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MASTERS TOURNAMENT 2010

17-01-2010

On Sunday 17th January the finals of the MTBA Masters championship were held at the Eden Superbowl.

The tournament was played over three days with the top 4 qualifying for the semi finals on Sunday. After the round robin, Sue Abela and Rankin Luke Camilleri lead the top 4, followed by Mark Spiteri and Justin Caruana Scicluna with the following scores:

  • 1. Sue Abela - 1911

  • 2. Rankin Luke Camilleri -1894

  • 3. Mark Spiteri - 1819

  • 4. Justin C. Scicluna - 1795

The other bowlers were: 5th Kenneth Arpa -1748, 6th Simon Burke - 1637, 7th Philippe Vancell - 1590 and 8th Ray Falzon Reale - 1579.

The semi finals saw the number one seeded player against the number 4 player, while 2nd placed faced the 3rd seeded player on a best out of three game format.

The first match saw Sue Abela playing against her 19 year old son Justin Caruana Scicluna, while in the other match, another experienced bowler Mark Spiteri placed against the 2009 under 23 champion, Rankin Luke Camilleri.
Justin won the first game easily 221 against Sue’s 181, but Sue then bounced back and took the 2nd game 234, 215.
However Justin was too strong for his mother on the day and won the last match 243, 214. In the other game Mark won the first game 239, 215.
Mirroring the other matches Rankin then came back and won the 2nd game 245, 217 while the last game was won by Spiteri 254, 236. It was unlucky for Rankin to be out for the finals with a 232 average.

Justin faced Mark in the final for the best out of three games. Mark won first game with 220, 209. Justin then won the 2nd game 180, 169 the low scores mirroring the bowlers’ fatigue after having played no less than 14 games in the span of 4 hours.

The final game went head to head till the last few frames when Justin got a split which gave Mark the slight advantage and won the game and the Championships 192, 171. This tournament was of a high scoring standard and the future for bowling looks promising when you consider we had two youths, Justin Caruana Scicluna and Rankin Camilleri in the finals playing against the big guns.

The high game of the tournament went to Philippe Vancell with 278 pins.  

 

Pro-Shop Corner

 

Tips That Will Help Increase Your Bowling Scores

 

Tip No.1 Learn surface management, here is an area that most bowlers neglect and will not take care of there bowling balls.

Learn to use abralon and clean your ball properly.

 

Tip No.2 Maintaining a high performance bowling ball is to know what type of bowling ball you have.

Different types of coverstocks (outer core of the ball) have different characteristics that you will need to consider when cleaning your bowling ball. To maintain the highest performance of your bowling ball, you should clean the ball after every 6 - 9 games you have bowled.