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Crushers confident
MINOR premiers Wio Kin
Kamkumung Crushers are confident of booking their grand final
berth when they take 14B Pirates in the major qualifying
semi-final in the A grade division of Lae SP rugby League this
weekend. The winner will have a bye to play in the grand final
while looser will take the winner of Lae Panthers and Highway
Inn Royals’ game this Sunday.
Crushers had a bye last weekend and have everything to throw out
on the field with their rhetoric support from Kamkumung
settlements. LRL president Russ Kaupa said that all the major
qualifying semi-finals will be completed by this weekend before
the grand final the following weekend.
Chimbus in basketball
THE Chimbu Basketball
junior side is now hard at training to take part in national
Junior Under 18 championships. Organisers have already selected
14 boys and 16 girls to represent the province at the
championships which are due at the upcoming school holiday.
Organiser Joe Gigmai praised the young talented players for
getting involved in Basketball. The teams are made of students
from Kundiawa Lutheran High School and nearby village youths.
Gigmai said they have written local firms for sponsorship and
were still waiting. He said he can be contacted on 735 1292 or
Mobile 694 1246.
Kick start for Nandex
PNG Kick Boxing
Association received first of its major boosts from TKI
Manpower, an OK Tedi based company, with a cheque of K10 000 to
help stage the national trials to be staged at the end of this
month.
The meeting of the PNG’s best is aimed to select a strong 20 men
squad to prepare a Team PNG captained by world renowned kick
boxing hero Stanley ‘the head hunter’ Nandex to face the rest of
the world, which will be made up of professional kick boxers
around the globe.
Nandex, who is looking after the affairs of the sport in
Pacific, when thanking TKI Manpower boss David K. Atterwell for
the huge support to help stage the round robin fight, said that
everyone should be involved in the event as it was an
opportunity to market our talents in kickboxing overseas to tap
into the lucrative market, especially in Europe and US.
The kickboxing trials will be staged at the new look Sports Inn
Arena from September 29 and the selected players will undertake
two months intensive training at Bluff Inn Motel in Port Moresby
and OK Tedi in Tabubil in preparation to meet the rest of the
world team.
Bowls get sponsorship
NIUGINI Tablebirds had
officially sponsored the Mixed 4s national bowls championships
to be held in Lae over the long Independence weekend. More than
100 bowlers from the five bowling playing centres in PNG will
converge to Lae to take part in the Niugini Tablebirds Mixed 4s
National Bowls championships.
General manager Richard Greenhalgh handed over a cheque of
K6,000 to Lae Bowls Clubs secretary Albert Barakeina and his
local organising committee to start preparing towards hosting of
the national championships. ‘Niugini Tablebirds is proud to
provide financial support to the local organising committee to
start preparing towards the hosting of the national 4s mixed
championships,’ Greenhalgh said.
The company had been a continuous sponsor in the past, he said,
adding the new sponsorship will be for three years.
Four confirm
participation
FOUR centres have
confirmed their participation at the PNG/AFL championships in
Lae next weekend. AFL/PNG rules council vice-president Thomas
Gori confirmed the venue during the presentation of trophies
after the Lae/AFL grand final on Sunday.
The five centres will participate in the championships to select
PNG Mosquitoes for the International Cup in Melbourne in August
next year. Four centres Mt Hagen, Kimbe NCD and host Lae will
take part in the national championships, Gori said.
He urged all the selected players to pay their levy fees of K50
before close of business today.
Lae Biscuit gives
LAE BISCUIT Spiders
rugby league club were proud recipients of a new set of rugby
league gurneys valued at more than K10,500 from its sponsor Lae
Biscuit Co to play off in the Lae rugby league finals. The money
was part of the K24,000 sponsorships package that covers
training gear, promotional items and cash incentives to the
players and officials in the A, B and Under 19 grades.
‘Lae Biscuit is pleased to have associated with the Spiders
rugby league club over the past 20 years and we are pleased to
continue that relationship with the club to see it succeed in
venturing into programmes and activities that would support your
operations into the future,’ national sales and marketing
manager Justus Rapula said in a statement.
‘We confirm to your management a sponsorship package of K24,000
that covers training balls, A Grade match incentives (K3,000), B
Grade (K1,500) and Under 19 (K500), coaches - A grade K500, B
Grade K300 and Under 19 K200,’ he said.
‘Part of the sponsorship package includes weekly promotional
biscuits valued at K1, 200; 400 running T-shirts valued at
K2,800, 100 running T-shirts and training equipment worth K700.’
 
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