Giovanni Battagli (pictured left) became the first player in the 2nd Ebonite Roma International who surpassed the 1300-mark in Squad 4 Italy en route to overtake the lead in the qualifying Sunday at Brunswick Bowling Rome in Rome,

The lefty, who was the winner of the Italian Gold Series tournament in Salerno last week, rolled games of 233, 242, 214, 236, 170 and 217 for 1312 six-game total and an average of 218.67.

Davide Spagnoli, Italy, was 23 pins behind Battagli to leap into second place in the overall standings with 1289. Day one leader Saverio Tuccimei (right), Italy, slipped to third place with 1247. Rounding out the top 4 after the first weekend, who will earn automatic berths into Sunday's finals if they don't finish among the top 38, was Carlo Ieva, Italy, who was third in Squad 4 with 1201.

If Battagli's score will be good enough for the top 38, fifth place Raffaele Formisano, Italy, would advance to the finals.

Ricardo Gonzales Diaz, Philippines, is the lone non-Italian bowler in the top 10 in eighth place with 1185. Raffaella Fusco is the best of 16 women in the 120-player field in tenth place with 1150 including handicap.

With five qualifying squads in the books, Luciano Giuliani, Italy, holds the 38th and last place to advance with 1075 or an average of 179.17.

Qualifying continues on Monday, Nov. 7, with Squads 6 and 7 scheduled to start at 5.30 and 9 p.m. CET time.

The 2nd Ebonite Roma International is the 19th and penultimate stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and the last of six "Satellite" events of the 2011 EBT season. The tournament will be held from Saturday Nov. 5 through Sunday Nov. 13, 2011 at 24-lane Brunswick Bowling in Rome, Italy.

The tournament offers total prize money of 25.900 Euro with 5.000 Euro going to the winner, 2.500 Euro to the first runner-up and 1.000 Euro each to the third and fourth place finishers.

In the inaugural Ebonite Roma International 2010, Perttu Jussila (pictured left) of Finland captured his first European Bowling Tour title by defeating PBA exempt player, Stuart Williams, England, in the title match, 225-188, en route to earn the 5.000 Euro top prize.

In the semifinals Jussila and Williams eliminated German women's national team members Patricia Luoto and Birgit Pöppler. As the higher seed, Luoto (right) finished third to win the women's ranking.

The 2011 European Bowling Tour consists of 20 tour stops in 16 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, six Silver and six Satellite tournaments.

The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament such as the 2nd Ebonite Roma International gets 50 ranking points.

The top 16 men and the top 16 women at the end of the 2011 season qualify for the fifth EBT Masters to be held at Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany on April 30 and May 1, 2012. The event will become the first EBT Masters to be contested on single lane condition.

Qualifying of the 2nd Ebonite Roma International (6 games, unlimited re-entries) runs through Saturday, Nov. 12 and ends with Squad 22 and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad scheduled for 9.45 p.m. local time (CET). Women will receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire event, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

The 2nd Ebonite Roma International features a 40 feet Kegel lane conditioning pattern with 23.40ml volume oil total.

A total of 50 players - the top 38 from the qualifying, plus the top four of the squads conducted on Nov. 5-6 (Squads 1-5), plus the top 4 of the squads conducted on Nov. 7-9 (Squads 6-11), plus the top 4 from the Desperado Squad - will advance to the finals on Sunday, Nov. 13.

The top 8 qualifiers will earn three byes and will be seeded into Final Round 4. Positions 9-16 will get two byes and positions 17-28 will bypass the first round of the finals.

The other 22 players will bowl 4 games scratch. The top 10 will advance to the second round. After another four-game block scratch the top 8 will advance to first round of single-elimination match play (third round overall) with the two-game total pinfall to determine the winner.

In all matches the highest seeded player will bowl the lowest seeded player, the second highest will bowl the second lowest, etc. The field will be cut to 16, 8, four and then two, who will determine the champion in a single-game match.

