Spotlight on Southland Sport: Sunday Special
The Southland Tribune wraps up some key moments in the Southland sporting weekend. Enjoy.
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Southland Stags midfielder signs French deal
Division two French club Valaence Romas Drome Rugby has confirmed Isaac Te Tamaki’s signing. (READ MORE HERE).
Back-to-back Southland titles for Marist women
The women's game has been a big growth area for Southland rugby with Saturday providing yet another highlight. But it seems there's still plenty of work to do before the Farah Palmer Cup is realistic. (READ MORE HERE).
Club Rugby: Simmers, Kahukura snatch last-gasp game-deciding tries
The latest round of round-robin fixtures has simply highlighted the closeness of Southland’s premier competition in the race for the 2023 Galbraith Shield title. Logan Savory wraps up the action. (READ MORE HERE).
Stags 2023 countdown: Assessing the halfback options
We are under two months away from the start of the 2023 National Provincial Championship season. Logan Savory is taking a look at some of the Southland Stags’ playing prospects for the 2023 season. Today he puts the halfback options under the microscope. (READ MORE HERE). (Paid subscriber content).
Will the Sharks be part of the playoffs?
The Southland Sharks have left themselves with a challenging assignment in its attempt to book a playoff spot in the 2023 National Basketball League.
The Sharks now have a five-win eight loss record as they head into their final five games of the regular season.
The latest loss came against league leaders Auckland Tuatara on Saturday night. The Sharks showed some encouraging signs at at one point led by 10 before being blitzed in the fourth quarter to lose 101-86.
Southland led 72-65 heading into the final quarter before the home team won the final period 36-14.
The Sharks scored 50 points in the first half but managed just 36 in the second.
In 2022 ten wins were what was required to book a top-six playoff spot. A year on and nine wins, maybe even eight could get you there.
If that is so the Sharks need to win at least three of their remaining five games to give them a shot.
It starts tonight when less than 24 hours after the loss to the Tuatara Southland will line up against the Franklin Bulls.
Tip-off is 6pm with the game screened live on both Prime and Sky Sport.
Auckland Tuatara 101 (Rob Loe 32, Reuben Te Rangi 20, Jared Weeks 17, Cameron Giddon 17), Southland Sharks 86 (Jeremy Kendle 29, Grant Anticevich 17, Josh Cunningham 13).
Wazza on the world stage….
Southland’s favorite darts player Warren “Wazza” Parry has again been competing on the world stage. This time at the 2023 World Cup of Darts in Germany.
It’s a country versus country event and Parry teamed up with Canterbury’s Ben Robb to represent New Zealand.
Unfortunately, the pair were knocked out in pool play. While Parry and Robb beat Bahrain 4 legs to one they lost to Latvia 4-2 and it was Latvia who progressed to the knockout stage of the tournament.
From the Archives…
Speaking of Warren Parry this is as good of an opportunity as any to roll out one of my all-time favorite Southland sports stories.
The day the meat worker from Invercargill knocked over Mighty Mike van Gerwen, the world’s leading darts player.
Take a trip down memory lane and have a read of this story: Unassuming darts star Parry is back on the job
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SBHS knocks over Kings High School….
A hat-trick of tries to second five-eighth Jerome Buckley has lifted Southland Boys’ High School to a 33-17 victory over Dunedin’s Kings High School in the Otago Secondary Schools rugby competition.
Next up for Southland Boys’ will be John McGlashan College in Invercargill at 12.45pm next Saturday.
In Southland’s U18 competition, it was St Peters College which won the match of the round beating Verdon College 26-18. The SBHS 2nd XV racked up a 61-0 victory over James Hargest College with Alexander Burns contributing 26 points.
In the third game the combined Menzies College/Gore High outfit beat SBHS’ ‘Dogs of War’ team 58-21. Both Alex Burgess and Logan van der Straaten scored hat-tricks.
In case you missed it…
Key asset: Scott Eade is developing an ever-growing reputation as a significant asset for Southland rugby, in its attempt to produce more Super Rugby players and move the Stags up the NPC standings. (READ MORE HERE).
‘Pinnacle’: After having to bide his time for what seemed like an eternity, Sheldon Bagrie-Howley now plans to do whatever is required to become a fixture in New Zealand bowls. (READ MORE HERE).
