Manacop who braved Asian and other Pacific ace bowlers along with his Saipan team mates, Percy Omechelang, Kitz Barja and Alex Castro struck a total of 1,776 pins to win the eighth place. His best feat was in Game 7 eking out 256 pinfalls.
Choi Suk Byung of Daegu, Korea topped the Masters’ event with a total of 2,060 pin falls or an average of 251.25.
Jonathan Duenas of Guam won the second place striking 1,911 pins.
Kim Young Pyo also of Daegu settled for third with 1,869 pin falls.
JD Castro who knocked down 1,844 pins and Brian Manibusan 1,820 also made it to the top five.
With Choi’s comfortable victory, the Daegu bowlers emerged as the overall champions of the Masters’ event retaining their Shinzo Sato Cup title.
Armed with a margin of 149 pins from the overnight first block, Byung never looked threatened as he opened his second block with his second perfect game of the championship.
Castro beat Kim to win the silver medal with 3739.
Duenas lost to Choi, 194-214 to drop to third and settled for the bronze medal with 3,712
The men from Daegu won all the five gold medals contested, 2 silver, 3 bronze medals and two fourth placings for a total of 39 points. Tamuning took second with a 0-3-1 medal haul.
The 39 points helped Daegu emerged as overall champion and retained the Shinzo Sato Cup which they won at last year’s championship in Macau, China. Pohang came away in second with a 3-1-1 medal haul and 24 points.
Manacop made it to the Top 10 in men’s singles and clinched the Masters’ slot during the opening games last week.
A three-time holder of Budweiser King of the Lane title on Saipan, Manacop tallied a total 1,328 pin falls and had an average of 221.33 in 18 games of men’s single that was dominated by Choi who had a total 4,326 pin falls.
In the men’s doubles, Manacop and and Kitz Barja placed seventh tallying a combined 2,619 pin falls.
In men’s team, Raphael Zapanta, Raymond Angeles, Jared Gutierrez and Raymond Zapanta placed 10th with a total of 4,624. Among them, Raymond Zapanta was leading striker with 1,283. (With reports from abf-online.org)
