Southland Sports News

Despite a compelling effort from the SKYCITY Mystics, the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel have ground out a crucial 56-52 victory at home in Invercargill. It was the Mystics’ strongest performance of the ANZ Premiership so far – with standout performances from Bailey Mes, scoring 100 percent of her

PREMIER Blues 28 – Barbarians 19 Elles Road New World Blues left a wintery Invercargill and travelled to Gore to take on the Barbarians. Mother nature played her part as the sun was shining down on a firm Gore Showgrounds pitch. Elles Road New World Blues got off to a great start and applied pressur

ITM MIKE Racing have overcome adversity in the opening race of the ENEOS North Island Endurance Series to win on debut. Drivers Brendon Leitch and Christina Orr-West won the GT-A division for FIA GT3 homologated cars and finished fourth overall in a dramatic Three Hour race. It was a trying start fo

The competitors and cars have all gone home, but the winners of the ENEOS North Island Endurance Series opener have yet to be decided. Reigning champions Wet & Forget Racing dominated proceedings at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park in the Three Hour race. Drivers Chris Hanley and Simon Evans ran a near

Nick Cassidy got the better of former Formula One World Champion Jensen Button on his way to third place in the Suzuka 300 kms Super GT race in his Lexus LC500. With co-driver Ryo Hirakawa, the pair have now moved up to third overall in the series after three of the eight rounds. After qualifying […

Big congratulation to Erin Criglington, named Masters Female Track Cyclist of the Year at the Cycling New Zealand annual awards at the weekend. A great acknowledgement of the hard work she’s put in and her commitment to the sport. Erin was also appointed vice president of the Road & Track Council –

It was an extremely wet day, but was good to see the competitors stick it out. Some of the clubs Southland are heading up to Nelson and Blenheim at Queens Birthday weekend to complete in the ‘Sunbelts’ race meeting. This meeting along with three other meetings in Invercargill/Dunedin (18th 19th Augu

Congratulations St Mary’s Maroon taking out the 2018 INC Men’s Netball League title 33- 27 and what a battle it was, also Well done Collegiate Titans our runners up who fought hard. St Mary’s Blue finished off in third place 53-49 over the hearty Makarewa boys. Well done to both teams you put on a [