Mondar, Palot repeat as champions in OFBC Bowler of the Month tilt
JEDDAH: Sergio Mondar and Johara Palot became repeat champions during the August leg of the Overseas Filipino Bowlers Club (OFBC) Bowler of the Month series held recently at the Iceland Bowling Center here.
Mondar and Palot, winners during the January and June events, took easy routes to the men’s and ladies’ titles respectively.
Modar was never threatened while carding a five-game with handicap series of 1,006, way ahead of Ed Cordova who was second on 970 pinfalls.
Modar carded scratch games of 137, 163, 200, 210 and 176 while Cordova shot 159, 162, 212, 171 and 206.
Palot won by 40 pins over threetime BOM series champion Malou Nidoy. Palot overcame a sloppy third game to shoot the winning total of 890 to Nidoy’s 850 on games of 138, 135, 116, 155 and 126. Nidoy had rounds of 120, 180, 127, 150 and153.
Besides Nidoy and Palot, Carmen Duma is the other player to win at least two times in the monthly event leading up to the Bowler of the Year finals in December. Duma was backto-back champion in February and March.
July champion Rico Bulalayao settled for third place this time on 931 (151, 160, 205, 160 and 165). Benj Espinosa rounded out the first four winners on 917 (157, 157, 145, 189 and 179).
On the distaff side, Farida De Guzman took third on 844 (129, 134, 158, 131 and 122) and Rose Due Agustin finished fourth on 824 (94, 102, 112, 127 and 139).
The winners received cash prizes during the awards ceremony in the OFBC’s eighth monthly event.
Under the tournament format, bowlers play five-game series with handicap sudden death with the top four in each division to receive cash prizes. In case of ties, the high and low rule will be applied to break the deadlock.