Young players from Macau dominated last week's 38th Hong Kong International Open Tenpin Bowling Championships at Hong Kong Bowling City in Kowloon Bay.
Brian Lam Lek-long, 16, a Form Four student at Macau Anglican College, who plays for Macau's national youth team, won two masters titles.
The annual tournament, held since 1975, features singles and doubles competitions for under-18s (players born on, or after January 1, 1994) and under-20s (born on or after January 1, 1992). The top 15 bowlers in each category enter a best-of-10-games masters final for both girls and boys; girls had an eight-pin handicap in each game.
Brian won his first international title when he claimed the under-18 masters title last Thursday. He then lifted the under-20s masters title the next day.
Brian's Macau teammate, Zoe Dias Ma, led after four games of the under-20 masters final. Hong Kong youth team player Stanley Lau, 17, a Form Five student at Hong Kong Tang King Po College, was also pushing for victory.
The outcome remained in doubt until the end of the final game. Brian had a low-scoring ninth game, with only 172 points - his worst total of the 10games - but recovered to score 223 in the final game to finish on a total of 2,029. Stanley finished second on 2,017 and Zoe third on 2,014. Another Hong Kong youth player, David Tsang - second before the last game - was fourth, on 1,975.