KUWAIT CITY, March 10: In their most impressive start of the season, D’ Islanders chalked up another win and rolled the best team output of the week in their sixth week scheduled match against the time masters of West End Watch Company. The 6th round of the 2010 PBAK-COZMO-Al Muzaini_Western Union 6th Conference Tenpin Bowling League also saw the pin breakers of Arsenal, Unistar International Cargo, LEAF and KAICO booking convincing victories over separate opponents. Meanwhile, the Grim Reapers retained the yellow jersey by snapping their 2-game losing streak with a victory over Ultimate Strikers-1.
Now in third place after their admirable showing against the equally electrifying keglers of West End Watch, D’ Islanders spearheaded by the tenacious trio of Bert Pantanilla, Danny Doctor and Bobby Carambas took early control of the match with a 996-861 win over the time keepers. With the Bert, Danny and Bobby still in charge of the pin busting chores, D’ Islanders dished out another scintillating winning performance in game two that ended in a 972-863 count. Aware that the outcome of the match will surely go D’ Islanders way, West End’s Brian Fernanades, Colin Costa, Fatima Sequiera, Lloyd Fernandes and Nelson D’ Souza nevertheless bowled with the same intensity they are known for and succeeded in coming up with a big 1027-929 edge in game three. Credit likewise goes to Marilyne Mariano, Jane Nance and Rolly David in D’ Islanders’ 2932-2771 total pin falls victory.
After dropping out of the Top 8 three weeks ago, the Arsenal crew is slowly creeping back into contention through back to back victories. In their latest winning outing, the Arsenal strikers defeated the K2E2 pin snipers 2863-2691. In compiling their total pin falls win, Arsenal grabbed the opening game of the match 989-857. As the guns of Arsenal fell silent in game two, K2E2 with Alex Cervantes, Butch Alinea, Ning Cervantes, Danny San Juan and Cris Bulacja snatched a 914-853 decision. Coming back in game three fully loaded with pin crushing ammunition, Arsenal once again gunned down the pins at will to easily beat K2E2 986-905. Top bowlers for Arsenal in this match were Abdullah Khaled, Hanadi Mezaeil, Nasser Seraj, Yousef Tabtabai and Mohammad Seraj. The cargo masters of Unistar International on the other hand continued their roller coaster performance and fortunately they were on the high end of the ride last Friday. Taking advantage of the inability of the Swooping Eagles to take off, Unistar delivered 3 consecutive victories to sweep the 3-game series match via 971-829, 903-845 and 944-850 scores. Carrying the scoring load for the freight movers in this match were Mars Balisi, Alfred Avila, Myra Manalo, Mandy Manalo, Riz Roque, Jess Tolentino and Jess de Vera.
LEAF who also bowled above the 2800 mark had a light assignment over the weekend cruising home to an easy 2824-2560 victory at the expense of Frost Real Estate. The green thumbs started the day by taking the low scoring game one 899-759 and returned in game two with a more convincing 976-932 victory. To close out the match, Joe Presenta, Cris Carungay, Marjorie Mercado, Peter Magdaherin, Rey Ualat and Blanca Mercado completed a three nothing sweep by taking the third a final game 924-869. In submitting the only other above 2800 tally, the car dealers of KAICO humbled the beleaguered sound specialist of BOSE 2813-2478. At the onset of the match both teams looked headed for a low scoring affair but thanks to George Boushebel, Mousa Abdullah, Willy Lao, Norie Sairat and Rene Marzan, KAICO was able to shift to a higher gear and crossed the wire with 930-821, 913-756 and 945-901 victories tucked under their seat belts. In another interesting match up, Klasmeyts-Kana-Al Khadda came back from two games down to nip COZMO-Al Muzain 2758-2702. In game one and two, Chit Mariano, Bobby Ferrera, Sonny Mariano, Al Belarmino, Tito Tamayo, Vernie Villaruel and Dan Montano handed COZMO-Al Muzaini 939-851 and 926-877 victories. Seemingly ready to raise the white flag, Klasmeyts-KK team honcho Bong Bermillo joined Bene Crucero, Emma Gatus, Rudy Zablan and Gary Bonifacio in game three were they routed their rivals 1005-837 to turn the outcome of the match in their favor.
In the other match of the week, Al Qassem Strikers struck down defending champion Klasmeyts NLB Corporation 2851-2605, COZMO turned back RAV-5 2611-2474, Nusantara upset Xpress Rollers 2746-2682, league leader Grim Reapers down Ultimate Strikers-1 2791-2610, second running Siete Pares stopped Ultimate Strikers-2 2698-2405 and World Class who drew the week’s bye bowled a 2893. The team standings after six week are as follows (read as rank, team name and average score per game) 1. Grim Reapers-945, 2. Siete Pares-942, 3. D’ Islanders-942, 4. Xpress Rollers-939, 5. LEAF-932, 6. West End Watch-930, 7. COZMO/Al Muzaini-920, 8. World Class-920, 9. Arsenal-919, 10. BOSE-917, 11. Klasmeyts KK-917, 12, KAICO-915, 13. Nusantara-913, 14. Al Qassem-912, 15. COZMO-908, 16. Ultimate Strikers 2-907, 17. Unistar Kaibigan-897, 18. Klasmeyts NLB-897, 19. K2E2-892, 20. RAV 5-890, 21. Ultimate Strikers 1-888, 22. Swooping Eagles-864, 23. Frost Real