Finland leads Trios Squad 2 to move into 6th place at Men's World Championships

08/17/10

2010 MWC

No changes atop the leaderboard in Trios preliminaries

2010MWCJahiSalonenUotila.jpg 2010MWCONeillJonesBarnes.jpg Finns Joonas Jähi, Petteri Salonen and Pasi Uotila (pictured left, l-r) put together an 1890 three game series on the 45-foot WTBA Mexico City lane conditioning pattern to lead the second of three squads en route to move into 6th place on the leaderboard in the preliminaries of the Trios event at the Men's World Championships in Germany.

Thailand's Somjed Kusonphitak, Dechochai Tinjiratip and Yannaphon Larp-apharat were mere one pin behind to sit in 6th place overall with 1889. The second trio of the United States, Bill O'Neill, Tommy Jones and Chris Barnes (right), were another four pins behind the Thais to overtake 8th place with 1885 (209.44).

2010MWCRosadoCruzFranco.jpg2010MWCLiewRidhwanKong.jpgMexico with Jorge Rosado, Alejandro Cruz and Ernesto Franco (left, l-r) were next with 1851 pins (205.66) to leap into 9th place.

Squad 1 leaders Alex Liew, Syafiq Ridhwan and Aaron Kong (right, l-r) , Malaysia, remained unchallenged and held on to the lead with 1964 3-game total or an average of 218.22.

Trailing the Malaysians by mere eight pins are Italians Massimo Pirozzi, Mauro Rampi and Marco Reviglio, at 1956, with Team USA's Patrick Allen, Rhino Page and Wes Malott in third at 1930.

Rounding out the top 4 are Cheng Hsing-Chao, Hung Kun-Yi and Wu Hao-Ming, Chinese Taipei, with 1923 (213.67). Koreans Choi Bok-Eum, Jang Dong-Chul and Cho Young-Seon maintained fifth place with 1897.

Squads 1 and 2 are done for today and will return on Wednesday for the final 3-game block on the longer oil pattern.

The field was split into three squads who will bowl two 3-game series, one each on the 38-foot Atlanta (Tuesday) and 45-foot Mexico City (Wednesday) oil pattern. The top four trios after 6 games will advance to the playoffs starting on Wednesday at 8 p.m. CET (2 p.m. EST).

 

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The 2010 WTBA World Men's Championships will run through Aug. 21st. Players will compete for medals in six events - Singles, Doubles, Trios, five-player Team, All Events and Masters match play.

Bowlingdigital.com will provide live streaming of the semifinals, finals and award ceremonies of each event.

2010MWCBowlingdigitalTVWisemannVossThompsonXXL.jpg2010MWCBowlingdigitalTVFlavioCuva.jpg The Bowlingdigital team consists of Herbert Bickel (editor), Flavio Cuva (Live Streaming/Video) and Beat Grauwiler (photos).

PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (pictured left) will serve as color commentator and Ted Thompson (right), lane maintenance expert with Kegel, the official lane maintenance provider of the Championships, will serve as analyst. Lucas Wiseman of USBC Communications will assist as play-by-play analyst.

L-R Bowlingdigital's TV commentators: Lucas Wiseman, Brian Voss, Ted Thompson and Herbert Bickel.

Live streaming will be available at Bowlingdigital's Ustream TV Channel

 


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Here's the live streaming broadcast schedule:


Tuesday, August 13, 2010
09.00 - 19.15 Trios preliminaries

 Wednesday, August 18, 2010
09.00 - 19.15 Trios preliminaries
20.00 - 21.00 Trios - Semifinals
21.00 - 22.00 Trios - Championship

Thursday, August 19, 2010
09.00 - 13.30 Team preliminaries
13.30 - 14.00 Trios - Medals Ceremony

15.00 - 19.30 Team preliminaries

Friday, August 20, 2010
08.00 - 18.00 Team preliminaries
19.30 - 21.00 Team - Semifinals
21.00 - 22.30 Team - Championship

Saturday, August 21, 2010
08.00 - 10.00 Masters - Round of 16
10.00 - 12.00 Masters - Quarterfinals
13.00 - 15.00 Masters - Semifinals
15.00 - 17.00 Masters - Final
17.00 - 17.30 Masters - Medal Ceremony

(all time Central European Time)

 


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2010 Men's World Championship - Trios Squad 2

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