Handball team set for Oceania tourney – POST-COURIER

July 6, 2017

Handball By Simon Keslep

A fourteen member handball squad is all set to attend the 2017 International Handball Federations Oceania championship later this month. The IHFs Oceania championship is scheduled to be held on the 31st July-05th August in Cook Islands with current champions Tahiti vying to defend their title while New Zealand and Australia will be expected to put on a challenge. PNGs U20 Handball team manager Clarence Paling said earlier this week that the team is preparing well and looking forward to obtain good results at the championship. Bulk of the players in the team including Geran Sani who attended a handball tournament in New Zealand in 2014 will be likely to lead the debutants in the team. Our aim at this championship is to use the experience gained at the first tournament appearance and improve on our placing, said Paling. Paling further elaborated that players are working on basic defense and offensive strategies despite having a short period of preparations. This week has seen the boys picking up on areas of improvement and we will be finalizing our squad by this Sunday, said Paling. Securing training facilities is also another contributing factor towards having the team being moved from the Sir John Guise Indoor sports complex and now sharing courts with basketball and volleyball at the Taurama Aquatic Centre. We are planning to roll out handball school based development programs starting in October till November to schools within NCD, Eastern Highlands, West New Britain and Autonomous Region of Bougainville and then to other provincial centres, said Paling. The U20 Handball team will leave for the IHF Trophy U20 Oceania Regional championship on the 28th of this month.

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