The Fiji soccer team is leading Kiribati 3-0 with just few minutes into the second half.

Roy Krishna opened the scoring with a penalty in the 16th minute of the first half.

Meanwhile, the Fiji basketball teams experienced a win and a loss yesterday in their first games.

The men’s team comfortably defeated Samoa 80-61 while the women’s team lost 53-56 to Papua New Guinea.

The Fiji basketball men’s team will play against American Samoa at 6pm this evening.

The Fiji baseball team got off to a good start beating American Samoa 8-2 yesterday but the real test will come this afternoon at 4pm when they will play Guam.

At 6pm the Fiji women’s volleyball team will play their opening game against Tonga.

Looking at the medal tally,

Defending Pacific Games Champion, New Caledonia is in the lead in the overall medal tally with 5 gold and 1 silver after they dominated the swimming competition last night.

Tahiti is in second place with 4 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze while PNG lies in 3rd spot with 3 gold and 1 silver.

Team Fiji is in 4th place with 3 bronze.


Story by: Dhanjay Deo