Gotencio scores perfect game in Funland Ramadan bowling

TDT | Manama  

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Emerson Gotencio played the first perfect game of 300 pins in the Funland Ramadan Bowling Tournament 2022, being played at the Funland Centre’s lanes.

Gotencio’s superb performance was part of a 793 series, which came on the fifth day of the competition’s qualifying round. His other two games in the trial were 225 and 268, which helped him clinch the day’s top score amongst the tournament’s Group A participants.

Meanwhile, fellow-Filipino Euly Salcedo posted the top series in Group B of 645 pins. Both Gotencio and Salcedo took home the day’s prizes for their scores. Bowlers in the tournament are being divided into two groups, with Group A for advanced competitors and Group B for beginners and ladies.

Contestants from both groups in this first phase attempt trials as much as they need, with the total pinfalls including handicap for their best three trials being considered. Each trial is composed of three games.

Gotencio posted the Group A high series for the third time in five days of qualification so far. His mark was his best trial to date and it helped him regain first place on the group standings.

The Philippine national team bowler’s other two top scores were 725 and 694 as he brought his total to 2,212 for a 245.8 average. Abdulla Abdulkarim went down to second position with a 2,055 total and 228.3 average, while Sultan Almasri from Saudi Arabia was third with a 1,948 total and 216.4 average. Essa Taqi ranked fourth on marks of 1,927 and 214.1, Dante Tisdom of the U.S. fifth with a 1,889 total and 209.9 average, and Isa Khalid sixth on a 1,863 total and 207.0 average.

Rounding out the top eight were Ahmed Fareed (1,862, 206.9) and JM Villanueva (1,737, 193.0). In Group B, Salcedo was their top scorer for the second successive night with his 645 series. He rose to the top of the standings with a 1,904 total and 211.6 average. Salcedo took over as leader for Khalid Sameer, who went to second with a 1,809 total and 201.0 average.

Ronald Seralvo and Dexter De Asis, both from the Philippines, followed in third and fourth place, respectively. Seralvo had a total of 1,785 pins for a 198.3 average, while De Asis boasted marks of 1,777 and 197.4.

Completing the group’s top eight were Isa Akbari (1,766, 196.2), Sami Saloom (1,714, 190.4), Abdulla Arif (1,700, 188.9) and Hussain Busheri (1,681, 186.8). Qualifying continues today at Funland with this first of the tournament’s five stages continuing until April 21.

Bowlers ranked first and second from Groups A and B at the end of this phase will advance directly to round three, while bowlers ranked third to 16th from each group will play in round two.

The Funland Ramadan Bowling Tournament is being held in memory of the Late Murtadha Qudrat Rasti, the Late Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, and the Late Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Khalifa. Nearly BD4,000 in prize money will be on offer to the top 16 finishers.