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Saturday, February 1, 2014 cook Islands News
Player movements revealed today TODAY’S highly anticipated
first game of the 2014 club rugby league season will give fans their first look at the make-up of their club teams. Leading up to the season start there has been much chatter about player movement and club transfers and today will be a day to set the records straight and see who’s who, especially in the premier men’s grade. The Takuvaine, Tupapa and Ngatangiia fields will be the battle grounds for today’s firstup games, with the Titikaveka Bulldogs heading to the Happy Valley to take on the Warriors while the Avatiu Eels battle with the defending champions the Tupapa Panthers. The Arorangi Bears will rumble with the Ngatangiia Sea Eagles. get your club colours on, stretch your vocal cords and get out and support your club
not just at the premier level but right across the board starting with the stars of tomorrow in the junior grades. - Matariki Wilson
– 11.30pm under 14, Ref-Pio Mitchell, Touch Judges-Club Officials, 12.20pm under 16, Ref-Johnny Hosking, Touch
Judges-Dawn Crummer /Club Officials, 1.20pm under 19, Ref-Bishop Bishop, Touch Judges-Pio Mitchell / Johnny
Hosking, 2.40pm Snr Reserve, Ref-Tangi Taomia, Touch Judges-Club Official, 4pm Premier, Ref-Arthur Emile, Touch
Judges-Bishop Bishop / Tangi Taomia, Sub Official-Simiona Teiotu.
Today’s draw: Takuvaine Warriors vs Titikaveka Bulldogs at Takuvaine –3.30pm junior grade, Ref-Robert Matapo and club officials, 4pm Premier, RefTuaitu Ngaputa, Touches Judges-Poto Ngaroi /Jeffery Muarry, Sub Official-Tua Dyer.
Ngatangiia Sea Eagles vs Arorangi Bears at Ngatangiia – 12.30pm under 14, RefPaul Peyroux, Touches JudgesClub Officials, 1.25pm under 19, Ref-Tutai Taurarii,Touches Judges-Club Officials, 2.45pm Snr Reserve, Ref-Nga Takaiti, Touch Judges-Club Officials, 4pm Premier, Ref-Ngavavia Tou, Touch Judges-Paul Peyroux/Tutai Taurarii, Sub Official-Taua benioni.
Tupapa Panthers vs Avatiu Nikao Eels at Tupapa
The Ngatangiia Sea Eagles will host the Arorangi Bears, Tupapa Panthers host the Avatiu Eels and the Titikaveka Bulldogs head to the Happy Valley to meet the Warriors. Aitutaki has the irst week of. 13030369
Baseball coaching set for national cricketers COACH Crawford is one of these ‘modern era’ coaches who is constantly look for inspiration from various sports in the development of his cricketers. At just 22, Mark Crawford is soon becoming a highly regarded cricket coach throughout Northern Districts with his baseball philosophy to ielding and groundwork. Crawford not only has a Level 2 New Zealand Cricket Coaching qualification but has also gained his Silver Coaching Accreditation from the American Baseball Coaches Association. In addition to coaching cricket through the Bay of Plenty youth pathway, coach Crawford also works with New Zealand Baseball assisting in fielding
and throwing coaching of age group baseballers in Auckland. He firmly establishes that cricketers have a lot to learn from baseballers in gaining an edge in their ielding. “100’s of millions of dollars has been poured into the science of baseball over the years and as cricket coaches we can gain a lot of information from the biomechanics of these concepts to improve the accuracy and power of our cricketers throwing ability,” says Crawford. Crawford adds that while the baseball skills are relatively simple to adopt he has been impressed by the Cook Islands national squad’s improvements in such a short period of time.
“I have been impressed by the instant success the Cooks squad has had in their throwing, the entire group have had signiicant gains in throwing accuracy and velocity and players like Ngametua Tariau, Shane Munokoa, Toala Teinaki and Tina Mato have quadrupled their power and accuracy within a week.” Cook Islands Cricket has a busy international calendar ahead for 2015 including the East Asia Women’s Twenty20 Trophy (Japan), East Asia Men’s Trophy (Australia), International Invitational Cup (Cook Islands), Womens Twenty20 Paradise League (Cook Islands) and the World Indigenous Twenty20 Series (Cook Islands).
Cricket coach Mark Crawford putting the Cooks’ national players through their paces using his baseball philosophy. 14013148 With a smaller population, smaller player pool and less funding than their competition the national association is always looking for ways to gain
a competitive edge over their opponents. Coach Crawford will be departing the Cooks in the next couple of days, however he has
plans to return to bring more baseball coaching philosophy and a team to participate in January’s 2015 Festival of Cricket. - CIC
New Zealand’s top female cricketer on Raro SINCE DEBuTINg in 2002 at the tender age of just 22, Sara Mcglashan has had an illustrious cricket career with the Whiteferns. Mcglashan has played 115 One Day Internationals (ODI) and 51 Twenty20’s for the New Zealand women’s cricket team spanning a career of 13 years at the top of women’s international cricket.
A wicket keeper/batter, Mcglashan has been in electric form with the bat this season including an unbeaten century (131 not out) against Northern Districts, 90 against Otago and match winning 62 not out in the inal of the New Zealand Domestic Twenty20 Cup win over Canterbury. Mcglashan is set to take on the West Indies in New Zealand in
two weeks and then depart with the New Zealand team for Bangladesh for the Twenty20 World Cup. But not before the talented right hander assists Cook Islands Cricket in marketing the proile of Cook Islands Cricket’s 2015 Women’s Twenty20 Festival of Cricket. Cricket’s Alister Stevic says that to have a world cricketing personality promoting the event
Sara McGlashan has had an illustrious cricket career and is on the island sharing her skills and expertise in the game. 14013147
is exciting. “We have had great momentum with registrations into our 2015 Festival of Cricket, and with the cricket season underway in New Zealand and Australia and the biggest world cricket tournament about to play out in Bangladesh next month we feel that Sara’s global notoriety and popularity will add tremendous value to our marketing efforts.”
It’s something Mcglashan is excited to be a part of. “This is my first visit to the Cook Islands; I have heard lots of wonderful things about the Cook Islands and the people. I think the Festival of Cricket initiative from Cook Islands Cricket is a fantastic concept for the Cook Islands and with the right lead up time it is going to be an easy sell to encourage cricketers to
come enjoy the sun, sand and unique style of Cook Islands cricketers.” Passionate about the development of cricket globally, Mcglashan has also been spending her evenings imparting her years of experience and batting and wicket keeping expertise, working with the national women’s and men’s national teams. - Matariki Wilson