Philippine Bowling Congress

The Philippine Bowling Congress or PBC was the governing body for the sport of tenpin bowling in the Philippines until it was replaced by the Philippine Bowling Federation "PBF" as the new appointed member of the international bowling federation World Bowling, Asian Bowling Federation ^[1] and the Philippine Olympic Committee.

The original Philippine Bowling Congress (PBC) Inc. 1975 registration has been revoked by the Securities Exchanged Commission (SEC) when it allowed its 25-year corporate term to expire without complying with the requirements provided by law for the extension of its corporate term of existence. In some countries, a company can exist for as long as it can engage in business. But in the Philippines, the term is as stated in company's articles of incorporation. A new organization bearing the same name as Philippine Bowling Congress (PBCI) Inc. was incorporated and registered with SEC in January 2009.

The PBCI organizes and sanctions only handicap tournaments for the past seven years such as the SM Cup and the National Bowling Tour "NBT" as well as other local bowling association member tournaments that run throughout the year. NBT has organized a very successful handicap tournament with member bowling associations from all over the Philippines - Metro City, Cavite, Batangas, Ilolilo, Cebu, Bacolod, Pangasinan and Davao. The handicap system of play however, has displaced high average bowlers such as the national team members who can only score a maximum 300 perfect game by rolling 12 consecutive strikes against a handicap bowler who may score a perfect game score and in some case over a perfect game score without actually bowling a perfect game (A perfect game is achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a single game: one strike in each of the first nine frames, and three more in the tenth frame. Because a strike counts as ten pins plus any pinfall in the next two balls, 30 points are possible in a given frame).

Since its concentration on handicap tournaments, PBCI has failed to present any long term training program for its youth or national team development, these were instead left to member associations. With no exposure to World Tenpin Bowling Association "WTBA" standard format in any national tournament, success in international tournaments started to diminish.^[2] Lane condition has also not been to international standards as PBCI was unable to check these on their sanctioned tournaments.

In early 2016, after the resignation of the President and Vice President of PBCI, the Philippine Olympic Committee established a caretaker body that will temporarily handle the affairs of Philippine bowling. The POC appointed secretary general Steve Hontiveros as the president of the body.^[3] Mr. Hontiveros was a past president of the international governing body of bowling Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs now World Bowling from 2003-2007.

On March 2016, the POC appointed Paeng Nepomuceno as the head coach of the Philippine national bowling team which will now compete under PBF. PBF was incorporated to save the national bowling team and its grassroots program. PBF is made up of pillars of Philippine bowling, Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III himself a world cupper and champion bowler, former World Bowling president and also past PBC president Stephen Hontiveros, three world champions - 2 International Hall of Famer Paeng Nepomuceno and Bong Coo with Biboy Rivera, Asian champion Rene Reyes, original PBC incorporator Cas King, Phil. Senior Bowling president Steve Robles, and premier bowling benefactor Alex Lim. in PBF, athletes, coaches, proprietors, seniors and the youth are well represented.

With Paeng, the only Asian Gold level coach of USBC as head coach, supported by World Champion Biboy Rivera, SEAG Masters Champion Jojo Canare, longtime coach Johnson Cheng and Rey Reyes, PBF boast of a team of 100% Filipino coaches who now conducts regular seminars and quality training.^[4]

Since PBF's inception, the 2016 RP Bowling Pool was formed composed of 20 bowlers, mixed with veterans and youth bowlers. Namely:

(Mens) Enzo Hernandez, Kenneth Chua, Raoul Miranda, Jason Tubid, Kevin Cu, Nicco Olaivar, Jay-Ar Tan, Ivan Malig, Merwin Tan, JP Macatula, and Marky Del Carmen.

(Women's) Liza Del Rosario, Liza Clutario, Krizziah Tabora, Lara Posadas, Alexis Sy, Mades Arles, Dyan Coronacion, Bea Hernandez, and Rica Macatula.

For the first time in a long time, the current national pool will compete in Asian Bowling Federation member tournaments such as the Hong Kong Open and the Indonesian Open as preparation for the Asian Championships in Hong Kong later this year.

