Singapore bowlers vow to bounce back
15th February, Jakarta: Singles bronze medalist, Kristin Quah Wen Mei vowed to bounce back in the second block of the Girl’s Masters finals at the 15th Asian School Bowling Championships tomorrow after managing to finish a distant fourth today while Darren Ong took sixth in the By’s division.
Jong Ryeon Gyeong of Korea A set a blistering pace to win her opening match with 280 but only 1 pin ahead of Indonesian pair of Nadia Pramanik and Shinta Ceysaria, who defeated their team-mates with a same score of 279.
Kristin Quah, who also won her first match compatriot, Iliya Syamin with 258, followed it up by beating another team-mate, Amanda Lee with 289 in the second match to take over the running.
Another win over Charmaine Lim with 258 in the third put her 26 pins ahead of her nearest rival, Shinta midway through the first block. Lady luck was not with the Singaporean as she lost her next three matches despite rolling 203, 226 and 213.
Shinta shot into the lead and went on to end the block with two additonal wins from the seventh and eighth matches with 248 and 254 for a total of 2090 including 60 bonus pins.
Jong bounced back to take up second spot with 2011 from seven wins while Mirai Ishimoto of Japan claimed third position with 2006 from six wins.
Quah settled for fourth position with 1966 from five wins followed by Team gold medalist, Alisha Nabila rounding out the top 5 with 1935 from six wins. Two gold medalist, Joy Yap finished sixth with 1910.
Dpahne Oh, who shot the championship’s seventh perfect game in the seventh match, took up seventh with 1891 ahead of Iliya Syamin, Amanda Lee and Charmaine Lim in eighth to tenth positions respectively.
The girls vowed to bounce back in the second block especially after performing poorly in the 4-Player Team event on Friday.
Singapore’s sole finalist in the Boy’s division, Darren Ong was also unlucky after losing his first fourth matches despite rolling big games of 236, 257, 226 and 259. Ong picked up his first win in the fifth with 253 but stumbled again in the sixth with 213.
The Singapore Sports School 4th-year student ended stronger to win his last two matches with 267 and 299 for a total of 2040 in sixth position from just three wins.
Team gold and All Events silver medalist, Adam Svensson of Australia A started off with his first 300 and ninth of the championships to take the early lead. The Aussie followed it up with two more wins with 267 and 255 before losing the fourth with a poor 164.
Svensson took second spot with 2086, also from six wins while Team bronze medalist and sole Thai in the finals, Atchariya Cheng stormed home with 279 and 280 to finish third with 2082 from five wins.
Singles gold medalist, Musatafa Al Mouswai of Kuwait A, who led after the sixth match, slipped down to fourth with 2057 while scorer of two perfect games, Katsuhito Nakano completed the top 5 with 2055.
The finalists will resume with their second block of 7 matches and a position round match to determine the top 3 boys and top 3 girls to advance to the stepladder finals.
The second and third seeds will face each other in the first match. The winner of the first match will meet the top seed over beat twice format to claim the Masters gold medal.
Detailed scores: Girl’s Masters Bock 1 | Boy’s Masters Block 1 | Photo Album.
Photos by Terence Yaw in Jakarta.