With 13 weeks gone from a total of 18 in the current Middlesea League at the Eden SuperBowl, long-standing top-flight team Ramis are leading the table, a mere two points ahead of nearest chasers Globalair.
While the league title could very easily go to either of these high-flying outfits, it has already been a memorable season for Ramis who, in recent weeks, got into the habit of breaking both individual and team scoring records.
Having toppled previous leaders, Fina, from the top spot back in week eight, Ramis have been engaged in a constant tussle for the lead with Globalair, the two teams often tied on points, but as the second round of the season commenced, Ramis have hardly been able to do anything wrong, with their challengers making every effort to keep the pace.
Some incredible scores were registered and new individual and team records set.
The thrills all started in week 11, which saw Ramis regular, and relative ‘baby’ of the outfit, Rankin Camilleri, shoot to the top of the individual score records for the season, with an outstanding 769 scratch series, easily beating the previous high individual series of 707, held by Neil Sullivan (Globalair).
Camilleri’s three-set of 235-246-288 helped Ramis to a 6-2 victory over The Clan in that league en-counter, wherein they actually managed to lose the opening game with an enormous 893 game, against an even better 908 from their opponents.
In the next fixture against Gladiators, Ramis had an easy time in taking all eight points, and while doing so set an all-time record for a series played by a four-man team.
Their game scores of 923-961-870 made for a stunning 2,754 total, the highest ever played in by a Maltese team anywhere in the world.
Ramis’s key performers in that hammering were Kenneth Arpa, on 749 pins, and that man Camilleri, again, with a 737 total.
Week 13 saw no fewer than two new records fall to the Ramis stars, starting with not only the highest individual series of the season, but a new national record, which was achieved by stalwart Paul Baldacchino, who rolled an astronomical 772 set (278-257-236).
Baldacchino’s effort wasn’t the end of it. An amazing team effort, also including a fine 756 tally from Arpa, pushed Ramis’s three-game series up to a scratch 2,829 (2,850 inc handicap) meaning they actually smashed their very own national record, set only one week earlier.
The title is still all to play for as the season heads into what is sure to be thrilling and high-scoring further stage with, who knows, maybe even more record-breaking performances from Ramis, or any of the other glory-chasing teams.