The Sepik Nines for 2021 have been confirmed for November 4-6 at Pora Oval in Wewak. Organisers have extended an invitation to every team in Papua New Guinea for the second staging of the event. Twenty men’s teams took part last year, with QPR Colts of Port Moresby taking the title. Meanwhile, a successful tournament in New Ireland was recently…
COLOMBIA will host the country’s first national Nines championship in November. The announcement comes as Sili Eels celebrate taking out the Palauli/Satupaitea Regional Nines in Samoa and Nane Brothers settle into their title as 2021 Port Moresby Suburban Nines champs. The Colombian Nines will run on November 13 and 14 and feature teams from around Bogota as well as the…
NINES action is reaching its crescendo in the Netherlands and Port Moresby while Papua New Guinea’s Central Province is bracing itself for a landmark series. The Hiritano Super Nines kicks off this Friday at Bereina Station with 32 teams taking part, the tournament moving on five subsequent weekends to neighbouring towns. Meanwhile in the Netherlands, the Nines have been played…
NO team survived the first day of the Netherlands Nines Series without a defeat as the sport got back underway in the European nation at the weekend. Harderwijk Dolphins and Den Haag Knights finished Saturday with four-from-five records during the Dordrect tour stop; host side the Griffins were the only team of six not to register a victory. The Knights’…
TOP rugby union teams in Samoa have crossed the code divide to play in the first ever Faleata Nines on the island of Upolu. Marist Saints, a union team not to be confused with a team by the same name that took out the Vailimia Marist Fantastic Nines earlier in the year, won the tournament and now all the union…
NETHERLANDS Rugby League has delayed the kick-off of their summer Nines series because of Covid restrictions in the European nation. Round one was to be held ad Dordrecht this Saturday but this has now been postponed a week. “We will commence on the 3rd July in Dordrecht, followed by national champions Den Haag hosting on 10th July, with the final…
OFFICIALS at the University of Papua New Guinea say they hope a Nines tournament will help calm simmering tensions over alleged sexual harassment on campus. The Port Moresby institution was the subject of national media attention last week when female students staged a protest over persistent harassment by what they described as a minority of male students. The protest was…
RUGBY league’s Nines circuit moves to Florida tomorrow as the women’s game steps into the spotlight at the Tampa’s Mayhem Nines. Roots Rugby, who took out the 2019 London Nines and also competed in the Carolina Nines, are one of four teams in the first officially-sanctioned USARL women’s competition of any type. The tournament also marks the start of the…
Mercenarios have lifted the NovoSports Trophy as Nicaragua’s first national Nines champions. A tense double-header at San Carlos Sports Grounds in Chinandega on Sunday concluded with the local team overcoming Monseraptors 18-6 in the final, after the Raptors’ 18-4 win over Diablos in the second semi-immediately beforehand. Mercenarios had claimed their final spot during a previous instalment of the Nines…
EIGHTEEN-Nil. That’s the main thing you need to know about the Chinandega Nines, which resumed in Nicaragua on Sunday. Of the four games played at San Carlos Sports Field, three finished with that scoreline in the second round of the competition. Monseraptors were victors in two of these games, beating BigOne twice while in the third 18-0 game; Mercenarios were…
