Sports - Sports News

Tamuning, Guam- Ray San Nicolas and Arlene Taitague were respectively crowned Budweiser’s King and Prince of the lanes for the month of September.

San Nicolas used a strong finish in the qualifying round to earn the top seed in the King Division. San Nicolas finished with games of 225, 245, and 234 to claim the highest seed with a 6 game series of 1253.

Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site

San Nicolas defeated 2^nd seed Keith Guerrero 242-210 in the final match and Greg Borja 213-175 in semi final match to claim the title. 3^rd place went to 4^th seed Jay Leon Guerrero who defeated Jay Viray 250-220 and Benny Budano 223-152 before falling to Guerrero 237-214.  10^th seed Greg Borja defeated 5^th seed Gavin Baker 208-192 and 6^th seed Ray Manibusan 165-134 before losing to top seed San Nicolas for the 4^th place finish.

Keith Guerrero finished the six games series in second with a 1220 series followed by Joey Miranda III 1210, Jay Leon Guerrero 1203, Gavin Baker 1177, Ray Manibusan 1085, Rudy Palaganas 1053, Jayson Viray 1036, Benny Budano 1008 and Greg Borja’s 1004 rounded off the top ten.

Taitague defeated first time competitor Howard Taylor 189-140 to claim her second title of the year. Taitague squeezed by 4^th seed Maddison Willis in the semi-final round 199-196 while Taylor bumped off top seed Amber San Agustin 177-170.

San Agustin and Taitague shared top honors in the qualifying round held earlier in the day finishing with identical 1255 totals. Leody Ersando was 29 pins adrift with 1226 followed by Maddison Willis 1205, Von Cabral 1194, Taylor 1192, Matt Guerrero and John Mercado 1184, Hye Yeon Chang 1157 and Thelma Arriola rounded off the top ten with a 1152 total.