25th Asian InterCity Tenpin Bowling Championship 2011 (Day #1)

The Kuching team doing their official ball registration at Orchid Bowl Golf and Country Club, Singapore.

The Kuching City Asian InterCity Team ready for their official practice session before the start of the championship.

The Star (05.09.2011)

Monday September 5, 2011

Jacqueline defies the odds to win singles event

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia produced yet another young bowling world champion when Jacqueline Jenelee Sijore defied the odds to win the women’s singles gold in awesome fashion at the Women’s World Championships in Hong Kong yesterday.

The 19-year-old debutant kept her cool despite a jittery start to beat hot favourite Son Yun-hee of South Korea 266-217 in the final to become the country’s second women’s singles champion.

Esther Cheah became the first and youngest world champion when she took the gold medal in the same event at the age of 17 in 2007 at Aalborg, Denmark.

Golden girl: Jacqueline Jenelee Sijore posing with her singles gold medal at the Women’s World Championships in Hong Kong Sunday.

 

Jacqueline made it to the elimination round by virtue of finishing fourth – with her high score of 1,486 pins – in the 171-field after the completion of the six-game qualifying round which was held over three squads.

Jacqueline first sparked great hopes of a breakthrough when she cooly disposed of top seed Shayna Ng of Singapore 246-214 in the semi-finals yesterday.

Yun-hee, who had won three medals, including a gold at the previous world meet in Las Vegas, was equally impressive in downing Denmark’s Mai Ginge Jensen 279-268 in the other semi-final.

And when the rookie and seasoned campaigner clashed in the final, everything seemed to be going the Korean’s way – until the third frame.

That’s when, after a pep talk by national chief coach Holloway Cheah, Jacqueline stepped up a gear to reel home eight consecutive strikes for a well-deserved victory.

Jacqueline, who was only roped into the elite team this year, was overwhelmed with the sensational win.

“I am still trying to digest the win ... it is my happiest moment. I cannot believe that I have won the singles gold in my first attempt in the world meet,” said Jacqueline in a telephone interview yesterday.

The Sibu lass, who took up the sport when she was 10 years old, said she was quite nervous when she found out that her final hurdle would be a Korean.

“Koreans have dominated the bowling scene for some time and I panicked when I found out that Yun-hee will be my opponent. I struggled to hit pin 10 in the first three frames and became nervous,” said Jacqueline, who can look forward to an RM80,000 jackpot courtesy of the National Sports Council’s (NSC) cash incentive scheme.

“Holloway gave me some pointers. I made some adjustments, calmed down and played my game. There was no turning back for me after that.”

Jacqueline can also be proud of her achievement in rolling down a series of 266-279-267-258-202-214 in the six-game qualifying round.

Her first three games’ total of 812 (266-279-267) is a new world record – erasing the 12-year-old mark of 747 set by South Korean Cha Min-jung in the singles event at the 1999 world meet in Abu Dhabi.

Jacqueline hoped her first gold medal for Malaysia in the world meet would inspire her team-mates to keep the momentum going when they get into action in the doubles, trios and team events in the next few days.

“This win will certainly boost our team’s confidence. The achievement today shows that we can outdo our opponents – no matter how strong they may be. And we will be going with this same mindset in the next few events,” she said.

Holloway said: “I am happy that a timely advice at the crucial stage made the difference for Jacqueline. She is a good fighter and showed nerves of steel. We have always produced young winners and it all goes back to the Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress’ (MTBC) sound development programme.”

MTBC secretary Sidney Tung said: “This is another milestone for Malaysia. In 2007, Esther took part in her first world meet and she struck gold. This time, it is Jacqueline’s turn. Our first-timers have proven themselves countless time. I was so overjoyed that I even cried. This is another proud moment for Malaysian bowling.”

Today, Jacqueline-Sin Li Jane, Esther-Zandra Aziela Ibrahim Hakimi and Zatil Iman Abdul Ghani-Sharon Koh will take part in the doubles event.

Riverside Superbowl reopens officially on 30.07.2011!!!

After a change of management and going through the uplifting renovation works, the first ever computerised bowling centre in Kuching has finally reopened officially on Saturday, 30.07.2011 with the ceremony starting early in the morning at 8.30am.

It was a great day for Riverside Superbowl's new managing director, Mr. Yean Poh Hua, who has many memories of the centre being that he has been there since day one way back in the early 1990's. At the alley early in the morning, way earlier than anyone else, he was cheerfully greeting invited guests, friends and bowlers and all smiles he should be as he successfully transformed Riverside Superbowl into a very clean, neat and cozy bowling alley.

