2008 Hermosillo, Mexico

Jasmine Yeong-Nathan remains on top of the leader board after all of the qualifying games in the 44th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup at the Bol 300 centre in Hermosillo, Mexico. She has a score or 5477, a 228.2 average.

But the key point today was to qualify for the top 24 and Katrien Goossens from Belgium, who thought she was out at one point, made it with 22 pins to spare. The unlucky player in 25th spot was Cookie Lee of Hong Kong, despite her 300 game earlier in the week.

All the top 24 women averaged over 200 and the overall average for all 63 women is 192.5.

In second place is our defending champion from Australia, Ann Maree Putney, on 5370, with Helen Johnsson of Sweden in 3rd. Helen had the high six game block of the day with 1415, but even a score like that only saw her advance one place. She said afterwards: “I bowled better than yesterday, and the main differences are that I did not leave so many splits and I made fewer errors.

“I am really looking forward to the rest of the tournament and I am determined to improve on my results in previous World Cups. I have played – I’ve come 5th twice and 6th twice!”

The tournament now moves to the quarter final stage, and the women will bowl again tomorrow morning (Thursday). They will play eight games before the cut to the top eight and the top eight will then bowl a further eight game round robin with bonus pins for winning.

The men will bowl their final block of six qualifying games later today.