JEDDAH: Cash Pinas-Sky Freight was not to be denied on its second chance and along with BCT-Al Kabeer Food and Ramiz Ayoub qualified for the championship round in the FTBJ 53rd Open Conference bowling tournament at the Bowling City.
Cash Pinas, bumped off by Seiko Watch for the third outright berth to the finals, topped the knockout game of three handicap series on 3,198 pinfalls with Al Kabeer on 3,162 and Ramiz Ayoub 3,100.
Cash Pinas, Al Kabeer and Ramiz completed the six-team stepladder as team Nos. 4, 5 and 6 in that order. The top three waiting teams are Bank AlJazira Fawri, D’ Barkads and Seiko Watch.
The first match in the stepladder final will be a two-game handicap knockout featuring team Nos. 4, 5 and 6 with the winner to advance to the second match against third qualifier Seiko. The winner of the second match then advances opposite No. 2 D’ Barkads in another knockout game for the right to challenge No. 1 Fawri in the championship match where Fawri holds a twice-to-beat edge.
Veteran bowler Goying Salazar shot a solid 739 on rounds of 278, 236 and 225 as he teamed with James Galvan 650 and Rene Punzalan 608 in hammering home the message Cash Pinas is not done yet. Tossing in two games each were Faisal Relativo 212-174, Mao Orolfo 215-186 and Wilson Triguero 186-196.
Al Kabeer had four players in the rotation with full games in Mohammad Al-Amari 677, skipper Igna Salgado 673, Ed Sardiña 651 and Gerry Mandanas 574. Sharing the rest of the team games were Rommel Agbayani 177-167 and Rey Beltran 225.
For Ramiz Ayoub, the trio of Haitam Tashkandi, Richard Antonio and Archie Santos carried the load on 623, 605 and 598. Supporting them were George Mangaliman 205, 232, team owner Ramiz Ayoub 214, 204 and Amro Al-Amri 210-179.
The championship round takes place on Saturday evening. Fawri is the form team of the tournament and needs only to win once against the challenger to clinch the championship crown.
Cash Pinas-Sky Freight, BCT-Al Kabeer Food, Ramiz Ayoub qualify for championship round