To make his great day even better, his official openning was graced by Y.B. Datuk Talib Zulpilip who is the chairman of the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation or S.E.D.C. for short and also assistant minister for tourism.

A charity bowl team event was also organised by Riverside Superbowl as part of the activity and all team registration was duly donated to the Rotary Club, Kuching. The event was a 4-man team and each bowler bowled 3 games each with the highest accumulated team pinfalls wins. The champion, 1st and 2nd runner up won themselves trophies for keeps.

The team of Abang Afiq Yazid Bin Abang Azman, Abang Azlan Yunus Bin Abang Azman, Nazrin Bin Wagiman and Eddie Tan of Pin10 Cafe emerged as the champion with Borneo Biscuits team of Daniel Tan Yan Han, Yean Chia Ming, Galliano Edward and Allexiss O'Neil Edward came in as 1st Runner up. Just 7 pins behind in 3rd was the team of the Amateur Bowling Association of Sarawak (A.B.A.S.) who is the governing body for the sport of tenpin bowling in Sarawak. The team consists of its office bearers and committee members, Caroline Chien (Hon. Secretary), Kelvin Chan Chung Sian (Asst. Hon. Treasurer), Angelo Koay (Asst. Hon. Secretary) and Mohd Amran Saait (Committee Member) played under the banner of their gracious sponsor JW Supplies.

It was a day of fun, togetherness, smiles and warmth as how the fraternity of bowling is here in Sarawak. We congratulate and extend our heartiest best wishes to Riverside Superbowl and may the association and the bowling centre work hand in hand and see eye to eye in further developing the sport not only in Kuching but the whole of Sarawak as well.

Below are some pictures of the auspicious day;

from left: Mr. Yean Poh Hua and Mr. Ng Nyuk Jee

from left to right: Mr. Allen Poh, Mr. Yean Poh Hua and Mr. Ng Nyuk Jee

The A.B.A.S. team lineup :)

Kelvin Chan Chung Sian - A.B.A.S. Assistant Hon. Treasurer

Nurafidza Binti Mohd Amran - Sukma 2010 Gold medalist

Mr. Yean Poh Hua presenting a souvenir to Y.B. Datuk Talib Zulpilip.

3rd Placing: The A.B.A.S. team (Sposored by JW Supplies)

(from left to right)

*Mohd Amran Saait

*Kelvin Chan Chung Sian 

*Caroline Chien

*Angelo Koay

2nd Placing: Borneo Biscuits

(from left to right)

*Galliano Edward

*Allexiss O'Neill

*Daniel Tan Yan Han

*Yean Chia Ming

Champion: Pin10 Cafe

(from left to right)

*Eddie Tan

*Nazrin Bin Wagiman

*Abang Azlan Yunus Bin Abang Azman

*Abang Afiq Yazid Bin Abang Azman

Congratulations Riverside Superbowl!!!

Jun Foo wins as Kuching rule again

Monday, 20 June 2011 10:37 Written by Hussin Abdul Rahman

 

MIRI: In-form bowler Chong Jun Foo defended his Youth and Men’s Open titles at the Megalanes East alley as Kuching again ruled the roost at the Sarawak Closed Bowling Championships yesterday.

Elite national bowler Jacqueline Jenelee Sijore won the Women’s Open as bowlers from Kuching, like in last year’s competition, dominated both the Men’s and Women’s Open finals.

National youth bowler Jun Foo, who showed good from the recent Malaysian National Open and the Singapore Open, beat fellow Kuchingite Jonathan Ding Sagan in the Men’s Open final while Jacqueline, who together with elite national bowler Dayang Khairunizza Dhiyana Abang Jamilon had taken a break from national training, beat last year’s champion Nurafidza Mohd Amran in the final.

Jacquel ine, who is rejoining national training at Sunway Megalanes at 6pm today, said she had expected to win the title.

“I am in good form and I hope to maintain it.I will roll off with the national team tomorrow,” said Jacqueline.She, together with Dayang, are fighting for places in the national team to compete in the Italy’s San Marino and Catalina Open and Indonesian Open next month.

Jun Foo, meanwhile, said he owed his victory to good coaching, encouragement from his parents and friends and the support from the Amateur Bowling Association of Sarawak.

