2015 MFL Last Pahabol Blog

Tonight (yes! In a few hours!), December 6, 2015, is the Grand Finale Night and Week 13 of the 2015 Philly Pinoy Mixed Fall League (MFL).  We shall have food (potluck dinner, folks!) and exciting matches (the last games of the season!), to be capped off with our Awards ceremony. Cash prizes await our deserving teams and our participants that have dazzled us with their bowling prowess all season long.

Our season is about to close

The 2015 league about to end 

I know what I'll miss the most

Is our fun together, dear friends

Our made-up teams got competitive

The players all turned pro

Each week giving all that they can give

Impressing with each solid throw

It promises to be an exciting Grand Finale Night.  Do you gave your team shirts ready?  Remember to come at 5 PM with a dish to share at our potluck dinner.  We shall bowl before 6 PM and promptly award our winners when the matches conclude, after we eat again and reminisce a little about the season, of course!

Thank you once again for your participation and support this season and in past seasons.  Thank you, it was a wild and crazy and super fun ride!

Three years of inspiration

Commitment, dedication

Love for bowling showing

Skills, participation growing

From your feedback evolving

Diverse voices involving

Striving to lead with soul and heart

A memorable experience to impart

From a three year solid start

Stepping down, so as to impart

To willing hands to soon embrace

This league and take our place

To continue the tradition,

Change, continue the evolution

Pinoys coming together to bowl

Fun and fellowship as our goal

Long live the MFL!

MFL 2015 Week 12: Building Up to a Grand Finale Night!

GRAND FINALE NIGHT INFO:

Excitement is building up towards a Grand Finale to the 2015 Philly Pinoy Mixed Fall League, scheduled this coming Sunday, December 6 at Limerick Bowl.  The Grand Finale will be Week 13 in regulation play for our 13-week season, where we get to face the only league team we have yet to play in a battle for team rankings and their corresponding cash prizes! 

Here is a quick primer on this upcoming Sunday’s Grand Finale Night:

• Please come by around 5:00 PM with a dish to share.  Our potluck celebration dinner will be held at the Limerick Bowl party room prior to practice and match play commencing.  All participants, substitutes and family and friends are welcome to join the celebration.
• Remember to come in team attire: simplest is to all dress in the same color shirts, which hopefully has some relevance to your team name (but not required)!  As always, please no bahag…
• We shall start practice no later than 5:45 PM: the later we start, the later we shall finish.  Prizes shall be awarded at the Awards Ceremony in the Party Room right after our Grand Finale Night matches. 

Our scheduled matches and the team rankings after Week 12 going into the Grand Finale Night are summarized here.  Are you game?  Let’s get ready to rumble!

LANES	TEAM A	TEAM B
21-22	Kamatis (rank 9)	Kalabasa (rank 4)
23-24	Talong (rank 2)	Sitaw (rank 7)
25-26	Luya (rank 1)	Mustasa (rank 10)
27-28	Linga (ghost, no rank)	Sibuyas (rank 11)
29-30	Patani (rank 12)	Patola (rank 3)
31-32	Bawang (rank 8)	Upo (rank 5)
33-34	Labanos (rank 6)	Singkamas (rank 13)

Outlined below are the cash awards that await our 2015 MFL teams at our Grand Finale Night.

MIXED FALL LEAGUE PRIZES	Per Team		Per Person
FIRST PRIZE	300		100
SECOND PRIZE	240		80
THIRD PRIZE	180		60
4th	120		40
5th	105		35
6th	90		30
7th	81		27
8th	72		24
9th	60		20
10th	60		20
11th	60		20
12th	60		20
13th	60		20

Our outstanding individuals shall be awarded as follows:

male high average 1	50
male high average 2	40
male high average 3	30
female high average 1	50
female high average 2	40
female high average 3	30
male handicap series 1	25
male handicap series 2	20
female handicap series	25
male scratch series 1	25
male scratch series 2	20
female scratch series	25
male handicap game 1	20
male handicap game 2	15
female handicap game	20
male scratch game 1	20
male scratch game 2	15
female scratch game	20

MFL WEEK 12 HIGHLIGHTS

In true MFL fashion, this Sunday, Week 12, November 29, was truly nail-bitingly exciting.  We proved that we know how to set the stage, intended or not, for a fight to the finish, as margins continued to narrow and teams continued to switch ranks.  Certain participants took the advice to “play well tonight” to heart, exhibiting unbowlievably stellar play worthy of individual awards at our Grand Finale Night.

There were a couple of Kulambo (mosquito net) Battles (a.k.a. Giyera de Patani or Lima Bean Battles) tonight, as the Deos and the Youngs duked it out on the lanes with their respective teams.  I am calling it for the women, I am sure you will agree!

Lanes 21-22:  OMD, as in Oh My Deo!!!  The Deo Kulambo Battle ensued and we are awestruck by the firepower from this bowling power couple!  JoelD of Sibuyas has been consistently strong but he turned pro today.  Not to be outdone, AliceD of Sitaw had a night for the ages: 225 first game, 197 average and 593 series (almost tied hubby JoelD’s 595 series…).  Fabowlous, yeah!  First game was won by Sitaw, second game was a tie, third game was won by Sibuyas with a 23-pin margin, based on stellar play from Lino, Lolet and Joel of Sibuyas.  But the win goes to Sitaw, with Roy’s solid play, a pro-turn from Jon, and Alice’s star turn.  OMD indeed!

