Southern sports images: February 16-28, 2011

DIGGING DEEP: Tom Scully competing in the flying lap, part of the omnium at the national track championships at the ILT velodrome. Scully won the omnium title.

ALL STYLE: Appleby's Clinton Goad plays a shot in his team's Southland senior club cricket one-day game against Invercargill-Old Boys at Queens Park.

GOT THE POWER: Southland Sharks power forward James Paringatai is looking to take his game to a new level in 2010 after being slowed by a knee injury last season.

GOLDEN GLOW: Matt Archibald shows off his gold medal. He is the national champion in the 250m time trail.

ELUSIVE TROPHY COMES SOUTH: Shane Ahkuoui and his three-year-old son Waymen check out the William Web Ellis rugby world cup that was on display at Rebel Sport in Invercargill.

CUP JOY: Salford School pupils Matthew Wong, Neave Rowland, and Peter Reu get up close to the Bledisloe Cup held by New Zealand Rugby Union provincial union support manager Nick Gutzewitz, as their room two class mates look on.

HAPPY TO BE HOME: Southland cycling star Eddie Dawkins with his mother Julie (left) and girlfriend O'Leah Black after he returned to Invercargill after attending a World Cup track cycling meet in Manchester. Dawkins was involved in a horrific crash where he received deep bruising and burns from the track during the fall.

WORKOUT: Southern Steel midcourter Natasha Chokljat exercises her injured calf muscle during a training session at World Health & Fitness Gym.

BIG HITTER: Southland Boys' High School's Callum Lindsay, (left) and wicketkeeper-batsman Hamish O'Brien look on as Shirley Boys' High School batsman Rishi Patel hits the ball during the interschool cricket game at Queens Park in Invercargill. Shirley Boys' High won.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: Gore High School's Tyson Crown tries to evade Menzie College defender Jorden Ashby in the mixed touch rugby final for Southland secondary schools at Winton. Menzies College won the final.

WINNING SPONSOR: Invercargill's Rick Michels' Evolution Motorsport was the event sponsor of the Classic Speedfest at Teretonga and he also won all five races he was involved in at the event.

CONCENTRATION: Australian wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy awaits the outcome as New Zealand's Sara McGlashan bats at Queens Park green in Invercargill.

WHACK: Nicola Browne in action for the New Zealand White Ferns against Australia at the Queens Park cricket oval, in Invercargill.

SIMPLE PLAN: Steel co-captain Liana Leota, who sat out training, says her side must return to basics for the game against the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic in Rotorua.

NIECE OF ACTION: Australian women's cricketer Alyssa Healy warms up at Queens Park in Invercargill in the lead-up to the twenty20 game against New Zealand. Healy is the niece of former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy.

FORMULA FOR SUCCESS: Canada's Jay Esterer with his 1973 McRae GM1, which he will be racing in the Formula 5000 class at Teretonga s part of Classic Speedfest.

GETTING THERE: Invercargill's Damon Leitch had mixed results at the latest round of the Toyota Racing Series at Manfeild Park in Feilding.

IN BLACK AND WHITE: White Ferns coach Gary Stead talks to his team following a training session at Queens Park, before the New Zealand-Australia twenty20 series starting in Invercargill.