LADIES' SEMIFINALS AND FINAL:

	Sd	Name	1	2	3		1	2	3	Name	Sd
	3	Fiona Banks England	211	211		vs	181	183		Ann L. Haugen Norway	7
	Sd	Name	1	2	3		1	2	3	Name	Sd
	1	Lynda Barnes USA	278	227	-	vs	187	225	-	Wendy Chai Malaysia	4

Match 1: Spares more than strikes were the feature of the opening game, although both managed a double which brought the scores up. Fiona looks the more confident player, but things could change as they both settle into this early morning encounter.
Consistent bowling from both but advantage Fiona and a comfortable two-nil win to book her place in the final. A strange ninth frame count for the English girl, four pins with the first ball, four with the second.
It is three years since an English woman contested the World Cup final. Gemma Burden won the title in 1995 in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Nikki (Harvey) Woods was runner-up to Shannon Pluhowsky of the United States in Riga, Latvia in 2002.

Match 2: Lynda certainly came out with all guns blazing, hitting 278 in the opening game of this second semifinal, the highest game so far from the quarterfinals. Currently, Lynda shares the ladies' high game with Helen Johnsson of Sweden, both scoring 299 and both leaving the 10-pin on the final shot. Luckily, it is games won, not total pinfall, so Wendy has to get her act together to win the next two games.
Wendy must be thinking to herself - for the sake of two pins. The slim Malaysian held off Lynda's charge in the second and final game but came up short of a win by three pins  so has to settle for a bronze medal position.

LADIES FINAL:
Best of three games
 

	Sd	Name	1	2	3		1	2	3	Name	Sd
	1	Lynda Barnes USA	230	219	-	vs	197	188	-	Fiona Banks England	3

Well, Fiona did pretty well to face up against the onslaught of Lynda. The American opened up both games with four in a row and that's enough to make any opponent run away and hide. Nevertheless Fiona fought gamely on but couldn't put the strikes together that she desperately needed whilst Lynda somehow felled lazy 10-pins she perhaps did not deserve.

The only spares that Lynda missed were splits, suffering an 8-10 in the seventh frame of the first game, then a 2-10 in the fifth of the second and a 4-7-10 in the ninth.

So, for the fourth consecutive year, a north American takes the Bowling World Cup trophy and the third time it has gone to the United States in that period. This is the eighth United States ladies' victory in the World Cup's history.

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