The Tongan Rugby Under-19 team has been crowned the new champions of the FORU U-19 tournament after beating their Fijian counterparts by 18 points to 17 in a closely contested final at Prince Charles park in Nadi this afternoon.

Fiji was trailing 15-7 at half time with coach Iosefo Bele telling his boys to pull up their socks.

In other finals played today, Samoa hammered Tahiti by 101 points to nil 0 and PNG beat Vanuatu by 84 points to nil.