HORNBILLS MISFIRED @ WYC 2012

Thursday, 28 June 2012

 

It was a thrilling encounter in the Girls Doubles Semi-Finals match between top seed Dayang Khairuniza & Jacqueline Sijore of Malaysia and 4th seed Kim Seon Jeong & Hwang Yeon Ju of Korea this afternoon. Both pairs fought frame by frame and by the half way mark, our Malaysian pair was ahead by 1 frame lead.

Jacqueline Sijore pumped up her ante to reel a 4 bagger after adjusting her move inside. The Korean camp saw the move and emulated likewise to catch up. Dayang was unfortunate to saw her 1-3 pocket delivery resulted in a 7-10 split.

 

The extravaganza battle went down to the wire. Both pairs rallied with identical double strikes on 9th & 10th frames. However, our Malaysian pair spared home while the Singles Gold medalist, Kim Seon Jeong stormed home with 5 consecutive strikes to claim a Final berth for Korea on a 425-411 margin.

 

A frustrated and tearful Jacqueline felt it was a case of so near yet so far syndrome."Perhaps after collecting Silver & Bronze medals by our team, our next medal should be Gold, said Jac, tongue in cheek.

 

Currently, Jacqueline Sijore is leading the All-Events standing with 2567 pin-falls; followed by Korea's Hwang Yeon Ju with 2565. Singles Silver medalist, Hee Kar Yen is placed 5th with 2508; Dayang Khairuniza is placed 7th with 2478 and Sin Li Jane made up on 22nd place with 2364. The top 24 bowlers shall proceed to the Masters' Finals.

 

Results courtesy of ABF

Reported by BC Cheah