9th July, K.Lumpur: Singapore finally landed their first gold medal of the 12th Asian Schools Tenpin Bowling Championship after the Boy's A won the Team of Four event at Mega Lanes on Friday.

Philippines Team A took an early lead with a superb opening game of 930 with Hong Kong in second, 69 pins adrift and Singapore Team B a further 15 pins away in third. Despite managing only 816, Philippines was able to hold the lead after the second game.

Singapore's Team B of Ng Chiew Pang, Christopher Hwang, Javier Tan and Chua Ming Xuan downed a better 877 to narrow the gape to 25 pins as the other Singapore team moved closer to the leading duo.

Another superb 856 gave Singapore B the lead in the first block with 2575 and Singapore A finishing second with 2573, just 2 pins separating them.

Singapore A resumed with the second block with a scintilating 892 to take over the running ahead of Team B as Philippines A remained third.

There was no stopping Muhammad Danial Zheng Yi, Muhammad Jaris Goh, Howard Saw and Gregory Gan as they cruised to a comfortable victory with 5159 to win Singapore's first gold medal of the championship.

Singapore was denied a one-two finish when Philippine snatch the silver medal with 5104. Singapore Team B settled for the bronze medal with 4993.

Muhammad Jaris Goh also picked up a second gold for himself and Singapore after topping the All Events standings with 4017. Erico Hernandez of the Philippine A won the silver with 3955 as Yusuke Yamamoto took the bronze medal with 3879.

Meanwhile, Malaysia Team A finally landed their first gold and Malaysia's second after Hurul Ainul Bte Abd Razak, Nur Shahira Bte Abd Manaf, Nursyamimi Bte Supardi and Radin Nur Najwa totaled 4873 to win the Team event.

Malaysia A, who led in the first block from Singapore Team B, lost the lead to Japan at the start of the second block but quickly bounced back after the fifth game and went on to cruise to a comfortable 108 victory.

Japan's Yuka Ohshima, Shinobu Saito, Mikie Hamamoto and Misaki Mukotani settled for the silver medal with 4765 while Nur Azri Muhamd Azan, Tracy See, Calista Tan and Kwa Ai Teng of Singapore B took the bronze medal with 4663.

Favourite, Korea Team A surprisingly only managed fourth as their counterpart, Korea Team B finished fifth nad has yet to win a gold medal at this year's championship.

Misaki Mukotani gave Japan their second gold medal after topping the All Events table with 3775. A gold medal still eluded Korea as Lee Da Woom of Team B and Kim Ji Yeon of Team A settled for the silver and bronze medals with 3730 and 3716.

Japan edged Singapore Team A by just one more silver medal after they have a medal haul of 2-2-1 to Singapore's 2-1-1 in the overall medal standings with the final two gold medals at stake in the Masters events.

Detailed scores: Boy's Team Block 2 | Girl's Team Block 2 | Photo Album.

Photos courtesy of KLTBA.