8th December, Manila: Topseeds, Billy Muhammad Islam of Indonesia and New Hui Fen had to beat their challengers twice to win the Men's and Women's Masters gold medal at the 2019 Philippines 30th SEA Games Bowling Championships which concluded on Sunday.

Islam, who led the first block yesterday, was forced into a second deciding match after losing to third-seed and Mixed Doubles gold medallist, Ryan Lalisang in the all-Indonesia Men's final first match, 205-216.

Both started well in the decider with a double but Islam encounted a bad split in the third frame which he failed to convert. Lalisang rolled another double in his next two frames and had built up a 25-pin lead.

But the topseed responded superbly with five strikes-in-a-row while his compatriot had nine pin which was converted. Lalisang also responded with a double in the sixth and seventh frames and had leveled the tie up to the eight frame.

Islam went on to end the match with two 9-pin spares and a strike for 232. Lalisang stumbled to an unlucky split in the ninth frame to trail Islam by 7 pins. Lalisang needed to double in the tenth frame to take the match but a stubborn pin 10 in his first throw stood in his way, going down with 224.

Lalisang had earlier edged second-seed, Muhd Jaris Goh of Singapore, 204-191 to set up the all-Indonesian final. Islam's second gold medal and Lalisang's silver allowed Indonesia to emerge as overall champion in the championships with a medal haul of 4-2-1.

The champion topped the second block of the Masters finals with 3616, adding 1748 and five wins an a draw to his yesterday's score of 1753 and six wins. Goh finished second with 3478 on 1706 and just two wins today.

Lalisang clinched the third stepladder spot with 3449 on a total of 1679 and four wins. Malaysia's Ahmad Muaz, who was third overnight, lost out by 65 pins finishing fourth with 3384 on a lower 1543 second block score and four wins and a draw.

Meanwhile over in the women's division, topseed New Hui Fen also had to work doubly hard for her gold medal. Second-seed and challenger, Siti Safiyah Amirah of Malaysia had narrowly won the first match, 29-27 in the second nine and ten frames roll-off to break the tie after both finished with 190. The first tie-breaker also ended with 40 pins each.

New started on a better footing with a double in the second and third frames to take a 10 pin lead. The Singaporean's lead was extended to 21 pins after the Malaysian missed a single-pin spare in her fourth frame.

Siti Safiyah had a chance to reduce the deficit after New failed to convert her 6-pin spare in the seventh frame but the Malaysian stumbled to a costly 7-pin split which she could not convert into a spare.

She did recovered with three strikes-in-a-row thereafter and finished off with an 8-pin spare for 194. The Singaporean struck in the ninth and tenth frame and needed another in the 11th frame to seal the match.