De Angelis, Gagenoiu lead Squad 8 and 9 in 2nd Ebonite Roma International

    11/09/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #19

    Giovanni Battagli continues to lead with 1312; cut for 38th place is 1130 (188.33 average)

    2011EBT19GianlucaDeAngelis.jpg2011EBT19RomeoGagenoiu.jpgGianluca De Angelis, Italy, and Romeo Gagenoiu, Romania, led the eighth and ninth qualifying squad of the 2nd Ebonite Roma International en route to move into fourth and seventh place in the overall qualifying standings.

    De Angelis (pictured left) posted a 1255 six-game series, an average of 209.17, when he led Squad 9 Tuesday evening at Brunswick Bowling in Rome, Italy. Gagenoiu (right), who led Squad 8, toppled 1212 pins (202 avg.) and is the best non-Italian player in the tournament thus far.

    2010EBT17GiovanniBattagli.jpgGiovanni Battagli (left) 2011EBT19PieroColombani.jpgcontinued to lead the field of 206 players from seven countries with 1312 or an average of 218.67. Davide Spagnoli remained in second place at 1289 with Piero Colombani (right) in third at 1257.

    Domenico Maddaloni is seven pins behind De Angelis in fifth place with 1248 and was followed by Saverio Tuccimei in sixth place with 1247.

    Gagenoiu's compatriot, Bogdan Dobondi was second to De Angelis in Squad 9 with 1205, good for eighth place overall. Rounding out the top 10 were Italians Carlo Ieva and Raffaele Formisano with 1201 and 1200 (even par based on a 200 average).

    Battagli, Spagnoli, Tuccimei and Ieva lead a separate leaderboard of Squads 1-5 and Colombani, De Angelis, Maddaloni and Gagenoiu sit atop a separate leaderboard of Squad 6-11, who all will receive a wild card for Sunday's finals if they don't finish qualifying among the top 38.

    With another 13 qualifying squads to go, Claudio Parisi, Italy, holds the 38th and last place to advance with 1130 or an average of 188.33. Just two out of 29 women were among the top 38. Raffaella Fusco was 28th with 1150 and Maria Rosaria Matrullo was 35th with 1138, both including 48 pins handicap.

    Qualifying continues on Wednesday, Nov. 9, with Squads 10 and 11 scheduled to start at 5.30 and 9 p.m. CET time.

    2011RomaInternationalLogo.jpg 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.

    2011EBT17PerttuJussila2_small.jpg2011EBT04PatriciaLuoto_small.jpg 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 9/22

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