THE Papua New Guinea Government has reaffirmed its support to assist Solomon Islands in the preparations towards the Pacific Games 2023. The reaffirmation was conveyed to Prime Minister Rick Houenipwela when he met with PNG’s Vice-Sports Minister Wesley Raminai recently.…
By Taromane Martin THE Honiara Football Association (HFA) has confirmed that the 2018 Mayor’s Cup seven-a-side soccer competitions will start tomorrow. A statement from HFA yesterday said their executive see this as a marketing opportunity thus has jumped on board…
By Taromane Martin THE Solomon Islands Sports Coalition (SISC) in partnership with the Centre Dural, Samaritan purse and Bible Way Centre in Honiara last month have successfully completed a three months Sports, Athletes, Leadership Training (SALT) program. The three months…
Nuopula wins first Oceania Tour points but could miss the next stop. By Taromane Martin AFTER finishing the inaugural International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Oceania Tour in Nukualofa, Tonga with a bronze medal, local table tennis player Gary Nuopula is…
By Taromane Martin SOLOMON Warriors FC are top of the 2018 Honiara Football Association (HFA) Premier League after picking up their fourth win in the competition. Warriors defeated Laugu FC 4-1 on Saturday to see them leading the competition table…
By Taromane Martin ITS back-to-back title wins for the Henderson HammerHead (HHH) Sharks who claimed their second Islanders 7s rugby competition title on Saturday at the Town Ground rugby Stadium. HammerHeads defeated Malaita Rugby Union Association (MRUA) seven’s champions Auki…
SIFF urges Konofilia not to deny assistance given to pay for his boys’ Australian visas in last year’s failed overseas soccer trials attempt BY ROMULUS HUTA THE national football governing body has urged its critic Joel Moffat Konofilia to admit…
OUTSPOKEN football critic Joel Moffat Konofilia has lashed out at the national football governing body stating the statement published last week to condemn his continuous social media ranting as merely ‘all excuses’. The statement issued by Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) last week termed Konofilia’s continuous scathing attacks on them in…
BY ROMULUS HUTA THE national women’s soccer head coach will name her final team on July 30 for the preliminary qualifiers for the OFC Women’s Nations Cup. Diane Justus told SunSPORTS yesterday that the first trimming of the 30-woman squad…
BY ROMULUS HUTA THE national under-18 futsal team head coach says Raphael Le’ai is one of their biggest assets as they head into the final months of preparation for the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games in Argentina. With a…
