Spotlight on Southland Sport: Sunday Special
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Five Highlanders questions worth pondering
With four games to play, the Highlanders are long shots to be part of the 2025 Super Rugby Pacific playoffs. Tribune editor Logan Savory offers up five questions worth pondering. (READ MORE HERE).
The speech that helped turn a season around
Southland Sharks coach Jonathan Yim gathered the team before the April 5 showdown with the Indian Panthers and laid down a simple challenge. What has transpired since has been impressive. (READ MORE HERE).
150 years: A small-town rugby club's plucky survival
The exact number depends on who you talk to, but Otautau’s population is in the hundreds, not thousands. Just keep that thought in mind when you go about reading this piece which outlines the remarkable longevity of the Otautau Rugby Club. (READ MORE HERE).
Sav's Sidelines: The day Waikaka ruled Southland rugby
This week’s Sav’s Sidelines column delves back into the archives and recalls the day the Waikaka community ruled Southland rugby. We also cover off a Southland Boys’ High School first XV out in Auckland on Saturday. (READ MORE HERE).
Jeremy McLeod, a 200-game, 116-try Edendale stalwart
The 32-year-old has become just the seventh Edendale player to make it to 200 games, and the first back to do so. Although it’s the second five-eighth’s try-scoring feats that puts McLeod in an even rarer club. (READ MORE HERE).
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Successful sign-off win for Southland’s James McLeay
Even having to run with his shorts on inside out couldn’t prevent Southland middle distance athlete James McLeay from finishing his summer in emphatic style. (READ MORE HERE).
14-year-old bowls talent shines in Te Anau…
Fourteen-year-old Zoe Beck yet again highlighted her bowls talent by taking out the last Bowls Southland event of the season in Te Anau.
Beck teamed up with her Waihopai club mate Craig Tinker to win the Bowls Southland Champion of Champions Mixed Pairs tournament. It involved various club champions from throughout the province.
Beck went to the NZ Under 21 singles during the Easter period which was her first time playing at that level. She won eight games out of the 12 she played.
Steel’s preseason preparations…
The Southern Steel is in the midst of putting the finishing touches on its preseason preparations ahead of the start of the 2025 ANZ Premierships.
The Steel headed to Christchurch this week, where they lined up against the Mainland Tactix and Central Pulse in preseason outings.
The Wendy Frew-coached Steel toppled the Pulse 46-35 earlier on Saturday before losing 62-58 to the Tactix later in the day.
The Steel also has a hitout against a Christchurch men’s team on Sunday morning.
Their opening ANZ Premiership game will be against the Tactix in Christchurch on May 11.
Group race success for Riverton partnership
Graham Eade and granddaughter Brooke Kincaid have won a coveted Group race in their first season of training in partnership. (READ MORE HERE).
Harness Racing: The horses you need to follow
Racing journalist Jonny Turner has followed the form of each Diamonds Day contender through the season, and he gives his take on who will be best placed when the big day arrives. (READ MORE HERE).
