Sport & Motorsport

Head coach Dale MacLeod has achieved one of his first goals, just in time for the Christmas break. After only six weeks in the role he is pleased to have 15 of the best performing players from the past two seasons back for 2020 SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags. This comes with the exciting news […]

The Southland Sidecar Championship at Oreti Park Speedway on Saturday night. Jason Harpur and swinger James Dawson winning the main title. Harpur has won the Southland title twice previously as both a rider and a swinger. “It’s been 10 years since I’ve won it but I’ve competed every year,” he said.

The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel are looking to make their mark at this year’s Super Club, which begins this Sunday in Nelson. Steel join all five other ANZ Premiership teams, along with international club sides Collingwood Magpies (Australia) and Wasps Netball (England) at the tournament, which

Junior representative sport has been a hot topic of conversation lately, with many sporting organisations making decisions to cull junior representative programmes. Touch Southland have endeavoured to flip this script somewhat, in fact completely. Over the past seven weeks, more than 300 children ar

Matt Tautari has been a familiar name in Southland golf since he made his debut for the province about 20 years ago. Now the talented golfer, who plays out of Invercargill Golf Club, has celebrated his 100th game for the region at senior level – and is eyeing 150 and beyond. Tautari started playing

George Begg is a name those with even a fleeting interest in 1950s and 1960s motorsport admire. Begg had an illustrious career racing motorcycles in Britain and, famously, on the Isle of Man, before he returned home to Southland to open an engineering business. At his workshop in rural Southland Beg

Daniel Jones and Ruby Muir have made triumphant returns in difficult conditions at the 2019 Fresh Choice Kepler Challenge today. Sustained rainfall in the Fiordland region in recent weeks had forced race organisers to use an alternative route for just the third time in the Challenge’s 32-year histor

Despite just a handful of race meetings under their belt as a team, Jason Harpur and swinger James Dawson clinched the Southland Sidecar Championship at Oreti Park Speedway on Saturday night. In just their second season racing as a combination, Harpur and Dawson impressed throughout the heats to car