Sweden sets EYC record, leads Boys’ Team event at halfway point

28 March, 2018

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Sweden averaged 224 for three games to take the lead in the boys’ team event as the preliminaries at the 31st European Youth Championships reached the halfway mark Wednesday at Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark.

Lukas Sevelin, Adam Hultgren, Oskar Wirefeldt (featured photo) and defending team and masters champion William Svensson set a new EYC record for three team games to lead the 19 four-player teams with 2690 total.

The Swedes hold a 19-pin cushion over Norway in second place with 2671. Third place belongs to the Denmark with 2624. Rounding out the top 4, who will advance to the medal round after the conclusion of the second block, is currently Netherlands with 2621.

With 9 of 18 games in the books Patrick Weichert of Germany leads in all-events (total pinfall in singles, doubles and team event) with 2039 total and an average of 226.56. Georg Skryten of Norway is second with 2001 and Oleksandr Nechypaiev of Ukraine is third with 1978.

The boys are done for today and will return tomorrow afternoon for the second block followed by the medal round. The girls will bowl their first block on Wednesday afternoon and return Thursday morning for the second block. The medal rounds will be contested simultaneously.

The 31st European Youth Championships will be held from March 24 to April 2 at 30-lane Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark.

The championships drew 156 players, 90 boys and 66 girls, from 28 member countries of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation (ETBF) – Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the host country Denmark.

Up to four boys and four girls per country who must not be born before September 1, 1999 will bowl in separate divisions for gold, silver and bronze medals in five disciplines: Singles, Doubles and four-player Teams, All-Events and Masters.

The 2018 EYC will be played on a 39-foot lane conditioning pattern with 26.73 mL volume oil total.

Singles, Doubles and Team preliminaries feature six games with the top 4 advancing to the medal round. No. 1 bowls No. 4 and No. 2 takes on No. 3 in the semi-finals. The winners bowl for gold and silver while the losers share the bronze medal. All matches will be decided in one game.

The three players with highest 18-game total of the Singles, Doubles and Teams preliminaries earn the medals in All-Events. The top 24 in All-Events determine the Masters champion in single-elimination match play in best-of-three games format. The top 8 players receive a first-round bye.

Photo courtesy of Markus Hegnelius.

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31st EYC 2018 – Boys’ Team Preliminaries after Block 1/2

