Marco De Angelis becomes first player who cracks the 1300-bar in Ebonite Roma Int'l

    11/11/10

    2010 European Bowling Tour #17

    Leads 208-player field with 1322 as tournament has passed the halfway point

    2010EBT17MarcoDeAngelis.jpg2010EBT17EikeKabowski.jpgMarco De Angelis (pictured left), Italy, finished the fifth qualifying day at Brunswick Bowling Rome in Rome, Italy with back-to-back 250-games en route to overtake the lead in the 1st Ebonite Roma International.

    De Angelis started the tenth of 18 qualifying squads with 205, 210, 196 and 196 before he closed things out with 256 and 259 to become the first player, who cracked the 1300-bar, with 1322 pinfall total and an average of 220.33.

    Alessandro Martino, who posted 1298 in Squad 7 on Tuesday, slipped to second place. Eike Kabowski (right), Germany, who started Wednesday in seventh place with 1224 rolled games of 233, 174, 214, 226, 205 and 224 in Squad 9 to leap three spots into third place with 1276 (212.67).

    2010EBT17SaverioTuccimei.jpg2010EBT17AmedeoSpada.jpgPlaces 4-8 belong to Italian bowlers. Saverio Tuccimei (left) fell to fourth place with 1268 and was followed by Antonio Maddaloni in fifth place with 1259, Stefano Oddi in sixth with 1257, Enrico Maddaloni in seventh with 1238 and Giovanni Battagli in eighth place with 1229.

    Long-time Italian national team member Amedeo Spada (right) was second to Kabowski in Squad 9 with 1182 and second to De Angelis in Squad 10 with 1212 en route to move into 10th place in the overall qualifying standings.

    2010EBT17CarmelinaGiuffrida.jpg2010EBT17GiuseppeCuomo.jpgMore important for the one-time and EBT champion (Vienna Open 2004), his 1212 total moved Spada into fourth place on the leaderboard for Squads 5-10. The top six of the list, who will not finish among the top 38 overall, will earn automatic berth into Sunday's finals. Joining De Angelis, Martiono, Kabowski and Spada are 12th placed Osvaldo Zaccaria (1189) and 14th placed Tommaso Radi (1182), both Italy,

    Carmelina Giuffrida (left), Italy, was third in Squad 10 with 1180 including 48 pins handicap to become the best of 26 women in the field in 15th place. With 208 players from eleven countries in the books, Giuseppe Cuomo (right), Italy, holds the 38th and last spot to advance with 1125 or an average of 187.50.

    Qualifying continues on Thursday, Nov. 11 with Squads 11 and 12 scheduled to start at 5 and 9 p.m. CET.

    2010RomeIntlLogo_small.jpg The 1st Ebonite Roma International is the 17th and penultimate stop of the 2010 European Bowling Tour and the last "Satellite" event of the 2010 EBT season. The tournament will be held from Saturday Nov. 6 through Sunday Nov. 14, 2010 at 24-lane Brunswick Bowling Rome in the capital of Italy, the country's largest and most populated city (over 2.7 million residents) located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula.

    Since the Ankara Open and the Austria Challenge have been cancelled and the English Open has lost its EBT status, the 2010 EBT Tour consists of 18 events - 2 EBT Platinum tournament (formerly Premier), 6 EBT Gold tournaments (formerly Major), 6 EBT Silver tournaments (formerly Challenger) and 4 EBT Satellite tournaments (new category).

    The 1st Ebonite Roma International is a newcomer on the European Bowling Tour offering total prize money of 25.900 Euro with 5.000 Euro going to the winner. 313 players from 23 countries have registered for the event.

    Qualifying (6 games, unlimited re-entries) runs through Saturday, Nov. 13 and ends with Squad 18 and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad scheduled to start at 8 p.m. local time (CET).

    A total of 50 players - the top 38 from the qualifying, plus the top four of the squads conducted on Nov. 6-7 (Squad 1-4), plus the top 4 of the squads conducted on Nov. 8-10 (Squad 5-10), plus the top 4 from the Desperado Squad - will advance to the finals on Sunday, Nov. 14.

    The top 8 qualifiers will earn three byes and will be seeded into Final Round 4. Positions 9-16 will get two byes and positions 17-28 will bypass the first round of the finals.

    The other 22 players will bowl 4 games scratch. The top 10 will advance to the second round. After another four-game block scratch the top 8 will advance to first round of single-elimination match play (third round overall) with the two-game total pinfall to determine the winner.

    In all matches the highest seeded player will bowl the lowest seeded player, the second highest will bowl the second lowest, etc.

    The field will be cut to 16, 8 and then 4, who will determine the champion in single-game matches (semifinals and final).

     


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    Qualifying Standings after Squad 10/18

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