More than half of the 2320 entries into tomorrow's 25th annual Kerikeri Half Marathon come from Northland and one them is professional Spanish triathlete Michele Sarzilla.

The success of the Kiwis and Samoa rugby league test at Toll Stadium has boosted Northland's hopes of hosting the British and Irish Lions in 2017 and Super Rugby and NRL matches.

Twenty-four medals sounds like the haul of a Commonwealth Games team, not a 12-year-old girl.na

While Dan Pryor was celebrating his first game with the Maori All Blacks in Japan, his Taniwha teammates were celebrating for him being named the Northland Player of the Year.

Whangarei club cricket players will be hoping the rich vein of form from the first round of the one-day competition, the Lion Red Cup, continues tomorrow.