Stott, Rodriguez, Acin crack top 8 on penultimate qualifying day in Rome

    11/12/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #19

    Diego Biolghini leads 329-player field with 1359; cut for 38th place is 1192 (198.67 avg.)

    2011EBT08PaulStott.jpg2011EBT04PacoRodriguez.jpgPaul Stott Jr. (pictured left) of Ireland, and Spaniards Paco Rodriguez (right) and Ion Acinset the tone on the penultimate qualifying day of the 2nd Ebonite Roma International in Rome, Italy by cracking the top 8 in the overall qualifying standings.

    Rodriguez and Acin finished 1, 2 in the 15th qualifying squad Friday morning at Brunswick Bowling Rome with 1300 and 1296 six-game totals to sit in sixth and seventh place on the 329-player leaderboard.

    Stott led Squad 18 Friday night with 1316 behind games of 227, 257, 237, 169, 208 and 218 en route to jump into third place in the overall standings.

    2011EBT19DiegoBiolghini2.jpg2011EBT19JavierMoreno.jpgDiego Biolghini (left), Italy and Javier Moreno (right), Spain, held on to the lead with 1359 and 1326, respectively.

    Italians Andrea Canevari and Giovanni Battagli slipped one spot to fourth and fifth place with 1312. Rounding out the top 8, who will receive three byes for the finals, was Bogdan Dobondi, Romania, with 1291.

    Defending champion Perttu Jussila, Finland, was tenth with 1280. Squad 17 leader Alessandro Silletti, Italy, used a 274 game for 1271 to leap into 11th place.

    2010EBT17AnnalisaBalzano.jpg2011EBT11AntonioMaddaloni2.jpgAnnalisa Balzano (left), Italy, became the first woman to win a qualifying squad, when she rolled 1206 scratch and 1254 including handicap in Squad 16. Balzano, who sits in 18th place, is the second-best of 50 women in the field of 329 from 14 countries and one of just three among the top 38, who will survive the first cut.

    Nicole Sanders, Netherlands, is the best woman in 13th place with 1267 and Helga Di Benedetto, Italy, holds 28th place with 1205. Antonio Maddaloni (right), Italy, mans the 38th and last place to advance with 1192 or an average of 198.67.

    Qualifying ends on Saturday, Nov. 12 with Squads 19-22 scheduled to start at 8 and 11.30 a.m., 3 and 6.30 p.m. CET time and concludes with the Desperado Squad slated for 9.45 p.m.

    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 18/22

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