Pin Pointers & IBowl upset fancied rivals - Victorious Street Bowlers tighten grip on Intermediate Group.

Kuwait City, Friday 30th September.

In a week where most of the pace setters went down in defeat, league leaders Kuwait Federation Bowlers stood tall by keeping the lead after routing Spare Us in one of the sixth week featured match.

Bowling Stones, Pin Pointers, Whiplash, Street Bowlers, and the IBowl on the other hand clinched impressive wins with Solo Sorisso and Al-Qwassem also chalking up victories of their own. The sixth week results saw the Federation and the Al-Qwassem taking the first and second places with West End Watches Co. hanging on to their seat in the Top 4. Solo Sorisso making their entry into the elite four. This Week Mubashar TV interviewed Abdullah Behbehani of Solo Sorriso winner of the men high game and Team High game for week 6.

Slow starting Pin Pointers on the other hand began picking up momentum midway in the competition and is poised to barge further into the Top of the Greenie Group. Revived by the 2340-2091 on the sixth week shellacking they inflicted on strong contenders Petrol Link, the Pin Pointers quickly took lead over nemesis Petrol Link via 769-674 winning effort in game one. Relying on the in-form crew of Alfred Avila, Joe Presenta, Lito Michael, Rocky Castil & Rudy Delima, The Pin Pointers once again drove through with full confidence and crushing Petro Link 805-666 in game two. Farid Gabriel, Mishari Fadley, Mohammed Ashour & Abdul Aziz Aslawi regrouped to try and put Petrolink in the winning streak with a 224 score from Farid Gariel and almost catching up score of 211 from Joe Presenta downplayed the comeback bid of Petro Link. The close 766-751 win in game 3 gave Pin Pointers a final winning tally giving them a strong boost for the coming weeks.

In an explosive performance by the Federation Bowlers sent chills to the rest of the field as they overwhelmed Spare Us in all three games of the encounter on their way to a one-sided 2474-2309 total pin falls victory. Showing a lot of class in their fighting spirit Anthony King of Spare Us unloaded a 202, 202 & 214 but were demolished by the professional team of the Federation. Playing for Spare Us were Adrian Noronha, Anthony King, Bala Subramanyam, Brian Fernandes & Valentine Gonsalves.

In another match of the week, Bowling Stones escaped with a 2123-2107 narrow win over Alleygators to keep second place in the Greenie group standings. In booking this victory, Branden Pinto, Conrad Pinto, Leandro Rodrigues, Leroy Rodrigues & Cary Pereria contributed the winning points in their 747-711 success in games two. For Alleygators, their 696-683 & 700-693 win in game one & Three was made possible by Jason D’Souza, Rohan Fernandes, Samantha Fernandes & Gloyne Fernandes. Bowling Stones took the overall by a difference 16 pins thus sitting in the chambers of victory.

Meanwhile, IBowl made an impressive win when they subdued league leader’s West End Watch co. who dropped to third position in the Championship round. Looking like veterans instead of neophytes led by Xavier Mascarenhas, Ramona Soares, Cleona D’Souza & Roy Vazsent the time masters of West End Watches Co. to the twilight zone with a stunning 846-750 win. But in game two and three time Masters fought back fiercely booking a 782-755 & 724-716 win but failing to grab the Overall Pinfalls.

A newly reinforced Solo Sorriso (Just Smile) from Season One was also in the winner’s row courtesy of their exciting come from behind 2906-2815 win over Kegler Strikers. Displaying the caliber that their team name indicates, calm and relaxed Abdulla Behbehani, Mohammed Al-Rashed, Nawaf Al Hassan & Yoursef Al-Huraibi stretched their victory over a 11-mark edge by grabbing a 814-701 edge in game 1. Still sipping their Pina Colada’s Solo Sorriso (Just Smile) sailed through with ease with a 835-755 win in game 2. With a stiff resistance put in by Al Belarmino, Bobby Ferrera, Ed Mendoza & Jane Nance of Kegler Strikers in Game 3 they still couldn’t touch base as Abdullah Behbehani raised his toast with a 263 game to take the game high for men’s and winning the team high series for the week as well 875-2318.

With the Whip at hand the lane masters of Whiplash started the onslaught of the underdogs by pulling the rag from under their feet, the flightless Fireflies dropped into a world pool they couldn’t get out of. Whiplash with a 2386-2299 win were manned by Aga Cuadrazal, Edwin De Mensa, Rico Baluyot, Aldin Avila & Vernie Villaruel.

Al Qwassem Bowlers on the other hand was in a destructive mood to hold their position in the championship top 4. They came in like a tornado uprooting everything in their path with 2518-2415 win against the amateurs No Strikes !!! Giving them no chance for win points No Strikes !! with 12 year old Anastasius Menezes & Joel Fernandes putting their best effort that managed to secure bonus points for crossing 800 in two games. Al Qwassem Bowlers were Ali Boulishi, Ayad Amiri, Fadel Qwassem, Fahad Abul & Fahad Rughaib.

In the remaining match of the week, Street Bowlers was just lucky enough to escape with a 2243-2242 victory over one of the strong contenders Amaya. Relying on the tenacity of Amaldo Fernandes, Julian D’Silva, Shirley Castellino & Domnic Picardo, Street Bowlers moved in front with 744-745 and 754-755 winning outing in game one and two. Down by only 20 pins, Amaya failed to make any headway coming up with just a close 744-763 loss. Bowling for Amaya in this match were Rod Llait, Liza Catapia, Raine Ualat & Lito Mercado.

The team standings after six weeks are as follows (read as rank, team name and total points)

Championship Group :

1. Federation Bowlers – 205

2. Al Qwassen - 150

3. West End Watches Co.- 135

4. Solo Sorisso – 125

Intermediate Group :

5. Whiplash - 110

6. Fire Fly - 100

7. Spare Us - 100

8. Street Bowlers – 95

9. Kegler Strikers – 90

Greenie Group :

10. Petro Link – 75

11.Bowling Stones – 75

12. No Strikes !! – 60

13. Pin Pointers – 60

14. Alleygatorz – 55

15. Amaya – 40

16. I Bowl – 40

Weekly High Team Series was taken by Solo Sorrisso with 2524. The Weekly Men’s High game was taken by Abdullah Behbehani of Solo Sorriso with a 279 game. The Weekly Women’s High Game was pinned by Shirley Castellino with a score of 228. These Weekly Prizes were sponsored by Amman Bhel Puri Restaurant Salmiya established in 1971.

The matches of the Indian Bowling League are held every Friday at the Salmiya Cozmo Bowling Center at 1.30pm