Women set high scores on first two days at Viernheim Open
09/11/06
131 players took the lanes at Bowling Center Viernheim during the first eight of 29 qualifying squads in the 2nd Gutperle Viernheim Open 2006 presented by STORM, the richest event on the European Bowling Tour.
Three of the 17 women in the field, Martina Beckel, Germany, Ivonne Gross, Austria and Kirsten Horemans, Belgium posted the high scores on the first two days.
Beckel (left), a two-time World Champion, had games of 194, 231, 253, 191, 223 and 188 to jump into the overall lead during Squad 7 with 1328 including the women's 48-pin standard handicap.
Gross (right), who shot a 279 high game in her first entry posted another 276 in a re-entry to improve her score to 1299, good enough for fifth place.
Horemans (left), a former European Youth champion, had the second 279 game of this year's tournament and sits in 19th place with 1234 despite four sub-200 games in her six-game series.
The 2005 Viernheim Open featured eleven perfect games, three of them by eventual winner Michael Fagan (right), United States.
Hank Boomershine (left), President of Roto Grip, posted the highest scratch total thus far in Squad 8 with 1312, an average of 218,67, to land in second place. Dutch Nicole Sanders and Ronald Dol are third and fourth with 1307 and 1304, resp. Day 1 leader Michael Koch, Germany, slipped to seventh with 1295.
The 2nd Gutperle Viernheim Open 2006 presented by STORM is the 15th stop of the 2006 European Bowling Tour and one of its "Majors". With 100.000 Euro or more than US$125,000 total prize fund the Viernheim Open is the "richest event" on the EBT Tour for the second consecutive year. The winner will receive the huge 25.000 Euro first-place check (approx. $31,700).
Qualifying continues through Saturday, September 16, and concludes with the one-game 'Desperado Squad' at 12.30. The top 58 qualifying leaders plus the top 6 'Desperados' (seeded 59-64) will advance to the semi-final and bowl eight games starting from scratch to cut to the top 40 for the single-elimination best-of-three-games finals.
Bowlingdigital will cover the event live from Viernheim commencing Thursday, September 14 all the way through to the finals on Sunday, September 17.
Standings after Squad 8
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Bowling Center Viernheim, Germany (Sept. 9-17, 2006)
131 players took the lanes at Bowling Center Viernheim during the first eight of 29 qualifying squads in the 2nd Gutperle Viernheim Open 2006 presented by STORM, the richest event on the European Bowling Tour. Three of the 17 women in the field, Martina Beckel, Germany, Ivonne Gross, Austria and Kirsten Horemans, Belgium posted the high scores on the first two days.
Beckel (left), a two-time World Champion, had games of 194, 231, 253, 191, 223 and 188 to jump into the overall lead during Squad 7 with 1328 including the women's 48-pin standard handicap. Gross (right), who shot a 279 high game in her first entry posted another 276 in a re-entry to improve her score to 1299, good enough for fifth place. Horemans (left), a former European Youth champion, had the second 279 game of this year's tournament and sits in 19th place with 1234 despite four sub-200 games in her six-game series. The 2005 Viernheim Open featured eleven perfect games, three of them by eventual winner Michael Fagan (right), United States. Hank Boomershine (left), President of Roto Grip, posted the highest scratch total thus far in Squad 8 with 1312, an average of 218,67, to land in second place. Dutch Nicole Sanders and Ronald Dol are third and fourth with 1307 and 1304, resp. Day 1 leader Michael Koch, Germany, slipped to seventh with 1295. The 2nd Gutperle Viernheim Open 2006 presented by STORM is the 15th stop of the 2006 European Bowling Tour and one of its "Majors". With 100.000 Euro or more than US$125,000 total prize fund the Viernheim Open is the "richest event" on the EBT Tour for the second consecutive year. The winner will receive the huge 25.000 Euro first-place check (approx. $31,700).
Qualifying continues through Saturday, September 16, and concludes with the one-game 'Desperado Squad' at 12.30. The top 58 qualifying leaders plus the top 6 'Desperados' (seeded 59-64) will advance to the semi-final and bowl eight games starting from scratch to cut to the top 40 for the single-elimination best-of-three-games finals.
Bowlingdigital will cover the event live from Viernheim commencing Thursday, September 14 all the way through to the finals on Sunday, September 17.
Standings after Squad 8