The hype surrounding this years build up towards the Easter Championship for both men's and women's has been very encouraging as a majority of club teams have been fully utilizing basketball courts around the Viti Levu area for the past 6 weeks in anticipation of the annual event. Host Basketball Fiji has scheduled the major event to be held from Monday 2nd April to Saturday 7th April, 2012 which will be held at Vodafone Arena in Suva & International Gym in Suva. Best 30 clubs (20 mens & 10 womens teams) have qualified from their respective association through weekly playoff rounds conducted over nine weeks. Two regional club teams have confirmed participation in the event which has added attraction value to the biggest annual club event organized in the country. Tama Samoa from American Samoa & NZ Bombers who are made up of Mori and Fijians who reside in New Zealand are the two International teams who have confirmed participation in the men's category of the Easter Championship. In the men's category will consist of 4 teams from Lautoka, 1 team from Nadi, 8 teams from Raiwaqa and 5 teams from Suva. In addition Basketball Fiji hopes to build a strong working relationship with Iowa Central College as the Women's basketball Coach Craig Carlson has accepted an invitation to witness the skill level of players that will be on display during the 6 days event. Other traditional highlights of the tournament is a team display march on Friday 6th April at 8.30am from Cost U Less Car Park to Vodafone Arena and will be led by our partners Fiji Police with the service of their Brass Band. A U14 boys and girls match between Namoli Village in Lautoka and Raiwaqa will serve as a curtain raiser match for the women's and men's final. The men's and women's final will be given an invitation letter to participate in 2012 Annual 7th Genone National Championship in Hobart, Australia from 12th -16th November. Registration for the event is $150.00 and clubs have already appointed managers and organized new sets of team uniforms in anticipation of the tournament. In the past 7 weeks qualifying club teams have been training 3 to 4 times a week at the Vodafone Arena, International Gym, Suva Chapel, Eds court in Raiwaqa, USP basketball gym, Lautoka multi-purpose courts, Nadi Caaf Compound, Raiwai Basketball Hall and Indian College.
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FIJI under-18 basketball men's team lost to Samoa 57-61 in the gold medal match of the B division in the 2016 International Basketball Federation Oceania U18 Championship yesterday. The match was played at the Vodafone Arena in Suva. Fiji led 18-9 at the end of the first quarter before Samoa came back in the other three quarters winning 15-13, 17-11 and 20-15. Excited Samoa coach Woolley Le'au'anae said Fiji made them work hard. "We tried hard and kept going in the match," he said. "The p... [read more]
FIJI under-18 basketball men's team lost to Samoa 57-61 in the gold medal match of the B division in the 2016 International Basketball Federation Oceania U18 Championship yesterday. The match was played at the Vodafone Arena in Suva. Fiji led 18-9 at the end of the first quarter before Samoa came back in the other three quarters winning 15-13, 17-11 and 20-15. Excited Samoa coach Woolley Le'au'anae said Fiji made them work hard. "We tried hard and kept going in the match," he said. "The players stepped up on their defence and dominated on the outside. "I told the players to tighten in defence and play keep attacking the Fijian defence." Nippy Collin Lal was instrumental for Fiji as he made some good moves and breaks in the game. He scored 14 points and had five assists and said: "Fiji was a good team and had a good shape and defence. "The game could have gone the other way if we had not stepped up." Fiji team officials said they would make a press release on the game report but there were no report sent when this article when to press. Meanwhile, Fiji U18 women's team defeated Tahiti 71-37 in the division B gold medal match. Courtesy of: fijitimes.com
Cheshire Phoenix (BBL) inked 22-year old Fijian international forward Joshua Fox (198-95kg-94). He just graduated from Cal-Davis (NCAA). In 28 games he recorded 14.8ppg, 6.8rpg, 2.1apg and 1.1spg last season. A very good year in his career as he was voted to All-Big West 2nd Team. As mentioned above Fox is just out of the college and it will be his first season in pro basketball. Among other achievements his team won Big West Regular Season in 2015. Fox received also All-Big West Sixth Pl... [read more]
Cheshire Phoenix (BBL) inked 22-year old Fijian international forward Joshua Fox (198-95kg-94). He just graduated from Cal-Davis (NCAA). In 28 games he recorded 14.8ppg, 6.8rpg, 2.1apg and 1.1spg last season. A very good year in his career as he was voted to All-Big West 2nd Team. As mentioned above Fox is just out of the college and it will be his first season in pro basketball. Among other achievements his team won Big West Regular Season in 2015. Fox received also All-Big West Sixth Player of the Year award in 2015 at his college time. Fox represented Fiji at the Pacific Games in Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) last year.
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