Spirit high despite no show
Cherie Tan, who was the best performer so far where she finished 20th in the opening event teamed up with Jasmine Yeong-Nathan and Jazreel Tan for the Trios event on Thursday.
Cherie shot 188, 187 and 175 for a lowly 550 series over the short oil pattern followed by Jazreel's 619 but the highest scorer was Jasmine Yeong-Nathan with 647 giving the trio 1816 in the first block. USA's Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Stefanie Nationa and Liz Johnson led the first block with 1942.
The second trio of Geraldine-Bernice-Shayna downed 1704 in the second block on Friday for a 6-game total of 3466 making not much headway while their compatriots, Cherie-Jasmine-Jazreel totaled 3713.
The first Singapore trio finished 12th overall while the second trio took 36th position as Chinese Taipei made the finals in second with 3798. Denmark finished third with 3785 and the final spot was snatched up by Japan with 3767.
Chinese Taipei's Tsai Hsin-Yi, Yang Hao-Ting and Tang Ya-Chun went on to upstaged the American PBA pros, 660-602 in the title match to clinch their first gold medal in the championship series since 2005 in Alborg, Denmark.
Detailed scores: Trios Combined Squads | Trios Semi & Finals.