Lanes 23-24: The Young Kulambo Battle resulted in solid play and some stellar games from Jun of Upo and Giovie of Kamatis (welcome back!).  The scores reflect some struggles on the lanes for both teams, but in the end, 200 games from Paolo’s prebowl seem to have won games 1 and 3 for Raul, Giovie and Paolo of Kamatis, while Jun and Mitchie of Upo (with Edmer’s blind) took second game and total pins.  It is a tie between Upo and Kamatis.

Lanes 25-26: Jojo, Chelo and James of Bawang win 4 points against the ghost team Linga, as James pintastically increased his already insurmountable lead as top male player with another pro level night.

Lanes 27-28: Nonoy and Gigi of Luya were solidly consistent playing with Atit’s blind against a hot Team Patani.  Chona and Romy of Patani played close to their averages while Rolly turned pro (naks…)!  It is a win 3-1 for Patani against Luya.  Thank you, guys (bad…sorry, my horns are showing).

Lanes 29-30: Eden, Marlon and Rico continued their meteoric rise up the rankings in their battle against Rosie and July of Labanos (Ed was absent).  Carpool buddy Marlon had another pro week, yebah!  Some future organizers of the MFL were playing on these lanes, naks!  Talong takes three points from Labanos.

Lanes 31-32:  Grace and Blue of Mustasa were playing with Paul’s blind against Mila and JoelC of Singkamas, with sub Robert.  Grace had an awesome 187 on game 1, which was better than Blue’s 186, naks!  It was looking like a sweep from Mustasa (203 from Blue in game 2! Grace turned pro!), but Mila stole the show with a 190 in game 3, securing a point for Singkamas.  Mustasa wins 3-1 against Singkamas, but Singkamas actually won its first point since Week 7.  Go Mila!

Lanes 33-34:  Dennis and Edwin of Patola were minus Lanie (blind) against Desi, Gabe and Jing of Kalabasa.  Gabe won game 1 for Kalabasa with a 147, yeah!  Dennis was formidable, winning game 2 for Patola with a 191, hanep!  Desi was razor sharp and consistent, turning pro once more, wow!  Edwin and I struggled, man oh man.  I could not get my spares, and my pocket hits left splits. I could not hit my average and was ready to retire until I decided on game 3 to move right and started hitting Brooklyn strikes: whatever works!  By the 10^th frame of the last game, it was within 20 pins, but my teammates came through, and we had it won before my turn.  I only had open frames and strikes on that last game, a lone spare and strike in the last frame gave me a 203: yeah, baby! Kalabasa wins 3-1 against Patola. 

200 CLUB

• Alice_Sitaw 225
• JoelD_Sibuyas 212, 204
• James_Bawang 235 203
• Paolo_Kamatis 201 203
• Romy_Patani 205 200
• Rico_Talong 212 203
• JoelC_Singkamas 201
• Blue_Mustasa 203
• Jing_Kalabasa 203

PROS.  Congratulations on logging a series average 10 pins or more above your current average!

• JoelD_Sibuyas 212 179 204 = 198 avg (187 past)
• Alice_Sitaw 225 172 146 = 197 avg (150 past, 47 pins above, 593 series)
• Jon_Sitaw 187 135 178 = 166 avg (150 past)
• James_Bawang 235 203 191 = 209 avg (196 past)
• Rolly_Patani 152 166 109 = 142 avg (125 past)
• Marlon_Talong 150 136 198 = 161 avg (141 past)
• Mila_Singkamas 133 100 190 = 141 avg (113 past)
• Grace_Mustasa 187 112 141 = 146 avg (135 past)
• Blue_Mustasa 186 203 144 = 177 avg (166 past)
• Desi_Kalabasa 173 175 191 = 179 avg (167 past)
• Dennis_Patola 178 191 146 = 171 avg (149 past)

PLAYER of the WEEK:  There are not enough superlatives even in my vocabulary to describe how well she played today: Alice of Sitaw, you are the player of the week.  YEAH!

SHINING STARS.  Congratulations for logging games that were at least 10 pins above your average!

• Lino_Sibuyas 169
• Lolet_Sibuyas 149 150
• Jun_Upo 167
• Giovie_Kamatis 153
• Gigi_Luya 144
• Nonoy_Luya 194
• Chona_Patani 122
• Rosie_Labanos 165
• Gabe_Kalabasa 147

The team rankings from MFL Week 12 are as follows:

Team #	TEAM	TEAM Members	Current	Wk 11	Total			Wk 12
			RANK	RANK	win	loss		win	loss
13	Luya	Atit-Gigi-Nonoy	1	1	32	16		1	3
2	Talong	Marlon-Eden-Rico	2	3	31.5	16.5		3	1
5	Patola	Dennis-Lanie-Edwin	3	2	31	17		1	3
7	Kalabasa	Desi-Gabe-Jing	4	4	29	19		3	1
6	Upo	Jun-Mitchie-Edmer	5	6	27.5	20.5		2	2
8	Labanos	Ed-Rosie-July	6	5	27	21		1	3
3	Sitaw	Alice-Jon-Roy	7	7	26.5	22.5		3.5	1.5
12	Bawang	Jojo-Chelo-James	8	8	26	22		4	0
11	Kamatis	Raul-Giovie-Paolo	9	9	22	26		2	2
9	Mustasa	Grace-Paul-Blue	10	11	21.5	26.5		3	1
10	Sibuyas	Lino-Lolet-JoelD	11	10	20	29		1.5	3.5
4	Patani	Rolly-Chona-Romy	12	13	20	28		3	1
1	Singkamas	Oscar-Mila-JoelC	13	12	18	30		1	3

Watch out for the follow-up (pahabol) blog later this week.

Bowl, baby, bowl!