MANILA, Dec 8— National kegler Siti Safiyah Amirah Abdul Rahman fought hard till the last frame in an effort to secure her maiden SEA Games women’s masters gold medal but had to settle for silver. The 29-year-old finished second after losing narrowly 213-194 in...
MANILA, Dec 8— National kegler Siti Safiyah Amirah Abdul Rahman fought hard till the last frame in an effort to secure her maiden SEA Games women’s masters gold medal but had to settle for silver.
Going into the finals as a challenger after finishing second in the masters ranking, Siti Safiyah overcame Hui Fen with a two-pin advantage in the sudden death after they were tied 190-190 in the first game to drag the match into the decider, but failed to repeat the feat in the second game and let slip of the gold.
Earlier, Siti Safiyah made it into the stepladder finals after being ranked second with 3,515 pinfalls in the two blocks of masters event, while former Asian champion Hui Fen led the field with 3,527 pinfalls and her compatriot Shahyna Ng was third with 3,496 pinfalls. Both the 2017 KL SEA Games masters champions, Shalin Zulkifli and Muhamad Rafiq Ismail, failed to retain their titles after missing the cut-off into the top-three stepladder finals.
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