30th November, Las Vegas: Asians dominated Squad 3 of the Trios event with Chinese Taipei women and Hong Kong men taking over the lead after the second block at the 2017 World Bowling Championships with Indonesian women and Korean men occupying second spots.

Korea's second trio of Choi Bokeum, Hong Haesol and Park Jongwoo got off the second block with 600 in the fourth game to move ahead of overnight Dutch leader, Johnny Spil, Yorick van Deutekom and Jeffrey van de Wakker by 16 pins.

Doubles silver medallist, Eric Tseng led his team-mates, Wu Siu Hong and Michael Mak to a stunning 699 effort in the fifth game to add to their 582 fourth game to take over running. The Korean trio shot 597 to trail Hong Kong by a massive margin of 70 pins.

With a benchmark of 3868 set by Japan's Daisuke Yoshida, Shogo Wada and Shusaku Asato in the earlier Squad 2, Hong Kong needed 709 or more in their sixth and final game to overhaul the leader.

In the women's division, Pan Yu-Fen, Su Shu-Wen and Chou Chia-Chen of Chinese Taipei snatch pole position in Squad 3 in their fifth and sixth games. The Taiwanese trio got off well with 654, then added a sizzling 705 before ending off with 628 to lead with 3721.

Overnight leader of Putty Armein, Sharon Limansantoso and Tannya Roumimper of Indonesia rolled 579, 593 ad 569 to settle for second with 3704 after leading in the first two games of the second block. Squad 2 leader of Rikke Holm Agerbo, Britt Brondsted and Mai Ginge Jensen is third with 3675

Malaysia's first trio of Natasha Roslan, Syaidatul Afifah and Siti Safiyah still occupied fourth with 3661. Germany's Nadine Geissler, Janin Ridguth and Birgit Poeppler, who trailed Indonesia earlier, slipped to fifth overall with 3655.

With the women's benchmark at 3721 set by the Taiwanese, threats could come from Squad 1 in which the stronger Team USA's Shannon O'Keefe, Danielle McEwan and Kelly Kulick could pose.