Eric Kok leads Squad 4 to win 250 Euro Hammer bonus in Tilburg

    03/02/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #3

    Kok fails to make the top 6 who earn automatic berths into Sunday's finals

    2011EBT03EricKok.jpgDutch veteran Eric Kok (pictured) led the fourth qualifying squad of the Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament Tuesday evening at Dolfijn Bowling Tilburg in Tilburg, Netherlands with 1285 six-game total en route to earn a 250 Euro bonus by tournament sponsor Hammer.

    Kok, a long-time Dutch national team member in the 1970s through '90s, closed out series with huge 249 game on the challenging dual lane condition to beat out Uwe Blank (1283), Germany, for the top spot by mere two pins.

    However, Kok failed to crack the top six in the overall standings after Squad 4 who earned automatic berths into the Sunday's finals.

    2011EBT03DaveWouters.jpg 2011EBT03GeryVerbruggen.jpg Day one leader Dave Wouters (left), Netherlands, continued to lead the 80-player field from six countries, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia and United States, with 1368 six-game total and an average of 228.

    Belgium's Gery Verbruggen (right) and Dutch Michell Stinissen were tied at 1356 to sit second and third place. Fourth place belonged to Xavier Milet, Belgium, (1333) with Dirk Dreyer, Germany, (1315) fifth and Johnny Spil, Netherlands, (1312) in sixth place.

    if any of those six will finish qualifying in the top 38 the next player from the list will earn the automatic berth for the finals. Kok was tenth on that list with Blank in 12th place.

    Ghislaine van der Tol, Netherlands, who was third in Squad 4 with 1273 including 48 pins handicap, remained the best of 14 women in the field in 16th place. Sophie van der Meer, Netherlands, currently holds the 38th and last place to advance with 1207.

    Qualifying continues on Wednesday, March 2 with Squad 5 scheduled for 8 p.m. CET.

    The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament is the third stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and first of seven EBT "Silver" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from Sunday Feb. 28 through Sunday March 6, 2011 at Dolfijn Bowling Tilburg, a 20-laner in Tilburg, Netherlands.

    Since the Viborg International in Viborg, Denmark originally scheduled for July 30-Aug. 7, 2011 has been cancelled, the 2011 European Bowling Tour consists of 21 tour stops in 17 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, seven Silver and six Satellite tournaments.

    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 Bronzen Schietspoel earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament gets 50 ranking points.

    The total prize fund of the 2011 Tour exceeds one million Euro. The top 16 men and women in the EBT ranking will qualify for the 5th EBT Masters at Dream Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany on April 30 and May 1, 2012.

    Participants in the 2011 Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament will compete for total prize money of 51.200 Euro or approximately US $70,390 with 8.000 Euro going to the winner, 6.000 to the runner-up and 4.000 and 2.000 to third and fourth place finishers, respectively.

    The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament features dual lane condition. The left lane is dressed with the 46 feet long pattern (pdf file), the right lane with the 33 feet short pattern (pdf file).

    2010EBT02DennisEklund_small.jpg2010EBT02MartinaBeckel2_small.jpg Dennis Eklund (pictured left) of Sweden rolled two big games, 251 and 259, to claim the title in last year's Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament while fourth place Martina Beckel (right), Germany, led the women's ranking in Tilburg in 2010.

    Qualifying runs through Saturday March 5 with the final qualifying Squad 14 scheduled for 6 p.m. CET. Qualifying concludes with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad slated for 9.30 p.m. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 48 players - the top 38 qualifiers, the top 4 from the Desperado Squad and the top six from a separate leaderboard of the squads conducted Feb. 27th through March 1st (Squads 1-4) will advance to the finals on Sunday, Feb. 14. The top 8 qualifiers will receive three byes and qualifiers 9-16 will earn two byes.

    The remaining 32 players will be divided into eight groups of four players each for the first round of two games scratch with the total pinfall determining the position. The top two players from each group will advance to the next round.

    The field will be cut to 32, 24, 16, eight and then four, who will determine the champion in the sixth and final round of two games.

     


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    Qualifying Standings after Squad 4/14

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