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Arorangi fights back to win

In the season first cricket double header at the weekend, the Arorangi women’s cricket team took to the field for the first time to play Muri. Batting first Muri lost wickets consistently as Arorangi bowler Diana Tamaiva took three wickets to keep the Muri total to a modest 42. Muri would have felt a comeback […]

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Red Backs remain unbeaten

Batting first, last year’s top four cricket winners the Arorangi Red Backs took on last season’s round robin winners Muri in what most expected to be the battle of the weekend. Arorangi’s opening batter Daniel Webb provided the stability for his team as he batted out the innings scoring 55 not out to take the […]

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Golf tourney brings out the best

The B&M Wholesaler’s Golf Tournament last Saturday brought out the best in many of Rarotonga’s golfers at the Rarotonga Golf Club. This popular tournament was well attended by Cook Islands golfing fraternity who were blessed with great golfing weather on the day. There were a lot of golfers who broke their handicaps and some of […]

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7s trials set to start

The Cook Islands Rugby Union has taken the completion of the recent CITC club competition as a signal to dovetail straight into the upcoming sevens season. CIRU is this season competing on the international scene in the men’s sevens Oceania Championships on October 1 and 2 in an effort to regain their foothold in the […]

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More worry over Delhi

As Team Cook Islands prepares to head to the Delhi Commonwealth Games early on Sunday, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has given his personal backing to any individual Kiwi athletes who decide to pull out of the games. Three top British athletes yesterday announced they will not go to the Delhi Games amid widespread […]

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Goldies head for Sydney festival

The Diplomats and Mongoose golden oldies rugby teams are preparing to leave on Friday for the Golden Oldies Rugby Festival in Sydney. Last Tuesday the Diplomat side was hosted to lunch by Queen’s Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin and Lady Goodwin along with the team going to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Games. This was indeed […]

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Cooks team prepares for Delhi

As Team Cook Islands departs early this coming Sunday for the Delhi Commonwealth Games in India, a special church service was held for the team at the Nikao CICC church on Sunday. The lawn bowls team were there in numbers along with the two local based netballers – Luciana Matenga and Curly George. Boxers Jubilee […]

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Gukisuva faces judiciary

A three-man rugby judicial panel will meet tomorrow to decide the fate of Avatiu rugby player Bilsy Gukisuva who was cited for punching Arorangi player Emile Mamanu during Saturday’s grand final between the two clubs. Cook Islands Rugby Union chief executive officer Ben Koteka says that the union does not condone violence. “We (CIRU) have […]

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Cowboys shoot down Eels

The Arorangi Cowboys are the 2010 CITC club rugby champions after defeating arch rivals the Avatiu Eels 21-17 on Saturday at the Swamp. Surprisingly it was the Cowboys discipline that was the difference between the two teams as experienced Cowboys first five-eighths David Wichman was able to convert Eels errors into points which allowed the […]

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Turangi falls short

Turangi women’s crickets standout player Grace Tangimetua (above) gets ready to smash a ball from Matavera across the park. But despite her best efforts and great batting, her Turangi team were unable to chase down Matavera’s score of 139 runs as Turangi were all out for 131. The Muri women’s team posted 42 runs in […]

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Sokattak beats Titikaveka 4-1

Nikao Sokattak were convincing winners in their away game at Titikaveka on Saturday and with the final score 4-1, Sokattak was the superior team. However ,Titikaveka managed to break the Nikao defence once and find the back of the net much to the surprise of the Nikao supporters. Nikao built up their moves from defence […]

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Grand finals battles at Swamp

Before the Arorangi Cowboys stampeded into the Swamp to win the 2010 grand final over the Avatiu Eels – grand finals battles was full on at the Swamp from 11.30am on Saturday. The women’s City versus Country grand finals got the ball rolling with the majority of the girls involved in the Borneo sevens training […]

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Titikaveka takes on Nikao Sokattak

Today’s main match in the Lotto Men’s soccer competition is between Titikaveka and Nikao Sokattak at the Titikaveka field. In the last game, the young Titikaveka team proved too strong for the Takuvaine team but some say that was because of the fuel crisis resulting in a number of key players not taking the field. […]

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Swamp finals

The champions of the CITC senior A rugby grade will be decided this afternoon when the slippery Avatiu Eels meet arch-rivals the galloping Arorangi Cowboys at the Swamp. The last time these two teams met the Cowboys literally blasted the Eels forward pack off the park for a comprehensive 34-7 win. The Eels will be […]

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Special surprise for Taea

Titikaveka College student and national athlete Patricia Taea is the pride and joy of the school which rallied on Friday to raise funds for the track athlete. Taea is one of two track athletes that will represent the country at next month’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The 17-year-old will compete in the 100m sprints and […]

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High scores expected

Next Friday will see the final random round robin competition of the Vonnia’s Corporate 6 on 6 volleyball league so tonight’s games at the Telecom Sports Arena should be intense and high scoring affairs. Also the format means that even though you lose your game you still get to play the following week. Tonight is […]

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Sizzling B final set

Tomorrow’s Whatever Bar and Grill Senior B grade grand final between the Arorangi Cowboys and Avatiu Eel is sure to sizzle! Led by inspirational captain Jean-Pierre Rongokea the Cowboys have been the outright leaders in this grade winning all 11 of their matches this season. Stars from ‘yesteryear’ working in partnership with some young upcoming […]

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Matavera prepares for Tupapa match

Today’s premier men’s soccer match will be the first test for the Tupapa team. Matavera will play host to Tupapa and they haven’t lost a game yet and are sitting on five points resulting from a win and two draws. Tupapa are only one point ahead. Today’s winner will lead the Lotto Premier Men’s Round […]

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Arorangi looking good

The Arorangi Cricket Club aims to be the best club in the Cook Islands and so far they are not only doing the damage on the pitch – they are looking good doing it! This week the club blessed its set of brand new uniforms for both the men’s and women’s teams. And at the […]

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QR hosts athletes, officials

Members of Team Cook Islands for the Delhi Commonwealth Games and the Diplomats Golden Oldies rugby team were hosted to lunch by Queen’s Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin and Lady Goodwin yesterday. While Sir Frederick is well known for hosting his golden oldies brothers – it was the first time that he has hosted Team Cook […]

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