In May, 2016, PBF coaches Paeng, Biboy Rivera and Jojo Canare were invited to the second World Bowling Coach Conference held at the International Training & Research Center in Arlington, Texas where bowling coaches from around the world participated to synchronize and advance the sport worldwide.

Under the new set-up, PBCI may continue with NBT with its handicap tournaments, while PBF will be in charge of governance, national pool and sports development and tournaments using the World Tenpin Bowling format and to support WTBA's quest for inclusion in the Olympic Games along with the other member federations, as well as the proprietors and bowling manufacturers worldwide. Filipino bowlers may be a member of both organizations, since it has different focus and mindset about the sport.

Governance

Ernesto A. Lopa established the Philippine Bowling Federation in 1968 before co-founding the PBC in 1969, before it was registered with the SEC, He was also Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs Asian Zone Vice President from 1973-1976. He was also elected to the FIQ World Presidium in London England from 1975-1977.^[5]

The Philippine Bowling Congress, Inc. was registered with the Securities Exchange Commission on September 24, 1975 S.E.C. Reg. No. 63697. Its first official president was Nereo C. Andolong who was also the first president of the Philippine Olympic Committee from 1977-1980.

• In 1985, PBC amended the composition of the Board of DIrectors;
• Col. Irwin Ver did not complete his term and was succeeded by his Vice President Stephen C. Hontiveros in 1986.
• In 1988 amended Art. III of the Articles of Incorporation;
• In 1993 amended the term of the president to four years, to synchronize it with the term of the POC election, all other officers were for two years and was scheduled after the 1994 term of three years. The position of Chairman was also added, the Chairmen who served in 1994 were Senator Franklin Drillon (then Justice Secretary) and former PSC Commissioner Philip Ella Juico (PBL Commissioner);
• In October 1997, the Amendment Committee headed by Arch. Edgar Reformado moved to change the manner of election in the By-Laws (to trustee election) among others and extension of corporate term in the Articles of Incorporation. However, PBC allowed its corporate term to expire without complying with the requirements provided by law for the extension of its corporate term of existence during the presidency of Arch. Ric Poblete.
• Stephen C. Hontiveros was elected President of Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs, the governing body of Tenpin Bowling, 2003-2007.

On January 7, 2009, Philippine Bowling Congress (PBCI) Inc. was registered with SEC, Company Reg. No CN200900037. It used a pro-forma Non-Stock form where the term of office for all officers were for one year. PBCI held an election under these By-Laws on March 1, 2009 where Mariano "Nitoy" Tamayo was elected president. Per Corporation Code TITLE V Section 46. Adoption of by-laws. - In all cases, by-laws shall be effective only upon the issuance by the Securities and Exchange Commission of a certification that the by-laws are not inconsistent with this Code.

Thus, Mariano Tamayo was a hold-over president in 2010 . The new set of By-Laws was approved by SEC on March 17, 2009, the term of office for all officers are four years. Per Corporation Code TITLE V Section 48 - The amended or new by-laws shall only be effective upon the issuance by the Securities and Exchange Commission of a certification that the same are not inconsistent with this Code.

Ernesto Lopa died in office on August 16, 2013 while at the World Women's Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was succeeded by his Executive Vice President Dr. Ronaldo V. Mendoza. During Mr. Lopa's term, he nominated Mariano Tamayo as Chairman.

Engr. Mario G. Lualhati was elected on March 12, 2015 but served only for one year and resigned along with his Executive Vice President during the General Assembly in January 2016. PBCI has not held an election since. Per PBCI by-laws the Secretary will be the president in a concurrent position, However, per Corporation Code Title III Sec. 25. Corporate officers, … - .. Any two (2) or more positions may be held concurrently by the same person, except that no one shall act as president and secretary or as president and treasurer at the same time.

Athletes and their Achievements

Philippine bowling while under the original PBC has produced multi-world champions Paeng Nepomuceno, Lita dela Rosa and Bong Coo, world champions Oliver Ongtawco, Cj Suarrez, Biboy Rivera, Team Trios Gold medalists Liza Del Rosario, Liza Clutario and Cecilia Yap and Olympic Gold Medalist Arianne Cerdeña.

Paeng Nepomuceno and Bong Coo were inducted to the International Bowling Hall of Fame in 1993. Lita Dela Rosa was posthumously inducted in 2000.

