Ukraine claims gold in Boys’ Doubles in dramatic fashion

10 April, 2017

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Oleksandr Nechypaiev and Mykola Sielin of Ukraine used a dramatic finish to defeat Brent de Ruiter and Ronan van der Loo from The Netherlands, 410-406, to win the gold medal in Boys’ Doubles, the opening event of the 30th European Youth Championships, Monday at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland.

Pictured above from left to right: Boys’ Doubles gold medalists Mykola Sielin and Oleksandr Nechypaiev of Ukraine.

Heading into the 10th frame the Dutch boys held a 15-pin lead over the Ukrainians. Fresh off a 257 game in the semi-final, De Ruiter struck on nine of his 12 shots for 247 and though Nechypaiev closed with four strikes for 212, Van der Loo needed only 16 pins in his 10th frame to shut out the Ukrainians.

The right-hander got nine pins on the first ball but failed to convert the 7-pin spare to open the door for his opponents. Sielin, who had a pair of doubles in the third and fourth and in the seventh and eighth frame, needed another doubles and a five-count to win by one pin.

The Ukrainian got the double and wrapped up the title with an eight-count on the fill ball, while the Dutch boys had to settle for the silver medal.

In the semi-finals, the fourth-seeded Ukrainians stunned the top-seeded players from the host country Finland, Jesse Ahokas and Niko Oksanen (left, l-r), 412-402, while the Dutch, seeded second, eliminated third-seeded Quentin Deroo and Maxime Dubois (below right, l-r) of France, 436-399, to advance to the gold medal match.

As the semi-final losers, Finland and France shared the bronze medal.

The 94 boys from 28 countries were split into two squads to roll six games of preliminaries to cut to the top 4 who advance to the one-game medal round.

Oksanen and Ahokas rolled the two highest individual series in the first squads, averaging better than 230 as a pair, to cruise to the No. 1 seed with 2764 pinfall total.

Oksanen started his six-game series 224, 189, 233 and 215 before he closed with 258 and 300, the first perfecto of this Championships and the 15th in his career. The defending all-events champion also took the early lead in all-events (total pinfall in singles, doubles and team preliminaries) with 1419 and an average of 236.50.

Ahokas, silver medalist in Masters at the 2016 EYC in Reykjavik, Iceland, used high games of 268, 258 and 247 to take second place with 1345 (224.17). Jake Edwards of England was the only other player who surpassed the 1300-mark to move into third place with 1320 (220.00).

Trailing the Finns by 222 pins to take the No. 2 seed were De Ruiter and Van der Loo with 2542 (211.83). Deroo and Dubois led squad 2 with 2495 (207.92) to move into third place. The French pushed back Nechypaiev and Sielin to fourth place with 2493 (207.75), while the second Dutch duo of Bart van Beers and Mike Bergmann slipped out of the top 4 to fifth place with 2474 (206.17).

Action shifts to the girls’ doubles competition on Tuesday. The 52 girls from 18 countries will be split into two squads which will start the six-game preliminaries at 9 a.m. and 1.15 p.m. Eastern European Summer Time. The semi-finals and the gold medal match will follow at 5.30 and 6.15 p.m. EEST.

The 30th European Youth Championships will be held from April 8-17, 2017 at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland.

The Championships drew 146 players, 94 boys and 52 girls, from 28 member countries of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation (ETBF) – Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and the host country Finland.

Up to four boys and four girls per country who must not be born before September 1, 1998 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 2017 EYC will be played on a 41-foot lane conditioning pattern with 25.485 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. Top 8 players receive a first-round bye.

Photos courtesy of Seija Lankinen.

30th European Youth Championships officially declared open

30th EYC 2017 – Boys Doubles Medal Round

Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland (April 10, 2017)

Championship Round:
1. Ukraine (Oleksandr Nechypaiev, Mykola Sielin), 822 (2 games)
2. Netherlands (Brent de Ruiter, Ronan van der Loo), 842 (2 games)
3. Finland (Jesse Ahokas, Niko Oksanen), 402 (1 game)
(tie) France (Quentin Deroo, Maxime Dubois), 399 (1 game)

Playoff Results:
Semifinal Match 1:
No. 4 Ukraine (Nechypaiev 176/Sielin 236) def.
No 1 Finland (Ahokas 192/Oksanen 210), 412-402
Semifinal Match 2:
No. 2 Netherlands (De Ruiter 257/Van der Loo 179) def.
No. 3 France (Deroo 206/Dubois 193), 436-399
Gold Medal Match:
Ukraine (Nechypaiev 212/Sielin 198) def.
Netherlands (De Ruiter 247/Van der Loo 159), 410-406.

