Keg tryouts set for 2 big int’l events

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BRACING for two major international events, the Philippine Bowling Federation will conduct tryouts for the national men’s and women’s teams starting this Friday at the Coronado Lanes inside the Starmall EDSA in Mandaluyong.

“The national team tryouts will be for the International Bowling Federation World Cup in November in Queensland, Australia and the 26th Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships in Hongkong in January next year,” said PSC commissioner Bong Coo.

Coo said the two major overseas competitions were already in the PBF calendar when she was elected as PBF president. She stepped when she was appointed in late June as the first commissioner of the PSC under the administration of President Marcos Jr.

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A total of seven slots – three men and four women – are up for grabs for the IBF World Cup, with 30th Vietnam Southeast Asian Games men’s singles gold medalist Merwin Tan seeded for the event.

Coo said the IBF World Cup will be held on Nov. 3 to 16 in the in the northeastern Australian state featuring the men’s and women’s singles and doubles events.

“The Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships is scheduled for January 7 to 19 next year in Hong Kong and will have six events each in the men’s and women’s divisions,” she said.

Coo said the PBF intends to field a full team in the Asian meet since it serves as a qualifying competition for the 2023 IBF World Tenpin Championships.

The national team tryouts will run until Sunday.

The former national bowling standout stressed the need to sustain interest in the sport where Pinoy were once considered world-class.

Anchored by Tan, Pinoy keglers broke an 11-year dry spell in the SEA Games by sweeping the men’s individual and team events in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi last May.

Tan was also a member of the four-man squad that bagged the team bronze in the IBF World Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates last December.

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