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Masters bowling tourney set for Memorial Day weekend
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Posted on May 10 2006
The biggest tenpin bowling tournament of the year returns to Saipan, as the 24th staging of the CNMI May Masters Bowling Tournament will be held on Memorial Day weekend from May 26 to 28 at the Saipan Bowling Center in Oleai.
The mid-year tenpin bowling classic includes four bowling events: Singles, doubles, team of four bowlers, and masters—with each event offering separate sets of prizes.
To qualify for the masters event, a bowler needs to compete in the singles, doubles, and team events and must be among the top 36 bowlers among the men and top 24 among the women, based on total pinfalls.
Both the men’s and women’s masters will be made up of a total of 12 games with the top scorer in the women declared as the champion.
The format in the men’s division, meanwhile, is a little more complicated with the No. 1 bowler advancing to the finals. The rest of the Top 4 will then duke it out in a one-game roll-off for the right to face the top placer in the finals.
The first finalist needs only to win one game to be declared the champion, while the second needs to win twice to bag the title.
Trophies and cash awards totaling about $5,000 await the winners of the year’s biggest local bowling tournament. The men’s and women’s masters champions are guaranteed $1,000 and $300, respectively, in cash prizes.
Saipan bowlers sharpened their teeth for this year’s May Masters by playing in the monthly Pepsi King of the Lanes Tournament, which has provided them with plenty of practice the past five months. The organizers also expect a large contingent of good bowlers from Guam this year.
The yearly May Masters tournament is organized by the Saipan Bowling Association and is sponsored by MARPAC, exclusive distributor of Budweiser; JET Holdings; Saipan Bowling Center; Saipan Grand Hotel; Pacific Telecom, Inc.; Marianas Visitors Authority; and SBA president Jerry Tan.
For entry forms and more information about the tournament, call SBA official Ross Zapanta at 322-5627 or SBA lanes supervisor Robert Talavera at 234-6420.
