11th SM Bowling Cup stakes cars, cash prizes
By: Jasmine W. PayoExpecting to draw more young enthusiasts, the 11th SM Bowling Cup gets going next week with bigger prizes up for grabs.
Expecting to draw more young enthusiasts, the 11th SM Bowling Cup gets going next week with bigger prizes up for grabs.
JOHANNESBURG—Filipino bowlers Liza Clutario and Biboy Rivera played consistently to easily advance to the top 24 of the Qubica AMF Bowling World Cup competition here. Clutario rolled 4367 pins in 20 games to finish fifth in the women’s division while former world champion Rivera scored 4613 to rank sixth among men. American Tommy Jones led [...]
Frederick Ong, a Southeast Asian Games rookie, is well on track to becoming the most decorated athlete for the Philippines in these competitions.
National team mainstay Lara Posadas held off a rally by two of the country’s top bowlers and bagged the Masters crown in the 15th Sta. Lucia East Tenpin Bowling Association (Sletba) Open last Sunday.
Former world champion Biboy Rivera struck hard in the clutch while multititled Southeast Asian Games veteran Liza Clutario cruised to rule the 2011 Bowling World Cup national competition and advance to the 47th international finals in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Unheralded bowlers Kenneth Chua and Rochelle Munsayac surprised the favorites by pacing the first day of eliminations in the 2011 Bowling World Cup national finals over the weekend at Coronado Lanes.
John Tiongson, a veteran of local bowling tournaments, beat Nilo Penado to grab the championship of the First Tenpin Development Match Play Monday at Green Valley in Pasig City.
The Grand Mall Tenpin Bowling Club and Davies Paints will stage their first invitational open bowling tournament on Aug. 7 to 21 at the Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall Bowling Center in Cainta, Rizal.
MANILA—Like wine, six-time world champion Paeng Nepomuceno gets better with age. Now 54, the left-handed Nepomuceno whipped former world champion Biboy Rivera, 195-184, despite a split in the last frame Sunday to capture his eighth Philippine Open International bowling crown at Midtown Bowl in Robinson’s Ermita. “I feel good that at my age, I can [...]
Former national coach and founding president Ernesto “Toti” Lopa was elected head of the Philippine Bowling Congress over incumbent Mariano “Nitoy” Tamayo in a hotly contested election held last night at the Green Valley bowling club in Pasig City.
GUANGZHOU—At the athletes’ lounge of the Tianhe Bowling Hall Monday afternoon, Biboy Rivera paced the floor like crazy, killing a tormenting five-hour wait by alternately sipping bottled water and playing games on his iPod. He had just emerged the top scorer in the first block of the men’s singles finals two hours before and the second [...]
Slowly but surely, the wins are beginning to pile up after a miserable start by the Philippines.
TOULON, FRANCE—Engelberto “Biboy” Rivera ran into a red-hot Michael Schmidt of Canada in the semifinals Saturday and settled for the bronze medal in the 46th Qubica-AMF Bowling World Cup. Rivera, the 2006 World Masters champion, failed to keep up with the sizzling pace of Schmidt, who averaged 249.5 (247-252) to the 236.5 average (215-202) of the [...]
