Robert Talavera won three of the five individual awards, including the High Average plum, in the recently concluded 33rd season of the PBA-Budweiser Saturday Night League held at the Saipan Bowling Center.<\/p>\n
Talavera posted the season\u2019s best average after norming a whopping 201.10 pinfalls a game while playing for the eventual second runner-up team, SBC\/J\u2019s Restaurant. <\/p>\n
For the season, the 36-year-old employee of SBC knocked down 12,669 pins in 63 games. He rolled a game high of 279 and a series high of 715.<\/p>\n
Aside from the High Average category, the Pampanga, Philippines native also topped the High Game Scratch and High Series Scratch categories after knocking down 279 and 715 pinfalls, respectively.<\/p>\n
Jess \u201cKuya JR\u201d Rebusada, of second place team Micronesian Brokers, Inc., finished second in the High Game Scratch with a 277, while Talavera\u2019s teammate Alex Cacdac came in second in the High Series Scratch with a 711.<\/p>\n
The other three individual plums were cornered by Chester Bai, lady bowler Percy Omechalang, and Glenn Garde.<\/p>\n
Bai of Verizon was No. 1 in the High Game with Handicap after posting a score of 299. He was followed by Rebusada who rolled a 284.<\/p>\n
Omechalang, for her part, fired a 735 to rule the High Series with Handicap. SBC\/J\u2019s Restaurant teammates Cacdac and Mark Halstead finished tied in second place with identical scores of 735.<\/p>\n
Garde, for his part, was named Most Improve Bowler after the Mama\u2019s Boy stalwart improved his average from a season ago by a whopping 19.73 pinfalls. He also finished behind Talavera in the High Average race after norming 195.73 for the season.<\/p>\n
In the team special awards, SBC\/J\u2019s Restaurant won half of the four awards at stake. It took home the High Game Scratch after rolling 1,124 and the High Game with Handicap after knocking down 1,172.<\/p>\n
Mama\u2019s Boyz and PBA-Budweiser Saturday Night League champion Fun & Games finished second place in the two categories. Mama\u2019s Boyz came away with 1,078 pinfalls in the High Game Scratch, while Fun & Games wound up with 1,134 in the High Game with Handicap.<\/p>\n
The two second-place teams, however, rebounded nicely in the other two categories, as Mama\u2019s Boyz topped the High Series Scratch category with 3,121 pinfalls followed by SBC\/J\u2019s Restaurant with its 3,089.<\/p>\n
Fun & Games, for its part, ruled the High Series with Handicap with its 3,316 pinfalls followed by Mama\u2019s Boyz, which totaled 3,283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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