Adrian Seconi

Both Otago teams had to settle for second place in the Southern Regional Sevens tournament staged in Timaru on Saturday.

It is not every day you get thanked by an Olympic gold medallist.

It wasn’t exactly 119 runs of  "told you so".

Beth Langston has had a taste of international cricket and hopes her stint with the Otago Sparks this season will help keep her at the top of her game.

Another damp day at the University Oval has left Otago and Wellington with very little room to manoeuvre in their Plunket Shield match.

The drummer in the band snared his 300th first-class dismissal during a brief break in the weather at the University Oval yesterday.

Rain has interrupted play on day two of the Plunket Shield match between Otago and Wellington at the University Oval.

With all the rain in Dunedin recently, you might have thought it would be the seamers who would dominate the proceedings at the University Oval yesterday.

Senior club rugby will revert to a proper double round in 2017.

Otago guard Nicole Ruske and Southland forward Aliyah Dunn have been named in the final Junior Tall Ferns squad.

Otago Sassenachs Blue came within a late try of winning the inaugural North Otago Referees Sevens tournament in Oamaru in the weekend.

Otago men’s sevens coach Kane Jury has put his players on notice by naming two strong teams for the inaugural North Otago Referees Sevens tournament being staged in Oamaru today.

You have to wonder if the WBO heavyweight belt would actually hold trousers up but it will be making a guest appearance in Dunedin next week.

The elements dominated the latest round of Plunket Shield play but the cricket Otago did squeeze in was not flash, coach Rob Walter said.

Shebani Bhaskar really is an all-rounder.

Put down the calculators and grab a dictionary - it is semantics rather than numbers that keeps the tug-of-war going between the Ponsonby and University rugby clubs.

Sooner or later, Otago will need to discover the next Suzie Bates or Katey Martin.