Venezuela's Ildemaro Ruiz Jr. rolls 1322 series to shoot into second place in Madrid

    06/26/13

    2013 European Bowling Tour #8

    Pablo Barriopedro remains atop the qualifying leaderboard with 1348; cut for 38th place is currently 1074 (179 average)

    2013EBT08PabloBarriopedro.jpg2013EBT08IldemaroRuiz.jpgVenezuelan national team member Ildemaro Ruiz Jr. (pictured left) became the second player in the inaugural Brunswick Madrid Challenge who cracked the 1300-bar en route to shoot into second place in the overall qualifying standings.

    Ruiz, who regularly competes on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour in the United States, averaged 220.33 in Squad 12 (11 was cancelled) for a 1322 series including games of 236, 230, 194, 247, 222 and 193.

    Pablo Barriopedro (right) of Spain remained atop the 70-player leaderboard with 1348 total and an average of 224.67.

    2013EBT08OliverMorig.jpg2013EBT04PasiUotila.jpgRaúl Jimenez Carrión, Spain, slipped one spot to third place with 1269 and was followed by compatriot Francisco Javier Larragan, who was second to Ruiz with 1247 to improve his previous high series by 25 pins.

    Fifth place belonged to Oliver Morig (left) of Germany with 1231. Four-time European Bowling Tour champion Pasi Uotila (right) of Finland used a 1216 series to leap into sixth place.

    Juan Marian (1214), Paco Rodriguez (1210) and Ruben Orche (1207) are the only other players who averaged over 200 in seventh thru ninth place.

    2013EBT08JosefineLinderoth.jpgJosefine Linderoth (right) of Sweden is the best of nine women in the field so far in tenth place with 1197 total including 48 pins handicap. Teresa Barriopedro, Spain, holds the 38th and last place to advance to Sunday's finals with 1074 or an average of 179 including handicap.

    Qualifying continues Wednesday, June 26, with Squads 13 & 14 scheduled for 5 and 9 p.m. CEST.

    2013BrunswickMadridChallengeLogo_small.jpg The 1st Brunswick Madrid Challenge, a newcomer on the European Bowling Tour, is the eighth event on the 2013 schedule and the third out of four EBT "Silver" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from June 22-30 at 20-lane Bowling Chamartín in Madrid, Spain, and offers total prize fund of 41.250 Euro with 6.000 Euro going to the winner, 3.000 to the runner-up and 2.000 to the third place finisher.

    The qualifying of the Madrid Challenge 2013 (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) runs from Saturday, June 22 through Saturday, June 29 with the last qualifying squad 26 scheduled for 9 p.m. CEST.

    Qualifying concludes with the one-game Desperado Squad slated for early Sunday morning 12.30 a.m. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire tournament, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 50 players will qualify for the finals on Sunday, June 30 - the top 38 players from the overall qualifying standings, the top four players each from the combined standings of Squads 1-8 and 9-14 who are not among the top 38, and the top four players of the Desperado Squad. The top 10 qualifiers will receive two byes while qualifiers 11-20 will get a first-round bye.

    The first three rounds of the finals feature four games from scratch. The field will be trimmed to 30, 20 and then 10 players who will carry forward the four-game total of Round Three into the fourth round.

    After another four-game block, the player with the highest eight-game total advances to the title match, the second player goes to the semifinal and players ranked 3-6 advance to the quarterfinal.

    The finals will be decided in one-game matches. The winner of the quarterfinal bowls the No. 2 seed for the right to bowl the No. 1 seed for the title.

    2013EBTLogo_small.jpg The 2013 European Bowling Tour consists of 19 tournaments in 13 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, four Silver and seven Satellite events.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event earn ranking points based on how they finish. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament such as the Madrid Challenge earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament gets 50 ranking points.

    Points are tabulated throughout the season and the top 12 men and the top 12 women qualify for the seventh EBT Masters to be held March 3, 2014 at Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands immediately following the EBT Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 2014.

     


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