Action from the Digicel Punjas National Championship which formed part of the selection process Photo: Netball Fiji
Netball - Fiji Pearls
Netball Fiji has named six overseas-based players in their extended squad for the Pacific Games in Solomon Islands in November.
The six are Adi Vakaoca Bolakoro, who is based in England, New Zealand-based duo Kelera Naiwai and Ana Moi plus Australia-based Naviniya Sivo, Shaid Salusalu and Nicole Kamotu.
Also named are some high school netballers who participated in the Fiji Secondary Schools Tournament, which was held in Suva in the last fortnight.
Weightlifting - world champs
Pacific weightlifters are competing at the World Weightlifting championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which began yesterday and finishes on September 17.
Papua New Guinea's Dika Toua, who is 39, was in action on the first day. In the women's 49kg, Toua lifted a total of 161kg.
Toua is aiming to compete at her sixth Olympic Games, next year in Paris.
The championship is a mandatory qualifying event towards the Games.
Lifters from the Pacific include those from Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands.
Football - Solomons
Young footballer Raphael Lea'i is due to play for the Solomon Islands in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Auckland.
The Oceania Football Centre says Le'ai has recently been released by Bosnian club FK Velež Mostar, where he was struggling for game time.
The website says Lea'i was due to arrive in New Zealand on Monday and will play for the Solomons against Fiji in the semi-final on Wednesday.
Solomon Islands Under-23 coach Eddie Marahare confirmed to Oceania Football Center the availability of the star player, after sorting his visa for the semi-final clash against Fiji.
In the other semi-final, New Zealand play Vanuatu.
Cricket - Qualifier
Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea have two wins each in the East-Asia Pacific qualifier for next year's women's T20 World Cup.
Vanuatu stunned favourites PNG on day one.
Seven nations are competing for a place in the global qualifier for the tournament.
Japan is leading the qualifier with three victories, while Indonesia - who had travel issues earlier in the tournament - and Fiji have a win each.
Lawn bowls - Niue
Several Niue players and teams have recorded wins at the World Bowls Championships on Australia's Gold Coast.
Despite not making the final series of the tournament, they were successful in securing wins on each of the three days that they competed in their categories.
TV Niue reports in the women's singles, Joy Peyroux won three out of her nine games and placed seventh in her section.
The women's fours placed sixth after one win, the men's triples were eighth, and the men's pairs were ninth.
Baseball - Fiji/Japan
The Fiji Islands Baseball and Softball Association has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's Nihon University.
FBC News reports the MOU will see a partnership between Fiji Baseball and the university in baseball development plus environmental conservation projects.
A former Japan International Cooperation Agency volunteer in Fiji, Kazunobu Suzuki, who now works for the university, initiated the partnership with Inoke Niubalavu, the secretary general of FIBSA.
