Saudi- D' Barkads Thursday Bowling League 10th Season champ

(MENAFN-Arab News) seedings went according to form and d' barkads upheld their no. 1 ranking to the very end as they won the championship crown in the recently concluded jeddah thursday bowling league 10th season at the bowling city in sultana mall

With a twice-to-beat edge d' barkads made the proceedings look simple, beating second-ranked sarawat-bowling city 929-914 in the championship match

Sarawat earned a shot for the title at the waiting d' barkads by beating no. 3 habagat in the third stepladder match only to fail to get the two victories they needed to claim the championship

The first match in the stepladder final was the two games series with handicap sudden death of teams 4, 5 and 6 in carlos for sports uniform, orient watch and rj transient house, which orient watch won at 1,911. rj tallied 1,862 and carlos 1,709

In the one-game knockout against habagat orient watch appeared to have lost its sizzle and went down in defeat 1,027-885, with med ramos leading the habagat attack on 219 to go with the 214 by geo mangaliman, 208 by ruel santoc, 207 by richard antonio and 179 by hadi pacheco

But the habagat progress would stop right there having lost the match against sarawat 915-849. spearheading sarawat were paolo allego and igna salgado with matching 203s followed by 197 by gerry mandanas, 161 by rolly vistal and 151 by mohd. amri

The win over habagat set sarawat up to a title clash with d' barkads

The result completed a pattern of matches where the higher seeded team never lost and handed the title to d' barkads who banked on rudy valenzuela 240, ladio gonzales 198, romy bunagan 177, leo edejer 159 and rey beltran 155

Salgado tried to fan sarawat's hopes with 223 but their bid had been weighed down by the 143 by rolly vital and 168 by amri.

Meantime, thursday bowlers swing back into action with the start today of the 11th season, according to organizers

Final team standing

Champion d' barkads, 1st runner-up sarawat superstores-bowling city, 2nd runner-up habagat, 4th place orient watch, 5th place rj transisent house, 6th place carlos for sports uniform, 7th place taurus rdlr, 8 th place jeddah 500