Diego Biolghini wins qualifying in 2nd Ebonite Roma International

    11/13/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #19

    Leads 44 men and six women into Sunday's finals; cut for 38th place was 1209 (201.50 avg.)

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    2011EBT19JavierMoreno.jpgDiego Biolghini (pictured left) of Italy won the qualifying of the 2nd Ebonite Roma International with 1359 six-game total and an average of 226.50 to lead a field of 44 men and six women into Sunday's finals at Brunswick Bowling Rome in Rome, Italy.

    Javier Moreno (right), Spain, was second with 1326 and was followed by Paul Stott Jr., Ireland, in third place with 1316. Italians Andrea Canevari and Giovanni Battagli were in fourth and fifth place with 1312.

    Marco Reviglio (below left), Italy, was the best player on the final qualifying day leading Squad 21 with 1311 to leap into sixth place. Rounding out the top 8, who earned three byes for the finals, were Spaniards Paco Rodriguez and Ion Acin with 1300 and 1296.

    2009BWCMarcoReviglio.jpg2011EBT04NicoleSanders6.jpgAmong the players, who survived the first cut was defending champion Perttu Jussila, Finland, who landed in 13th place with 1280. Nicole Sanders (right), Netherlands, who topped Squad 20 Saturday afternoon with 1256, was the best of 52 women in the 339-player field from 15 countries in 16th place with 1267 including handicap.

    Joining Sanders in the finals from the women's field were Annalisa Balzano, Italy; Cheska Tomas, Netherlands; Sara Del Olmo, Spain; Monica Jimenez Gonzalez, Spain; and Helga Di Benedetto, Italy,

    Di Benedetto, who missed the cut (1209; 201.50 average) by four pins, rolled a 243 scratch game (251 with handicap) to lead the Desperado Squad Saturday night. Joining Di Benedetto in the finals were Neil Sullivan, Malta (242), Daniel Alonso Farraces, Spain (226) and Sammy Castillo Leongson, Spain (206).

    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) ran through Saturday, Nov. 12 and ended with Squad 22 and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad. Women 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 - advanced to the finals on Sunday, Nov. 13.

    The top 8 qualifiers earned three byes and will be seeded into Final Round 4. Positions 9-16 got two byes and positions 17-28 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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    Standings after Qualifying and Desperado Squad


    The top 38 from the qualifying plus the top four of Squads 6-11 (places 39-42) and Squads 1-5 (places 43-46) plus the top 4 from the Desperado Squad (places 47-50) advanced to the finals

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