Top 4 after six games advance to the medal round

Pos	Country/Players	G1	G2	G3	G1-3	G4	G5	G6	G4-6	Total	Ave.
1.	Sweden	796	948	946	2690					2690	224.17
	Lukas Sevelin	176	197	211	584					584	194.67
	Adam Hultgren	225	232	263	720					720	240.00
	Oskar Wirefeldt	198	243	231	672					672	224.00
	William Svensson	197	276	241	714					714	238.00
2.	Norway	854	875	942	2671					2671	222.58
	Georg Skryten	213	255	233	701					701	233.67
	Jörgen Mathiesen	212	172	234	618					618	206.00
	Alexander Beck	214	256	258	728					728	242.67
	Jonas Dammen	215	192	217	624					624	208.00
3.	Denmark	891	922	811	2624					2624	218.67
	Marcus Christensen	221	265	175	661					661	220.33
	Jonas Dons	169	213	207	589					589	196.33
	Andreas Andreasen	232	221	184	637					637	212.33
	Mathias Ankerdal	269	223	245	737					737	245.67
4.	Netherlands	773	983	865	2621					2621	218.42
	Brent de Ruiter	196	238	228	662					662	220.67
	Ronan van der Loo	209	245	222	676					676	225.33
	Nick de Gelder	180	275	220	675					675	225.00
	Mike Bergmann	188	225	195	608					608	202.67
5.	Germany	779	926	836	2541					2541	211.75
	Tim Lindacher	196	213	203	612					612	204.00
	Sidney Schroschk	188	232	181	601					601	200.33
	Felix Huebner	203	212	194	609					609	203.00
	Patrick Weichert	192	269	258	719					719	239.67
6.	France	845	884	748	2477					2477	206.42
	Maxime Dubois	179	247	161	587					587	195.67
	Enzo Bergamino	225	180	141	546					546	182.00
	Hugo Bonnefoy	196	204	246	646					646	215.33
	Enzo Franco	245	253	200	698					698	232.67
7.	Finland	807	861	805	2473					2473	206.08
	Pyry Puharinen	191	245	202	638					638	212.67
	Lassi Aalto	224	256	224	704					704	234.67
	Onni Riikonen	200	183	226	609					609	203.00
	Jesse Ahokas	192	177	153	522					522	174.00
8.	Ukraine	738	843	873	2454					2454	204.50
	Yaroslav Pokutnii	146	179	220	545					545	181.67
	Danil Pervukhin	206	204	191	601					601	200.33
	Mykola Sielin	183	207	194	584					584	194.67
	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	203	253	268	724					724	241.33
9.	Russia	746	754	863	2363					2363	196.92
	Aleksei Sofinskii	225	162	209	596					596	198.67
	Maksim Landau	152	162	234	548					548	182.67
	Andrey Badin	176	217	186	579					579	193.00
	Maksim Eremenko	193	213	234	640					640	213.33
10.	Belgium	890	714	741	2345					2345	195.42
	Clément Bernard	225	190	158	573					573	191.00
	Johnny Fleer	224	159	170	553					553	184.33
	Renz Philipsen	256	198	201	655					655	218.33
	Darren Pellegroms	185	167	212	564					564	188.00
11.	Scotland	764	784	710	2258					2258	188.17
	Chris Thomson-Nairne	186	175	183	544					544	181.33
	Martyn Jones	224	222	200	646					646	215.33
	Connor Parry	144	206	181	531					531	177.00
	Euan Coote	210	181	146	537					537	179.00
12.	Czech Republic	673	717	807	2197					2197	183.08
	Filip Demuth	155	164	221	540					540	180.00
	Jakub Vlachovic	178	173	204	555					555	185.00
	Jan Triska	169	199	188	556					556	185.33
	Lukas Jelínek	171	181	194	546					546	182.00
13.	England	662	762	764	2188					2188	182.33
	Oliver Spindley	157	205	214	576					576	192.00
	Robert Bowden	138	194	179	511					511	170.33
	Josephus Van Vilsteren	197	131	140	468					468	156.00
	Jay Goodwin	170	232	231	633					633	211.00
14.	Iceland	794	632	758	2184					2184	182.00
	Johann Arsäll Atlason	221	195	211	627					627	209.00
	Olafur Por Olafsson Hjaltalin	188	129	204	521					521	173.67
	Steindor Mani Björnsson	216	156	191	563					563	187.67
	Agust Ingi Stefansson	169	152	152	473					473	157.67
15.	Italy	734	749	678	2161					2161	180.08
	Giorgio Gragnaniello	181	225	168	574					574	191.33
	Leonardo Zingales	141	179	183	503					503	167.67
	Mario Del Gaudio	220	157	141	518					518	172.67
	Emanuele Camponesco	192	188	186	566					566	188.67
16.	Turkey	732	742	667	2141					2141	178.42
	Tolga Can Gülec	182	165	187	534					534	178.00
	Mustafa Kara	172	191	184	547					547	182.33
	Mehmet Gökhan Bilgin	220	206	128	554					554	184.67
	Mustafa Agah Isik	158	180	168	506					506	168.67
17.	Malta	667	690	762	2119					2119	176.58
	Edward Xuereb	183	181	165	529					529	176.33
	Miguel Xuereb	169	187	195	551					551	183.67
	Kurt Attard	154	144	159	457					457	152.33
	Matthew Magro	161	178	243	582					582	194.00
18.	Romania	650	724	657	2031					2031	169.25
	Jeno-Roland Suciu	200	157	149	506					506	168.67
	Cezar Constantin Feliu	164	203	194	561					561	187.00
	Alexandru-Valentin Grecu	149	183	155	487					487	162.33
	Cosmin-Marian Ilies	137	181	159	477					477	159.00
19.	Slovakia	616	687	660	1963					1963	163.58
	Daniel Janos	125	150	131	406					406	135.33
	Simon Hrusovsky	160	159	145	464					464	154.67
	Timotej Kozík	130	180	199	509					509	169.67
	David Barak	201	198	185	584					584	194.67

