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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 […]
Indoor touch on the cards
Saturday 21 January 2012 | Published in Touch Rugby
Playing indoors is one option the Touch Rugby Association executives are thinking about for the upcoming season. Re-elected association president Clem Fortes says that at the codes recent annual general meeting, talks focused on possible venues for the 2012 season. With the touch rugby season scheduled to start in early February around the same time […]
League season start set
Thursday 19 January 2012 | Published in League
February 4 has been confirmed as the first round of play for the rugby league regular season in 2012 at the Cook Islands Rugby League annual general meeting this week. The 16-week tournament will continue without a break until May, with the grand final set to be played on May 26. Seven clubs will again […]
Holiday netball programme a hit
Tuesday 17 January 2012 | Published in Netball
Dedicated netball lovers hit the Tupapa court yesterday for the first day of the Netball Cook Islands holiday programme. The netball season doesnt officially start until April. The group of 15 boys and girls that took part in yesterdays programme are keen to get back into the netball groove ahead of the season. Coached by […]
Netball coaching on today
Monday 16 January 2012 | Published in Netball
Budding local netball players keen to polish up their game ahead of the 2012 season starting in April have the opportunity to improve their game with Netball Cook Islands netball development officer and national netball player Luciana Matenga. Matenga is running a netball holiday programme this week for players aged between 8 and 12 starting […]
Creeps v. Titans in epic cricket final
Saturday 14 January 2012 | Published in Cricket
Nukupure Park in Muri will be the scene of a cricket battle of epic proportions today in the Computer Man top four grand finals between the Muri Creeps and Titikaveka Titans. With home ground advantage the Creeps are looking to do the treble with the Cookie Sadaraka Twenty20 trophy and round robin competition title already […]
International netball will draw players
Saturday 7 January 2012 | Published in Netball
Netball loving Cook Islanders from all over the globe will have the opportunity to come home and play the game they love when Netball Cook Islands stages its International Netball Tournament in November. The tournament is scheduled to be run from November 28 to December 1 this year and is open to any team locally […]
Busy netball year planned
Friday 6 January 2012 | Published in Netball
A full calendar of netball competitions and programmes is in store for local netball players from the grassroots level right up to the international squad. While the new netball executives fine tune dates of events they have put out a tentative overall plan for 2012. Starting this month a new school holiday netball programme will […]
11-hour marathon at basketball
Thursday 5 January 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Basketball enthusiasts spent the better part of Monday at the Telecom Sports Arena where the annual New Year basketball tournament was staged with plenty of action on display for spectators. Four womens teams and four mens teams entered the tournament which started around 10am on Monday and wrapped up around 9 oclock that night. The […]
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