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 10th 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!
