Four players add their names to the leaderboard at Brunswick Italia Challenge

    07/06/13

    2013 European Bowling Tour #9

    Finn Petteri Salonen holds onto the lead; compatriot Nina Kovanen becomes first woman to crack the 1400-bar; cut for 36th place surpasses 1300-mark (1306, 217.67 ave.)

    2013EBT04NinaKovanen.jpgThree men and one women moved into the top 8 in the qualifying of the Brunswick Italia Challenge in Friday's Squads 17-19 at Bowling Red & Black in Asti, Italy.

    Petteri Salonen of Finland continued to lead the 241 players from 25 countries with 1447 pinfall and an average of 241.17 for six games. Marek Talpa, Czech Republic, and PBA champion Stuart Williams of England remained in second and third place at 1427.

    Nina Kovanen (pictured left) became the first woman to crack the 1400-bar in Friday's Squad 18 en route to jump into fourth place in the overall qualifying standings. The Finn averaged 228.33 including games of 197, 195, 217, 277, 220 and 264 for 1370 scratch and 1418 total including 48 pins handicap.

    2013EBT04YoanAlix.jpg2013EBT04PaulMoor2.jpgYoan Alix (left) of France and Paul Moor (right) of England led the first squad on Friday (#17, squad 16 has been cancelled) to overtake fifth and sixth place with 1416 and 1414, respectively. Moor won his 12th career European Bowling Tour title in the Brunswick Madrid Challenge last weekend.

    Swede Robert Andersson slipped from fourth to seventh place with 1389. Rounding out the top 8, who will receive two byes at the end of the qualifying, was two-time PBA champion Mike Machuga, United States, who toppled 1373 pins in Squad 18.

    Davide Spagnoli fell out of the top 8 and is currently the best Italian bowler in 9th place with 1363. Pavlos Pelekanos of Cyprus and PBA champion Dominic Barrett, England, had 1354 and 1348 in Squad 17 to sit in 10th and 13th place, resp.

    2012EBT04PhilippeHuber.jpg2013EBT08IdaAndersson.jpgPhilippe Huber (left) of Switzerland used a high game of 243 and three 230s to lead Squad 19 with 1344 en route to finish the penultimate qualifying day in 14th place.

    With 19 of 23 squads in the books, Ida Andersson (right) of Sweden holds 36th and last place to qualify directly to Sunday's finals with 1306 or an average of 217.67 including handicap.

    Qualifying continues Saturday, July 6, with Squads 20-23 scheduled for 9 a.m. 1, 5 and 9 p.m. CEST and concludes with the one-game Desperado Squad slated for early Sunday morning 12.30 a.m.

    2012BrunswickItaliaChallengeLogo_small.jpg The 2013 Brunswick Italia Challenge is the 9th stop of the 2013 European Bowling Tour and the fourth and last EBT "Silver" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from June 9 through July 7 at 24-lane Bowling Red & Black in Asti, Italy.

    The BIC offers total prize fund of 51.600 Euro with 10.000 Euro going to the winner, 5.000 Euro to the runner-up and 3.000 Euro to the third place finisher.

    Qualifying of the Italia Challenge 2013 (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) runs from Saturday, June 29 through Saturday, July 6. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire tournament, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 52 players advance to the finals including the top 36 qualifiers, six players each from a separate leaderboard of the squads contested June 29 & 30 and July 1 thru 3, one player each from Turbo game 5 and 6 (extra entry fee) and the top 2 players of the Desperado Squad. The top 8 qualifiers will receive two byes.

    Two four-game rounds will trim the field to 24 and then 8 players, who will meet the top eight qualifiers in eliminator-format rounds which will feature three two-game rounds.

    All four players bowl the opening two-game series, with the lowest-scoring player being eliminated. In the two rounds to follow, the same "low man out" format applies. The four group winners will bowl for the title and a 10.000 Euro first prize in three games round robin match play (20 bonus per win, 10 for a tie, 10 bonus for each game over 250).

    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 Italia 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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    Brunswick Italia Challenge - Qualifying Standings after Squad 19/23


    Top 36 qualifiers, six players each from a separate leaderboard of the squads contested July 1 thru 3 (places 37-42) and June 29 & 30 (places 43-48), one player each from Turbo game 5 & 6 plus the top 2 players of the Desperado Squad will advance to finals on Sunday, July 7. The top 8 qualifiers will receive two byes.

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