LUNDEN STILL LEADS THE WAY
After the completion of the second eight-game block, the long oil pattern session with conditioner applied to 43 feet, Finland's Reija Lunden has managed to hold pole position. However, the I.T. designer from Helsinki, who had a healthy 95-pin buffer over second-placed Helen Johnsson of Sweden on the short oil pattern, now has only 48 pins in credit. Three games under 200 today from Lunden saw her eight-game total fall to 1652, much lower than yesterday's 1936 on short oil.

Ladies that did well today on the longer pattern were led by Colombia's Sara Vargas from Bogota who hit 1841 to advance from 20th place overnight to a current tenth, still two places adrift of the eighth place cut after tomorrow's final qualifying squad. That score was plenty to give the 28-year-old graphic designer the $1,000 bonus for the squad high game.

Vargas is currently an employee of Kegel here at the Kegel Training Center, working in the graphic design office for the past month. "I really like it here in Lake Wales," she said. "I get plenty of practice with graphic design techniques and also have a chance to bowl." So far, she has not been on any of the comprehensive coaching courses held by Kegel, nor has she practiced on the upcoming mixed pattern of short oil on one lane and long on the other.

Vargas' international pedigree has taken her to the victory podium in many south American events, winning medals in the South American and Colombian National Championships.

A brace of 279s were the high scores in this morning's session, one from Vargas and the other by Virginia Bello of the Dominican Republic.

For those interested in statistics, the overall ladies' average over the eight games on short oil was 209.8; on today's long oil pattern 206.98; giving an average of 208.37 over the entire 16 games.

(Pic shows Sara Vargas presented with her $1,000 in cash by Kim Thorsgaard Jensen of Denmark, the WRM Tournament Director)

LADIES SQUAD 2 - LONG OIL
Second 8 of 24 games