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Francisco Asuncion and Honeylyn Clarin knocked down the
most pins on Day One, but Philippines Graphic drew a
balanced effort from its crew to take the team lead at
the start of the First ALC Group of Companies Bowling
Tournament at the Bowling Center of the SM Mall of Asia
in Pasay City.
Asuncion
toppled 191 pins in his second game to emerge as the
best male bowler on the first day of the event,
featuring mixed teams of 12 from a dozen companies under
the ALC umbrella and held in honor of group founder and
owner Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon-Chua.
Eternal
Plans also benefited from Asuncion’s 166.5 average for
two games as it placed third in the team tally with
1,874 pinfalls, behind Graphic (2,067) and ALC Pasig
(1,882).
Clarin,
meanwhile, scored 160 to become the best lady bowler of
the day and tow her Eternal Gardens squad to sixth in
the team standings with a 1,790 aggregate.
She and
Asuncion are now the frontrunners for the highest
average pinfalls, or highest single score awards that
will be handed out after the tournament, during the ALC
Group’s 18th Organization Day at the World Trade Center
in Pasay City on August 16.
Three
bowlers from Graphic, however, averaged Clarin’s score
or better as Juan Roberto “Jing” Batang, Pederiño
Francisco and Philip Navarro accounted for over 800
pinfalls of the squad’s event-leading total.
Francisco had a 321 total in two games, just one pin
better than Navarro, who rolled a 174 in his first game.
Batang added a 164 in his only game for the day as the
magazine held three of the male side’s five best average
pinfalls for the day.
Moreover, Graphic’s Marilou Francisco rolled a 271
total, and her 135.5 average put her behind Clarin in
the race for the best woman bowler plum.
Overall,
Graphic leads ALC-Pasig by 185 pinfalls, with the latter
drawing solid games from Julius Santiago and Ellen
Hernandez, both in the top 10 of the average-score
charts for men and women.
Asuncion
and Eternal Plans trail ALC-Pasig by just seven pins,
despite the efforts of Amor Masigla (125.5 average,
fifth among women) and five other teammates who all
rolled 205 pins or more.
Fourth
on the team tally is Gencars with 1,851 pins, followed
by Citystate Savings Bank (1,814), Eternal Gardens,
Fortune Life (1,744) and the BusinessMirror (1,728).
Citystate Tower/Cherry Blossoms Hotel is ninth with
1,692, ahead of Fortune General (1,625). The Mixed Team
of Brown Madonna Printers-Edsa-Foodchain (1,610), and
Fortune Medicare (1,609).
Teams
will be divided into groups of four by total pinfalls
after the second day on Saturday to determine Classes A,
B, C and D.
Teams
within each class will then match up on Day Three, with
the winners vying for the championship of their class
and the losers playing for third place on the final day
of the event. |