1988 Summer Olympic Games

Bowling at the 1988 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the first, and so far only time. In all, a total of 20 nations competed in the exhibition, which was held on September 18 at the Seoul's Royal Bowling Center. Nonetheless, Arianne Cerdeña won for the Philippines its first gold medal in the Olympic Games.^[6]

Results

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Kwon Jong Yul  South Korea	Jack Wong Loke Chin  Singapore	Tapani Peltola  Finland
Women's tournament	Arianne Cerdeña  Philippines	Atsuko Asai  Japan	Annikki Maattola  Finland

WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championship

The World Tenpin Bowling Championships is a global event that invites all countries that are members of the World Bowling to participate. This tournament is held every 4th year until 2006. It is the most prestigious tournament in the bowling world.

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1979 Manila SINGLES	Ollie Ongtawco	Rogelio Felice	Michio Matsubara
1987 Helsinki SINGLES	Patrick Rolland	Paeng Nepomuceno	Rick Steelsmith
1991 Singapore DOUBLES	USA Pat Healey Steve Kloempken	Japan Kengo Tagata HiroshiYamamoto	Philippines Paeng Nepomuceno Paulo Valdez
1983 Caracas TRIOS	Sweden Kenneth Andersson Tony Rosenquist Mats Karlsson	Philippines Paeng Nepomuceno Rauel Reformado Oliver Ongtawco	USA Toni Cariello Darold Meisel Ruch Wonders
1991 Singapore 5 MAN TEAM	Chinese Taipei Ying-Chieh Ma Chien-Yi Tang Cheng-Ming Yang Te-Lin Lai Chao-Hsiung Lin Peng-Sheng Cheng	Philippines Paeng Nepomuceno Rudy Salazar Paulo Valdez Rene Reyes Jing Sablan Efren Guerrero	Netherlands Erik Kok Erwin Groen Fedde de Boer Marcel vd Bosch Andre van Gurp Bart Jan Boogaart
2006 Busan MASTERS	Biboy Rivera	Achim Grabowski	Jason Belmonte

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1979 Manila SINGLES	Lita de la Rosa	Yvonne Nilsson	Orawan Nithinakakorn
1979 Manila DOUBLES	Philippines Lita De La Rosa Bong Coo	Finland Eija Krogerus Tuula Kaartinen	Japan Kyogo Yamaguchi Harumi Morisaki
1979 Manila TRIOS	USA Annese Kelly Cindy Schuble Jackie Stormo	Philippines Bong Coo Nellie Castillo Lita de la Rosa	Sweden Ingrid Sellgren Annette Hägre Yvonne Nilsson
1983 Caracas TRIOS	West Germany Hani Hoplitchek Christen Huesler Gisela Lins	USA Dixie Kirk Yvonne Dowland Janine DitchKirk  Philippines Bong Coo Arianne Cerdeña Lita de la Rosa	Not Awarded
2003 Kuala Lumpur TRIOS	Philippines Liza del Rosario Liza Clutario Cecilia Yap	England Zara Glover Kirsten Penny Lisa John	USA Lucy Sandelin Diandra Hyman Emma Rutten
1979 Manila ALL EVENTS	Bong Coo	Yvonne Nilsson	Lita de la Rosa
1983 Caracas ALL EVENTS	Bong Coo	Lena Sulkanen	Aasa Larsson
2003 Kuala Lumpur ALL EVENTS	Zara Glover	Diandra Hyman	Liza Clutario
1979 Manila MASTERS	Lita de la Rosa	Daniela Gruber	Yvonne Nilsson

Women's medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	23	23	21	67
2	South Korea	11	6	8	25
3	Sweden	6	12	8	26
4	Philippines	6	3	2	11
5	Australia	4	6	8	18

Men's medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	28	22	20	70
2	Sweden	19	12	11	42
3	Finland	11	16	14	41
4	South Korea	8	7	15	30
5	England	5	2	4	11
6	Australia	5	1	6	12
7	Chinese Taipei	4	1	2	7
8	Mexico	3	7	7	17
9	Canada	3	3	2	8
10	Netherlands	3	2	5	10
11	Germany	2	5	8	15
12	Philippines	2	3	1	6
13	Belgium	2	3	0	5
14	Singapore	2	2	0	4

World Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993 The Hague SINGLES	Tomas Leandersson (SWE)	Yvan Augustin (FRA)	Paeng Nepomuceno (PHI)
1997 Lahti SINGLES	Gery Verbruggen (BEL)	Vernon Peterson (USA)	Paeng Nepomuceno (PHI)
1989 Karlsruhe SINGLES	Jane Amlinger (CAN)	Arianne Cerdeña (PHI)	Patty Ann (USA)
1985 London MIXED DOUBLES	Belgium (BEL) Nora Haveneers Dominique De Nolf	West Germany (FRG) Gisela Lins Utz Dehler	Philippines (PHI) Bong Coo Rene Reyes
1989 Karlsruhe MIXED DOUBLES	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Ma Ying-Chieh Huang Yuen-Yue	Philippines (PHI) Arianne Cerdeña Jorge Fernández	West Germany (FRG) Michaela Viol Wolfgang Strupf

World Cup

Year	Location	Men[9]	Women[10]
1976	Tehran, Iran	Paeng Nepomuceno	Lucy Giovinco
1978	Bogotá, Colombia	Samran Banyen	Lita de la Rosa
1979	Bangkok, Thailand	Philippe Dubois	Bong Coo
1980	Jakarta, Indonesia	Paeng Nepomuceno	Jean Gordon
1992	Le Mans, France	Paeng Nepomuceno	Martina Beckel
1996	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Paeng Nepomuceno	Cara Honeychurch
2003	Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Christian Jan Suarez	Kerrie Ryan-Ciach

World Youth Bowling Championships

The World Youth Bowling Championships was spearheaded by Philippine Junior Bowlers President Peping Cojuangco (now POC President) in 1991. The Cojuanco Cup is awarded each year to the winningest country. It is on its 13th edition held in Nebraska, United States in August 2016.

Boys

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1st Manila, Philippines 1991 ALL EVENTS	Lasse Lintila (FIN)	Paulo Valdez (PHI)	Ahmed Shaheen (QAT)
2nd Caracas, Venezuela - 1992 SINGLES	Angelo Constantino (PHI)	Lee Dong-Hee (KOR)	Seo Kook (KOR)
DOUBLES	Philippines Noberito Constantino Angelo Constantino	Qatar Khalid Al-Sada Soud Al-Hajri	Korea Lee Dong-Hee Seo Kook
ALL EVENTS	Soud Al-Hajri (QAT)	Angelo Constantino (PHI)	Seo Kook (KOR)
MASTERS	Anthony Chapman (USA)	Seo Kook (KOR)	Angelo Constantino (PHI)
5th Inchon City, Korea - 1998 SINGLES	Shawn Evans (USA)	Tamman Sharif (KSA)	R.J. Bautista (PHI)

Asian Games

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1986 Seoul SINGLES	Masami Hirai	Renato Reyes	Chee Meng Wang
1998 Bangkok SINGLES	Wu Fulung	Kritchawat Jampakao	Virgilio Sablan
2010 Guangzhou SINGLES	Engelberto Rivera	Mohammed al-Rgeebah	Frederick Ong
1986 Seoul DOUBLES	Japan Kengo Tagata Hiroshi Ishihara	Philippines Delfin Garcia Jorge Fernandez	Thailand Montri Setvipisinee Surachai Kasemsiriroj
2002 Busan	Philippines Paeng Nepomuceno Rowen Jay Bautista	Japan Isao Yamamoto Seiji Watanabe	South Korea Kim Myoung-Jo Jo Nam-Yi
1978 Bangkok TRIOS	Thailand Samran Banyen Kasem Minalai Montree Vipisini	Japan Masami Hirai Toshihiro Takahashi Kiyoshi Taneda	Philippines Vicente Tito Sotto Emmanuel "Sonny" Sugatan Jose Peping Santos
2002 Busan TRIOS	Singapore Goh Heng Soon Lee Yu Wen Ong Remy	Philippines Christian Jan Suarez Chester King Leonardo Rey	Not awarded
		UAE Mohamed Al Qubaisi Shaker Al Hassan Hulaiman Al Hamli
1994 Hiroshima 5 MAN TEAM	South Korea Min Cheol-ki Seo Kook Lee Yun-jae Byun Ho-jin Kim Sung-joo Lee Jae-ho	Philippines Jorge Fernandez Paeng Nepomuceno Renato Reyes Paulo Valdez Angelo Nathaniel Constantino	Japan Kengo Tagata Hiroshi Yamamoto Nobuyuki Takahama Kosei Wada Kosaku Tatemoto

