SBF youths dominate U-18 finals

27th May, Singapore: SingaporeBowling national youths dominated the Under-18 Masters finals of the 45th Singapore International Open after Javier Tan cruised to a comfortable victory in the boy’s division and Michelle Ng hung on to a slender win in the girl’s division.
Basil Ng took the early lead after rolling a superb 236 in his opening game, 11 pins ahead of Javier Tan, who knocked down 225. Another scintilating game of 247 in the second game allowed Basil to open up a gap of 59 pins over Javier.

Basil managed only 181 in his third game allowing Javier to close the gap to 14 pins. Javier then picked up his pace with 238 in the fourth and a high game of 266 in the fifth to take over the running as Basil slipped down to tie second spot with Tay Hui Chiang.

Javier went on to end with 203, 202 and 191 in his last three games for a total of 1740, 113 ahead of the 2011 Milo All-Stars champion, Tay Hui Chiang in second with 1627.

A second national youth, Ng Kai Xiang finished strongly to snatch third spot with 1609 as pace-setter, Basil settled for fourth position with 1583.

  
Mr. Von Chan, Director and General Manager, Business Imaging Solutions and Business Solution Division of Canon Singapore and Mr. Bob Gambardella, Chief, Sport Development Group and Singapore Sports Institution, Singapore Sports Council were on hand to present the prizes.
Meanwhile, it looked certain that national youth, Michelle Ng would cruise to a comfortable victory in the Youth Girls Under-18 finals after leading from the word “Go”. Michelle got off to splendid start with 212 and 210 in her first two games.

Michelle had opened up a gap of 36 pins over Tay Hui Wen as she continued to down 192 and 209 to extend her lead to 88 pins at the halfway mark.

Despite a low game of 137 in the fifth game which allowed Tracy See to close the gap to 26 pins, Michelle recovered with a 231 to remain in the lead ahead of Kimberly Ooi Jing Yi moving into second spot.

The leader had 37 pins margin going into the last game and had almost lost it when she managed only 164. Fortunately, Kimberly ended with 194 and failed to overtake Michelle giving the her the victory with 1537 pinfalls.

  
Kimberly settled for second with 1533, just 4 pins behind while Joey Yeo RuoQi stormed home to clinch third spot with 1497. Tracy and Stacy Lian completed the top 5 with 1469 and 1426 respectively.
Photos by Paul Chua.