Southland Sports News

Finalists from across a wide range of sporting codes have been recognised ahead of the 2018/2019 ILT Southland Sports Awards being staged next month. A fantastic year of sporting excellence has seen athletes and officials from 16 sports confirmed as finalists across seven categories at a function at

Congratulations to Marist Invercargill womens team who took out the womens championship in the final against Invercargill Blues Rugby Club, it was a fast, physical and exhilarating game to watch! Albion Excelsior Rugby Club est. 1899 took out third place with a win over Wakatipu Rugby Club. Woodland

It was a very successful week of racing in Japan for the team, with some impressive performances over four hard days of racing. Corbin Strong showed plenty of consistency with 10th, 6th, 8th and 11th, to finish in 4th place overall General Classification and take out a comfortable victory in the U23

The Southland Sharks have endured a tough 105-82 must-win Thursday Night Lights victory over the plucky Supercity Rangers in an entertaining, yet at times loose game as both teams tried to find ascendancy in a see-sawing arm-wrestle. With plenty of talk during the week centred on Southland’s leaky d

Delivering when it mattered most, the Northern Stars have advanced to the ANZ Premiership Grand Final after upsetting defending champions Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel 56-53 in the Elimination Final in Invercargill on Wednesday. The Stars will meet Te Wānanga o Raukawa Pulse to decide the ANZ prem

After a successful inaugural year, the National Track Series is back for 2019, beginning with round one in Invercargill from 31 May-2 June. The National Track Series was implemented in 2018 to provide a platform for young riders to further develop their tactical and technical awareness on the track,

The dress rehearsal has been put to bed and now the Southern Steel and Northern Stars go toe-to-toe for real in the ANZ Premiership Elimination Final. There was little to glean from the performance last week – the one lesson for the Stars to walk away with was they just can’t afford a similar start

Make no mistake, the Hawke’s Bay Hawks are the real deal in season 2019 of the Sal’s NBL and their recent run of high-scoring and hot shooting suggests they are starting to believe they have a genuine shot at winning a title in late July. Up against a Sharks outfit desperate for redemption after a [