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Malaysians lead top 30 into semi
22nd October, Jakarta: Muhd Nur Aiman led compatriot, Mohd Noer Said and Australian, George Frilingos into the semi-finals of the Jakarta Super Classic after the Malaysian leader ended the third block with another comfortable margin.
Muhd Nur Aiman, who had a massive 299 pins margin going into the third and final block of the preliminaries, rolled a poor 1573 but still had a decent margin of 236 pins after the southpaw ended the block with a 24-game total of 5294.
But his lead never looked threatened at any stage as his compatriot, Mohd Noer Said took over the second spot from Australian and Ancol Open champion, George Frilingos. Noer finished second with 5058 after posting 1650 in the third block.
Despite a poor first half of the 8-game block, Frilingos managed to up his pace for a stronger second half to take up third spot with 5054 with a 1632 third block.
Overall top 3, Mohd Noer, Muhd Nur Aiman and George Frilingos
Korea's Kim Eun Jung surprised the strong field to tie with Malaysia's top female, Shalin Zulkifli in fourth with 4955. Squad B leader for the earlier two blocks and the top Indonesian finisher, Tannya Roumimper settled for sixth position with 4909.
American PBA pro, who had an aweful start in his first block, did well to maintain seventh position with 4901 ahead of two-time Indonesia Open champion, Alex Liew eighth with 4882. Henry Hui of Hong Kong and Zulmazran Zulkifli of Malaysian completed the top 10.
Indonesia's national bowlers bound for the 3rd Asian Indoor Games, Hengky Susanto, Ryan Lalisang and Putty Armein, all made the semi-final cut in 16th, 20th and 28th positions respectively.
Kuwait's Fahad Abul took the 30th and final semi-final spot with a total of 4561, just behind ex-national, David Sitorus in 29th spot.
Indonesian squad, Lalisang, Tannya, Putty and Hengky
The top 30 will resume with the 8-game semi-finals on Friday morning commencing at 10.30am local time from scratch. The top 4 will advance into the stepladder finals with the champion taking home Rupiah 75 million (approx. US$7,400) as champion.
Link
http://www.abf-online.org/results/sclassic09-res.htm#Blk3