Southland Sports News
Southland has two New Zealand Junior Motocross champs after three days of racing in Palmerston North. Congratulations to Mitch Weir 1st 12-13yr 85 cc & Seth Morrow 1st 8-11 yr 85cc. Southland has produced some great motocross riders and the results showed at the NZ Junior Motocross Champs. The track
Les Hoffman and the New Zealand team shot their way into Silver Medal position for the senior teams event at the FITASC Oceania Clay Target Shooting Competition held in in Queensland, Australia on April 20-22. Les also won 4th Senior placing overall and with his combined scores from earlier competit
Finding their groove late, the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel powered home to clinch a 66-60 win over the much-improved Northern Mystics to close out Round Nine in Dunedin tonight. Well in the contest heading down the home straight, the Mystics could not contain the defending champions who showed t
Cycling New Zealand has announced an exciting 20-strong team to contest the under-19 competition at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships at Invercargill in October. The team will be joined by the national elite team to take on the best from Australia and the Pacific in the four-day competition at
A new fund has been launched to get more young women physically active, and Southland organisations are being called on to put their hand in for their share. The Innovations for Young Women Fund was launched by Sport New Zealand at the start of April, as part of a two-pronged investment to get more
Telecommunications company Spark will broadcast more Rugby World Cup matches on free-to-air television so All Black fans can see their men in action. The All Blacks changed up their haka for their Test against Italy with captain Kieran Read leading the way. Spark and TVNZ have partnered to broadcast
The event was a demonstration by members of the Southland – Otago Axemens Centre . It took place before a good sized audience at the Invercargill Working Mens Club. Photos by Dave Loudon Photography
The SIT Zerofees Southland Sharks have shown why they’re Sal’s NBL heavyweights by earning a 95-92 comeback victory over the visiting Wheeler Motor Company Canterbury Rams. The visitors got off to a hot start in the first quarter and punished the Sharks for sub-par perimeter defence by nailing all b