Many of the over 200 members of United Filipino Bowlers Qatar are on holiday and the regular Friday league is cancelled for the month of December, but this did not hinder the UFBQ Officers to conduct a one-day ‘Bowling Fun Game’ for charitable cause, at the Qatar Bowling Center recently.
This activity is part of the UFBQ objectives, aside from promoting the sport and foster camaraderie among expatriate Filipino bowling enthusiasts, they are very active in extending support and assistance to neglected and distressed Overseas Filipino Workers, reach out to the needy Filipino children through ABS-CBN Bantay Bata 163, and to the victims of natural calamities in the Philippines.
The participants were divided into two divisions, with one group for Class A bowlers and the other group for Class B, C & Ladies. After four games under No-Tap format, the winners in Class A are the veteran player Ric Macatula in first place and won cash prize of QR800. Second place and the cash prize of QR300 went to Mohd Jamal and Chairman Re-elect Oliver Fabros settled for third place and a cash prize of QR150.
Aside from the 4-game series individual event, cash prize of QR130 was awarded to High Game scores. In the first game, Fabros is the early one to make the mark with the score of 287, followed by Edward Mangulabnan in the second game with a score of 303 (including handicap) that beats the perfect game of 300 by Mohd Jamal. Marky del Carmen rolled the score of 300 in the third game and Rey Arroyo bags the fourth game with a score of 284 (including handicap).
In Class B, C & Ladies division, Vice-Chairperson Valerie Canchela won the first place and cash prize of QR800. The other winners are Teng Carama (2nd place), Edwin Cahulugan (3rd place) and Caloy Laxamana (4th place).
The proceed of QR1,050 plus the personal cash donation of QR1,000 from Engineer Oliver Fabros will be donated to the victims of super typhoon Pablo in the Philippines, through the Embassy of the Philippines in Doha.The Peninsula
