World Air TTSC Bowling Champions

The World Air regained the Travel Trade Bowling Championship after five years at the seventh Travel Trade Sports Club Bowling Championships 2008, sponsored by ABC Credit Card Co. & ABC Travels which concluded at the Strikes Cosmic Bowling Centre, Excel World, Colombo 10, This was the very first event in the TTSC 2008 sports calendar.

The tournament was competed by 36 teams was conducted in two stages. After the first round matches on Friday, the 16 top teams qualified for the final round on Saturday. World Air scored 428 points to qualify to the top 16 and went on to score 474 points and entered the quarter finals.

Hilltop Global and Walkers Tours took the second and places respectively. The defending champions, SriLankan Airlines was placed sixth.

Results (1). World Air 484 Points (Lolitha Amarabandu 167, Danuja Perera 152 and Gayan Perera 165)

(2). Hilltop Global 480 points (Irfan Iqbal 187, Asiri Silva 138 and Imran Sali 155) (3). Walkers Tours 423 points (Jegan Thangarajah 140, Achalanga Ayagama 136 and Cammy Gunasekera 147).

The two individual top scorers in the final round were from SriLankan Airlines, Dilan Jayakody (men) and Kanchana Mallawadu (women).

The sports loving, Managing Director of ABC Credit Card Co., Orville Perera, who was the Chief Guest and Senior Vice President TTSC, Gerard Victoria gave away the Awards.