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SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags are releasing a new video today announcing Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) as their naming sponsor for another two seasons. Filmed last week at SIT, the fun, short video features Stags Head Coach Dale MacLeod, enthusiastically hammering out a game plan on a white

Liam MacDonald of Invercargill won the Southland Sports Car Club Champions Trophy for the seventh time at the club’s 2019/2020 prizegiving at Teretonga Park on Monday night. The trophy is awarded to the overall Club Champion and is decided from points awarded across ClubSport and Race Championship e

Marist & Blues: The storm is over, at least for Division 1. Both Premier and Ack Soper Shield grades have made it through storm week, with 3 games in the space of just 8 days. Ack Soper division one now have five weeks of regular season play, along with all grades bar premier who have […]

Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel shooter Georgia Heffernan will be sidelined for the rest of the year following a serious knee injury. Scans have confirmed a ruptured ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), MCL (medial collateral ligament) and meniscus damage to her right knee after she landed awkwardly du

Participation in softball has been growing at such a rate over the past 5 years, there is no wonder Invercargill needs new clubrooms. The $1.8 redevelopment of the Southland Softball Association’s facility is well underway, and should be ready for the summer season. Project manager Noel Eade said th

Corbin Strong’s outstanding first year as an elite cyclist has been recognised with the ILT Senior Sportsperson of the Year award. The senior award was the culmination of a week-long virtual celebration of Southland sport presented by Sport Southland on behalf of the Southland Amateur Sports Trust.

They say Death visits thrice. For me the last 10 days or so has seen that character visit 4 times, to people I have known or known of. Sadly one of those in the “known of” category is ever jovial sports identity and drummer, Peter White. Peter was struck down with Motor Neuron disease earlier […]

The third night of the 2020 ILT Southland Sports Awards included an emotional tribute to long-standing Southland tennis coach Peter White, along with the Southland Kia Team of the Year and Ricoh Southland Coach of the Year awards. White was diagnosed with motor neurone disease earlier this year and