27th August, Petaling Jaya: Third-seed, Mike Ong Jing Loong bagged Singapore sixth gold of the 22nd Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships with victory in the Boy's Masters stepladder final match while Paek Ye Dam gave Korea their first gold medal in the Girl's division.

Ong narrowly defeated top-seed, Fumine Suda, 248-246 in the first of two-matches total pinfall Masters stepladder title match by just two pins. In the second match, the Japanese failed to make his three-pin spare in his second frame and felled a further 22 pins away as the Singaporean rolled three consecutive strikes from the second frame.

Suda recovered with three strikes-in-a-row after sparing his third frame to narrow the gap. Ong could not add more strikes but made sure he picked up all his spares.

The Japanese struck in the ninth frame and needed another double in the tenth frame to have any chance to snatching victory but managed to only spare his final frame to end with 203. Ong marked all his remaining frames to finish with 216 for a 464-449 victory.

In the girl's division, top-seed and Singles silver medalist, Paek Ye Dam easily defeated team-mate, 454-373 in the all-Korean final to win their first gold medal of the championships. Lee, who added Korea's seventh silver medal, had earlier ousted second-seed, Shirlene Wong Xue Lin of Singapore, 201-162 to face her compatriot in the final.

Paek, who was fifth in the first block, finished the second block in the lead with 3490 from six wins and earning top-seed for the stepladder finals. Wong took second position with 3474 from just three wins while Lee Da Eun, who topped the first block, squeezed into the stepladder finals win third with 3473 from five wins.

Singapore emerged as girls division champion with a medal haul of 4-1-1. Korea finished second with 1-4-1 and Malaysia third with just two bronze medals. Kuwait took the boys division title with a medal haul of 2-1-0 from the Team of 4, the All-Events and a silver in the Doubles.

Singapore took top honours and emerged as overall champion with their best-ever Asian Youth outing with a medal haul of 6-1-1. Kuwait finished second and Korea took third spot.