By Roselyn B. Monroyo
Variety News Staff

EMI Williams claimed the March Queen of the Lanes title winning over 14 other bowlers.
After a slow start with 154 pinfalls in Game 1 last Sunday at the Saipan Bowling Center, Williams had a solid performance in the last three games. She had 221 in Game 2, 160 in Game 3 and 178 in Game 4 for a total of 713 pinfalls.
She won by 30 pinfalls against Jerrie Vales, who had a good start with 187 in Game 1, but slowed down in the last three games.
Vales had 162, 157 and 177 in Games 1, 2 and 3, respectively, for a total of 683.
In third place was Gina Sablan, who bowled yesterday and had a total of 677 pinfalls, followed by Gloria Omechelang (658), Diane Camacho (651), Carol McKenzie (646), Cindy Taitano (642), Yho Villavicencio (626), Ron Cal (618), Rizz Hensley (611) and Lynn Santos (611).
Finishing out of top 10 were Gigi Zapanta (600), Elena Soll (598), Luce Deleon Guerrero (593) and Cora Muna (521).
Raphael Zapanta won the March Prince of the Lane with his 686 pinfalls.
It was a come-from-behind win for Zapanta, who was down by 27 pinfalls against eventual second-placer Jamie Vales entering the final game.
Zapanta had a total of 496 pinfalls after three games, while Vales scored 523.
In Game 4, Zapanta nailed 190 pinfalls against Vales’ 144 to claim the top honors.
Placing third was Zack Cruz (604), followed by Ryan (586) and Jared (571) Gutierrez and Mayanne (570) and Marion (565) McKenzie.
In other results, Alex Cacdac jumped from sixth to first place to claim the Pepsi March King of the Lanes yesterday.
Cacdac scored 784 pinfalls last Sunday and returned to SBC last night with a better performance grossing 830 pinfalls to beat Richard Leong.
The newly-crowned March King of the Lanes had 176, 226, 218 and 210 pinfalls in Games 1 to 4.
Participants in the monthly roll-off are given an option to bowl on Sunday or Monday. If they bowl on both days, only the higher score will be counted.
Leong bowled last Sunday and scored 828 pinfalls.
Entering Game 4 on Sunday, Leong was behind Tony Cruz by 33 pins, but the former had 234 pinfalls in Game 4 to slip past the latter by only five pinfalls, 828-823 to temporarily lead the March King of the Lanes race.
Leong had 189, 184 and 221 pinfalls in the first three games for a total of 594.
Cruz scored 209, 173 and 245 pinfalls for a total of 627 at the end of Game 3. But he had only 196 in the last game and slid to second place.
After yesterday’s game and with Cacdac overtaking Leong, Cruz was relegated to third place, while Robert Talavera (822), Jon Eparwa (820), Percy Omechelang (816), Kitz Barja (799), Raul Dumapit (795), Jeff Villagomez (789) and John Hensley (776) rounded of the top 10.
Thirty keglers battled for the March King of the Lanes plum.