Indian Bowling League Qualifying Round
By: Miguel Carlos
Photos: http://bit.ly/IndianBowlingLeagueFeb2011
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 19: With 7 teams participating in its inaugural season,
the 2011 Indian Bowling League (IBL) Tenpin Bowling Tournament kicked
off at the 300 Club Bowling Center in Bneid Al Ghar. With the sport
gaining popularity among the Indian expatriates in Kuwait IBL gained
enough support to finally start their own league. Suiting up to vie for
the Season 1 title were West End Watches Company, Just Smile Bowligans,
Marol Ball Burners, Loose Cannons, Striking Force and Peppers & Rodgers
Group. Early favorites Just Smile composed of 300 Club mainstays
together with West End Watches Company bannered by a bunch of veteran
pin busters were off to a winning debut and are expected to dominate the
qualifying round.
Bowling on lanes 5 and 6, the favored Just Smile pin crackers simply
overpowered the beleaguered Striking Force en route to an easy 2849-2458
victory. Having a big edge due to their lane familiarity, Just Smile
started rather slow and was made to flex their muscles before turning
back their opponents in game one of the 3-game series match 868-830.
Fully warmed up for the next game, the quintet of Mohammed Al Rashed,
Yousef Al Huraibi, Salem Al Saif, Hamoud Al Rashed and Athari Foud
overrun the defenseless Striking Force 967-808.
Now totally in control of the match, the rest of the Just Smile keglers
namely Jassem Al Khandari, Aiza Cbanero and Dalal Al Khalifa went home
smiling after completing a 3-game sweep with another impressive 959-820
win in game three. Bowling in this outing for the vanquished Striking
Force were Cris Bulacja, Greg de Leon, Edwin de Mesa, Sarel de Leon,
Khalil Al Salim, Jun Domigo, Romy Daus and Greggy de leon.
Joining the early leader just three marks behind were the time masters
of West End Watches Company who cooled off Marol Ball Burners in an
astonishing fashion. Packed with experienced bowlers who are mainstays
of teams participating in other on-going bowling leagues, West End
Watches Company literally stopped the clock on their rivals who woke up
to a 2819-2344 defeat. Spearheaded by the five some of Nelson D’ Souza,
Ulysses Menezes, Jason D’ Souza, Shirley Castellino and Joel Fernandes,
West End claimed all three games on hand via 908-840, 922-720 and
964-782 game scores. Manning the lanes for Marol Ball Burners in their
baptism of fire were Colin Costa, Brian Fernandes, Monali Jeremiah,
Valentine Gonsalves and Anisha.
Meanwhile, Peppers & Roger Group maintained the winning order of the day
by dishing out a similarly impressive 863-789, 961-747 and 803-762 three
game sweep over the neophyte pin breakers of the Bowligans. In posting
their walk in park 2652-2265 total pin falls victory Gloyne Fernandes,
Marvin D’ Souza, Muriel Fernandes, Arlene Pinto, Merelyn Fernandes,
Colin Pereira, Javed Ramdan, Karen Fenandes and Mudassir Tungekar
carried the scoring load for Peppers & Roger Group. Suiting up for the
Bowligans in this match were Samantha Fernandes, Jerry Picardo, Amaldo
Fernandes, Anastesius Menezes, Celine Fernandes, Branden Pinto, Cristine
D’ Souza, Nadine Dias and Julian D’ Silva. The only other participating
team Loose Cannon who bowled all alone on lanes 3 and 4 garnered a total
score 2345 pin falls through the combined scores of Samantha Sequiera,
Visakh Khrisnakumar, Jegy George, Kamran Shaikh, Amanda Fernando, Hammad
al Mullah and Ramona Suarez.
The team standings after the opening week of the event are as follows
(read as rank, team name and total pin falls) 1. Just Smile-2849, 2.
West End Watches Company-2819, 3. Peppers & Rogers Group-2652, 4.
Striking Force-2458, 5. Loose Cannons-2345, 6. Marol Ball Burners-2344,
7. Bowligans-2265. The matches of the Indian Bowling League are held
every Friday at the 300 Club Bowling Center located at the basement of
Al Kazemi Silver Towers in Bneid Al Ghar. (ENDS)
Source via Ulysses Menezes:
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/165815/reftab/36/t/Just-Smile-and-West-End-off-to-a-winning-debut/Default.aspx
