Marshall Kent remains unchallenged to win qualifying in Russian Open

    09/15/12

    2012 European Bowling Tour #14

    Team USA member leads 36 players into Saturday's finals; the top eight earn one bye: cut for 32nd place is 1263 (210.50 average); low to advance in the Desperado Squad is 215

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    Marshall Kent (pictured left) of the United States, who averaged 246.33 in the first squad, remained unchallenged in the other eleven squads to win the qualifying of the Russian Open and to lead a group of 36 players into Saturday's finals at Cosmik Belay Dacha in Moscow.

    The Team USA member fired games of 264, 222, 248, 223, 243 and 278 to win the qualifying with 1478 total. Kent outaveraged his nearest competitor by more than ten pins.

    Andrey Suslov of Russia finished the penultimate Squad 11 on Friday evening with games of 280 and 217 to jump into second place with 1417 and an average of 236.17. Nikita Koshelev, Russia, slipped to third place with 1375 total (229.17).

    Alexander Panchenko of Kazakhstan led the 12th and last squad to finish in fourth place with 1373 including high games of 269 and 253. Oleksandr Kalika of Ukraine and Kristina Kryl of Russia were next to Suslov in Squad 11 to leap into fifth and seventh place with 1359 and 1338, respectively. Kryl was the best of 42 women - all from Russia - in the 170-player field from 10 countries and one of four, who survived the first cut.

    2011BWCMykhayloKalika.jpgAlexander Minenko, who led Squad 2 with 1352, fell to sixth place. Cameron Weier, United States beat out Anton Sharov, Russia, for eighth place by the higher game, 237-215, after a 1335-1335 tie.

    Defending champion Mykhaylo Kalika (right) of Ukraine led the morning Squad 9 on Friday with 1279 to land in 26th place. Tanner Spacey, United States, led Squad 10 with 1304, six pins less than his highest attempt in Squad 1 (1310; 15th place). Pavel Sobolev of Belarus took the 32nd and last place to advance with 1263 and an average of 210.50.

    Joining the top 32 in Saturday's finals were the top four players in the single-game Desperado Squad on early Saturday morning. All four, two men and two women, came from Russia, Victor Krasavkin fired a 241 game to lead the Desperado Squad and was followed by Nikita Kuznetsov with 216, Daria Minenko and Elena Suslikova used their eight pins handicap to take the two last spots with 215.

    2012EBT14RussianOpenLogo_small.jpg The Russian Open is the fourth of seven EBT "Satellite" tournaments this season and runs from Sept. 11-15 at 30-lane Cosmik Belay Dacha in Moscow, Russia. The tournament offers total prize fund of 25.000 Euro with 5.500 Euro going to the winner, 3.800 to the runner-up and 2.500 and 2.000 Euro for the third and fourth place finishers respectively.

    Qualifying (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) ran from Tuesday, Sept. 11 through Friday, Sept. 14 and concluded with the Desperado Squad. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire event, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 36 players advanced to the finals on Saturday, Sept. 15 including the top 32 players from the qualifying standings and the top 4 from the Desperado Squad. The top 8 qualifiers earned one bye and will be seeded first through eighth in Round Two.

    The other 28 players bowl four games starting from scratch with the top 8 advancing to the second round seeded 9th through 16th.

    The remaining 16 players determine the champion in single-elimination rounds with the two-game total to determine the winner. The highest seeded player bowls the lowest seeded player, the second highest seeded player bowls the second lowest seeded player, etc.

    The field will be trimmed to eight and then four players. The winners of the semifinal matches bowl for the title and the 5.500 top prize, while the losers meet in a roll-off for third and fourth place.

    2012EBTLogo_small.jpg The 2012 European Bowling Tour is made up of 20 events in 16 countries including two Platinum, four Gold, seven Silver and seven Satellite tournaments.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event earn ranking points based on how they finish in the event. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament such as the BNC Open earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament gets 50 ranking points.

    Those points will be tabulated throughout the season to determine the top 16 men and top 16 women who will compete in the sixth EBT Masters, which will be held Sept. 30, 2013 at BNC Bowling Center in Bratislava immediately following the 2013 BNC Open (Sept. 23-29).

     


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    Standings after Qualifying and Desperado Squad


    The top 32 players from the qualifying standings and the top 4 from the Desperado Squad (places 33-36) advance to Saturday's finals.

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