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![The American Samoa Youth Futsal squad before their game against Solomon Islands at Bruce Pulman Arena in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/American%20Samoa_6224.jpg?itok=Sx9tPmRX "The American Samoa Youth Futsal squad before their game against Solomon Islands at Bruce Pulman Arena in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
The Solomon Islands are the best in Futsal (indoor soccer) in Oceania, and they showed it with an 18-0 beating of American Samoa in their first game of the OFC Youth Futsal Tournament at Bruce Pulman Arena in Auckland, NZ.
They were superior in all aspects of the game – technical ability, fitness,...
![Tumau pea le talita a le Alii B Teams i a'ao malosi o le Annex mai Fagatogo. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Annex%20Sheild%20B.jpg?itok=OblBcHWY "Tumau pea le talita a le Alii B Teams i a'ao malosi o le Annex mai Fagatogo. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]")
O ta'aloga o le aso To'ona'i na te'a nei, Setema 30, na fa'amaonia ai le malosi o le puipuiga a le Sinapi A i le talita, aua ua toe u'umau fo'i e i latou le talita o le Ta'amilosaga Volley Ball a "Alii A." Peita'i o Setema 23, na fa'ato'a malolo ai le "Tanoa A" i le "Sinapi A" ma latou se'ia ai le...
![Samoana Sharks quarterback, Jr. Tanielu running in his second eighty plus yard quarterback keep for a touchdown. Tanielu led the Sharks with 3 touchdown receptions, all from quarterback keeps, in their 32- 8 victory over the Wildcats, last Friday evening. [photo; TG]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ashsaa%20wk4_7291.jpg?itok=rD9Ykb9n "Samoana Sharks quarterback, Jr. Tanielu running in his second eighty plus yard quarterback keep for a touchdown. Tanielu led the Sharks with 3 touchdown receptions, all from quarterback keeps, in their 32- 8 victory over the Wildcats, last Friday evening. [photo; TG]")
The Samoana Sharks, led by head coach Pati Pati, secured their first victory in the varsity division this season, following a 21-12 victory over the Wildcats, in a game that wasn't easy for Samoana to win, as Nu’uuli put up quite the fight throughout the match.
On the other...
![The Vaiala Tongan and Ilaoa & To’omata women’s teams are pictured with the women’s FFAS National Cup after their game on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. Vaiala Tongan took the cup away from Ilaoa & To’omata following a 6-0 win. See story in today’s Sports section. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Vaiala%20Tongan%20W%20Cup_6048.jpg?itok=W_85cb14 "The Vaiala Tongan and Ilaoa & To’omata women’s teams are pictured with the women’s FFAS National Cup after their game on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. Vaiala Tongan took the cup away from Ilaoa & To’omata following a 6-0 win. See story in today’s Sports section. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
The women’s FFAS National Cup of the 2017 National League has changed hands for the fourth week in a row, this time going home with Vaiala Tongan after a 6-0 win over Ilaoa & To’omata on Sept. 23.
This was the second time Ilaoa & To’omata defended the cup and lost it this season, giving it...
![ASHSAA ATC Florence Wasko tending to an injured Leone Lion, during the second quarter of a Junior Varsity game against the Warriors last Saturday morning. Tafuna won 34-22. [photo: TG]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ashsaa%20wk4_7745.jpg?itok=ghAqjlfA "ASHSAA ATC Florence Wasko tending to an injured Leone Lion, during the second quarter of a Junior Varsity game against the Warriors last Saturday morning. Tafuna won 34-22. [photo: TG]")
The American Samoa High School Athletics Association (ASHSAA) hosted the fourth week of high school football action this past weekend at the Veterans Memorial Stadium, where head coach Kolose Ili and his mighty Tafuna Warriors closed off their first round competition as the only...
![Team American Samoa heading to closing ceremony [photo: Team AS]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/team%20AS_8728.jpg?itok=dy_AGf90 "Team American Samoa heading to closing ceremony [photo: Team AS]")
The games have been played, the athletes honored, the Medals given out. What an amazing experience for Team American Samoa here at Ashgabat 2017, the 5th Indoor Asian & Martial Arts Games, held in Turkmenistan.
Samoa News coverage of the 5th Indoor Asian & Martial Arts Games is sponsored by...
![John Wasko now looks forward to Oceania Masters WMA meet in January. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa-wasko.jpg?itok=pph9VQpy "John Wasko now looks forward to Oceania Masters WMA meet in January. [courtesy photo]")
Oh drat. M70 sprinter John Wasko had a chance to be the only American to compete at the Asian Masters Athletics Championships in northeast China. But alas, he tells me via FB, he got his invite less than 30 days before the meet, which ended this week.
“Not much time for travel plans, ticketing,...
Just as the last days of the 2017 Ashgabat Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were coming to an end, two of team American Samoa’s wrestlers took the American Samoa Flag all the way to the quarter final round in Men’s Greco Roman Wrestling; Daniel Missalefua at 71kg and Nolan Puletasi at 85kg....
![Nu’uuli Wildcats quarterback, Daniel Maea scrambling out with the ball and opting to keep it on a play-action pass play against the Vikings last Friday evening at the Veterans Memorial Stadium. [photo: TG]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ashsaa%20wk%203_6208.jpg?itok=_eT9PFml "Nu’uuli Wildcats quarterback, Daniel Maea scrambling out with the ball and opting to keep it on a play-action pass play against the Vikings last Friday evening at the Veterans Memorial Stadium. [photo: TG]")
During the third week of the American Samoa High School Athletics Association’s (ASHSAA) football season, head coach Sua’ese Pooch Ta’ase and his Faga’itua Vikings claimed their second win of the season in both divisional battles against the Nu’uuli Wildcats.
The Vikings' varsity squad shut out the...
![Tafuna’s kick off returner was immediately apprehended in the backfield by a Samoana Shark, during the opening quarter of a Junior Varsity match up last Saturday morning. [photo: TG]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ashsaa%20wk3_6684.jpg?itok=ZXMh2uTn "Tafuna’s kick off returner was immediately apprehended in the backfield by a Samoana Shark, during the opening quarter of a Junior Varsity match up last Saturday morning. [photo: TG]")
Last Saturday, the American Samoa High School Athletics Association (ASHSAA) kicked off week 3 of high school football at the Veterans Memorial Stadium – fielding one of the long awaited battles between the Sharks and the Warriors, where Tafuna’s defensive coordinator Kevin Magalei and the Warriors...