30th EYC 2017 – Boys Doubles Preliminaries

Top 4 advance to the medal round.

Pos	Country/Players	G1	G2	G3	G1-3	G4	G5	G6	G4-6	Total	Ave.
1.	Finland	492	348	480	1320	404	516	524	1444	2764	230.33
	Jesse Ahokas	268	159	247	674	189	258	224	671	1345	224.17
	Niko Oksanen	224	189	233	646	215	258	300	773	1419	236.50
2.	Netherlands	470	437	456	1363	335	407	437	1179	2542	211.83
	Brent de Ruiter	225	208	235	668	192	217	204	613	1281	213.50
	Ronan van der Loo	245	229	221	695	143	190	233	566	1261	210.17
3.	France	426	435	397	1258	360	454	423	1237	2495	207.92
	Quentin Deroo	224	237	194	655	179	245	200	624	1279	213.17
	Maxime Dubois	202	198	203	603	181	209	223	613	1216	202.67
4.	Ukraine	344	426	395	1165	399	468	461	1328	2493	207.75
	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	219	190	159	568	226	257	247	730	1298	216.33
	Mykola Sielin	125	236	236	597	173	211	214	598	1195	199.17
5.	Netherlands	401	381	403	1185	371	492	426	1289	2474	206.17
	Bart van Beers	209	191	201	601	166	257	201	624	1225	204.17
	Mike Bergmann	192	190	202	584	205	235	225	665	1249	208.17
6.	Denmark	408	456	440	1304	354	399	400	1153	2457	204.75
	Mathias G. Ankerdal	189	188	225	602	178	208	210	596	1198	199.67
	Jonas H. Iversen	219	268	215	702	176	191	190	557	1259	209.83
7.	England	408	375	419	1202	451	422	372	1245	2447	203.92
	Matthew Terry	132	132	235	499	209	225	194	628	1127	187.83
	Jake Edwards	276	243	184	703	242	197	178	617	1320	220.00
8.	Norway	429	422	358	1209	458	359	420	1237	2446	203.83
	Håvar W Skog	171	196	167	534	235	191	234	660	1194	199.00
	Jorgen Mathiesen	258	226	191	675	223	168	186	577	1252	208.67
9.	France	327	447	354	1128	481	459	355	1295	2423	201.92
	Hugo Bonnefoy	157	234	191	582	269	203	188	660	1242	207.00
	Enzo Franco	170	213	163	546	212	256	167	635	1181	196.83
10.	Sweden	461	425	423	1309	373	320	411	1104	2413	201.08
	Filip Thelander	264	225	189	678	215	196	185	596	1274	212.33
	William Svensson	197	200	234	631	158	124	226	508	1139	189.83
11.	Russia	347	379	387	1113	427	464	409	1300	2413	201.08
	Alexey Stepin	171	205	204	580	235	218	166	619	1199	199.83
	Maksim Landau	176	174	183	533	192	246	243	681	1214	202.33
12.	Norway	403	375	357	1135	493	390	392	1275	2410	200.83
	Alexander Beck	191	175	180	546	235	167	170	572	1118	186.33
	Jonas Dammen	212	200	177	589	258	223	222	703	1292	215.33
13.	Finland	405	338	443	1186	392	401	427	1220	2406	200.50
	Lassi Aalto	173	169	217	559	189	219	175	583	1142	190.33
	Pyry Puharinen	232	169	226	627	203	182	252	637	1264	210.67
14.	England	450	390	394	1234	421	357	381	1159	2393	199.42
	Austin Taylor	224	199	158	581	164	169	195	528	1109	184.83
	Ki Leighfield	226	191	236	653	257	188	186	631	1284	214.00
15.	Germany	417	395	439	1251	348	403	386	1137	2388	199.00
	Pascal Kempgens	196	180	201	577	145	188	188	521	1098	183.00
	Felix Huebner	221	215	238	674	203	215	198	616	1290	215.00
16.	Croatia	384	419	321	1124	434	402	413	1249	2373	197.75
	Sven Fekeža	230	184	155	569	211	179	202	592	1161	193.50
	Marin Vedriš	154	235	166	555	223	223	211	657	1212	202.00
17.	Ukraine	354	449	375	1178	379	376	434	1189	2367	197.25
