Choi Suk Byung of Daegu ended the Men’s Masters Finals with a comfortable victory. He took the Men’s title, 2-0 against Tay Hui Chiang of Jurong. Choi took off to a blistering start winning the first game 235–194. Tay picked up his pace in the second game only to fall short of 11 points to lose the game (190-179). Tay faced Daegu’s Park Min Su in the semi-finals and beat him 2-1 to advance to the finals which left Park to settle for third place with Paranaque’s Jeremy Posadas who lost to Choi 2-0 in the semi-finals.
Singapore’s Bernice Lim took a comfortable lead by winning the first game of the Women’s Masters Finals 234-134 but Paranaque’s Apple Posadas came back strong to take the second game 257-207. All eyes were on the two Women’s finalists as they battled it out in the last game of the event. A close and exciting game with loud cheers from their supporters, Bernice eventually took the title just a mere 2 points ahead of Apple (215-213). Bernice beat fellow Singaporean, Kristin Quah of Jurong 2-0 in the semi-finals. Quah shares third place with Singapore’s Amanda Ng who lost to Apple 2-1 in the semi-finals.
It was a close fight to the finish in the Senior Men’s Masters Finals but Adam Chew of Jurong came out tops to win the title 2-0 (181-172 and 165-151) against Steven Tan of Singapore who had beaten the Senior Men’s Singles champion, Gerry Tan of Paranaque, 2-1 in the semi-finals. Gerry Tan shares third place with Pasay’s James Dela Cruz who lost to Chew 2-0 in the semi-finals.
Paranaque’s Liza Or emerged as the Senior Women’s Masters champion by beating San Juan’s Baby David 2-0 (213-163 and 173-124). Baby had an easy 2-0 win over fellow team-mate Lyn Tan in the semi-finals, who will take third place along with Shirley Liew of East Coast who lost to Or 1-2.
The city of Daegu was awarded top city in the Men’s division and the city of Singapore was awarded the top city in the Women’s division. The team from Singapore was also awarded the Overall City Championship.
President of the Singapore Bowling Federation, Mrs Jessie Phua made her closing speech, saying, “We can agree that the bowlers kept us at the edge of our seats and it was a befitting ending to an exciting few days.”
“I am very happy to see that more and more people have come out to support this,” added Mr Johnson Cheng, President of the Asian Intercity Bowling Council, in his closing speech. Mr Cheng also hopes that this regional championship will continue to grow and be around for a long time more.
The event ended with an awards presentation and farewell reception, concluding the 25th running of the coveted regional championship.
