Finalists from across a wide range of sporting codes have been recognised ahead of the 2018/2019 ILT Southland Sports Awards being staged next month. A fantastic year of sporting excellence has seen athletes and officials from 16 sports confirmed as finalists across seven categories at a function at
Congratulations to Marist Invercargill womens team who took out the womens championship in the final against Invercargill Blues Rugby Club, it was a fast, physical and exhilarating game to watch! Albion Excelsior Rugby Club est. 1899 took out third place with a win over Wakatipu Rugby Club. Woodland
Invercargill driver Jordan Michels has backed up his class win in the ENEOS North Island Endurance Series at Pukekohe Park Raceway last month with another class win at the final round of the series at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park last weekend. Michels, the current NZ F1600 Champion, had received a
In the lexicon of cycling, Bruce Ross will do one final ‘lap on the front’ as race director for the 2019 SBS Bank Tour of Southland before sitting in the back of the bunch for future races. It’s the end of an era. Bruce remembers watching stage finishes in Bluff as a young child, he […]
The 2019 Cycling New Zealand National Track Series pedalled into action in Invercargill over Queen’s Birthday weekend in the first of the three-round series. More than 70 of New Zealand’s best young riders, from under-17 to under-23 took part in the event, hosted by Cycling Southland at the SIT Zero
It was a very successful week of racing in Japan for the team, with some impressive performances over four hard days of racing. Corbin Strong showed plenty of consistency with 10th, 6th, 8th and 11th, to finish in 4th place overall General Classification and take out a comfortable victory in the U23
The Southland Sharks have endured a tough 105-82 must-win Thursday Night Lights victory over the plucky Supercity Rangers in an entertaining, yet at times loose game as both teams tried to find ascendancy in a see-sawing arm-wrestle. With plenty of talk during the week centred on Southland’s leaky d
Delivering when it mattered most, the Northern Stars have advanced to the ANZ Premiership Grand Final after upsetting defending champions Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel 56-53 in the Elimination Final in Invercargill on Wednesday. The Stars will meet Te Wānanga o Raukawa Pulse to decide the ANZ prem
