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Thriller league
Saturday 18 February 2012 | Published in League
The Swamp and Pantherland are the two spots to find this weekend’s rugby league action when the Panthers take on the Warriors at Victoria Park and the Eels host the Ngatangiia-Matavera Sea Eagles in Avatiu. The Sea Eagles and Eels match is sure to be a thriller with the Eels wanting to continue their early […]
Pressure mounting in 20/20 cricket
Friday 17 February 2012 | Published in Cricket
Defending D-league cricket champions Puaikura-Titikaveka sit at the top of the table with two wins from two games heading into their double-header tonight in the third week of the Turtles Domestic League III tournament. While Puaikura-Titikaveka sits on the top spot, there’s plenty left to play for in the current Twenty/20 competition. The reigning champions […]
Primary school soccer kicks off
Friday 17 February 2012 | Published in Football
The Cook Islands Football Association has kick started its annual school visits this week in preparation for the primary school football tournament which will begin next week. CIFA’s technical department staff Tony Jamieson, Tuka Tisam and Paul-Luiz Van Eijk will be visiting schools around Rarotonga teaching and coaching the children the technical side of football […]
Cookies in 'Ethkick' soccer tourney
Friday 17 February 2012 | Published in Football
Cook Islands soccer players based in New Zealand will be competing in the ‘Ethkick’ tournament this weekend where 40 teams will speak the language of football in Palmerston North. Teams from South America, Cambodia, Bhutan, Oman, Malaysia, England and a host of other ethnic groups have entered the tournament, now in its fourth year. For […]
Foster reappointed as CI netball coach
Thursday 16 February 2012 | Published in Netball
Former Silver Fern netballer Marg Foster has been re-appointed as the Cook Islands National Netball head coach. Foster was first appointed as the national netball head coach in January last year. This year she was one of three people who applied for the position. Lynnette Hagai has also been re-appointed as the national squad manager. […]
Aitutaki league president supports CIRL president
Thursday 16 February 2012 | Published in League
Aitutaki Rugby League president Mona Ioane says the Sharks give their unreserved support to Cook Islands Rugby League president Charles Carlson and commend him for his ongoing support of the club. Ioane, MP for Vaipae/Tautu, spoke yesterday in defence of Carlson after reading a letter to the editor (‘League a politically driven mess’) in Monday’s […]
Just Play soccer heads to Aitutaki
Thursday 16 February 2012 | Published in Football
The popular Just Play football programme spearheaded by project manager Michelle Paiti and assisted by CIFA development officer Tuka Tisam, will be heading to Aitutaki for a week-long workshop to deliver the programme to school teachers and community leaders on the outer island. The workshop is scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday February […]
Rebels and Rama take touch limelight
Wednesday 15 February 2012 | Published in Touch Rugby
The touch rugby season kicked off in warm conditions at the Nikao fields last Wednesday with four open men and women’s teams plus nine mixed teams. The first round was kicked off by the Bounty Hunters and FBI women’s teams with that match finishing in a tight 1-all draw while team Nikao Youth edged out […]
Basketball for kids at Potiki Sports
Saturday 11 February 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Fun basketball games are on the cards this morning in the first Potiki Sports programme of the year. The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) Potiki Sports programme will begin at 9 o’clock this morning at the Telecom Sports Arena in Nikao for two hours. Basketball will be the main focus of the […]
League world cup bid foiled
Saturday 11 February 2012 | Published in League
Plans to involve the Cook Islands international rugby league squad in a four nations competition against England, Wales and France have fallen through. Cook Islands Rugby League is now looking at other options for international matches to be held after the close of the NRL competition this year. Those plans may see the Cook Islands […]
Sharks back in the league
Saturday 11 February 2012 | Published in League
The Aitutaki Sharks have had their 2012 rugby league season brought back from the dead thanks to $40,000 secured from New Zealand Rugby League as compensation for the failed Kiwis-Kukis international test match. The funding has been officially confirmed by NZRL, which decided it would give to Cook Islands Rugby League in recompense for pulling […]
Soccer set for five-a-side challenge
Friday 10 February 2012 | Published in Football
The Cook Islands Football complex in Matavera will be buzzing again with the annual Rarotonga five-a-side soccer competition scheduled to kick off in two weeks. The round cup competition will run for eight weeks and will wrap up with the knock out at the end of April and early May. There are two divisions in […]
Sharks out of league comp
Thursday 9 February 2012 | Published in League
There will be heartbreak in Aitutaki when the news sinks in today that the island’s sole rugby league club has been kicked out of the national rugby league competition. Without an Aitutaki Sharks member present at a rugby league meeting yesterday – even though it was confirmed a representative would be there – it was […]
Big hits in domestic league openers
Tuesday 7 February 2012 | Published in League
As promised there was loads of action at the BCI Stadium on Friday night where a decent crowd enjoyed big hitting cricket under lights for the first two games of the 2012 Turtles Domestic League. Rarotonga turned on glorious cricket playing weather early in the afternoon when Te-Au-O-Tonga took the field for their first of […]
Fans flock to league season openers
Monday 6 February 2012 | Published in League
Rarotonga fans flocked to league grounds to enjoy a fantastic start to the rugby league season with the three games played at the weekend providing plenty of on the field action. At the Titikaveka field – the Bulldogs mauled the visiting Warriors side 46-6. The points didn’t comes easy for the Bulldogs though with the […]
New league season starts today
Saturday 4 February 2012 | Published in League
The Titikaveka Bulldogs and Takuvaine Warriors under 16 and reserve grade kicked off the 2012 rugby league season yesterday in Titikaveka and today is the first full day of games of the new season. All six clubs on Rarotonga and the Aitutaki Sharks are revved up and ready to hit the field with the Sharks […]
It's D-day for cricketers
Friday 3 February 2012 | Published in Cricket
Today is D-day – Domestic League cricket that is! If the sun shines today, and fingers crossed it does, the first two matches of the 2012 Turtles Domestic League will go boomtown at the BCI Stadium in Nikao. The Twenty-20 format promises to provide plenty of big-hitting and sly-bowling action and the community at large, […]
Touch season short and sharp
Thursday 2 February 2012 | Published in Touch Rugby
A short and sharp touch rugby competition has been organised for this season and will be limited to the first six paid-up teams in the open women and men’s divisions. Touch Rugby Association executives have agreed to run a short season based on six teams per division starting on Monday, February 6, at the Nikao […]
Cooks cricket clinches two awards
Friday 27 January 2012 | Published in Cricket
The Cook Islands have won two awards at the 2011 Pepsi International Cricket Council East Asia Pacific Development Programme Annual Awards this week. Cook Islands Cricket Association won the award for the best cricket promotion and marketing programme for attracting the New Zealand Northern Knights to Rarotonga for a pre-season camp and T-20 match against […]
D-league just around the corner
Tuesday 24 January 2012 | Published in League
The highly anticipated Turtles Domestic League Cricket Tournament, known as the D-league, is just around the corner and expected to be a top level cricket tournament with a boomtown party atmosphere. In its third year this years D-league III competition is going to take things to a whole new level including double-headers and under light […]
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