Surprise victory for youth girl
Twenty-one bowlers qualified for the Masters in the 14 & Under division while fifteen contested the 20 & Under division. The finalists bowled a series of 6 games whereby the top 3 from each division advanced to the stepladder finals.
The girls showed that they were no pushovers in the 14 & Under division when Celine Mok topped the table at the end of 6 games. She bowled 184, 173, 138, 183, 227 and 179, which together with her 30 pins handicap, gave her a total of 1114 pinfalls.
In the first stepladder match between second-seed, Fung and third-seed, Lee, Fung got the better of her opponent with a 187-178 win despite missing two pin 10 in the first half of the match.
Lee missed a spare in the seventh frame which Fung capitalized on. A double and 9 pin in the final frame proved sufficient to edge out Lee, who ended with 178. In the title match against Mok, Fung maintained her composure despite a split in the third frame. She went on to end the game without anymore open frames as Mok missed spares in the fourth, sixth and ninth frames handing Fung the title.
Adam and Nicholas fought it out in the first stepladder match, with Nicholas having a 5-pin handicap advantage over Adam. At the halfway mark, Nicholas was leading by 6 pins (including handicap) but Adam strung 6 strikes-in-a-row to beat Nicholas by a whopping 48 pins.
Kristel Oh got off to a lead early in the title match as Adam failed to spare 3 out of his first 5 frames. But the 17-year-old rebounded in a similar fashion shown in the earlier match by stringing 6 consecutive strikes to seal the victory, 212-179.