Once again, Team Levante had the great ida fo organizing the Ciutat de Valencia tournament for juniors. This time we had 10 players with ages between 4 and 13 years, and coming from Valencia, Castellón (Juan Pendón Jr.) and ALicante (Luis Luna, from San Juan de Alicante Cub).
The format was quite simple: 3 qualification games and the top 3 advanced to the stepladder. The scores were pretty good considering players' age. Juan Pendónn Jr leaded the tournament and Aurora and Luis bowled the first game. Luis was playing his first tournament, and Aurora her first final round.
He was a little bit out of timing and nervous so he couldn't offer his best. She was solid and found herself more relaxed as the game advanced. Her game is powerful. Without hook but with lot of speed (more even that some adults) and we can observe in her the basis of a good swing. Despite it, she was nervous as well.
They tied scratch (112), but her female's handicap (10 pins) made her advance to the final. This last game looked interesting. Juan had won all the previous editions, but Aurora was, for that, motivated. Actually she thought se had no chance against him (older, stronger, and his style is better). so she tried to have fun and give her best. And she did.
Up to the 4th frame they were tied. Both made the same mistakes, but Juan, probably thinking in her handicap, got anxious. She, more relaxed, was able to put trike strikes in a row, a big gap he couldn't cut. Unfortunately, we coulnd't watch the best Juan yesterday.
The score was 150 for Aurora (11 years old) and 114 for Juan. It was a very nice tournament and the younger players had, for the first time for some of them, the chance of tasting the bittersweet feeling of competition. Congratulations to all the participants
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