13th July, Johor Bahru: Selangor had a field day at the SportExcel-NSC-Milo-MSSM Junior Circuit Johor leg when Christyn Chew bagged her third Girl's Open title this year with Zatil Iman and Jason Tan capturing the Girl's and Boy's Graded titles. Penang's Adrian Ang took home the Boy's Open crown.

The round-robin finals top-seed, Christyn Chew won her third title this year when she defeated Noor Diana Azis from SSBP 175-170 after being forced into the sudden-death game in the final stepladder match when Christyn lost 189-195. It was third time lucky for the 15 year-old lass from Selangor who won the Perak leg in March and Melaka leg just last month. 4th-seed Noor Diana, who won the first match knocking out 3rd-seed Siti Nursyakila (179) and 2nd-seed Perak's Elaine Lam (181) with 185, settled for second while Elaine and Siti Nursyakila took 3rd and 4th spots respectively.

In the Girl's Graded division, leader of all the rounds Zatil Iman gave Selangor their second title when she ousted her challenger Low Xin Pin of Kuala Lumpur 189-180 in the final stepladder match. 3rd-seed Low, who had earlier defeated 4th-seed Melaka's Izzatul Nadhirah (163) and Pahang's Jerusha Chan (185) with a score of 192 in the first match, had to settle for second.

Penang's Adrian Ang prevented Selangor a clean sweep when he defeated Johor's Kang Bo Long 187-185 to take his first Boy's Open title this year. Adrian, who led in Stage 1, quarterfinals and semifinals finished top-seed going into the stepladder finals.

Kang, who won the first match defeating 4th-placed Selangor's Khoo Ren Chung (196) and Melaka's Ong Boon Hock (189) with a score of 209, settled for second while Khoo and Ong took 3rd and 4th spots respectively.

Meanwhile, last minute entry Jason Tan bagged Selangor's third title when he defeated top-seed Fabian Lai from Pahang 191-157 in the sudden-death game of the Boy's Graded stepladder finals. Jason had won the first game 192-189. The champion moved up to challenge

Fabian after winning the first match knocking out 4th-seed Muhd Nur Aiman (175) of Johor and 3rd-seed Ian Tay Yee Ren (189) from Kuala Lumpur with 201.

The Johor leg completed this year's SportExcel-NSC-Milo-MSSM Junior Circuit and the top 13 Boy's Open plus 3 from Sabah/Sarawak ranking, top 10 Girl's Open plus 2, top 15 Boy's Graded plus 3 and top 12 Girl's Graded plus 2 based on the GP Rankings will qualify for the GP Finals which is scheduled on the 23 - 25 August, 2003 at Pyramid Megalanes.

Photos courtesy of Ms Tay Li Neo, Admin. Secretary/MTBC

12th July, Johor Bahru: Selangor's Siti Nursyakila Mardyanna and Zatil Iman lead the Girl's Open and Graded division quarter finals of the SportExcel-NSC-Milo-MSSM Junior Circuit Johor leg at Daiman Bowl.

Despite having two low games in the first and third game of the quarter finals round, Siti Nursyakila who had a comfortable cushion from Stage 1, hung on to a slender lead with a total 2608 from two rounds in the Girl's Open quarter finals from National backup squad member, Elaine Lam from Perak who finished second with a score of 2602. Melaka leg champion, Christyn Chew of Selangor was placed third just 23 pins from Elaine on 2579.

Noor Diana Azis (SSBP-2552), Sharon Koh (SEL-2533) June Lim (PAH-2437) and Yap Pui Yee (KUL-2431) finished 4th to 7th respectively.

Making the cut for the final spot of semifinals were Nur Syakirah Yeoh (KED-2408) in eight. In the Stage 1 of the Girl's Open division, Siti Nursyakila was a class of her own when she amassed a comfortable lead with a score of 1563 going into the quarter finals. Second was Perak's Elaine Lam with 1483 while Selangor's Christyn Chew was third with 1479.

Zatil Iman from Selangor also continued to lead the Girl's Graded division when she scored a total of 2517. Although she bowled poorly with low games in the first and third games and only managed 1033 to give her a combined total of 2517, she still kept her lead but reduced to only 26 pins.

Right on her heels was Kuala Lumpur's Low Xin Pin with 2491 while Pahang's Jerusha Chan finished third with 2465.

Meanwhile, Penang's Adrian Ang continued to lead the Boy's Open divisions when he finished top of the pack in the quarter finals. Adrian downed 235, 198, 202, 233, 222 and 214 for a score of 1304 to give him a total of 3051. He was well ahead of his opponents leading by a hefty 234 pinfalls.

Melaka's Ong Boon Hock could not keep pace with the 17 year-old to finished second on 2817 while Johor's Kang Bo Long took third spot with 2772. The Boy's Graded quarters finals results will be available later. The top 8 from the quarter finals have made the cut for tomorrow's semifinals where at the end of the round-robin matches, the top 4 would move into the stepladder finals.

Photos courtesy of Ms Tay Li Neo, Admin. Secretary/MTBC

11th July, Johor Bahru: Last leg winner of the Melaka leg, Adrian Ang headed the pack of Boy's Open Stage 1 of the SportExcel-NSC-Milo-MSSM Junior Circuit Johor leg at Daiman Bowl last night while local lad, Muhd Nur Aiman topped the Boy's Graded division.

Adrian, who won the Boy's Open title in Melaka last month was in devastating form to score 1747 and an average of 218.38. He started off well with a 212 in the first game then a poor 187 in the second. But Adrian soon recovered to record a string of 200-games with 211, 234, 195, 268, 216 and 224 to cap off a fine day's outing.

Ong Boon Hock from Melaka tried to match Adrian but eventually finished second, just 35 pins behind on 1712. Local youth, Kang Bo Long finished a distant third, a further 92 pins away in third on 1620. The top 16 Boy's Open will bowl the next 6 games in the quarter finals.

Meanwhile, Johor's Muhd Nur Aiman was spectacular today bowling not a single game below 180. Aiman's lines of 212, 197, 236, 202, 181, 207, 201 and 192 gave him an average of 203.50 and the lead of the Boy's Graded division Stage 1. Adrian Charles Dragon from Penang took the early lead with a string of four 200-games but could not maintain his composure in the 5th and 6th game which saw him shoot two low games of 135 and 149. Despite recovering in the last two games Adrian could not snatch the lead back from Muhd Nur Aiman who was picking up his spares and striking well.

In Squad B, Abdullah Ashraf from MSN who started badly with a 141 game settled down nicely after that to tie with Adrian Charles Dragon in 2nd place on a total of 1579 pinfalls.

Tengku Afnan T. Zahari from Kedah finished fourth with 1557. The top 48 will bowl the next 6 games in the quarter finals with the top 8 making the cut for the round-robin semi-finals. The top 16 Boy's Open will bowl the next 6 games in the quarter finals with the top 8 making the cut for the round-robin semi-finals.

Photos courtesy of Ms Tay Li Neo Admin. Secretary/MTBC