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…
THE men’s event may have been marred by controversy but a new women’s Nines mini-tour for the United States got off to a successful start last weekend. The Tampa Nines at Keystone Prep High in Odessa, Florida, was the first rugby league activity for the year in the US, which has been riven by a breakaway competition, the North American…
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…
RUGBY League Nines’ tilt at world domination continued at the weekend when tournaments were held in Serbia and Samoa. The Vailima Marist Fantastic Nines in Apia were contested for the fifth time at Marist Sports Club, with Saints taking out the men’s competition and Apia Maroons winning the women’s. Each retained titles they won in 2020. The women’s final saw…
THE grand trophy for Nicaragua’s best men’s Nines team will be presented on May 9, it has been announced. Nine-a-side rugby league arrived in Central America on Sunday with the four-team league opening and local Chinandega side Mercenarios topping the table after going through the day’s play undefeated. It was originally intended that the best team at the end of…
A new initiative to promote Rugby League Nines in non-traditional markets will be launched tonight with the first episode of #NinesAtNine. Rugby League Nines social channels will carry delayed coverage of the recent Malta-Ireland clash from the Sydney Nines, enhanced by commentary, graphics, replays and an introduction in Irish, at 9pm Dublin time. A version of the match with an…
NINES land in Central America for the first time on Sunday and worldwide supporters of the movement have donated the inaugural trophy. Four teams will contest the Chinandega Nines at San Carlos Sports Fields – an historic moment for a version of rugby league which has already been enjoyed by almost 4000 participants this year. Today, organisers unveiled the NovoSports…
NINES will be played in Central America for the first time on Sunday with one of Nicaragua’s biggest population centres hosts a four-team tournament. Rugby League is just two years old in the nation of 6.5 million, with four teams competing in the Campeonato Superior de Rugby League. Host city Chinandega is one of those teams but the Volcanos, as…
