Francesco holds on to the lead in San Marino

    07/07/09

    2009 European Bowling Tour #8

    Rose’n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino (July 4-12, 2009)

    2009EBT18MarcoBaade.jpg2009EBT18MauroMontanari.jpgDante Didon Francesco from Italy held on to the lead in the qualifying of the 5th Storm San Marino Open. Francesco's 1371 six-game total, an average of 228.50, remained unchallenged during squads 6 and 7 Monday at Rose’n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino.

    Marco Baade (pictured left), Germany, led Squad 6 with 1290 (215.00) en route to crack the top 10. Mauro Montanari (right), Italy, and Jürgen Neumann, Germany, felled 1350 and 1345 pins in Squad 7 to move into third and fourth place, respectively. Baade slipped to 11th place.

    With seven out of 24 squads in the books and 83 players having completed at least one qualifying block, the cutoff number for 38th place is 1174 or an average of 195.67.

    The 5th Storm San Marino Open is the 8th stop of the 2009 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Majors". The tournament will be held at Rose’n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino from July 4-12, 2009.

    The total prize fund is 55.000 Euro with 10.000 Euro going to the winner. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game. As an EBT Major, there are 100 ranking points at stake for the winner of the men's and women's rankings, respectively.

    Qualifying continues until Saturday, July 11th. A total of 48 players will advance to the finals on Sunday: The top 38 players from the qualifying plus the top 3 from the squads conducted on July 4-5, the top 4 from the squads conducted on July 6-8 and the top 3 from the Desperado Squad. The top 6 qualifiers will earn two byes, while qualifiers 6-12 will get one.

    The other 36 will bowl four games from scratch to the top 18, who will meet qualifiers 6-12 in round two. They bowl another 4-game set from scratch to cut to the top 10, who will join the top six qualifiers in single-elimination match play over two games total pinfall.

    The highest seeded player bowls the lowest seeded, the second-highest seeded players bowls the second-lowest and so on. The field will be cut to 8, 4 then 2, who will bowl for the EBT "major" title and the 10.000 Euro top prize.

     


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