 

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Qualifying Standings after Squad 5/22

Pos	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6	Pins	Avg.	Hc	Total
1.	Giovanni Battagli	Italy	233	242	214	236	170	217	1312	218.67		1312
2.	Davide Spagnoli	Italy	229	238	227	233	170	192	1289	214.83		1289
3.	Saverio Tuccimei	Italy	225	203	186	202	194	237	1247	207.83		1247
4.	Carlo Ieva	Italy	192	222	201	179	216	191	1201	200.17		1201
5.	Raffaele Formisano	Italy	229	181	217	205	197	171	1200	200.00		1200
6.	Andrea Gualdi	Italy	223	183	174	201	226	189	1196	199.33		1196
7.	Giuseppe Tedone	Italy	185	183	158	235	223	210	1194	199.00		1194
8.	Ricardo Gonzales Diaz	Philippines	204	219	183	193	223	163	1185	197.50		1185
9.	Amedeo Spada	Italy	211	195	188	226	152	211	1183	197.17		1183
10.	Raffaella Fusco	Italy	169	160	153	190	229	201	1102	183.67	48	1150
11.	Antonio Maddaloni	Italy	188	189	198	158	225	192	1150	191.67		1150
12.	Paolo Zeppi	Italy	151	195	235	176	188	203	1148	191.33		1148
13.	Daniele Rezzi	Italy	195	235	164	202	160	190	1146	191.00		1146
14.	Gennaro Varchetta	Italy	195	201	196	158	193	202	1145	190.83		1145
15.	Aldo Iorio	Italy	186	177	187	210	191	192	1143	190.50		1143
16.	Mauro Farris	Italy	176	198	188	231	167	182	1142	190.33		1142
17.	Massimo Dell'amico	Italy	196	188	184	196	170	204	1138	189.67		1138
18.	Stefano Oddi	Italy	201	169	189	178	199	202	1138	189.67		1138
19.	Maria Rosaria Matrullo	Italy	176	204	176	212	151	171	1090	181.67	48	1138
20.	Angelo Delvino	Italy	164	206	166	160	245	192	1133	188.83		1133
21.	Claudio Parisi	Italy	139	228	209	169	163	222	1130	188.33		1130
22.	Maria Rafaelita Figueroa	Philippines	166	208	190	200	148	170	1082	180.33	48	1130
23.	Enrico Maddaloni	Italy	220	180	223	203	184	120	1130	188.33		1130
24.	Alessandro Martino	Italy	189	173	144	205	221	195	1127	187.83		1127
25.	Paolo Feretti	Italy	185	189	148	180	190	233	1125	187.50		1125
26.	Simona Ciattoni	Italy	164	220	177	157	210	148	1076	179.33	48	1124
27.	Ferde Gil Saguinsin	Philippines	206	167	200	148	247	145	1113	185.50		1113
28.	Stefano Pratesi	Italy	178	206	181	169	189	184	1107	184.50		1107
29.	Antonio De Bartolo	Italy	213	180	164	192	202	155	1106	184.33		1106
30.	Marzia Castagna	Italy	144	180	183	199	195	155	1056	176.00	48	1104
31.	Piero Colombani	Italy	203	185	183	181	189	162	1103	183.83		1103
32.	Massimo Stefani	Italy	167	156	176	222	228	151	1100	183.33		1100
33.	Maurizio Bretti	Italy	202	175	179	173	153	212	1094	182.33		1094
34.	Pamela Frioni	Italy	164	167	190	189	172	160	1042	173.67	48	1090
35.	Romano Timpano	Italy	181	191	247	153	159	157	1088	181.33		1088
36.	Aldino Tedone	Italy	191	169	176	198	173	176	1083	180.50		1083
37.	Gianmarco Bulzis	Italy	175	179	201	171	186	167	1079	179.83		1079
38.	Luciano Giuliani	Italy	199	155	214	169	136	202	1075	179.17		1075
