JEDDAH, 17 May — Panther Energy Drink blasted International 3,522-2,116. Three Panther bowlers breached the 600-mark with Rally Zamora as usual leading the charge with 662 followed by Leo Pangilinan and Nap Patayan with 648 and 628. Odjie Sagcal added 539 as Panther trounced the quartet of James Galvez, Versakdi, Eddie Tuico and Bob Oleski by the score of 3,522-2,116.
These are the times to separate the real ones from the pretenders and the proverbial chaff from the grain as the Sunday Night Panther Energy Drink bowling tournament enters the homestretch. And for premium teams with unveiled ambitions, scrambling to get to the top of the heap, the best way to sound the warning is go for shutout wins.
Panther Energy Drink, Otra Cosa, D’Falcon, Abudawood, Publicis Graphics and D’ Falcon did just that scoring 5-0 wins over their rivals even as the Jeddah Bowling Center brims up with full-scale bowling approaching the summer season.
Otra Cosa fielded Ver Luz, Alex Flora, Cosa Sta. Ana and their ace kegler Hashim Guinomla to score a shutout win over lightweight Jeddah Veterinary Clinic in lanes 11 and 12. Luz started strongly with 217, faltered with 165 in the second before settling to 190 in the third to lead Otra Cosa. Guinomla was far from his impressive form with 521 while Cosa and Alex pinned 473 and 459, good to enough send their opponents composed of Roger Abantas, Edu Toledo, Ariel Urquia and Rene Martinez reeling.
Top seed D’Falcon bucked lethargic plays from Jun Lasaga and Ed Labuac to turn back Saudi Youth with a similar 5-0 triumph. Danny Bautista and Ding Abaygar lifted the Falcons up high with 668 and 625. Lasaga and Labuac rolled 555 and 498, respectively. Ghonaim Bassam led Saudi Youth with 572 pins. Wail Humda logged 525 Fadi Tuwaireb and Tayloni Turki combined for 856.
Publicis Graphics enjoyed another solid night from Roger Daquioag (629) in hammering Jeddah Bowlers, 5-0, (2366-2046). Mar Narvasa and Danny Cofreros hauled down 590 and 546 pins but Chris Villavelez had a low 496 for the winners who were lucky to find the Jeddah Bowlers in an even worse form as only Jaffer Alkatere breached the 550 mark with 558. Abdullah Al-Harbi had 501 and teammates Mahmoud Hussein and Ahmed Hobani scoring woefully with 470 and 403 pins.
Abudawood won by default against Ramiz and Friends.
Odjie Sagcal, technical head Rally Zamora and Secretary-treasurer Igna Salgado of JBL are the organizers of this exciting team competition principally sponsored by Panther Energy Drink distributed by Marad Jizan Co. Abdullah Junaib Bawazir, general manager, Abdulrahman Umar Al-Haddad, Carlos Constantino and Juju Jikbuy of Jizan Marad, the official distributor of Panther Energy Drink in Saudi Arabia heads other sponsors of the Sunday bowlfest, which include Sarawat Superstores, Green Farms Alesayi and the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity.
In a show of solidarity, the JBL also lend a hand to the staging of a special summer open individual bowling tournament lasting through the month of May and is jointly organized with BBG and FTBJ. The JBL is also focusing their sight on the high-stake 104th Philippines Independence Cup on June 9, also at the Jeddah Bowling Congress. The bowling extravaganza will seek top five bowlers in each class playing in one game with handicap under FTBJ monthly championship format. All Filipino bowlers are invited to join the event.
In other games at the Sunday bowlfest, the Insektos stung Mobi-Sarawat, 5-0, (2343-2169) behind the steady pinning of Nonie Yap and Sid Lapena who rolled a three-game series of 629 and 576, respectively. Arnold Alday added 513 and Kiko Catabas had 420 pinfalls. Mobi-Sarawat had a dismal night placing 546 pinfalls as their lead production coming from basketball star Dante Rivero.
Another 5-0 winner were the bowlmasters over Tetra Pak (2270-2024) in lanes 13 and 14 where class A bowler Dante Calapatian lifted his usual 191 average to a three-game total of 609. Cyril Balasico supported him with 583 pinfalls. Rudy Punzalan led the losers with 581 pinfalls on account of a high 256 output in the third game.
