SUVA, ( FIJI TIMES) – Fiji now has more chances of retaining its Oceania Hockey World League status after the withdrawal of Samoa in the annual tournament. Fiji Hockey Federation president Dr Robin Mitchell said our south sea neighbours opted out because of ground problems at home. “Samoa has withdrawn, so now we have nine…
The Gender Parity Basketball competition enters the finals four following tough semi finals played last Sunday at the Multipurpose Hall. The day’s opening match saw Sunrise women’s basketball team led by the experienced Basia sisters Sunrise proved too strong for the young D-fenders side securing the first spot for the women’s category grand final following…
Erick Fa’asuia and Bently Donga has named their final hockey squads that will represent Solomon Islands in the upcoming World League Round One set to be staged in Suva, Fiji from June 27th – 3rd July 2017. The national side’s men’s head coach Fa’asuia and Women’s team head coach Donga named their squads yesterday following…
The Solomon Islands Rugby Union Federation (SIRUF) executive committee has confirmed that they will send a team to compete in the upcoming Oceania U20 Rugby 15s Championship in September. SIRUF is aiming to send a competitive side possible to the said tournament, hence the federation is looking at selecting and training the best national players…
Solomon Islands has failed to qualify for the grand finals of the OFC Nations Cup after being edged by host Papua New Guinea (PNG) 2-1 last night at the Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby. It was an equally fought match which saw both teams ended the first half with a 1-1 draw. PNG…
Toata remains optimistic HEAD coach Moses Toata says the national football team are capable of causing an upset in their final pool match against New Zealand in the OFC Nations Cup tonight in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Toata told Star Sports from PNG yesterday that it will be a crucial match for his side.…
The Honiara Netball Association (HNA) will continue with the third session of the pikinini clinic this Saturday June 4 starting at 8am. The clinic which started two weekends ago saw a good turnout of around 50 young girls ranging from six to19 years old come out and have fun learning netball. “The turnout of the…
It was first ever experience to visit Lau Valley Primary Schools located way down the valley, East of Honiara which took an adventurous journey by the table tennis DNSS team by foot to locate the school with helpful direction from people the team met along the way and finally they were able to reached the…
The Honiara netball association (HNA) executive is organizing an umpires refresher course next week Monday June 6. The program will be held at the Solomon Post boardroom starting at 5pm. The HNA executive requests all current and new umpires to attend this course. The course is a very important refresher course in preparation for this…
THE 2016 Bulk Shop Futsal League matches for this week has been further postponed due to unavailability of Lawson Tama Stadium. Games official Machael Bate’e confirmed this to Star Sports yesterday. “Our matches for this weekend has been postponed again due to maintenance work conducted at Lawson Tama,’’ Bate’e said. He said matches will be…