Sports

Close sprints at oe vaka finals

Monday 28 March 2011 | Published in Paddling

Oe vaka finals at Muri beach on Saturday signalled the end of the sprint season with a great turnout of paddlers and supporters. All Rarotonga clubs enjoyed an afternoon of racing, thanks to host club the Unsquashables. The V1 500m finals had spectators cheering along the beach with some exciting racing. Fletcher Melvin nabbed the […]

Paddling

Cricketers tune up for Samoa

Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Cricket

The Telecom Cook Islands national men’s cricket squad will be at Turangi today to take on a Rarotonga Club selection side in an encounter with a difference. This will be conducted in the popular Twenty/20 format, which is the format for the ICC EAP Division 2 trophy in Samoa early next month which will involve […]

Cricket

Patia looks forward to Samoa cricket challenge

Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Cricket

Cook Islands Cricket is very excited at the appointment of one of its own local cricketing umpires, Koria Patia, who will be travelling to the ICC East Asia Pacific Division 2 trophy tournament in Samoa next Tuesday. Cook Islands Cricket general manager Alister Stevic says the decision to appoint Patia to officiate in the tournament […]

Cricket

2 main league games today

Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in League

Rugby league fans have the choice of two main games today with the Ngatangiia Sea Eagles taking on the Panthers at Nukupure Park and the Avatiu Eels hosting arch rivals the Arorangi Bears at the Swamp. At Muri – the Sea Eagles will want to win their battle against the Panthers to maintain their second […]

League

Social sailing on Saturday

Friday 25 March 2011 | Published in Other Sports

Sailors will go with the flow this weekend with a day of social boating on Muri lagoon for all. Before all the fun though – green and gold fleet sailors will have coaching at 10am on Saturday. At 1.30pm senior and junior sailors plus families are all invited to sail wherever the wind takes your […]

Other Sports

New netball uniforms from New Zealand

Thursday 24 March 2011 | Published in Netball

Uniforms donated by Netball New Zealand are being shared out to clubs, schools and the outer islands to help boost and develop the sport. Cook Islands Netball Association president Patsy Hockin says that sets of uniforms will be taken to the outer islands when the association starts its outer islands netball development programme. Development programmes […]

Netball

Soccer teams hit high scores

Thursday 24 March 2011 | Published in Football

The big winners on the opening day of the five-a-side soccer competition were Avatiu, Black Qwenz and White Fairies in the open women’s division. Avatiu No Boys and Black Qwenz wasted no time in the opening half as they struck the back of the net with a total of 9 goals. Black Qwenz led the […]

Football

League pays respects to 'Conan'

Thursday 24 March 2011 | Published in League

No rugby league games will be played today as the league community will gather in Nikao with the Munokoa family for the headstone unveiling of Colin ‘Conan’ Munokoa who died a year ago today. Those who were close to Colin will remember him as the big man with the big heart. Colin is the eldest […]

League

300 in this year's Vaka Iti

Friday 18 March 2011 | Published in Paddling

Around 300 junior paddlers are expected to compete in the Vaka Iti race on April 1 at Muri Beach. For the past 7 weeks, students from schools across Rarotonga have been honing their paddling skills through the schools Vaka Iti programme under junior development officers Teina, John and Emeline Taulu. April 1 is race day […]

Paddling

Primary soccer rivalry grows

Wednesday 16 March 2011 | Published in Football

Today the third round of primary school soccer will be played in the Cook Islands Football Association tournament. Te Uki Ou school boys managed to maintain their 1-goal lead over Avarua in the second round of the tournament, to take the match last Wednesday. Te Uki Ou was adamant to win over Avarua and the […]

Football

Netball coach for all grades

Monday 14 March 2011 | Published in Netball

All netballers from the six clubs on the island and from all grades are encouraged to take advantage of the netball training series by New Zealand coach Donna Blazey starting today. Donna Blazey works closely with Cook Islands national head coach Marg Foster. As Marg Foster is tied up with her Magic netball team in […]

Netball

Masters rejuvenate their league skills

Saturday 12 March 2011 | Published in League

The BCI Stadium was a fitting venue for the old men of rugby league to rejuvenate their skills last Saturday in the masters division. With two full teams, a vocal crowd in the stands, and a very hot autumn day, the intensity was all on the field. So much so that Robert ‘electric cowboy’ Matapo […]

League

6 sides rev up prem netball

Saturday 12 March 2011 | Published in Netball

It’s still early days in the 2011 netball season with some teams taking longer to dust off the cobwebs while others have started the season with plenty of determination. The Titikaveka club grades are firing already and have a strong and experienced premier grade side tasked with defending the club’s championships status – a title […]

Netball

Eels clear points leaders in league

Friday 11 March 2011 | Published in League

After five weeks of rugby league games – the Avatiu Eels premier grade are the current leaders of the pack with 8 points from 4 wins and 1 loss. Hot on the Eels heels in the grade on 6 points are the Ngatangiia Sea Eagles and Arorangi Bears who have both won 3 games from […]

League

Touch tussle for top spots

Thursday 10 March 2011 | Published in Touch Rugby

Top women’s tough rugby team, Bounty Hunters, all smiles after their grand finals win against the Kamikaze Heats on Monday. “/> The Kamikaze Bullets, Bounty Hunters and Vikings are the top three touch rugby teams on Rarotonga after emerging as the winners of the touch rugby finals on Monday. In the men’s division the Kamikaze […]

Touch Rugby

CI playing 'origin' cricket

Thursday 10 March 2011 | Published in Cricket

The Auckland Country of Origins 20-Twenty Cricket Tournament is well underway with around 10 teams including the Cook Islands vying to take out top honours. Formerly known as the Pacifica Cup, this competition has expanded to include teams from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who have very strong cricketing backgrounds and are passionate […]

Cricket

House 3 defend Tereora touch title

Thursday 10 March 2011 | Published in Touch Rugby

Tereora College house three successfully defended their championship title at last Friday’s annual inter house touch rugby tournament. The tournament held at the BCI Stadium was a fun event for students of the national college with many dressing up in their house colours for the day. In the end house three amassed a total of […]

Touch Rugby

28 goals in first round of soccer

Wednesday 9 March 2011 | Published in Football

The second round of games will take place today in the annual Primary Schools Soccer Tournament at the CIFA complex in Matavera with the girls kicking off first at 2.45pm. Last Wednesday, the first round of the Primary School senior round robin soccer tournament action brought plenty of goalmouth drama as the net was bulged […]

Football

League midweek

Wednesday 9 March 2011 | Published in League

Week six of rugby league action kicks off today at Raemaru park in Arorangi when the under 19 Bears take on the Bulldogs. The Bears and Bulldogs games will be played out today and tomorrow due to a wedding in the Puaikura district. After the under 19 game starting at 4pm, the reserve grade will […]

League

Araura College makes oe vaka history

Tuesday 8 March 2011 | Published in Paddling

History was made on Aitutaki on Friday when Araura College held its inaugural school oe vaka regatta. The day started with a prayer and the day was officially opened by vice president of the Araura Oe Vaka Association Junior Tamati. Every child celebrated with their paddles in the air as all showed they were winners […]

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