	Danil Pervukhin	180	212	197	589	222	245	200	667	1256	209.33
	Yaroslav Pokutnii	174	237	178	589	157	131	234	522	1111	185.17
18.	Slovenia	433	494	377	1304	340	353	364	1057	2361	196.75
	Ziga Zalar	236	257	173	666	147	177	203	527	1193	198.83
	Tim Cerkvenik Muzafirovic	197	237	204	638	193	176	161	530	1168	194.67
19.	Spain	393	389	436	1218	369	371	394	1134	2352	196.00
	Alejandro Garcia	180	224	223	627	177	212	243	632	1259	209.83
	Borja Sanchis	213	165	213	591	192	159	151	502	1093	182.17
20.	Slovakia	374	409	402	1185	397	365	403	1165	2350	195.83
	Tomáš Vrabec	197	202	190	589	197	155	195	547	1136	189.33
	Roman Karlík	177	207	212	596	200	210	208	618	1214	202.33
21.	Slovakia	344	356	424	1124	412	382	417	1211	2335	194.58
	Dávid Vilina	167	132	183	482	200	213	191	604	1086	181.00
	Alex Basala	177	224	241	642	212	169	226	607	1249	208.17
22.	Denmark	411	384	404	1199	388	374	348	1110	2309	192.42
	Niklas J. Sørensen	196	195	198	589	221	189	182	592	1181	196.83
	Jeppe Jakobsen	215	189	206	610	167	185	166	518	1128	188.00
23.	Iceland	382	426	378	1186	391	320	401	1112	2298	191.50
	Jóhann Ársæll Atlason	159	258	199	616	199	151	212	562	1178	196.33
	Ólafur Þór Ólafsson Hjaltalín	223	168	179	570	192	169	189	550	1120	186.67
24.	Sweden	382	415	365	1162	424	303	404	1131	2293	191.08
	Robin Skans	201	212	181	594	204	135	212	551	1145	190.83
	Emanuel Jonsson	181	203	184	568	220	168	192	580	1148	191.33
25.	Germany	365	388	449	1202	313	390	348	1051	2253	187.75
	Sidney Schroschk	193	193	227	613	196	180	194	570	1183	197.17
	Patrick Weichert	172	195	222	589	117	210	154	481	1070	178.33
26.	Lithuania	318	354	403	1075	359	379	412	1150	2225	185.42
	Rokas Rudžinskas	160	154	192	506	198	214	167	579	1085	180.83
	Domantas Čepulis	158	200	211	569	161	165	245	571	1140	190.00
27.	Belgium	376	374	400	1150	386	329	350	1065	2215	184.58
	Darren Pellegroms	176	181	199	556	185	171	191	547	1103	183.83
	Gregory Leroy	200	193	201	594	201	158	159	518	1112	185.33
28.	Iceland	405	404	316	1125	318	375	396	1089	2214	184.50
	Steindór Máni Björnsson	236	203	145	584	138	204	194	536	1120	186.67
	Ágúst Ingi Stefánsson	169	201	171	541	180	171	202	553	1094	182.33
29.	Israel	353	419	429	1201	340	340	293	973	2174	181.17
	Liav Yehene	180	234	221	635	215	168	181	564	1199	199.83
	Liran Hayoun	173	185	208	566	125	172	112	409	975	162.50
30.	Greece	379	403	318	1100	395	335	334	1064	2164	180.33
	Eleftherios Montsenigos	163	183	161	507	190	145	165	500	1007	167.83
	Nikolaos Serelis	216	220	157	593	205	190	169	564	1157	192.83
31.	Czech Republic	340	355	363	1058	410	328	364	1102	2160	180.00
	Patrik Pechar	141	184	157	482	190	141	200	531	1013	168.83
	Jan Tříska	199	171	206	576	220	187	164	571	1147	191.17
32.	Malta	402	407	323	1132	326	330	363	1019	2151	179.25
	Matthew Magro	202	219	152	573	191	170	189	550	1123	187.17
	Edward Xuereb	200	188	171	559	135	160	174	469	1028	171.33
33.	Austria	348	340	350	1038	329	361	416	1106	2144	178.67
	Noah Emanuel Wilfinger	179	171	161	511	178	176	201	555	1066	177.67
	Rene` Höflich	169	169	189	527	151	185	215	551	1078	179.67
