K2E2 Outclass OGBL/Abannte, Regain Team Tournament Lead
(MENAFN- Arab Times) With the halfway mark of the 2015 FTBK-DOLLARCO Tenpin Bowling Team Tournament fast approaching, the intense quest for a finals berth raged on even as the K2E2 Thunders reclaimed the lead after their convincing seventh week victory over OGBL/Abannte.
And with still eight weeks of pin busting left in this tenpin bowling event being held at the Cozmo Entertainment Center bowling lanes in Salmiya and sponsored by Dollarco Exchange Company, the teams occupying the Top 8 positions remained on shaky ground as the team standings continued to change after each and every completed match.
Meanwhile, defending champion NLB Corporation is slowly but surely building its track towards a possible back to back tile as the pump specialists dished out the best performance of the week in beating Vision Strikers. Joining the K2E2 Thunders and NLB Corporation pin busters in the winner's circle this week were Cozmo Salmiya, DMDA Bowleros, Klasmeyts, World Class and Behbehani Strikers.
As the battle for the 8 finals berth continued to be a free for all affair the K2E2 Thunders stamped their confirmation of the qualifying round's stiff competition after regaining the number one spot in the team standings through a 3237-3091 decisive victory over OGBL/Abannte. With both having their own taste of the lead prior to match, OGBL/Abannte in the second week and K2E2 in the fourth of the round, the Thunders made the first move for another shot at the lead with a close 784-744 win in the first game of the match. K2E2 piled up more pin falls in game two and padded their advantage to 11 marks with another 856-778 decision in the next game. Just as everyone thought that K2E2 had the match already in the bag, the quartet of Glenn Corbit, Vicky Navarro, Jheng Liwayway and Jun Guerra lifted OGBL/Abannte back into the match by trouncing their opponents 850-750 in the penultimate game of the match. With K2E2 now up by a mere 18 pin falls 2390-2372 after three games, the outcome of the match was still up for grabs as the two teams stepped back into the lanes for the deciding fourth and final game.
Spearheaded by Lee Mills, Jess Farne, Newell Sioxch, Jhet Tan and Lito Palon, the K2E2 Thunders were back in business as usual mode as the clobbered OGBL 822-719 thus clinching the match with plenty to spare.
The title retention bid of NLB Corporation finally got going the hard way as they came back from a low scoring opening gamesto beat Vision Strikers 3302-2488. Even with the depleted lineup of their opponent, NLB could only come up with meager 718-520 and 705-622 winning scores in games one and two. Knowing they need to do more in order to stay in contention for a seat to the championship rounds, the pump specialists led by Cris Bulacja, Nelson De Leon, Ric Marimla and Mario Santos returned in games three and four like a well oiled machine and burned the lanes with two explosive performance that earned them 917-675 and 937-671 eye popping victories. With this superb showing, NLB Corporation leap frog from ninth to third in the team standings.
Meanwhile, DMDA Bowleros stayed on the right track for final round stint by grounding D' Islanders, three games to one en-route to a final winning tally of 3167-2899. After a relatively easy 786-686 victory in game one, The DMDA design masters stretched their advantage as they eked another 805-727 success in game two. In the next game and with the Bowleros momentarily losing their pin breaking touch, D' Islanders with the scoring load carried by Bert Pantanilla, Danny Doctor, Marilyne Mariano and Bobby Carambas finally broke into the win column via a 791-710 score.
Back in harness for the final game of the match, Elvie Sotio, Chit Mariano, Dariel Cartas and Sonny Mariano handed DMDA a one-sided 841-695 final game victory.
