No changes atop the leaderboard in San Marino Open in Wednesday's Squads 9-11

    07/16/15

    2015 European Bowling Tour #11

    Dreyer, Moor, Lorenc and Spacey atop the leaderboard of Squads 9-14 to earn automatic spots for the finals; score to make the cut in 35th place is now 1277 (212.83 average)

    2015EBT11PeterHellstrom.jpg2015EBT11DirkDreyer.jpgSwede Peter Hellström (left) continued to lead the qualifying of the 11th Storm San Marino Open as there were no notable changes to the leaderboard in Wednesday's Squads 9-11.

    Hellström, who is targeting to win his third European Bowling Tour title, leads the field of 149-player from 14 countries with 1492 total and an average of 248.67. Yoan Alix of France remained in second place with 1421 and is followed by Johnny Fronville of Belgium in third place with 1408.

    Former German national team member Dirk Dreyer (above right) paced Wednesday's qualifying with 1366 to leap into 14th place in the overall standing. Dreyer rebounded from a slow start in Squad 11 (182, 192) with games of 233, 224, 256 and 279 to position himself atop the separate standings of Squads 9-14.

    2015EBT10PaulMoor.jpg2015EBT04JaroslavLorenc2.jpgThe top four bowlers of that list will earn automatic byes into Sunday's finals if they don't finish in the top 35. If any of the top four will finish in the top 35, the automatic spot goes to the next qualifier in order.

    With the 279 last game, Dreyer beat out Paul Moor (left) of England for the top spot by just one pin. The lefty, the European Bowling Tour all-time title leader with 16 wins, was second with 1365 including six games between 247 and 204, good for 15th place overall.

    Jaroslav Lorenc (above right), Czech Republic, used a 279 high game for 1336 to move into 19th place and to sit in third place on the Squad 9-14 list.

    2015EBT11TannerSpacey.jpg2015EBT11RebeccaLandqvist.jpgTanner Spacey (left), United States, and Rebecca Landqvist (right) of Sweden were the only bowlers of Squads 9 & 10, who made it into the top 35. Spacey, a familiar face on the European Bowling Tour, toppled 1323 pins in Squad 9 including five games between 248 and 214 and a low game of 169, to sit in 24th place.

    Landqvist led Squad 10 with 1308 total including 48 pins handicap to become the second of 11 women in the field who is above the cut line. Maxime de Rooij of Germany is the leading woman in sixth place with 1394.

    The score to make the cut in 35tth place improved by 27 pins on Wednesday. Luca Pistolesi of Italy currently holds the last place to advance to the finals with 1277 or an average of 212.83.

    Qualifying commences Thursday, July 16, with Squads 12-14 scheduled to start at noon, 4 and 8 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST).

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    The Storm San Marino Open is the 11th stop of the 2015 European Bowling Tour and the first out of three EBT "Gold" tournaments this season. The 11th edition will be held July 11-19 at 18-lane Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino and offers total prize fund of 61.050 Euro with 8.000 Euro going to the winner, 5.000 to the runner-up, 3.300 to the third and 2.400 to the fourth place finisher.

    Qualifying of the San Marino Open (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) runs from Saturday July 11 through Saturday, July 18 with the last qualifying squad 20 scheduled for 7 p.m. CEST. The qualifying winner will receive a 1.000 Euro bonus.

    Qualifying concludes with the one-game Desperado Squad scheduled to start at 10 p.m. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire tournament, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour. The top three women based on the finals standings will receive 500, 350 and 200 Euro bonuses, respectively.

    Total 48 players will advance to the finals on Sunday, July 19, including the top 35 qualifiers plus the top 3 from the squads conducted on July 11-12, the top 3 from the squads conducted on July 13-14, the top 4 from the squads conducted on July 15-16, and the top 3 from the Desperado Squad.

    The top 8 qualifiers receive two byes and qualifiers 9-16 get a first-round bye. The other 32 players will bowl four games from scratch to cut to the top 16, who will meet qualifiers 9-16 in the second round. Those 24 bowl another four games from scratch to cut to the top 10, who will join the top eight in a six-game round before the cut to the top 4.

    The four finalists will determine the winner in an eliminator-format finals which will feature three one-game rounds. All four players bowl the opening game, with the lowest-scoring player being eliminated. In the two rounds to follow, the same "low man out" format applies. The last man standing will be declared the champion.

    2015EBTLogo_small.jpg The 2015 European Bowling Tour currently consists of 17 tournaments in 13 countries featuring three "Platinum" events, three "Gold", three "Silver" and eight "Satellite" events. All 17 tournaments together offer total prize fund of 870.000 Euro or 961.500 U.S. Dollar.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. Those points will be tabulated throughout the season to determine the top 12 men and top 12 women, who will compete in the 9th EBT Masters July 25, 2016 at Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino following the 12th San Marino Open.

     


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    11th Storm San Marino Open - Qualifying Standings after Squad 11/20


    Top 35 qualifiers plus the top 3 from the squads conducted on July 11-12, the top 3 from the squads conducted on July 13-14, the top 4 from the squads conducted on July 15-16, and the top 3 from the Desperado Squad will advance to the finals.

    300 games (2) - Nicola Pongolini, Davide Spagnoli.

    Tie Rules (Qualifying)
    In case of a tie in the qualifying, "the highest positioned player will be the player scoring the highest total of all counting qualification games minus the score of the lowest game. If a tie still exists, the highest positioned player will be the player with the highest total of all counting qualification games minus the score of the two lowest games, etc."