The Betikama Adventist College (BAC) basketball teams both boys and girls claimed victory on Sunday during the high school basketball league. In the boys catergory Betikama ladies overcame the determined Tenaru girls by 30-11. While in the boys’ division Betikama was too good for the King George Sixth sode overpowering them with a scoreline of…
Last weekend’s bad weather has forced all six remaining futsal league games in Auki, Malaita province to be cancelled. The matches were supposed to be played at Aligegeo futsal court. Because of the heavy down, all the team managers met with the organising committee and agreed that the games be cancelled due to the poor…
X-Beam yesterday outclassed Solomon Warriors with a 4- 3 win in the 2014 Under16 league at the King George Sixth SIFF Academy sports ground. Junior Hou of X-Beam registered the first goal, 4 minutes into the first half and followed by Benjamin Toata for the second goal in 14 minutes. Warriors regrouped to try and…
FOLLOWING the successful start of the inter-island rugby league on Saturday, two matches were played on Sunday. The match saw Bellona thrashing Eastern islands, 56- 5 at the Panatina rugby oval field. The match saw the dominance of the Bellona team, which blocked the Eastern side from entering their territory to make tries. Bellona was…
Solomon Islands Beach Volleyball (SIBV) coach Jeffery Pasio has been awarded with FIVB Beach Volleyball Coach Level 1 certificate. Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy conducted the course where 32 beach volleyball coaches all around the world attended. The course was held from 11th to 17th October 2014. This was the first time FIVB conducted the Beach…
OFC: The OFC Executive Committee made a whistle stop visit to Oceania’s future home of football on Saturday morning in Ngahue, New Zealand. Led by OFC President David Chung, executive committee members were given a tour of the work site where the two artificial football pitches that form the centre piece of the Home of…
AUSTRALIAN Rugby Union chief Bill Pulver has blamed the media for making Ewen McKenzie quit as Wallabies coach. McKenzie himself blamed a lack of commitment from the playing group while Pulver said the allegedly relentless attacks on his character from the Australian media left him with little option but to resign. McKenzie and the Wallabies…
DEFENDING Telekom S-league champions, Solomon Warriors FC, will represent the country in the newly revived Melanesian Super Cup competition in Vanuatu. The club manageress Dianne Dettke confirmed their participation and said the team departed for Vanuatu last Saturday. They will play their opening game against Vanuatu’s Tafea FC on Tuesday and Amicale FC on Saturday…
MALAITA province has confirmed its participation in the 2014 Matsons inter-island rugby tournament by preparing two teams. In a statement on Tuesday Gregory Ofia on behalf of the team management said Subi and Malaita Outter Islands (MOI) are taking part in the tournament. “Malaita province will field two teams in the Matsons inter-islands rugby tournament…
The 2014 inter-ministry games is currently making progress in Honiara with the soccer and volleyball competition. For soccer competition has reached quarter-final stages but organisers said matches will wait until they settle an issue between PMOC, Education 1&2 and Police1, Morris Hakapauhenua Vice Chair of the organising committee said yesterday. The re-match games scheduled for…