Match motion on the PACIFICAUS Sports Futsal Series between Australia and Solomon Islands at Heffron Centre, Sydney.
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Futsal – Solomon Islands

The Solomon Islands’ Futsal crew secured its best-ever end result in opposition to Australia with a 1-1 attract Sydney on the weekend.

Charlie Otainao scored the equaliser for the Kurukuru on 32 minutes.

Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, met the gamers earlier than the match.

Solomon Islands play the Futsalroos within the second match of the collection on Monday night time and once more on Wednesday.

Rugby – Fijiana

The Fijiana Drua gamers and administration obtained $FJ 8,000 every from the federal government in a particular presentation ceremony held in Suva on Friday.

The 32 members of the Fiji nationwide girls’s rugby crew had been promised the monetary present following their profitable defence of the 2023 Super W competitors title three months in the past.

In his deal with, prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka stated the Fijiana Drua has introduced satisfaction to Fiji.

The gamers are nonetheless owed nearly FJ$180,000 in complete allowances from the 2022 Women’s Rugby World Cup, the one-off Test in opposition to the Australian Wallaroos, and the Oceania Women’s Rugby Championship held two months in the past.

Squash – PNG success

Papua New Guinea junior squash gamers received gold medals for his or her age teams on the Queensland Junior Championships.

Port Moresby Racquets Club director Merlyn Alarcos advised The National this was huge information for junior squash improvement.

Joshua Porter received the U-19 males’s division, whereas Timonaliz Alarcos-Kriebisch received the U-13 women’ title.

PNG additionally took a second place and a 3rd.

Rugby league – Tongan juniors

The Tonga National Schoolboys U-16 rugby league crew misplaced their first recreation of their Australian tour to the Manly U-16 in Sydney.

Manly proved too sturdy for the Tongans, popping out 18-4 winners.

Team supervisor Fane Fangufangu Fituafe stated it was a powerful opening match for the guests however that they had realized from the sport.

The Tongans subsequent recreation will likely be in opposition to West Tigers U-16 in Sydney on Tuesday.

Basketball – Tonga

Tonga’s males’s basketball crew has excessive ambitions for this yr’s Pacific Games.

National basketball director Cahn Fizgerald advised RNZ Pacific the crew had a morale booster after successful silver eventually yr’s FIBA Polynesian Basketball Cup.

Made up of gamers from Tonga’s diaspora, Cahn stated they’re aiming for a medal in November.

“So we’ve got some gamers primarily based right here in New Zealand, some coming from the United States, we’ve got one in Fiji.

Pacific Games – Australia

Olympic kayak champion Ken Wallace will lead Australia’s marketing campaign as Chef de Mission on the Pacific Games in Solomon Islands later this yr.

It is the second time Wallace has led the Australian crew following the 2019 Games in Samoa.

Wallace can even was be deputy Chef de Mission for the Australian Olympic crew in Paris for subsequent yr’s Olympic Games.