Both Jun Foo and Jacqueline received their trophies and champions’ cash prize of RM500 each from Miri Mayor Lawrence Lai.Jonathan and Nurafidza each won RM300.

Also present were ABAS deputy president Haji Shaifulbahri Shukri and vice president Robert Lu.

44th Singapore International Open 2011

DOUBLE JOY BY MALAYSIAN YOUTH
Thursday, 02 June 2011

It's a double joy for our young Malaysians ! After capturing the Youth Open titles at Malaysian International Open Championships 2011 at Sunway Mega Lanes last week, our young Malaysians continued the momentum to stamp their supremacy in wresting another identical victory in the Youth divisions. Our Malaysian youths completed a clean sweep of the Youth Open Masters titles of the 44th Singapore International Open with Aris Ardilla and Chong Jun Foo finishing one-two in the boy's division; while Syaidatul Afifah, Faten Najihah, Fatin Azmira and Steffira Zeandea rocket up the top four podium finish in the girl's division.

2010 Asian Youth gold medalist, Aris Ardilla set a cracking pace to take an early lead with his sizzling opening game of 253 but soon found himself trailing Aussie Sam Cooley after the second game.· Singapore's Jovi Ang made his bid by taking over the running after the third game but could not keep up the pace set by Aris after the Malaysian regained the lead at the halfway mark. Despite losing the lead briefly to team-mate, Chong Jun Foo after the fifth game, a re-vitalized Aris went on to end the 8-game finals with 1709 to capture the title.

Chong made a late charge in his final game but finished 19 pins behind the champion with 1690 while Cooley took third spot with 1671, a further 19 pins away. Singapore's Jonathan Ang stormed home to snatch fourth spot with 1609 to edge early pace-setter, Jovi into fifth position with 1597. Other Malaysian youths, Johnathan Chan (8th), Khoo Beng Khai (10th), Ahmad Muaz (13th), Muhd Syafiq Sajeli (14th) and Syimir Abd Razak (15th).

The Malaysian girls were much more superior than their boys counterpart sweeping the finals with the top four places. Syaidatul Afifah took a convincing victory to win her second international youth title after her triumph in Taiwan and Penang last year. Syaidatul, who took over the lead after the third game, amassed a total of 1604, 49 pins ahead of Faten Najihah in second with 1555. Early pace-setter and pint-sized, Fatin Azmira settled for third with 1545 while Steffira Zeandea completed the top 4 for Malaysia with 1513.

Singapore's best finisher was Girl's Under-18 first runner-up, Tracy See in fifth position with 1485. Tengku Emanina Laily (6th), Puteri Nadia (8th), Natasha Roslan (9th) and Radin Nur Najwa (12th) were the other Malaysian finalists.

Aris Ardilla won S$1,000 for his effort, Chong and Cooley taking home S$600 and S$400 while Syaidatul, Faten, Fatin and Steffira all won S$800, S$600, S$300 and S$200 respectively.

Reported by BC Cheah
Photos courtesy of Terence Yaw.

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Girl's Open Masters Final Results

Pos	·Bowler	Ctry	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Score	Ave
1	·Syaidatul Afifah	MAS	204	167	215	228	191	242	183	174	1604	200.50
2	·Faten Najihah	MAS	177	178	213	234	178	179	185	211	1555	194.38
3	·Fatin Azmira	MAS	213	180	176	203	224	205	171	173	1545	193.13
4	·Steffira Zeandea	MAS	176	159	217	174	204	174	196	213	1513	189.13
5	·Tracy See	SIN	213	139	203	181	209	178	185	177	1485	185.63
6	·Tengku Emanina Laily	MAS	209	144	157	202	208	190	192	175	1477	184.63
7	·Tay Hui Wen	SIN	216	169	176	190	159	178	156	201	1445	180.63
8	·Puteri Nadia	MAS	204	190	183	202	158	129	193	168	1427	178.38
9	·Natasha Roslan	MAS	182	151	201	154	199	176	159	188	1410	176.25
10	·Kimberly Ooi Jingyi	SIN	176	155	205	124	156	170	218	185	1389	173.63
11	·Yeo Jing Yi	SIN	158	170	164	161	146	159	206	224	1388	173.50
12	·Radin Nur Najwa	MAS	193	184	142	174	139	138	218	168	1356	169.50

