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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Southland prop to start in World Cup quarter-final
Southland’s Ethan de Groot has been whisked straight back into the All Black starting lineup for the Rugby World Cup quarter-final showdown against Ireland on Sunday morning [NZ time]. (READ MORE HERE).
Invercargill apprentice plumber rises up NZ darts ranks
For the past decade or so Warren “Wazza” Parry has dominated headlines when it has come to the Invercargill darts scene. And quite rightly so.
But there’s a 23-year-old Invercargill apprentice plumber who’s now attracting plenty of attention. (READ MORE HERE).
Invercargill Treat: 182-game 3x3 Cup schedule revealed
Basketball New Zealand has revealed the full 182-game schedule for the 3×3 Cup in Invercargill later this month. The 3×3 Cup will run from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 October, with 28 teams (14 men’s and 10 women’s competing, while the men’s and women’s National teams for New Zealand and Australia play for the Trans-Tasman Cup) engaging in non-stop action over four days at ILT Stadium Southland. (READ MORE HERE).
NZ and Australia teams named for 3x3 showdown in Invercargill
The stage is set for the first-ever 3x3 Trans-Tasman showdown later this month, with Basketball New Zealand and Basketball Australia announcing their respective national teams for this inaugural 3x3 international series. (READ MORE HERE).
Magic Moment: Three Southlanders, one US athletics meet
Southland athletics has produced many magical moments so as part of a Tribune series we are recalling some of them. Today we turn the clock back to when three Southlanders all lined up the American NCAA Western Regionals in Texas. (READ MORE HERE).
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(Out & About)
ILT Southland Darts Masters - Saturday & Sunday - Ascot Park Hotel
Sixteen of New Zealand’s best darts players will converge on the Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargill on Saturday and Sunday as they chase a total prize pool of $15,000. The winner will pick up $5500.
Check out our above yarn with Southland young gun Kayden Milne who will line up in the event.
(On the Couch)
All Blacks v Ireland - Sunday, 8am - Sky Sport
The Rugby World Cup is finally about to start, we are now at the knockout stage. Enough said.
In case you missed it…
Squash alert: For a little club, Squash City does big things. The Invercargill sports club is known for rolling up its sleeves and delivering for both its members and the wider city. That will again be highlighted this weekend. (READ MORE HERE).
Southland’s latest world champ: “I started off as the slow one in a corporate pursuit team having not done much exercise at all for the previous decade. But I really enjoyed the speed of sprinting on the velodrome and got hooked.” (READ MORE HERE)
Marathon winner: Craig Iversen's win on Sunday gave him the historic Southland Marathon Cup, the very same trophy first won by Dave Stewart in the original Southland Marathon back in 1909. (READ MORE HERE).
Our Flash Harry: Invercargill horseman Sabin Kirkland was a winner on and off the track at Ascot Park on Sunday. His first starter Our Flash Harry won a maiden race in the hands of Cambridge apprentice Elen Nicohlas, while Kirkland's classy sprinter-miler, Buoyant, was named Southland Horse of the Year at the presentation of the Southland Racing Awards, for the 2022-23 season. (READ MORE HERE).
