Jasmine cruises into next round

Jasmine cruises into next round

12th November, Mexico: Overnight leader, Jasmine Yeong-Nathan of Singapore cruised into the Women's Top 24 round of the 44th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup as pole sitter at the end of the 24-games preliminary round.  The Singaporean, who took over the lead after scoring the tournament's third perfect game in her second block series, moved into the next round with a 24-game total of 5477, 107 pins ahead of defending champion, Ann-Maree Putney of Australia.

Jasmine, who competed in the the 2006 World Cup in Caracas and also made the Top 8 quarterfinals only to be knocked out and eventually finished seventh, looked much more stronger this time round.

Putney, who had a poor start in her first block, made up grounds in all her three subsequent blocks, remained second with a total of 5370. Sweden's Helen Johnsson shot the highest six-games series of 1415 to snatch third spot with 5364.

Finn Krista Pollanen and second perfect gamer, Sara Vargas of Colombia rounded up the top 5 with 5345 and 5212. Katrien Goossens of Belgium squeezed into the final 24th place pipping the unlucky fourth perfect gamer, Cookie Lee of Hong Kong in 25th position.

All the top 24 women averaged over 200 and the overall average for all 63 women is 192.5. The tournament now moves to the quarter final stage, and the women will bowl again tomorrow morning (Thursday). They will play eight games before the cut to the top eight and the top eight will then bowl a further eight game round robin with bonus pins for winning.

Detailed scores: Women's 4thBlk.

Photos by Mervyn Foo, SingaporeBowling.