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Sue Abela and Justin Caruana Scicluna claimed their respective Ladies’ and Men’s Divisions in the 2011 Tenovar World Cup Qualifier. After this success Abela and Caruana Scicluna will now be representing Malta in the Qubica-AMF World Cup later this year.
Sue Abela continues to confirm her status as Malta’s most successful and prolific tenpin bowler by adding further awards to her already substantial list of national and international honors when claiming bronze in the Ladies event in the 2011 European Champions Cup, held in Lahti, Finland. Each year the Malta Tenpin Bowling Association sends its respective male and female National Champions to represent Malta in the ECC, which was attended this year by no less than forty European nations.
Sue Abela and Neil Sullivan, who retained their titles in the Tenovar MTBA National Championships just concluded at the Eden SuperBowl, will represent the country at the 2011 European Champions Cup in Finland next month.
Sullivan nosed ahead after two eight-game sessions, going into the final eight played on the tricky ‘dual-oil’ lane condition.
Day One leader Mark Spiteri and Simon Burke were second and third respectively.
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Sullivan played consistently well
during the decisive series, shooting
highs of 225, 248 and 247 for a
solid 1,652 and a winning total of
4,860 pins (202.5 ave) as Spiteri
hung on to second place on 4,729.Kenneth Arpa claimed third after a good 1,670-session (total 4,728) while Burke suffered a poor 1,439 series, to fall way out of contention and finish ninth.
In the women’s competition, only an absolute disaster could have prevented Abela from claiming a convincing victory and her 15th national title, having led by 476 pins from Tiziana Carannante after 16 games (3,186-2,710).
Abela did have a shaky start on Day Three, opening with a low 149-game. However, she soon improved to power through the remaining seven with top games of 234, 258 and a superb 276 effort, to complete a 1,672 series for a final tally of 4,858 (202.4).
Abela finished 712 pins ahead of Carannante (4,146, 172.7 ave) while third place went to Melissa Swift on 4,105 (171 ave).
The two national champions are currently following a strict training regime with lane time provided by the Eden SuperBowl, prior to their trip to Lahti next month.
The tournament format began with a sixteen game qualifying round, from which the top six male and female bowlers would go through to the next stage.
Round two was to be a Round Robin event incorporating extra bonuses for match wins or draws, and would be followed by the always exciting stepladder finals, battled out between the top three bowlers in each division after.......
Popularly known as the Queen of the Mediterranean, Abela is the only competitor who has played in each of the 14 Mediterranean Challenge Cups and has won medals in all but one. She showed her talent last week by not only topping the all event standings with a lead of over 300 pins on the number two, but she was the only competitor, man or woman, who bowled six consecutive 200-plus games in the Singles event to claim her first gold of the week. A day later in the Doubles pairing with Tiziana Carannante she claimed her second gold medal of this prestigious event. Her third was for the all events. In the masters she captured the bronze and fourth medal for Malta.
Neil Sullivan was on
Cloud Nine with his silver medal. “We were not sure if we will make it
to the championship, after our flight had to be delayed for a day
because of bad weather in Malta.” said Sullivan who arrived with his
team late yesterday evening. “We could only squeeze in one practice last
night. Considering all that, the silver medal is indeed a bonus.
“I had not thought about winning a medal going into the last game when I
was placed fourth. I just concentrated on my game and gave my best and
it was good enough to win me the silver,” said Sullivan who had games of
244,185,277,194,235 and 258 for an average of 232.2 and 33 pins behind
the winner of the Gold medal Zulmazran from Malaysia
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We wish them all the best and high scores!
The tournament was played over three days with 8 bowlers battling it out in head to head matches on Tuesday night fighting for a place in the semi finals.
The top 4 who qualified for the semi final where: Neil Sullivan, Justin C. Scicluna, Sue Abela and
Kenneth Arpa.
In the semi final the matches where combined as follows:
Match A: Neil Sullivan vs. Kenneth Arpa
Match B: Justin C. Scicluna vs. Sue Abela.
Neil Sullivan needed two games of 183 and 207 to shake off Kenneth Arpa, to meet the winner of match b; Sue Abela.
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The two National Champions went head to head playing the best of three games. Neil’s opening game was no match for Sue, as he claimed the first point with no problems. The 2nd game was slightly different Sue was a few pins ahead of Neil going into the last frame. Sue left a difficult split to convert, the game went down to this one shot if Sue spare d she would win the point and a chance to play a third game if not Neil would be champion. Sue made the spare and moved on to play a very confident third game taking Neil out of the game completely to claim the masters title.
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