39.	Massimo Branchesi	Italy	152	202	135	190	213	180	1072	178.67		1072
40.	Luciana Cafaro	Italy	178	160	164	160	180	180	1022	170.33	48	1070
41.	Massimiliano Di Sisto	Italy	168	166	200	179	178	179	1070	178.33		1070
42.	Maria Rosaria Iacomino	Italy	148	162	191	189	169	160	1019	169.83	48	1067
43.	Leandro Torsani	Italy	211	146	173	204	167	160	1061	176.83		1061
44.	Nunzio Quatela	Italy	187	160	194	168	179	170	1058	176.33		1058
45.	Simone Ranieri	Italy	189	179	179	171	184	155	1057	176.17		1057
46.	Aly Rondan	Italy	182	183	205	172	178	137	1057	176.17		1057
47.	Monica Mattalini	Italy	142	180	159	179	180	167	1007	167.83	48	1055
48.	Carlo Zoncu	Italy	203	169	188	166	129	198	1053	175.50		1053
49.	Randy Fermo	Philippines	186	197	146	176	157	191	1053	175.50		1053
50.	Paolo De Gioia	Italy	173	180	169	170	207	152	1051	175.17		1051
51.	Sergey Kudelya	Russia	192	158	175	176	156	189	1046	174.33		1046
52.	Giovanni Parrone	Italy	155	170	174	172	193	180	1044	174.00		1044
53.	Michele Villa	Italy	196	206	148	188	152	154	1044	174.00		1044
54.	Daniele Chirico	Italy	157	155	192	169	188	182	1043	173.83		1043
55.	Luca Rovoletto	Italy	184	180	199	162	159	159	1043	173.83		1043
56.	Marco Pellegrini	Italy	172	212	159	203	161	133	1040	173.33		1040
57.	Claudio Ambrosi	Italy	164	167	188	163	177	179	1038	173.00		1038
58.	Angelantonio Claudio	Italy	158	172	199	141	174	193	1037	172.83		1037
59.	Ruggiero Di Tommaso	Italy	175	146	181	223	146	166	1037	172.83		1037
60.	Simon Burke	Malta	209	143	218	164	155	146	1035	172.50		1035
61.	Guglielmo Sini	Italy	193	168	142	144	161	226	1034	172.33		1034
62.	Antonino Corsale	Italy	173	159	164	143	199	194	1032	172.00		1032
63.	Enrico Montesi	Italy	140	177	201	147	176	190	1031	171.83		1031
64.	Alfio Giuffrida	Italy	167	177	193	171	155	165	1028	171.33		1028
65.	Claudio Cerroni	Italy	198	165	220	149	139	154	1025	170.83		1025
66.	Dante Morotti	Italy	199	175	190	170	147	144	1025	170.83		1025
67.	Andrea Guidi	Italy	154	143	182	135	204	200	1018	169.67		1018
68.	Massimo Fabi	Italy	176	165	168	157	136	209	1011	168.50		1011
69.	Massimiliano Pastorelli	Italy	171	148	173	164	180	170	1006	167.67		1006
70.	Suranga Warnakulasuryia	Sri Lanka	135	146	163	171	235	155	1005	167.50		1005
71.	Maurizio Giovannelli	Italy	136	171	152	194	200	152	1005	167.50		1005
72.	Vincenzo Bennardo	Italy	157	169	157	198	162	161	1004	167.33		1004
73.	Francesco Gigliesi Morresi	Italy	166	146	164	172	159	195	1002	167.00		1002
74.	Generoso Ciccone	Italy	130	191	185	161	165	170	1002	167.00		1002
75.	Domenico Gagliardi	Italy	164	167	187	150	139	192	999	166.50		999
76.	Francesco Murolo	Italy	170	130	155	216	181	147	999	166.50		999
77.	Gabriele Abbruscato	Italy	199	163	191	141	123	180	997	166.17		997
78.	Francesca Messina	Italy	142	141	201	169	131	163	947	157.83	48	995
79.	Rodolfo Tomarelli	Italy	152	179	160	163	195	146	995	165.83		995