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1978 Bangkok SINGLES	Bong Coo	Rosario de Leon	Catherin Che
2002 Busan SINGLES	Kim Soo-Kyung	Miyuki Kubotani	Liza Clutario
1978 Bangkok DOUBLES	Thailand	Japan	Philippines
1986 Seoul DOUBLES	Japan	Japan	Philippines Arianne Cerdeña Bong Coo
1978 Bangkok TRIOS	Thailand	Philippines Bong Coo Lolita Reformado Lita de la Rosa	Hong Kong
1978 Bangkok 5 MAN TEAM	Philippines Rosario de Leon Lolita Reformado Lita de la Rosa Nellie Castillo Bong Coo	Thailand	South Korea
1986 Seoul 5 MAN TEAM	Philippines Catalina Solis, Cecilia Gaffud, Rebecca Watanabe Arianne Cerdeña Bong Coo	Japan	South Korea
2002 Busan 5 MAN TEAM	South Korea	Philippines	Chinese Taipei
1986 Seoul ALL EVENTS	Bong Coo	Mayumi Hayashi	Poppy Marijke Tambis
1978 Bangkok MASTERS MATCH PLAY	Bong Coo	Rosario de Leon	Anantita Hongsophon
1986 Seoul MASTERS	Lee Ji-Yeon	Kuk Hung Che	Catalina Solis
1994 Hiroshima MASTERS	Lee Ji-Yeon	Kim Sook-Young	Irene Garcia Benitez

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	32	20	22	74
2	Japan (JPN)	16	15	8	39
3	Malaysia (MAS)	10	11	7	28
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	9	6	7	22
5	Philippines (PHI)	7	8	8	23
	Singapore (SIN)	7	8	8	23

SouthEast Asian Games

Upon the return of past PBC President Ernesto "Toti" Lopa, the Men's team medalled in all five events at the 26th Southeast Asian Games.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Frederick Ong  Philippines	Jeremy Posadas  Philippines	Adrian Ang Hsien Loong  Malaysia
Men's doubles	Malaysia (MAS) Adrian Ang Hsien Loong Liew Kien Liang	Philippines (PHI) Engelberto Rivera Frederick Ong	Malaysia (MAS) Muhamad Syafiq Ridhwan Zulmazran Zulkifli
Men's trios	Malaysia (MAS) Adrian Ang Hsien Loong Liew Kien Liang Zulmazran Zulkifli	Malaysia (MAS) Aaron Kong Eng Chuan Muhamad Syafiq Ridhwan Muhammad Nur Aiman	Philippines (PHI) Engelberto Rivera Frederick Ong Raoul Miranda
Men's team of five	Malaysia (MAS) Adrian Ang Hsien Loong Liew Kien Liang Zulmazran Zulkifli Aaron Kong Eng Chuan Muhamad Syafiq Ridhwan Muhammad Nur Aiman	Philippines (PHI) Engelberto Rivera Frederick Ong Raoul Miranda Jeremy Posadas Giancarlo Mansilungan Rogelio Enriquez Jr.	Indonesia (INA) Ryan Leonard Lalisang Oscar Billy Muhammad Islam Hardy Rachmadian Yeri Ramadona
Men's masters	Adrian Ang Hsien Loong  Malaysia	Frederick Ong  Philippines	Muhamad Syafiq Ridhwan  Malaysia

Sources includes the European Bowling Federation, World Bowling, Asian Bowling Federation

References

External links

• Men's Singles Medalists
• Men's Doubles Medalists
• Men's Trios Medalists
• Men's Team of 5 Medalists
• Women's Singles Medalists
• Women's Doubles Medalists
• Women's Trios Medalists
• Women's All Events Medalists
• Women's Masters Medalists

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