Favourites capture masters titles

11th September, Singapore: Favourites, Valerie Teo of NUS Team 1 and David Candra of NTU captured the Boy’s and Girl’s Masters titles of the 4th Brunswick Collegiate League at Orchid Bowl @ SAFRA Tampines on Thursday evening.

With all the cheering from the college supporters and the intense competition during the 8-games masters finals, it was clear that the champions were simply in great form while the rest were only battling for the runners up spots.

Ex-international, Valerie Teo posted eight consistent games of 200, 211, 203, 203, 200, 203, 201 and 213 to a convincing victory. With a handicap of 80 pins, the champion amassed a total of 1714, 107 pins ahead of her nearest rival.

Team-mate, Glenda Quek took the first runner-up spot with 1607 while Danica Toh of Team Republic 1 finished third with 1555. Toh’s team-mate Clara Lim and Team Republic 2’s Eileen Lim rounded up the top 5. Meanwhile, David Candra of NTU was equally impressive when he cruised to a comfortable victory with 1805 to claim the boy’s masters title. Candra also posted consistent lines of 215, 234, 247, 258, 213, 207, 214 and 217.

Benjamin Hong of Unix finished a distant second, 104 pins adrift with 1701. Ong Song Keith of Team SMU took third spot with 1676 while Calvin Goh of Team Temasek 1 and Gary Tham of NUS Team 1 made up the top 5.

Team Temasek walked away with a special award for winning the league title for the fourth consecutive year with NUS Team 1 and NTU claiming second and third positions respectively. NUS Team 1 claimed the Team High Series Award with 2728 and Lian Haojie took the Most Improved Bowler Award.   Chian Zhi Quan of Unix won the Individual High Game Award, Lian Haijie second and Liaw Jinle third. Individual High Series Award went to Lian Haijie of NUS Team 1.