After taking charge on the 23rd week, defending champion Pin Slasher increased their lead to 12 points from archrival Petromin Express, a 16-4 winner over Pin Rockers, as they swept their bye-team target and emerged Team of the Week during the 25th session in the FEDBG Friday Morning Bowling League 12th Conference at the Bowling City here.

Jay Bengco had a high game of 245 as he matched cards of 657 with Aileen Miralbuna to lead the Bulls to games of 1222, 1200 and 1324. With support of 654 from co-captain May Lourdes and 634 from team manager Dariel Loquias plus the 591 from skipper Roger Daquioag and 553 from Edu Toledo Pin Slasher claimed another team honors on aggregate of 3742.

Losing game 1 (1287-1186) to an all 200 handicap games of Pin Rockers with team captain Rudy Valenzuela, Romy Bunagan and Ed Cordova respectively scratching 215, 212 and 201, second-running Petromin Express intensely retaliated with 1296-1160 on the second salvo.

Except for Jerry Carredo, the Hawks canceled out the lead with similar all-200 handicap scores from Paolo Allego 202, Rolly Vistal 212, Rey Beltran 218, Imelda Sayago 221 and a record-breaking high game of 282 from Jeff San Pedro who won the jackpot prize for scratching 274.

With a 13-pin advantage, Petromin squarely bartered marks till Allego scratched 211 and have the Hawks rocked the Pin Rockers with 16-4 (3718-3599) retaliatory victory including the 1236-1152 end game. Sayago top-scored at 670 for Petromin while Valenzuela led Pin Rockers with 631.

Bowlers of the week this session were Ester Santoc and Ric Tibayan who shot respective handicap totals of 696 and 683. Ester led Micah’s Pride past FedExtreme (18-2) with record-setting first game of 292 from scratch of 256, 195 and 209.

Tibayan rolled games of 231, 260 and 192 in leading BCT Mongoose to 3616 aggregate with Nards Hassan on 629. Bowlers of the week on session 24 were Jimmy Aragones and Eva Garcia. Aragones totaled 703 on games of 228, 276 and 199 while Garcia submitted 652.

In other matches, D’ Mountaineers beat Lance & 3rdy 182 and Ekis-3 drew 10-10 with Royal Strikers.

Standings after 25 weeks: Pin Slasher-574, Petromin Express-562, Micah’s Pride-525.5, Lance & 3rdy 499.5, Ekis-487.5, D’ Mountaineers-469.5, FedExtreme-468, Shawly Bowlers-461.5, Pin Rockers-460, BCT Mongoose-396.5, X-Alley-285, Royal Strikers-274, Fire Fox-234.