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Eels slip past Cowboys
Monday 5 July 2010 | Published in Regional
An 80th minute Arorangi Cowboys try wasn’t enough to reign in the Avatiu Eels who had done the hard work early on in the main rugby match on Saturday to win 20-18. The final Cowboys try by left winger Sami Rokocoko in the corner was unable to be converted by the Cowboys sharpshooter David Wichman […]
Rugby heavyweights meet today
Saturday 3 July 2010 | Published in Regional
Today’s week two CITC ‘main match’ will feature the heavyweight clash between arch rivals the Avatiu Eels and Arorangi Cowboys to be played at the Avatiu swamp. The Eels will be in confident mode after last weekend’s round one demolition of the Tupapa Panthers – the Eels winning this match 44-7. The Cowboys on the […]
Sports for NCEA credits
Saturday 3 July 2010 | Published in Regional
Titikaveka College students have been taking charge of the PE days at school as part of their NCEA assessments. Year 11 physical education students have spent this term studying an inter-personal skills unit with emphasis on communication. Every Friday the school spends the afternoon playing sports organised by the year 11 students. Yesterday sports included […]
U13 clash opens rugby weekend
Friday 2 July 2010 | Published in Regional
Country rugby teams will head to town for week two of the CITC Rarotonga club rugby season starting with the under 13 clash between Tupapa-Maraerenga and Titikaveka. This match will be played at the Tupapa field as the club hosts their country brothers from Titikaveka. The under 13 match will be followed by the Senior […]
Tennis players prepare for tourney
Thursday 1 July 2010 | Published in Regional
Rarotonga tennis players are fine-tuning their skills ahead of next week’s International Tennis Federation Junior East Pacific Tournament. Local players have been taking part in the ANZ tennis stars tournament over the past three weeks to get in as much competition time ahead of the tournament. Up to 50 tennis players from host nation Cook […]
Rugby action comes to town
Thursday 1 July 2010 | Published in Regional
Week two of the CITC Rarotonga Club 15s will see all games being played at town venues Tupapa will host Titikaveka, Takuvaine host Ngatangiia while Arorangi will travel to the swamp to face Avatiu. Although the focus will be on the Senior A games, there will also be some interesting match-ups in the various age […]
Herman, Kenning triumph in Palm Grove tournament
Thursday 1 July 2010 | Published in Regional
The final round of the Palm Grove Golf Tournament last Saturday saw most of the second round leaders maintain their positions, but there were some good fight-backs during the day. In the senior men’s division, James Herman (212) extended his lead with the round of the day of 70 off the stick and win first […]
Utanga paddles after his dream
Wednesday 30 June 2010 | Published in Regional
They reckon it takes 60,000km of slog to make a world-class kayaker, so young Cook Islander Josh Utanga has been doing some serious catching up. Every morning before training on the Gold Coast, the former Otumoetai (Tauranga, NZ) surf lifesaver paddles just over 2km from his home on the canal system to get to the […]
Taekwon do team to leave today
Wednesday 30 June 2010 | Published in Regional
A team of local taekwon do students leave today for New Zealand to compete in the fifth annual Oceania Taekwon Do Tournament this weekend. Coach Upoko Poko and manager Poko Rongo will accompany them to the Wellington tournament. Two of the students – Ben Maaka and Tangi Akama – will also be celebrating birthdays during […]
Top time at Golden Oldies
Wednesday 30 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Apii Rutaki has never seen the likes of a good Golden Oldies rugby game like the one played there this past Friday. It started on time and had 4×20 minute quarters and was attended by at least 70 players and even more spectators, cars and utes lining the main road – even a bus so […]
Cross-country wraps up
Wednesday 30 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Nearly everyone turned up for the final race of the cross-country series last Thursday maybe because of the barbecue afterwards. Or perhaps it was because they had to, in order to get their final standings for the series, not to mention, you can’t win if you don’t do the last one. Everyone did very well, […]
'Kids in boats' learn the ropes
Tuesday 29 June 2010 | Published in Regional
After weeks of learning the ropes, 12 new sailors received participation certificates for successfully completing the ‘Kids and Boats’ sailing course. On Saturday the young team gathered at the sailing club to show off their new sailing skills in the Optimist class. And judging by the wide grins on the faces of the new sailors […]
Top tries mark season openers
Monday 28 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Titikaveka, Avatiu and the Ngatangiia premier grades all registered wins in the first week of the CITC 2010 rugby 15s season. The Titikaveka Bulldogs team kicked-off their season in style with a well deserved 32-14 win against the Takuvaine Warriors at the Titikaveka field. With the halftime score at 10-7 in favour of the Titikaveka, […]
Dragonflies face Pearls in final
Monday 28 June 2010 | Published in Regional
The Avatiu Dragonflies premier grade netball team will meet the Titikaveka Pearls this weekend for the 2010 club netball season grand final. The Dragonflies disposed of the Takuvaine Red Divas 58-32 in their sudden death match on Saturday but Avatiu’s execution was less than convincing. And they will need to vastly improve and tighten up […]
Rugby season kicks off today
Saturday 26 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Rugby fans will get to see their heroes today as the first round of the CITC rugby season kicks off. The Senior A grade ‘CITC Game of the Week’ will be played between the Titikaveka Bulldogs and Takuvaine Warriors at the Titikaveka field. At this early-stage of the competition both teams are an unknown quantity. […]
Tourney heats up
Friday 25 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Tomorrow (Saturday) is the final round of the 2010 Palm Grove Golf Tournament and, in just about all divisions, the winners are impossible to predict. With a packed course over the last two weeks for this ever-popular event, there have been some great scores in evidence. In the senior men’s division, James Herman extended his […]
Masters fit and fired up
Friday 25 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Cook Islands masters athletes have always been successful at international meets and this year’s team preparing for the Oceania Championships in Tahiti look to continue that trend. A team of 19 athletes will represent the Cooks at the championships scheduled to be held between July 3 and 10. And it’s been full on training for […]
Ryan Nicholas stars for Japan
Friday 25 June 2010 | Published in Regional
Cook Islander Ryan Nicholas, the son of local dentist Philip Nicholas, has helped his Asian Five Nations Champions team Japan record their first ever win over Samoa at the Pacific Nations Cup being played in Samoa. The fifth edition of the IRB-funded tournament is underway in Apia and is dubbed the penultimate tournament before the […]
Last in series
Thursday 24 June 2010 | Published in Regional
The fifth race of the cross country series took place again from outside the BCI Stadium last Thursday. The car park was packed with cars, but not from the runners as there was a Zumba festival going on in the stadium. A few runners were using this as a warm up for their race. With […]
2 new squads named
Thursday 24 June 2010 | Published in Regional
After the highly successful CITC pre-season sevens competition – players have been selected to train and form the Rarotonga senior sevens squad and a development squad. These players will compete in the CITC Constitution Cup sevens tournament in August and they will have the opportunity to be selected for the National sevens team that will […]
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