Carsten Warming Hansen wins qualifying at Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 2013

    02/10/13

    2013 European Bowling Tour #2

    Dane leads field of 196 players from 16 countries with 1494 (249 average); earns 1.000 Euro bonus and leads 46 players into Sunday's finals; England's Richard Teece achieves perfection; cut for 36th place is 1346 (224.33 average)

    2013EBT02CarstenWarmingHansen.jpg2013EBT02BjornEinarRudshagen.jpgCarsten Warming Hansen (pictured left) of Denmark finished the qualifying at the Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 2013 atop the 196-player leaderboard, 157 men and 39 women from 16 countries, en route to lead a group of 46 players into Sunday's finals at Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands.

    Hansen, who rolled games of 268, 246, 235, 258, 290 and 197 for 1494 total, received a 1.000 Euro bonus, 500 for leading Squad 6 and another 500 for winning the qualifying. Places 2-6 after seven days of qualifying featuring 14 squads earned 250 bonus apiece. The top six also received one bye for the finals.

    201213PBADominicBarrett.jpg201213PBAOskuPalermaa.jpgThere were no changes in the top six in Saturday's squads 12, 13 & 14 leaving Bjørn Einar Rudshagen (avove right) of Norway in second place with 1453. PBA champions Dominic Barrett (left), England, and Osku Palermaa (right), Finland, who led the European Bowling Tour men's point rankings in the past six years (Palermaa 2007-09, 11; Barrett 2010 & 12), were in third and fourth place with 1447 and 1443, respectively.

    Jimmy Mortensen of Denmark finished qualifying in fifth place with 1436 and Birgit Pöppler of Germany was the best of 39 women in sixth place with 1428 including 48 pins handicap.

    2013EBT02DennisEklund.jpg2013EBT02RichardTeece.jpgDennis Eklund (left) of Sweden, a three-time European Bowling Tour champion, led Squad 12 on Saturday morning with 1424 including high games of 278, 259 and 257 to land in seventh place, just four pins off the pace for the top 6.

    Richard Teece (right), England, rolled the second 300 game of the tournament series in Squad 13 en route to a 1412 series which propelled him into ninth place. Jesper Agerbo (below left) of Denmark, gold medalist in Masters at the 2012 Men's European Championships in Austria, led the final squad 14 with 1398 including six games between 257 and 214, good for 12th place overall.

    2013EBT02JesperAgerbo.jpg2012EBT09JohnnyAdsbol.jpgLisanne Breeschoten was the best Dutch bowler in 13th place with 1390 including women's handicap. Six of the 39 women in the field survived the first cut. Dane Johnni Adsbol (right) took the 36th and last spot with 1346 or an average of 223.67.

    Joining the top 36 in finals were the top 6 from a separate leaderboard after the first four squads, Johnny Fronville and Jean-Marc Samain of Belgium and Dutch Ramon Hilferink, Remco van Dommelen, Eric Kok and Phil Hulst as well as the top 4 of the one-game Desperado Squad.

    2011EBT17AchimGrabowski.jpg2012EBT03MarkJacobs.jpgAchim Grabowski (left), Germany, and Mark Jacobs (right), Netherlands, led the 33 desperados with 246 closely followed by Marco de Bruijn, Netherlands, and Peter Hellström, Sweden, with 245 and 243, resp.

    The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 2013 is the second stop of the 2013 European Bowling Tour and the first of five EBT "Silver" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from Sunday Feb. 3 through Sunday Feb. 10, 2013 at 20-lane Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands.

    Players will compete for total prize money of 51.500 Euro with 8.000 Euro going to the winner, 5.000 to the runner-up and 3.000 and 2.000 to third and fourth place finishers, respectively.

    Once again the HBS Tournament will be contested on dual lane condition. In 2013, one lane is dressed with a 35 ft. "short" pattern and the other lane dressed with a 40 ft. "medium" pattern.

    Qualifying ran from February 3-9. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 46 players - the top 36 qualifiers, the top 4 from the Desperado Squad and the top 6 from a separate leaderboard of Squads 1-4 conducted Feb. 3-5 - advanced to the finals on Sunday, Feb. 10. The top 6 qualifiers received one bye.

    Players ranked 7 to 46 will bowl four games with the top 18 players joining the top six qualifiers in the so called group finals. Those 24 players will be divided into six groups of four players each for the first of four eliminator rounds.

    All four players will bowl a two-game match with the two lowest scoring players eliminated. The two highest scoring players advance to the next round (in the first round four "lucky losers" also advance).

    The field will be cut to 16, eight and then four players who will bowl a final two-game round to determine the champion.

     


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    Standings after Qualifying and Desperado Squad


    The top 36 qualifiers, the top 6 from a separate leaderboard of Squads 1-4 (places 37-42) and the top 4 from the Desperado Squad (places 43-46) advance to the finals. The top 6 qualifiers receive one bye.



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