Boy's Open Masters Final Results

Pos	·Bowler	Ctry	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Score	Ave
1	·Aris Ardilla	MAS	253	198	221	226	192	184	246	189	1709	213.63
2	·Chong Jun Foo	MAS	208	219	168	167	257	228	257	186	1690	211.25
3	·Sam Cooley	AUS	245	227	193	196	211	170	214	215	1671	208.88
4	·Jonathan Ng Yew Weng	SIN	231	196	184	187	200	202	185	224	1609	201.13
5	·Jovi Ang	SIN	207	248	221	184	170	189	213	165	1597	199.63
6	·Gan Ju Yen	SIN	189	212	155	213	190	212	210	196	1577	197.13
7	·Lau Ming He Alwin	SIN	157	190	185	206	242	198	200	190	1568	196.00
8	·Jonathan Chan	MAS	167	185	221	177	215	233	176	189	1563	195.38
9	·Justin Lim	SIN	190	181	238	188	208	206	148	200	1559	194.88
10	·Khoo Beng Khai	MAS	194	203	170	225	195	187	155	210	1539	192.38
11	·Alex Chong Wei Chien	SIN	148	163	226	211	224	224	159	182	1537	192.13
12	·Hussain Yaqoob	BRN	201	157	142	210	179	160	234	236	1519	189.88
13	·Ahmad Muaz	MAS	186	203	175	190	228	137	180	189	1488	186.00
14	·Muhd Syafiq Sajeli	MAS	173	236	179	191	170	180	169	181	1479	184.88
15	·Syimir Abdul Razak	MAS	223	189	210	163	156	165	171	191	1468	183.50
16	·Md Nur Hakim	SIN	168	157	181	163	217	198	203	180	1467	183.38
17	·Jappry Aw	SIN	147	200	180	167	170	152	183	254	1453	181.63
17	·Yan Cheng Han Hubet	SIN	177	158	169	185	193	182	197	190	1451	181.38
19	·Danish Ramlan	SIN	134	202	129	163	235	199	210	175	1447	180.88
19	·Suresh Elangovan	SIN	171	183	189	180	206	170	164	184	1447	180.88
21	·Nicholas Lim	SIN	180	202	183	172	168	170	197	169	1441	180.13
22	·Darren Ong	SIN	188	133	191	174	209	168	184	180	1427	178.38
23	·Joel Tan Eng An	SIN	208	210	146	182	148	192	155	183	1424	178.00
24	·Hazeem Al Merekhi	QAT	175	151	166	201	158	173	182	177	1383	172.88

44th Singapore International Open 2011

SARAWAK BOYS IN TOP 2 MQ STANDING!!!

Newly promoted Malaysian National Youth bowler, Muhd Syafiq Sajeli is currently in top position of the 44th Singapore International Open 2011 Boys Open division with an effort of 1340 pinfalls for an average of 223. Followed  closely behind Syafiq is fellow Sarawakian and National team mate Chong Jun Foo who score 1321 for an average of 220. In 9th place is also another Sarawakian National bowler, Aris Ardila Santosoh with 1266 pinfalls.

Youth Boys Open Qualifying
	Pos  Bowler Ctry Best Two Total Ave HG Ser1 Ser2 1  Muhd Syafiq Sajeli MAS 671 669 1340 223.33 247 2  Chong Jun Foo MAS 672 649 1321 220.17 255 3  Jovi Ang SIN 684 637 1321 220.17 246 4  Jonathan Ng Yew Weng SIN 653 646 1299 216.50 244 5  Sam Cooley AUS 697 596 1293 215.50 259 6  Khoo Beng Khai MAS 662 610 1272 212.00 245 7  Gan Ju-Yen SIN 639 633 1272 212.00 236 8  Jonathan Chan MAS 656 610 1266 211.00 238 9  Aris Ardilla MAS 651 615 1266 211.00 227 10  Suresh Elangovan SIN 652 609 1261 210.17 276 11  Alex Chong Wei Chien SIN 661 591 1252 208.67 266 12  Nicholas Lim SIN 636 616 1252 208.67 223 13  Hazeem Al Merekhi QAT 639 607 1246 207.67 237 14  Danish Ramlan SIN 639 604 1243 207.17 238 15  Hussain Yaqoob BRN 626 613 1239 206.50 244 16  Darren Ong SIN 620 618 1238 206.33 258 17  Md Nur Hakim SIN 686 551 1237 206.17 242 18  Jeppry Aw SIN 651 584 1235 205.83 235 19  Yan Cheng Han Hubert SIN 653 582 1235 205.83 232 20  Lau Ming He Alwin SIN 625 600 1225 204.17 226 21  Joel Tan Eng An SIN 630 591 1221 203.50 233 22  Justin Lim Chia Loong SIN 628 587 1215 202.50 234 23  Shaun Lau SIN 620 595 1215 202.50 213 24  Shawn Goh SIN 610 604 1214 202.33 257  Reserves 25  Ryan Nicholas Lin Shou SIN 610 603 1213 202.17 247 26  Syimir Abdul Razak MAS 604 600 1204 200.67 216 27  Mohd Ozzer Othaman MAS 602 595 1197 199.50 247 28  Nicholas Lee SIN 615 582 1197 199.50 235 29  Anthony Low SIN 604 592 1196 199.33 225 30  Logeswaran Elangovan SIN 599 594 1193 198.83 268 31  Colin Jude Wee SIN 614 579 1193 198.83 246 32  Mohd Haziq Shali MAS 602 588 1190 198.33 237 33  Tan Jun Juan Javier SIN 589 584 1173 195.50 221 34  Qalif Adnor Adam MAS 607 564 1171 195.17 222

