Southland Sports News

Timber Sports at the annual Tuatapere Sports Day have been held at Tuatapere since 1910. The timber sports were a great chance for people to view world class and world champion woodchoppers and sawyers in action. The event at Tuatapere formed part of the Southern Axemens Christmas circuit. It attrac

There was plenty of silver dangling around the necks of Southland’Touch players after the Southern IPS held in Christchurch at the weekend. The Southland under-12 girls, under-14 boys and under-16 girls’ sides all progressed through to the final of their respective grades where they all took on Cant

Some slight tweaks to the make-up of Southland’s junior representative teams will be of focus when they compete in the annual Southern Junior IPS in Christchurch this weekend. Over the past few years Touch Southland have sent separate teams from Southland (Invercargill based featuring country player

A huge weekend of Touch took place with tournaments in both Oamaru and Alexandra. Saturday saw our under-12, under-14 and under-16 boys and girls teams take on the best of Canterbury and Otago. All teams took some valuable experiences from the tournament and now know the standard required when the S

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has revealed he will step down after next year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan. He said whoever replaced him would bring a new perspective. “Some fresh eyes, some fresh thinking … whoever it is will be fresh. It will be for the enhancement of the legacy of the jersey,” he […

On Friday Southern Dirt Bike Club hosted round one of three annual twilight series with 154 entries. For more information about the club go to their Facebook page Southern Dirt Bike Riders Photos by Richard Dimmock Photography  On-line entries are open again for our MX champs on the 16th and also op

Southland Power Boat Club event and the photos are of the Crosbie Shield races, people have been competing for the Crosbie Shield since 1953. Andrew Railton of Invercargill took the honor on Saturday. Kartsport Southland held last event for 2018 and was a club racing event. Action photos by Dave Lou

Spectators enjoyed a great weekend of motor racing action presented by Downer at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend. Here are more highlight photos from both days by Dave Loudon Photography.