The Cozmo Salmiya entertainment magnates on the other hand remained in hunt for a place in the next round by beating erstwhile front runner Rock N Bowl in all four games of the match to book a convincing 3282-2800 victory. Headed by Vernie Villaruel, Monico Sabater, Bader Malallah, Ronnel Valencia, Aga Cuadrazal and Paul Arcayan, Cozmo compiled their four straight wins via 820-677, 822-704, 770-715 and 845-705. Bowling for the vanquished Rock N Bowl squad were Liza Catapia, Norie Sairat, Romy Daus, Rod Llait, Tariq Sairat and Romy Fermil. Back in the honor in this round were the Klasmeyts lane masters who topped Siete Pares 3163-2875 through the sterling performance of Janet Shaikh and the able support coming from Bong Bermillo, Ruben Cervantes and Emma Gatus. In posting the victory Klasmeyts dished out 821-634, 819-731 and 785-755 victories in games 1, 3 and 4. Siete Pares 2 towed by JR Angeles, Rico Baluyot, Edwin De Mesa and Romel Genciana eluded a possible sweep by taking game two 755-713. Moving on to the other matches, World Class with Saleh Faraj, Bill Stiles, Gina Ashley, Jason Baker, Thalia Ashley and Ted Ashley taking charge of the scoring chores subdue Siete Pares 1 in the first two games to eke out a 3109-2988 victory. Behbehani Strikers was also victorious against Strikers X whom the trounced 3101-2783 courtesy of Sami Behbehani, Pilar Villanueva, Edgar Miguel and Alfred Avila. Finally, Power Station who bowled all alone submitted a total score of 3089 pin falls.
For the Individual and Team High scores the current record holders are as follows: Individual High Game Men Class O/A-Glenn Corbit/Lee Mills 265, Men Class B-Ruben Cervantes 223, Ladies-Elvie Sotio/Janet Shaikh 245; High Average Men Class O/A-Lee Mills 190, Men Class B-Dariel Cartas 179, Ladies-Elvie Sotio 182; Team High Game-OGBL/Abannte 848 and Team High Series-OGBL/Abannte 3333.
The team standings after seven weeks are as follows (read as rank, team name and total score); 1. K2E2-22208, 2. DMDA Bowleros -21897, 3. NLB Corporation-21880, 4. Rock N Bowl-21844, 5. World Class-21763, 6. Klasmeyts-21751, 7. OGBL/Abannte-21733, 8. Siete Pares 2-21729, 9. Siete Pares 1-21644, 10. Power Station-21432, 11. D' Islanders-21388, 12. Cozmo Salmiya-21384, 13. Behbehani Strikers-21363, 14. Strikers X-20678, 15. Vision Strikers-18212.
And with still eight weeks of pin busting left in this tenpin bowling event being held at the Cozmo Entertainment Center bowling lanes in Salmiya and sponsored by Dollarco Exchange Company, the teams occupying the Top 8 positions remained on shaky ground as the team standings continued to change after each and every completed match.
Meanwhile, defending champion NLB Corporation is slowly but surely building its track towards a possible back to back tile as the pump specialists dished out the best performance of the week in beating Vision Strikers. Joining the K2E2 Thunders and NLB Corporation pin busters in the winner's circle this week were Cozmo Salmiya, DMDA Bowleros, Klasmeyts, World Class and Behbehani Strikers.
As the battle for the 8 finals berth continued to be a free for all affair the K2E2 Thunders stamped their confirmation of the qualifying round's stiff competition after regaining the number one spot in the team standings through a 3237-3091 decisive victory over OGBL/Abannte. With both having their own taste of the lead prior to match, OGBL/Abannte in the second week and K2E2 in the fourth of the round, the Thunders made the first move for another shot at the lead with a close 784-744 win in the first game of the match. K2E2 piled up more pin falls in game two and padded their advantage to 11 marks with another 856-778 decision in the next game. Just as everyone thought that K2E2 had the match already in the bag, the quartet of Glenn Corbit, Vicky Navarro, Jheng Liwayway and Jun Guerra lifted OGBL/Abannte back into the match by trouncing their opponents 850-750 in the penultimate game of the match. With K2E2 now up by a mere 18 pin falls 2390-2372 after three games, the outcome of the match was still up for grabs as the two teams stepped back into the lanes for the deciding fourth and final game.
Spearheaded by Lee Mills, Jess Farne, Newell Sioxch, Jhet Tan and Lito Palon, the K2E2 Thunders were back in business as usual mode as the clobbered OGBL 822-719 thus clinching the match with plenty to spare.
