Phil Scammell powers his way into the lead in Ebonite English Open 2009

12/03/09

2009 European Bowling Tour #14

Becomes the first player who cracked the 1400-bar in Squad 5

2006LIPhilScammell.jpg2009EBT04MattMiller.jpgPhil Scammell (pictured left) fired games of 226, 182, 261, 279, 226 and 247 to shoot into the lead in the qualifying of the Ebonite English Open 2009 Thursday afternoon at Lakeside Superbowl Nuneaton in Nuneaton, England.

Scammell led Squad 5 (Squad 4 was cancelled) and became the first player in this year's event who cracked the 1400-bar with 1421 pinfall total and an average of 236.83 over six games. The 279 was also the highest game thus far.

Matt Miller (right) was next with 1390 including high games of 258 and 246 to leap into second place in the overall qualifying standings.

Previous leader Laura Marcham and second-placed Jo Cundy slipped two spots to third and fourth place with 1335 and 1324, respectively, each including 48 pins handicap, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

Places 1-10 belong to English bowlers. Debbie Watson from Scotland is the top-ranked non-English bowler in 11th place with 1276 including handicap.

2009EnglishOpenLogo.jpg The Ebonite English Open 2009 is the 14th and penultimate stop of the 2009 European Bowling Tour and the last of the Tour's four "Challenger" events. The tournament will be held from Tuesday Dec. 2 through Sunday Dec. 6, 2009 at Lakeside Superbowl Nuneaton, a 24-laner in Nuneaton, England. Players will compete for total prize money of 32.400 British Pounds or approx. 35.550 Euro.

Qualifying continues on Thursday with another two squads at 5pm and 9pm. and ends on Saturday, Dec. 5, with the 15th qualifying squad followed by the ultimate chance to qualify, the one-game Desperado Squad at 11pm.

All players bowl at least one six-game block with unlimited re-entries allowed. A total of 50 players will advance to the finals, the top 46 from the qualifying plus the top 4 Desperados. The top 2 qualifying leaders earn four byes, places 3-6 receive three and places 7-10 get two byes.

The other 40 finalists will bowl 6 games starting from scratch. The top 24 advance to the second round and play another 3 games with the pinfall from Round 1 carried forward. The top 12 advance to best-of-three games single-elimination finals.

In each of the matches in the single-elimination finals, the highest seeded player will meet the lowest seeded player, the second highest seeded player will meet the second lowest seeded player, etc.

The field will be cut to 14, 8, 4 and then 2, who will bowl for the title with 5.000 British Pounds or almost 5.500 Euro going to the winner. England's Kirsten Penny is the defending champion.

 


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