back with the Bora Hansgrohe team, saving his run until three laps out and outsprinting the outstanding mountain biker

The 2021 National Basketball season may not have ended the way Alonzo Burton had hoped, but he is using last year’s late season injury as fuel ahead of his 2022 return to the Southland Sharks. Burton was forced to sit out the Sharks’ NBL semifinal loss to Hawke’s Bay in July as a broken finger […]

The busy Christmas season for the Southland Sharks continued today with Liam McRae confirming his return for the 2022 New Zealand National Basketball League. “It was an easy decision to be honest, I mean there’s nothing like playing down South especially when the crowd gets going as they did last se

Junior Summer Series Golf Southland is excited to present a junior golf series this summer; with all abilities catered to and parent support and interaction highly encouraged. The four-round series will tee off on February 21, at Invercargill Golf Course, with further rounds being played at Gore (14

One of Southland’s oldest charity golf tournaments is set to tee off again on February 10, and this year it will raise funds for the Hawthorndale Care Village. The ILT/Liqourland Charity Golf Tournament has been on the calendar for more than 30 years and is a remnant from the SBS Invitational – an e

The SIT Zero Fees Southland Sharks added another young talent to its National Basketball League roster with former Junior Tall Black and Wellington College prodigy Sione “Johnny” Helu signing for the 2021 Sal’s NBL. The 21-year-old guard is the partner of one of Southland’s favourite sporting export