The title retention bid of NLB Corporation finally got going the hard way as they came back from a low scoring opening gamesto beat Vision Strikers 3302-2488. Even with the depleted lineup of their opponent, NLB could only come up with meager 718-520 and 705-622 winning scores in games one and two. Knowing they need to do more in order to stay in contention for a seat to the championship rounds, the pump specialists led by Cris Bulacja, Nelson De Leon, Ric Marimla and Mario Santos returned in games three and four like a well oiled machine and burned the lanes with two explosive performance that earned them 917-675 and 937-671 eye popping victories. With this superb showing, NLB Corporation leap frog from ninth to third in the team standings.
Meanwhile, DMDA Bowleros stayed on the right track for final round stint by grounding D' Islanders, three games to one en-route to a final winning tally of 3167-2899. After a relatively easy 786-686 victory in game one, The DMDA design masters stretched their advantage as they eked another 805-727 success in game two. In the next game and with the Bowleros momentarily losing their pin breaking touch, D' Islanders with the scoring load carried by Bert Pantanilla, Danny Doctor, Marilyne Mariano and Bobby Carambas finally broke into the win column via a 791-710 score.
Back in harness for the final game of the match, Elvie Sotio, Chit Mariano, Dariel Cartas and Sonny Mariano handed DMDA a one-sided 841-695 final game victory.
The Cozmo Salmiya entertainment magnates on the other hand remained in hunt for a place in the next round by beating erstwhile front runner Rock N Bowl in all four games of the match to book a convincing 3282-2800 victory. Headed by Vernie Villaruel, Monico Sabater, Bader Malallah, Ronnel Valencia, Aga Cuadrazal and Paul Arcayan, Cozmo compiled their four straight wins via 820-677, 822-704, 770-715 and 845-705. Bowling for the vanquished Rock N Bowl squad were Liza Catapia, Norie Sairat, Romy Daus, Rod Llait, Tariq Sairat and Romy Fermil. Back in the honor in this round were the Klasmeyts lane masters who topped Siete Pares 3163-2875 through the sterling performance of Janet Shaikh and the able support coming from Bong Bermillo, Ruben Cervantes and Emma Gatus. In posting the victory Klasmeyts dished out 821-634, 819-731 and 785-755 victories in games 1, 3 and 4. Siete Pares 2 towed by JR Angeles, Rico Baluyot, Edwin De Mesa and Romel Genciana eluded a possible sweep by taking game two 755-713. Moving on to the other matches, World Class with Saleh Faraj, Bill Stiles, Gina Ashley, Jason Baker, Thalia Ashley and Ted Ashley taking charge of the scoring chores subdue Siete Pares 1 in the first two games to eke out a 3109-2988 victory. Behbehani Strikers was also victorious against Strikers X whom the trounced 3101-2783 courtesy of Sami Behbehani, Pilar Villanueva, Edgar Miguel and Alfred Avila. Finally, Power Station who bowled all alone submitted a total score of 3089 pin falls.
For the Individual and Team High scores the current record holders are as follows: Individual High Game Men Class O/A-Glenn Corbit/Lee Mills 265, Men Class B-Ruben Cervantes 223, Ladies-Elvie Sotio/Janet Shaikh 245; High Average Men Class O/A-Lee Mills 190, Men Class B-Dariel Cartas 179, Ladies-Elvie Sotio 182; Team High Game-OGBL/Abannte 848 and Team High Series-OGBL/Abannte 3333.
The team standings after seven weeks are as follows (read as rank, team name and total score); 1. K2E2-22208, 2. DMDA Bowleros -21897, 3. NLB Corporation-21880, 4. Rock N Bowl-21844, 5. World Class-21763, 6. Klasmeyts-21751, 7. OGBL/Abannte-21733, 8. Siete Pares 2-21729, 9. Siete Pares 1-21644, 10. Power Station-21432, 11. D' Islanders-21388, 12. Cozmo Salmiya-21384, 13. Behbehani Strikers-21363, 14. Strikers X-20678, 15. Vision Strikers-18212.
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