Mega Place Bowling Club in Chania, Crete, Greece (Sept. 21-28, 2009)

Ann Louise Haugen Andersen (pictured left), Norway, rolled a 1731 series in the third and final 8-game block on dual lane condition (one lane with short oil, one lane with long oil) to earn the No. 1 seed for the single-elimination finals in the women's European Champions Cup.

Haugen, who led the field of 37 women from 36 countries since the first block on short oil, felled 5439 and averaged 226.63 over 24 games.

Sara Mizrahi (right), Israel, had a 1769 series on Saturday morning but fell 10 pins short of the lead to land in second place with 5429. Reija Lunden, Finland, was another 12 pins behind in third place with 5417 behind the field-best 1816 series in the final block.

Fourth place belonged to Natassa Rovithaki, Greece, who finished with 5336. She will meet 5th placed Kirsten Penny, England, in the quarterfinal. Penny chalked up 5306.

Birgit Pöppler (left), Germany, landed in sixth place with 5304 and will take on Lunden. Ghislaine Van Der Tol, Netherlands, felled 5277 pins to take the 7th place and bowls Mizrahi.

Ivonne Gross (right, 5217), Austria, who finished third in last year's ECC, beat out defending champion Zara Glover (5214), England, and Alena Korobkova (5212), Russia, for the 8th and final spot to advance by three and five pins, respectively.

The top 8 women will return on Sunday morning at 9am local time for the quarterfinals. The men will bowl their third and final block on dual lane condition on Saturday afternoon and evening before the cut to the top 8.

The ECC features the national champions or ranking leaders - one man and one woman per country - of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation member federations plus the defending champions.

All players bowl three 8-game blocks (a total of 24 games) preliminaries over three days: Block 1 on short oil, Block 2 on long oil and Block 3 on dual lane condition (left lane short, right lane long).

The top 8 players after the preliminaries will qualify for the single-elimination final in best-of-three games format. In each round the highest seeded player will bowl the lowest seeded player, the 2nd highest vs. the 2nd lowest, etc. based on the standings after the preliminaries.

 

 

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Women's Division - Standings after the third block on dual lane condition

The top 8 advance to the single-elimination finals