Host team Jeddah Lanes delivered a strong performance to claim its second Team of the Week award during the 9th session in the the OSN-FTBJ 49th Open Conference bowling tournament here.

In a singularly fine display, Jeddah Lanes poured in 46 points that matched the second-best tournament total set by Habagat during the third week of the five-man team competition played Saturday nights.

Also, Jeddah Lanes closed the gap on second-ranked Kabalen in the standings from 16.5 points at the start of the session to 7.5.

Kabalen and league-leading MC Hammer were well behind Jeddah Lanes on 37 and 36 points respectively, while Habagat and Red Dragons were the other teams to cross 30 on 35 and 31.

Taurus/Amigos tallied 27.5 points in sixth place on the night followed by Geely Cars 26, Sky Freight-TFC 24.5 and Fine Boys Rhinoz 17. AFM-Moe, Bank AlJazira Fawri and SPBC Bowlers brought up the rear on 15, 13 and 4 in that order.

Jun de Dios of Habagat was the Bowler of the Week after shooting the high series of 672 on scratch lines of 152, 184 and 276.

The host bowlers were so efficient they could have reached perfect 48 had MC Hammer and Habagat not intervened by winning the second and third games respectively while relegating Jeddah Lanes to second place.

Leading the Jeddah Lanes charge was the trio of Mohd. Amri, Igna Salgado and Gerry Mandanas who rolled three-game series of 647, 609 and 586. Majid Aslani added 573 and Frank Afurong had 561.

Kabalen had Edwin Ronquillo and Ruel Santoc coming up with the leading scores of 648 and 643 followed by Jayson Castillo 579, Jay Bengco 563 and Jojie Manalansan 514.

A week after notching the league’s first perfect score of 48 points, MC Hammer had a somewhat tepid showing with the duo of Zaldy Bacero and Richard Junio at the helm with rounds of 617 and 613. Rene Punzalan returned 606 to go with the 573 by Melvin LIsing and 547 by Jhun Estefano.

Besides de Dios the other scorers at Habagat were Richard Antonio 627, Rommel and Med Ramos with a pair of 536s and Manny Tibay 532.

For Red Dragons Ally Bin and Bash Langa led the way on 598 and 597.

Team standings after the 9th week:

1. MC Hammer 334.5 points 2. Kabalen 303.0 3. Jeddah Lanes 295.5 4. Bank AlJazira Fawri 263.0 5. Geely Cars 259.5 6. Sky Freight-TFC 258.5 7. Habagat 256.0 8. AFM-Moe 248.5 9. Taurus/Amigos 219.0 10. Red Dragons 195.5 11. Fine Boys Rhinoz 126.0 12. SPBC Bowlers 49.0