Individual High Game/High Series
1 Game – William Svensson, Sweden – 276
3 Games – Mathias Ankerdal, Denmark – 737

Team High Game/High Series
1 Game – Netherlands – 983
3 Games – Sweden – 2690 *(EYC record)

31st EYC 2018 – Boys’ All-Events after 9/18 games

Top three will earn the medals in All-Events; top 24 advance to Masters match play, top 8 will earn one bye

Pos	Player	Country	Games	Doubles	Team	Singles	Total	Ave.
1.	Patrick Weichert	Germany	9	1320	719		2039	226.56
2.	Georg Skryten	Norway	9	1300	701		2001	222.33
3.	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	Ukraine	9	1254	724		1978	219.78
4.	Mathias Ankerdal	Denmark	9	1233	737		1970	218.89
5.	William Svensson	Sweden	9	1250	714		1964	218.22
6.	Oskar Wirefeldt	Sweden	9	1290	672		1962	218.00
7.	Pyry Puharinen	Finland	9	1320	638		1958	217.56
8.	Felix Huebner	Germany	9	1348	609		1957	217.44
9.	Adam Hultgren	Sweden	9	1228	720		1948	216.44
10.	Lassi Aalto	Finland	9	1240	704		1944	216.00
11.	Alexander Beck	Norway	9	1212	728		1940	215.56
12.	Tim Lindacher	Germany	9	1307	612		1919	213.22
13.	Onni Riikonen	Finland	9	1300	609		1909	212.11
14.	Lukas Sevelin	Sweden	9	1323	584		1907	211.89
15.	Tim Cerkvenik Muzafirovic	Slovenia	9	1297	606		1903	211.44
16.	Steindor Mani Björnsson	Iceland	9	1330	563		1893	210.33
17.	Nick de Gelder	Netherlands	9	1214	675		1889	209.89
18.	Clément Bernard	Belgium	9	1313	573		1886	209.56
19.	Jonas Dammen	Norway	9	1249	624		1873	208.11
20.	Andreas Andreasen	Denmark	9	1236	637		1873	208.11
21.	Darren Pellegroms	Belgium	9	1306	564		1870	207.78
22.	Maxime Dubois	France	9	1280	587		1867	207.44
23.	Jay Goodwin	England	9	1227	633		1860	206.67
24.	Sidney Schroschk	Germany	9	1250	601		1851	205.67
25.	Mike Bergmann	Netherlands	9	1238	608		1846	205.11
26.	Marcus Christensen	Denmark	9	1177	661		1838	204.22
27.	Jesse Ahokas	Finland	9	1315	522		1837	204.11
28.	Mykola Sielin	Ukraine	9	1244	584		1828	203.11
29.	Martyn Jones	Scotland	9	1181	646		1827	203.00
30.	Jörgen Mathiesen	Norway	9	1199	618		1817	201.89
31.	Enzo Bergamino	France	9	1257	546		1803	200.33
32.	Ronan van der Loo	Netherlands	9	1123	676		1799	199.89
33.	Brent de Ruiter	Netherlands	9	1136	662		1798	199.78
34.	Hugo Bonnefoy	France	9	1151	646		1797	199.67
35.	Oliver Spindley	England	9	1220	576		1796	199.56
36.	Enzo Franco	France	9	1097	698		1795	199.44
37.	Marin Vedris	Croatia	9	1206	588		1794	199.33
38.	Alex Szczepaniak	Poland	9	1190	597		1787	198.56
39.	Renz Philipsen	Belgium	9	1132	655		1787	198.56
40.	Maksim Eremenko	Russia	9	1140	640		1780	197.78
41.	Jan Triska	Czech Republic	9	1209	556		1765	196.11
