Heavyweight bowler Antoine Jones delivered another knockout blow yesterday.

The man dubbed by his Commonwealth Games team-mates as "George Foreman'' steamrolled into today's men's singles final where he'll attempt to add to his medal haul.

But while he'll be joined at Kuala Lumpur's Pyramid Bowl by his mixed doubles partner Bobbie Ingham in the ladies singles final, there's no place for Conrad Lister, who teamed up with Jones to snatch Sunday's historic silver, nor for June Pitt.

Both failed to finish in the top 16 during yesterday's qualifying session and at one stage it seemed as though all four of Bermuda's bowlers might miss the cut.

However, Jones produced another stunning fightback in what has become his trademark this week, placing seventh overall in the qualifying field of 30.

Starting slowly with two games under 200 in his first three, the lefty found himself wallowing in 18th position before stringing together games of 234, 249, 266 and 220 to catapult up the standings.

But, although that was sufficient to book his ticket in the final, as was the case in Monday's mixed doubles, Jones again closed out poorly with two games under 200 in the final three. And he'll need to show more consistency if he's to challenge the likes of home town favourite Kenny Ang, who topped the qualifying, Canada's William Rowe, who threw in a perfect 300 game on his way to second place, and Australia's Frank Ryan who will bid to add to his mixed doubles gold and men's doubles bronze.

Jones finished with a 10-game pinfall of 2,162 compared to Ang's 2,305.

Lister, meanwhile, tried to muster a fightback of his own after starting with three sub-200 games. But scores of 153 in game five and 155 in game eight hurt him badly on the way to a total of 1,906, good enough for only 23rd place.

After a shaky spell midway through her session, Ingham's 1,931 pinfall eventually proved sufficent to secure her place in the final as she placed 13th, some way behind Australian star Cara Honeychurch who appears destined to complete a hat-trick of golds following another superb show yesterday.

The bespectacled Aussie, who outrolled all of her male counterparts in Monday's mixed doubles, also had a perfect 300 yesterday and only once dipped below 240 en route to a 2,559 total.

Pitt suffered a poor first game of 124 and couldn't find any rhythm as she struggled to 1,755 -- good for only 21st place.

Today's finals will see each of the qualifiers play the other in round robin with 10 points awarded for a loss, five for a tie and nothing for a loss.

At the Bukit Jalil aquatic centre, Bermuda's 4x100 freestyle relay team powered into the final where Scotland's disqualification then gave them an added lift.

Stephen Troake, Trevor Ferguson, Matthew Hammond and Stephen Fahy earned the swim's squad only final berth at these Games so far when they grabbed the eighth and last qualifying spot in the morning heats with a time of 3:38.89.

In a carnival-like atmosphere before a capacity crowd, the Island quartet then lowered that time to 3:36.76 to place what they thought was eighth and last.

But the Scots' disqualification for an illegal hand-over moved Bermuda up to seventh.

Australia took gold, Canada silver and England bronze.

National coach Gareth Davies singled out lead-off swimmer Troake for special praise. The 17-year-old swam 54.41 in the morning and then 53.77 in the final.

"That means he's knocked some seven tenths of a second off his personal best during these Games alone,'' enthused Davies. "But they all swam well tonight.

It was a super performance.'' Earlier in the day Alicia Mullan placed 12th out of 13 in attempting to qualify for the 800m freestyle final, clocking 9:55.27 which was some three seconds off her PB.

And Hammond was 19th out of the 21 400m freestyle starters, finishing seventh in his heat in 4:22.38, about two and a half seconds off his best.

Canada's Lisa Blackburn, born in Bermuda but denied the opportunity to represent the Island after competing as a Canadian at junior level, reached the final of the 100m breaststroke where she tied for fifth in 1:11.09. Her team-mate Lauren Van Oosten won bronze behind Australians Helen Denman and Samantha Riley.

Elliot Hubbard closed out his second Commonwealth Games yesterday with another impressive showing in the men's 42K time trial.

Following Saturday's gruelling road race when he clung onto the lead pack until the final lap, eventually finishing just 31 seconds behind the gold medallist, Hubbard went into the time trial with few expectations.

"This isn't my event,'' he said. "But I thought having come all this way it would be fun to do.'' In a field of 50, the 25-year-old placed a creditable 18th, clocking 57 minutes, 13 seconds -- an average speed of 44.04 kph.

Gold went to Canada's Eric Wohlberg, the road race bronze medallist, with a time of 53.15 (47.32 kph avge.). Australia's Staurt O'Grady (53.30) took silver and South Africa's David George, denied the bronze by just a bike length on Saturday, made amends with third place in 53:56.

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