Other Sarawakian making an impact for the national team are Jacqueline Jenelee Sijore who is currently in the 5th position of the Mixed Pool with her effort of 1208 pinfalls. Other Sarawak National Elite bowler, Dayang Khairuniza Dhiyana who finished 4th in the recent Malaysian International Open has yet to make her mark on the tournament.

Women's Open Qualifying
	Pos  Bowler Ctry Best Two Total Ave HG Ser1 Ser2  Sin Li Jane MAS  Defending Champion  Local Pool 1  Fok Ka Wai SIN 704 679 1383 230.50 278 2  Jazreel Tan SIN 716 648 1364 227.33 255 3  Bernice Lim SIN 690 639 1329 221.50 256 4  Geraldine Ng SIN 658 639 1297 216.17 235 5  Tan Shi Jing Daphne SIN 647 646 1293 215.50 259 6  New Hui Fen SIN 648 643 1291 215.17 238 7  Amanda Ng SIN 647 641 1288 214.67 242 8  Shayna Ng Lin Zhi SIN 668 612 1280 213.33 233 9  Cherie Tan SIN 632 632 1264 210.67 243 10  Kristel Oh Shao Jing SIN 637 608 1245 207.50 245  Overseas Pool 1  Zandra Aziela MAS 717 650 1367 227.83 268 2  Tannya Roumimper INA 706 636 1342 223.67 258 3  Lara Posadas PHI 704 632 1336 222.67 254 4  Siti Safiyah Amirah MAS 649 648 1297 216.17 246 5  Nat Shelley AUS 668 617 1285 214.17 228 6  Zatil Iman MAS 703 578 1281 213.50 255 7  Sharon Limansantoso INA 643 629 1272 212.00 237 8  Putty Armein INA 643 626 1269 211.50 243 9  Wendy Chai MAS 618 616 1234 205.67 221 10  Tsai Hsin-Yi TPE 631 603 1234 205.67 216  Mixed Pool 1  Uella Marcial PHI 631 602 1233 205.50 226 2  Wang Ya-Ting TPE 644 587 1231 205.17 235 3  Jasmine Yeong-Nathan SIN 627 604 1231 205.17 227 4  Rebecca Voukolos AUS 637 584 1221 203.50 227 5  Jacqueline Sijore MAS 627 581 1208 201.33 256 6  Kelly Kulick USA 642 560 1202 200.33 221 7  Chien Hsiu-Lan TPE 621 579 1200 200.00 228 8  Oriana Tay SIN 626 570 1196 199.33 246 9  Tan Yan Ling SIN 614 576 1190 198.33 234  Reserves 1  Anthea Soh Wei Xuen SIN 592 583 1175 195.83 223 2  Nur Dyana SIN 607 567 1174 195.67 225 3  Ilma Nur Jannah SIN 615 545 1160 193.33 214 4  Yap Seok Kim SIN 584 566 1150 191.67 205 5  Hee Kar Yen MAS 574 564 1138 189.67 214 6  Teo Li Ying SIN 569 568 1137 189.50 212 7  Siti Shazwani MAS 588 546 1134 189.00 204 8  Tang Ya-Chun TPE 590 542 1132 188.67 226 9  Chueh Yu-Fan TPE 573 558 1131 188.50 207 10  Jacinta Gilliland AUS 587 543 1130 188.33 230

*Qualifying results as at 1st June, 3.00pm squad...