Sports

This year’s 2012-2013 American Samoa High School Athletic Association (ASHSAA) sports have concluded with a season that witnessed its share of fights and cancellation of playoffs, along with one real surprise in this year’s competition.
 
As each school year begins, so does football season which is the biggest draw of all of the ASHSAA sports. It was no surprise in this year’s football season, as the Varsity Tafuna Warriors dominated the regular season going into the playoffs, where they dominated again.
 

Samoana and Fa’asao-Marist have been crowned as champions of the American Samoa High School Athletics Association’s boys soccer varsity and junior varsity, respectively, divisions.
 
The teams were officially handed their trophies during a presentation on May 8, 2013 held at the KVZK Studio in Utulei.
 
VARSITY
 
Samoana 7-0-1) ended the competition with a league-best 21 points, eight better than second place finisher, Fa’asao-Marist Crusaders (4-1-3, 13 points).
 

Rounds 3 & 4 were held over the weekend with three teams remaining unbeaten so far in the 2013 FFAS 7-A-Side Tournament — No. 1 Tafuna Jets, No. 2 Black Roses and No. 3 Kiwi Soccers.
 
Tafuna holds the goals differential edge — 24 —while Black Roses need the second tiebreaker of goals scored (15-14) to edge Kiwi for second place as both are tied wth 13 each in the goals difference department.
 

With less than two weeks left and the end of school in sight, there will no doubt be summer activities offered, with options such as flag football, softball, wrestling, track and field, tennis, and volleyball conducted by different organizations.
 
 One of the first activities of the summer will be the American Samoa Swimming Association (ASSA) 2nd Annual Coconut Point "Splash and Dash" that will be taking place on May 25th at Coconut Point (Nu’uuli).