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Joyner, bowlers recognized
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Posted on Aug 05 2011
CNMI U15 National Team striker Jehn Joyner and bowling’s Paul Pangelinan and Gloria Omechelang were named top athletes for July.
The three were selected during the Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association’s monthly meeting on Thursday night at the conference room of the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium with Joyner taking the TSL Foundation Male Student Athlete of the Month plum and Pangelinan and Omechelang winning the Male and Female Athletes of the Month awards.
Joyner was chosen for the coveted plum after leading the CNMI U15 National Team to a historic 2-1 win over Macau in last month’s 2011 East Asian Football Federation U15 Youth Tournament in Taipei, Taiwan.
The Saipan Community School student scored the twin goals for the CNMI, handing the Commonwealth its first international win since joining an EAFF tournament in 2004.
Pangelinan was cited for his victory in the 2010-2011 PBA-Budweiser Bowling of the Year Tournament. The veteran kegler bested 25 other participants in the season-ending competition to gain his second PBA Bowler of the Year title and end his 10-year drought.
Pangelinan automatically advanced to the stepladder finals when he ruled the nine-game elimination roll-off and tallied 1,768 pinfalls for an average of 198.44.
In the stepladder finals, Pangelinan almost lost the championship to Richard Leong as the former bowed to the latter in Game 1, 173-164. Pangelinan had a twice-to-beat advantage in the finals after topping the qualifier. Then in the deciding Game 2, Pangelinan came back big time, routing Leong, 183-145.
Bowling swept the monthly awards for adults, as female kegler Omechelang was also chosen as July’s bests. Omechelang was cited for winning the SBA-Budweiser Queen of the Lanes Tournament last month. She joined the second of the two-day monthly roll-offs and defeated eight other female bowlers for the July tiara. Omechelang totaled 676 pinfalls after four games, showing her best form in Game 1 with 196 pinfalls. She had 154, 142, and 184 in the last three games for an average of 169 pinfalls.
