Ticket sales for Dunedin's first test in 10 years have been as expected despite more than 10% of the seats remaining unsold, Netball New Zealand game development manager Kate Agnew says.
Shaun Haig hit his second century in two days to help Pelichet Bay run down Southland in the District Series yesterday.
• Green Island 273 for nine beat Kaikorai 190 at Sunnyvale
In every interview Silver Ferns shooter Irene van Dyk gives she is inevitably asked when she plans to retire.
Cricket fans in Oamaru have something to cheer about this summer with top level cricket returning after a four-year absence.
Otago mountain runner Anna Frost's career reached new heights over the weekend when her eighth placing in the final race of the world mountain running grand prix in Slovenia was enough to clinch the overall title.
Marg Foster has battled back from cancer and says the time is now right to re-launch her coaching career.
John Reid is not one to suffer fools or mince his words. He told cricket writer Adrian Seconi the Black Caps batting line-up needs to get back to basics.
The Daniels sisters might have retired from competitive synchronised swimming but they have just begun co-ordinating the next generation.
Netball New Zealand coach development manager Leigh Gibbs found it difficult to give an answer when asked if the revamped national championships had been a success.
"We're young, we're inexperienced, but next year we'll be that much better."
"We're young, we're inexperienced, but next year we'll be that much better."
Netball New Zealand coach development manager Leigh Gibbs found it difficult to give an answer when asked if the revamped national championships had been a success.
It had been nearly half a century since the southerners had last won the national championships and Southland player-coach Natalie Avellino was quick to squash tongue-in-cheek suggestions she was alive at the time.
Former Silver Ferns shooter Jessica Tuki has played her last game for Otago.
Otago coach Georgie Salter was not buying into the argument poor shooting cost the team a place in the national championship final today.
Silver Ferns coach Ruth Aitken knew she was taking a risk by starting Southern Steel defender Katrina Grant ahead of some of the more experienced campaigners for the must-win match against Australia recently.
Twenty years after making her debut at the national championships for King Country, Southern Steel midcourter Jenny-May Coffin is hanging up her bib.
Otago and New Zealand Under-21 midcourter Camilla Lees will follow a well-trodden path north to play for the Canterbury Tactix next season.
An emotional Otago coach, Georgie Salter, thought her side had blown its opportunity to advance through to the semifinals shortly after its two-goal loss to North yesterday.