42.	Danil Pervukhin	Ukraine	9	1138	601		1739	193.22
43.	Johann Arsäll Atlason	Iceland	9	1105	627		1732	192.44
44.	Edward Xuereb	Malta	9	1197	529		1726	191.78
45.	Giorgio Gragnaniello	Italy	9	1150	574		1724	191.56
46.	David Barak	Slovakia	9	1131	584		1715	190.56
47.	Laurynas Narusis	Lithuania	9	1158	557		1715	190.56
48.	Lukas Jelínek	Czech Republic	9	1157	546		1703	189.22
49.	Aleksei Sofinskii	Russia	9	1105	596		1701	189.00
50.	Emanuele Camponesco	Italy	9	1135	566		1701	189.00
51.	Matthew Magro	Malta	9	1108	582		1690	187.78
52.	Filip Demuth	Czech Republic	9	1146	540		1686	187.33
53.	Jonas Dons	Denmark	9	1083	589		1672	185.78
54.	Conor Fetherston	Ireland	9	1152	514		1666	185.11
55.	Agust Ingi Stefansson	Iceland	9	1187	473		1660	184.44
56.	Andrey Badin	Russia	9	1080	579		1659	184.33
57.	Euan Coote	Scotland	9	1122	537		1659	184.33
58.	Robert Bowden	England	9	1145	511		1656	184.00
59.	Johnny Fleer	Belgium	9	1096	553		1649	183.22
60.	Mario Del Gaudio	Italy	9	1124	518		1642	182.44
61.	Olafur Por Olafsson Hjaltalin	Iceland	9	1114	521		1635	181.67
62.	Miguel Xuereb	Malta	9	1079	551		1630	181.11
63.	Maksim Landau	Russia	9	1077	548		1625	180.56
64.	Yaroslav Pokutnii	Ukraine	9	1079	545		1624	180.44
65.	Connor Parry	Scotland	9	1090	531		1621	180.11
66.	Chris Thomson-Nairne	Scotland	9	1075	544		1619	179.89
67.	Matteo Corazza	San Marino	9	1135	476		1611	179.00
68.	Zan Haramina	Slovenia	9	1139	461		1600	177.78
69.	Mehmet Gökhan Bilgin	Turkey	9	1037	554		1591	176.78
70.	Jakub Vlachovic	Czech Republic	9	1032	555		1587	176.33
71.	Cezar Constantin Feliu	Romania	9	1017	561		1578	175.33
72.	Sean Farren	Ireland	9	1047	522		1569	174.33
73.	Kurt Attard	Malta	9	1106	457		1563	173.67
74.	Cosmin-Marian Ilies	Romania	9	1074	477		1551	172.33
75.	Lorcan Staines	Ireland	9	1112	439		1551	172.33
76.	Alexandru-Valentin Grecu	Romania	9	1048	487		1535	170.56
77.	Mika Gerla	Switzerland	9	981	549		1530	170.00
78.	Kipras Kriauciunas	Lithuania	9	939	587		1526	169.56
79.	Jeno-Roland Suciu	Romania	9	1017	506		1523	169.22
80.	Leonardo Zingales	Italy	9	1013	503		1516	168.44
81.	Andrej Storozev	Lithuania	9	1023	491		1514	168.22
82.	Mustafa Kara	Turkey	9	965	547		1512	168.00
83.	Jonah Louvrier	Switzerland	9	1027	479		1506	167.33
84.	Timotej Kozík	Slovakia	9	969	509		1478	164.22
85.	Mustafa Agah Isik	Turkey	9	972	506		1478	164.22
86.	Tolga Can Gülec	Turkey	9	934	534		1468	163.11
87.	Josephus Van Vilsteren	England	9	972	468		1440	160.00
88.	Bartosz Sowinski	Poland	9	914	525		1439	159.89
89.	Simon Hrusovsky	Slovakia	9	826	464		1290	143.33
90.	Daniel Janos	Slovakia	9	851	406		1257	139.67