Mar and Kotoisuva are 2020 Pineapple Cup Champions
Curtis Mar and Loretta Kotoisuva were crowned the 2020 Konitiki Finance Limited Pineapple Cup winners in their respective category at the Suva Bowling Club on Sunday.
Mar was crowned the new Pineapple men’s singles champion after defeating Dev Anand from the West in the final 21-18.
Kotoisuva had to fight harder against Sheryl Edwards from Sheraton to win the women’s singles in the final 21-16.
The two day tournament started on Saturday with 54 bowlers gunning for the cup.
Speaking to SunSports Fiji Bowling president Samuela Tuikiligana said the competition was a good one.
“The competition was very good with a lot of new and very good bowlers competing,” he said.
“These new bowlers really gave a hard time to the season bowlers all in all it is good to see people in numbers to support their teams and bowlers.”
“It’s good to see that the tournament is getting stronger and tougher provided the current pandemic situations.”
“Now we have a lot of new young bowlers that participated in the tournament so that is a positive sign for the sports.”
Tuikiligana added Fiji Bowling now have a plan for the national bawlers.
“We are now going to focus on our national teams that were supposed to go for an international tournament this year,” he said.
“Now they will have to prepare and get themselves ready for any regional or international tournaments that comes up provided if the borders are open.”
“The plan is to get them into training mode so they are switched on for tournaments.”