The Fiji Men's Touch Rugby team beat Niue in the first semifinal this morning by 8-5, and is on track to defend the Gold Medal they won at the 2007 Pacific Games in Samoa.

In the other semifinal, Cook Islands beat Samoa 7-6.

Fiji will now go on to meet Samoa in the Preliminary finals at midday.

Both the Fiji Squash Ladies and Mens team are currently playing New Caledonia and at 1pm, Fiji will take on the Cook Islands in the Netball semi-finals.

Team Fiji has broken two of the four records at the 8th Pacific Mini Games that is currently being held in the Cook Islands.

Yesterday, University of the South Pacific student, Leslie Copeland broke a 12-year record set by his mentor James Goulding in a throw of 73.58m, set way back in 1997.

The new record set by Copeland stands at 74.98m.

The other record was broken by Sprint Queen, Makelesi Bulikiobo in the 100m, after setting a new time of 11.97sec.

The highlight today will be the finals of the 200m, where Banuve Tabakaucoro, Niko Verekauta and Tevita Nalovo will go head-to-head for the Gold Medal.

In the 200m heats yesterday Banuve Tabakaucoro recorded the fastest time of 22.10 seconds while Tevita Nalovo's time stood at 22.28 seconds.

Niko Verekauta did not have any trouble winning his heat in a time of 22.53 seconds. The finals of the 200m will be held at 4pm.

Looking at the medal tally Fiji still leads with 8 Gold, 4 Silver and 8 Bronze, Tahiti is second on 7 Gold 6 Silver and 2 Bronze and New Caledonia is third on 5 Gold, 7 Silver and 5 Bronze.