Spotlight on Southland Sport: Friday Edition
Enjoy your Friday Southland sports read.
Welcome to The Southland Tribune’s Spotlight on Sport: Friday Edition offering. We’ll be back with our Sunday Sports Special in a couple of days.
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Stags contracting on track, big name signing in pipeline
The Southland Stags look set to retain close to 26 players from its 2023 NPC squad and are also on the verge of locking in a new big-name signing. Rugby Southland director of rugby Matt Saunders confirmed they were making good progress around player contracting for the 2024 season. (READ MORE HERE).
Southland cricket's man of many talents
It’s hard to think of too many people who have poured more into Southland cricket in recent years than Jason Domigan. Shaun Fitzgibbon can probably enter the conversation when looking for another example. (READ MORE HERE).
International duties for top Southland track cyclists
International assignments are next on the agenda for Southland track cyclists Caitlin Kelly, Marshall Erwood and Magnus Jamieson. The three SBS Bank Academy Southland riders were all members of the New Zealand junior world championships team earlier this year. (READ MORE HERE).
Frustration for Leitch at opening Asian Le Mans Series weekend
The opening two races of the 2023/24 Asian Le Mans Series proved frustrating for Southland’s Brendon Leitch and his Leipert Motorsport team over the weekend. The Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia hosted the first two of the five-race series which saw Leitch and teammates top AM (Amateur) driver Gabriel Rindone and Lamborghini factory driver Marco Mapelli compete in a factory-supported Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2. (READ MORE HERE).
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In case you missed it…
Black Caps call-up: Former Southland Boys’ High School pupil Jacob Duffy has been included in the Black Caps one-day squad to play a series against Bangladesh starting in Dunedin on December 17. (READ MORE HERE).
The Radiant One: Owner-trainers the Dennis brothers are planning a trip to Wellington to start The Radiant One in the $450,000 Telegraph at Trentham on January 13. The Southland horse’s runs for third and fourth in the major sprint races, the Pegasus Stakes and Stewards Stakes, at the New Zealand Cup meeting in Christchurch in November convinced the brothers to aim her at the Group I Telegraph. (READ MORE HERE).
NZ Schools: Based on current national rankings (Athletics New Zealand rank every athlete who meet a certain standard in performance order for every event) a number of Southland athletes are worth watching. (READ MORE HERE).
Southland teen stars: Yamaha Motor New Zealand’s Motorsport Manager Josh Coppins describes Cormac Buchanan’s lap record-breaking feat and three race wins as “probably one of his best rides he has had with us.” (READ MORE HERE).
