Singapore men conquers Doubles
10th June, Singapore: Saw siblings, Howard and Keith of Singapore conquered the lanes at Orchid Bowl @ OCC with the men’s first gold medal in the Doubles event of the 28th SEA Games Bowling Championship on Wednesday.
Howard and Keith got off the block with a cracking 456 to lead the first Malaysian pair of Singles gold medalist, Muhd Rafiq Ismail and Ahmad Muaz by just a single pin and the third Malaysian pair of Johnathan Chan and Timmy Tan a further 20 pins away in third.
The Saw siblings quickened their pace with another stunning 504 to pull away from Chan and Tan to a 65 pins lead as the third Indonesian pair of Ryan Lalisang and Billy Muhammad Islam moving up to third.
Singapore stumbled to a lowly 382 in the third game allowing Indonesia to take over the running, albeit only three pins adrift while the third Malaysian pair slipped to third.
Howard and Keith recovered with 427 in the forth game to regain the lead and nine pins ahead of Malaysia and Indonesia dropping down to third. Indonesia bounced back in the fifth game to share the lead with Singapore while Malaysia maintaining third spot.
With the sixth and final game to decide the outcome, it was indeed a tense period. With the home crowd cheering Singapore, Howard and Keith prevailed to end with a strong 434 to seal the gold medal with 2653.
Indonesia was unable to mount any threat coming home with 405 to settle for the silver medal with 2628. Malaysia hung on to third for the bronze medal with 2574.
Thailand’s Phumin Klanbida and Atchariya Cheng, who was just eight pins behind Malaysia, managed 428 to miss the podium by nine pins in fourth position.
The second Singapore pair of Joel Tan and Justin Lim was never in contention and managed only 11th position while the third Singapore pair of Javier Tan and Muhd Jaris Goh finished 14th position.
Singapore heads the bowling medal tally with 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze followed by Malaysia with 2 gold and 3 bronze medals. Indonesia moved ahead of Thailand with 2 silver medals.
| Competition will shift to the 3-players Trios event tomorrow morning with the first block of three games and the second block of three games in the afternoon. | ||
| Photos by Terence Yaw in Singapore. | ||