80.	Pasquale Dieni	Italy	202	188	136	148	156	159	989	164.83		989
81.	Gianpiero Coppola	Italy	147	139	155	179	181	186	987	164.50		987
82.	Fabio Cecchinelli	Italy	200	133	138	190	140	186	987	164.50		987
83.	Giovanni Scialdone	Italy	157	179	160	176	124	189	985	164.17		985
84.	Vincenzo Caradio	Italy	195	158	152	159	130	189	983	163.83		983
85.	Luigi Piccolo	Italy	175	158	193	147	159	149	981	163.50		981
86.	Stefano Tozzi	Italy	184	129	153	173	184	157	980	163.33		980
87.	Angelo Cipotani	Italy	164	157	166	127	210	151	975	162.50		975
88.	Andrea Monachesi	Italy	151	149	184	172	189	130	975	162.50		975
89.	Fiorella Perna	Italy	133	138	123	183	178	169	924	154.00	48	972
90.	Cosimo Miccoli	Italy	175	152	142	161	170	171	971	161.83		971
91.	Valter Stracqualursi	Italy	162	157	178	149	165	156	967	161.17		967
92.	Francesco Anacleria	Italy	150	195	167	176	108	166	962	160.33		962
93.	Valentino Marrocco	Italy	152	123	132	170	171	205	953	158.83		953
94.	Francesco Paparazzo	Italy	162	124	181	163	149	173	952	158.67		952
95.	Enrico Selvazzo	Italy	153	143	175	144	193	142	950	158.33		950
96.	Roberto Polimeni	Italy	142	142	162	168	188	147	949	158.17		949
97.	Luigi Antonio Quintieri	Italy	116	196	180	167	128	159	946	157.67		946
98.	Valter Roscani	Italy	149	179	136	170	145	163	942	157.00		942
99.	Hommer Mijares Biscocho	Philippines	146	160	129	149	199	150	933	155.50		933
100.	Giorgio Sarao	Italy	168	132	142	179	150	154	925	154.17		925
101.	Roberto Pantano	Italy	145	161	157	162	148	150	923	153.83		923
102.	Michele Fulvo	Italy	216	134	140	167	120	146	923	153.83		923
103.	Claudio Pelagatti	Italy	146	161	162	179	145	130	923	153.83		923
104.	Paolo Bondi	Italy	136	190	151	143	144	152	916	152.67		916
105.	Paolo Tedone	Italy	180	156	143	144	138	153	914	152.33		914
106.	Fabio Fascia	Italy	156	138	157	154	112	182	899	149.83		899
107.	Concetta Dantuono	Italy	167	132	127	144	101	176	847	141.17	48	895
108.	Patrizia Fine	Italy	147	140	127	159	124	145	842	140.33	48	890
109.	Simplicio Castillo Apan	Philippines	157	147	159	124	176	126	889	148.17		889
110.	Alfonso Aureli	Italy	139	156	127	157	144	163	886	147.67		886
111.	Leonardo Pallottino	Italy	117	136	155	169	168	123	868	144.67		868
112.	Franco La Iacona	Italy	178	151	142	144	140	109	864	144.00		864
113.	Enrico Mariti	Italy	133	132	128	169	135	149	846	141.00		846
114.	Viviana Carini	Italy	150	131	108	90	148	156	783	130.50	48	831
115.	Giorgio Rivelli	Italy	157	162	130	122	142	111	824	137.33		824
116.	Daniela Ferriccioni	Italy	102	129	135	126	132	138	762	127.00	48	810
117.	Vittoria Francini	Italy	101	118	111	183	101	118	732	122.00	48	780
118.	Guglielmo Mercadante	Italy	118	127	102	153	154	0	654	DNF		654
119.	Gianluca Caliccia	Italy	150	149	176	0	0	0	475	DNF		475
120.	Mario Rania	Italy	149	106	0	0	0	0	255	DNF		255