E-Newsletter #41 February 2014

E-Newsletter #40 January 2014

BowLinks (April 2012)

BOWLinks (Bowl Over With Love, Inspiration, Nurturing, Kindness and Sincerity) is a community project initiated by SingaporeBowling on 1st October 2005 to give assistance to local associations with special needs.

SingaporeBowling is committed to promoting wellness in Singapore through participation in community outreach programmes to generate greater awareness of tenpin bowling as a leisure sport for all segments and this initiative aimed to bring balance and fun to the lives of kids and adults with special needs through the joy of bowling.

Since 2007, SingaporeBowling continues to organizes a Bi-monthly Challenge for the BOWLinks organizations. This month BowLinks challenge was held on 18th April at the National Service Resort & Country Club.

More photos can be found on our facebook.
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~Thank you for your continued support~

~See you at our next BowLinks on 27th June @ NSRCC~

Singapore Sports Awards 2012

The Singapore Sports Awards, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean met on 20th April, where the 11-strong committee held a secret ballot after picking the finalists for the various categories. Singapore Bowling is proud to have three nominations for the award. Daphne Tan for Sportswoman of the year, William Woo for Coach of the Year and Team of year, consisting of New hui Fen, Daphne Tan, Cherie Tan, Geraldine Ng, Jazreel Tan and Shayna Ng. The results for the awards will be announced at the presentation ceremony on 29th May 2012 at the Swissotel The Stamford. While winners of the various awards in previous years were announced shortly after the meeting, awards organising committee chairman Low Teo Ping said “The committee brainstormed and felt that there were merits to this format” he added “It gives the nominated athletes and the awards the formality and recognition they deserve (and) provides an element of mystery that builds up to a crescendo on the awards night”. The awards this year are dominated by swimming (four finalists), sailing, wushu and bowling (three finalists). (Main story taken from The Newpaper, Saturday, April 21 2012)

National Age Group 12 - 15 March 2012

The National Age Group, a national tournament that caters to the youth kegler community as a competitive platform to gain some exposure in a competitive setting and compete for high honours under their respective categories.

This years tournament was especially exciting with high games from bowlers in all categories heating up the competition. High enough that, Ahmad Safwan Shamsudin and Ng Kai Xiang scored a perfect game 300 in their under-15 and under-18 categories respectively. Both bowlers were acknowledged by SBF for their efforts.

Presenting the certificate of acknowledgement on behalf of SBF to the bowlers was, Deputy Head Coach, Francis Yeo to Ng Kai Xiang and Mrs Florence Khemlani to Ahmad Safwan Shamsudin. Congratulations to you both!

Ng Kai Xiang, who is currently on the National Development Sqaud said, "I was just concentrating at taking one shot at a time, ensuring that my first few steps were always right. I was not thinking about achieving the perfect game but I was hoping to keep the form till the end" - Ng Kai Xiang, finished in overall 9th position in the Masters event

Under-21 Boys Division Champions
1st Position: Gan Ju Yen
2nd Position: Tay Hui Chiang
3rd Position: Shaun Kingston Lau Jia Rong

Under-21 Girls Division
1st Position: Tracy See Wan Zhen
2nd Position: Joey Yeo Ruo Qi
3rd Position: Kimberly Ooi Jingyi

Under-18 Boys Division Champions

1st Position: Alexander Tan Kee Hock

2nd Position: Logeswaran Elangovan

3rd Position: Danish Ramlan

Under-18 Girls Division Champions

1st Position: Joy Yap Jing Ying

2nd Position: Michelle Ng

3rd Position: Kimberly Ooi Jingyi

Under-15 Boys Division Champions
1st Position: Tan Gian Yion
2nd Position: Sean Gabriel Wong
3rd Position: Norman Cai Ming En

Under-15 Girls Division Champions
1st Position: Charmaine Lim
2nd Position: Joey Yeo Ruo Qi
3rd Position: Daphne Oh Xinyi

~ CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS THIS YEAR ~

Happy Lunar New Year!

Our National bowlers went 'Bai Nian' (拜年)* on 30th January 2012 to our partners this Chinese New Year. They include Remy Ong, Jason Yeong-Nathan, Eugene Low, Ng Tiac Pin, Jasmine Yeong-Nathan, New Hui Fen, Shayna Ng, Dapne Tan, Cherie Tan and Geraldine Ng.

This is part of our continued outreach programme to stay in touch with our valued working partners. The team visited some companies that include Canon Singapore, Dynasty Travel, Select Group and Syntech Engineering.

Photo with new Canon Singapore President & CEO, Mr Kensaku Konishi

Visit to our Major Partner - Canon Singapore

Visit to Dynasty Travel
(Photo with Mr Perry Neo, Chairman)

Visit to Syntech Engineering

Mr Steven Ang, Director, Syntech Engineering 
giving a tour of the production area 

Visit to Select Group

New Year greetings with Mr Vincent Tan, Managing Director, Select Group

During the visits, our bowlers had the opportunity to understand more about these organisations and had a short tour of some of their operations and a sharing session on the company plans for the new year.

Despite the full-day visiting to the various offices, our bowlers were delighted at the opportunity to meet up with these organisations and their staff who had been supporting SingaporeBowling and our activities all this while.

* Mandarin for Chinese New Year Visiting

Singapore is Overall Champion at 25th Asian Intercity Bowling Championship

The 25^th Asian Intercity Bowling Championship closed today at Orchid Bowl, Orchid Country Club with the conclusion of the Men’s, Women’s, Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s Masters Event.

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.

Men's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Tay Hui Chiang (Jurong),

1st-Choi Suk Byung (Daegu), 3rd-Park Min Su (Daegu) / Jeremy Posadas (Paranaque)

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.

Women's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Apple Posadas (Paranaque),

1st-Bernice Lim (Singapore), 3rd-Amanda Ng (Singapore) / Kristin Quah (Jurong)

 

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.

Senior Men's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Steven Tan (Singapore),

1st-Adam Chew (Jurong), 3rd-Gerry Tan (Paranaque) / James Dela Cruz (Paranaque) 

Senior Women's Masters (left to right): 2nd-Baby David (San Juan),

1st-Liza Or (Paranaque), 3rd-Shirley Liew (East Coast) / Lyn Tan (Paranaque)

 

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.

Overall Champion - Singapore

(front row, left to right): Bernice Lim, Fok Ka Wai, Amanda Ng, Ilma Nur Jannah, Javier Tan, Jaris Goh

(back row, left to right): Alexander Tan, Remy Ong, Suresh Elangovan

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 25^th running of the coveted regional championship.