Special Correspondent
BANGALORE: Pratima Hegde played like a champion with two high scoring games, including a tournament high of 277, while Vijay Punjabi, also from Karnataka played like one possessed to shoot into the lead in the women’s and men’s sections respectively in the Allsec Technologies sponsored 19th National tenpin bowling championship at the Star City Bowling Centre here on Saturday.
The penultimate day seemed to bring out the best in both Vijay Punjabi and Pratima.
Top six in both sections will figure in the final round of six games on Sunday.
The results:
Men: (Top six): 1. Vijay Punjabi (Kar) 7184 (avg: 199.555), 2. Girish Gaba (Kar) 7036 (avg: 195.444), 3. Srinath Poobbathi (Kar) 6918 (avg: 192.166), 4. Sashi Kumar (Kar) 6863 (avg: 190.638), 5, Sh. Abdul Hameed (Del) 6826 (avg: 189.611), 6. Ajay Singh (Kar) 6805 (avg: 189.027).
Women: Top six (after 24 games): 1. Pratima Hegde (Kar) 4422 (184.25), 2. Sabeena Saleem (TN) 4416 (184.00), 3. Sumathi Nalabanthu (AP) 4387 (182.791), 4. Sheela Kumari (Kar) 4172 (173.833), 5. Anuradha Sarda (Del) 3987 (166.125), 6. Namrata (Kar) 3924 (163.50).
