Squad 4 & 5 leaders Lundén, Luoto add their names to the leaderboard in Helsinki

    01/07/13

    2013 European Bowling Tour #1

    Three-time Ballmaster winner Lasse Lintilä paces the 238-player field with 1351; cut for 44th place is 1210 (201.67 average)

    2013EBT01LasseLintila.jpg2009BWCReijaLunden2.jpgLong-time Finnish national team members Reija Lundén (pictured left) and Mika Luoto led the fourth and fifth qualifying squad of the 43rd Brunswick Ballmaster Open Sunday at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland, en route to move into second and fourth place, respectively, in the overall standings.

    Lasse Lintilä (right), one of four players, who have won the Ballmaster Open on three occasions (2006, 2003, 1988), continued to pace the 238-player field including 235 Finns, two Russian and one Indonesian with 1351 total and an average of 225.17 for six games.

    Lundén, a former World Champion and multiple World and European Team Cup gold medalist, led Squad 4 with 1347 total including 48 pins handicap and is the best of 12 women in the field. She had games of 206, 257, 174, 212, 201 and 249 for 1299 scratch (216.50 average).

    2012EBT11PerttuJussila.jpg2011EBT04KimmoLehtonen.jpgLuoto, a European (2001) and World champion (2003) in Singles, who also won the AMF World Cup in 2002, had high games of 279 and 258 in Squad 5 to leap into fourth place overall with 1324 and an average of 220.17.

    Sandwiched between Lundén and Luoto is Perttu Jussila (left), who set the pace in Squad 1 with 1340. Rounding out the top 5 is two-time Ballmaster Open winner Kimmo Lehtonen (right; 2002, 2007), who improved his high score to 1314 in Squad 5. The projected cut is currently 1277.

    Mika Kiuru holds the 44th and last place to advance with 1210 and an average of 201.67. The best non-Finnish bowler so far was Aleksey Sidorov of Russia in 100th place with 1132 (188.67).

    Qualifying continues Tuesday, Jan. 8, with squad 6 at 7 p.m. local time (CET +1).

    2013BallmasterLogo_small.jpg The 43rd Brunswick Ballmaster Open is the first of six "EBT Gold" events this season, the second-highest out four EBT categories. The tournament will be held from Friday Jan. 4 through Sunday Jan. 13, 2013 at 36-lane Tali Bowling Center in Finland's capital city Helsinki.

    The BBO 2013 features a 37.5 feet lane conditioning pattern.

    Players will compete for total prize money of 90.300 Euro with 12.000 Euro going to the winner, 8.000 to the runner-up and 4.000 and 3.000 to the third and fourth place finishers, respectively. Low to cash is 48th place, worth 1.100 Euro.

    In addition, the 2013 BBO offers a 20.000 Euro Extra Prize for a 300 game thrown on the final day (Jan. 13). In the event that a 300 game will be rolled, the total prize fund will be more than 110.000 Euro.

    Due to an agreement between the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA) and the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), the Ballmaster will award a PBA international title, if won by a PBA member or a PBA international member.

    Qualifying (six games, unlimited re-entries) of the 2013 Brunswick Ballmaster Open runs through Saturday, Jan. 12, and ends with Squad 15 and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad slated for 11.30 p.m. local time (CET +1) on Saturday night. Women will receive 8 pins handicap each game (up to 292 - maximum score is 300), a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 48 players - the top 44 from the overall qualifying standings plus the top 4 from the Desperado Squad - will qualify for the finals on Sunday, Jan. 13.

     


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    Qualifying Standings after Squad 5/15

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