Philippine bowling cops 2nd SEA Games gold
HANOI (Updated 2:41 p.m.) – After 11 years of failing to win a gold medal in the Southeast Asian Games, the Philippines has nabbed two in the 31st edition of the biennial meet here in Vietnam.
Merwin Tan, who won the country's first gold medal in bowling since 2011, was joined by teammates Ivan Malig, Patrick Nuqui and Patrick Dychangco as they ruled the men's bowling-team of four final.
Tan, who earlier ruled the men's singles tourney, thus makes himself a double-gold medalist in the Games.
The Philippine bowlers edged their opponents in block 2 after only finishing second in block 1 on Wednesday.
The Philippines finished with 5275 pinfalls, 113 clear of second-place finishers Malaysia.
Tan did the heavy lifting for the team with 1411 pinfalls for a six-game average of 235.17 — the best among all competitors in the event.
Dychangco played supporting role with 1377 pinfalls, norming 229.50. His run included a tournament-high 278 in the sixth and final game.
Malig and Nuqui added 1285 and 1202 pinfalls, respectively, to wrap up the results for the Philippine keglers.
Coming in third was Singapore, who ended up with 4963 pinfalls.
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