34.	Scotland	365	308	314	987	332	430	392	1154	2141	178.42
	Chris Thomson Nairne	175	166	163	504	142	227	200	569	1073	178.83
	Daniel Addison	190	142	151	483	190	203	192	585	1068	178.00
35.	Belgium	372	313	402	1087	316	346	386	1048	2135	177.92
	Clement Bernard	212	150	166	528	155	170	165	490	1018	169.67
	Joppe Belmans	160	163	236	559	161	176	221	558	1117	186.17
36.	Russia	273	395	326	994	385	330	415	1130	2124	177.00
	Maksim Eremenko	146	192	183	521	161	134	210	505	1026	171.00
	Andrey Badin	127	203	143	473	224	196	205	625	1098	183.00
37.	Israel	284	371	352	1007	319	388	380	1087	2094	174.50
	Eyal Damari	127	207	172	506	183	198	191	572	1078	179.67
	liron l Ashkenazi	157	164	180	501	136	190	189	515	1016	169.33
38.	Italy	344	290	378	1012	346	396	337	1079	2091	174.25
	Stefano Gaido	170	131	163	464	175	183	139	497	961	160.17
	Alessandro Rossi	174	159	215	548	171	213	198	582	1130	188.33
39.	Italy	378	369	310	1057	398	298	320	1016	2073	172.75
	Giorgio Gragnaniello	190	149	130	469	197	122	118	437	906	151.00
	Emanuele Camponesco	188	220	180	588	201	176	202	579	1167	194.50
40.	Scotland	341	274	319	934	327	433	378	1138	2072	172.67
	Martyn Jones	151	155	183	489	157	257	199	613	1102	183.67
	Connor Parry	190	119	136	445	170	176	179	525	970	161.67
41.	Greece	334	378	264	976	375	358	333	1066	2042	170.17
	Nikolaos Moutesidis	168	210	139	517	190	200	179	569	1086	181.00
	Alexis Stamatiou	166	168	125	459	185	158	154	497	956	159.33
42.	Austria	358	375	289	1022	311	291	344	946	1968	164.00
	Nino Haselauer	170	189	128	487	154	135	179	468	955	159.17
	Philipp Galler	188	186	161	535	157	156	165	478	1013	168.83
43.	Turkey	311	363	268	942	315	315	344	974	1916	159.67
	Mustafa Kara	190	162	146	498	157	148	161	466	964	160.67
	Mehmet Gokhan Bilgin	121	201	122	444	158	167	183	508	952	158.67
44.	Turkey	314	300	310	924	301	345	315	961	1885	157.08
	Emre Inan Karahan	152	169	152	473	123	178	155	456	929	154.83
	Fatih Fidan	162	131	158	451	178	167	160	505	956	159.33
45.	Romania	352	306	330	988	313	261	263	837	1825	152.08
	Cezar Feliu	205	143	199	547	141	119	123	383	930	155.00
	Jeno-Roland Suciu	147	163	131	441	172	142	140	454	895	149.17

300 game (1) – Niko Oksanen.

30th EYC 2017 – Boys All-Events after 6 of 18 games

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

Pos	Player	Country	Games	Doubles	Team	Singles	Total	Ave.
1.	Niko Oksanen	Finland	6	1419			1419	236.50
2.	Jesse Ahokas	Finland	6	1345			1345	224.17
3.	Jake Edwards	England	6	1320			1320	220.00
4.	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	Ukraine	6	1298			1298	216.33
5.	Jonas Dammen	Norway	6	1292			1292	215.33
6.	Felix Hübner	Germany	6	1290			1290	215.00
7.	Ki Leighfield	England	6	1284			1284	214.00
8.	Brent de Ruiter	Netherlands	6	1281			1281	213.50
9.	Quentin Deroo	France	6	1279			1279	213.17
10.	Filip Thelander	Sweden	6	1274			1274	212.33
11.	Pyry Puharinen	Finland	6	1264			1264	210.67
12.	Ronan van der Loo	Netherlands	6	1261			1261	210.17
13.	Alejandro Garcia	Spain	6	1259			1259	209.83
14.	Jonas H. Iversen	Denmark	6	1259			1259	209.83
15.	Danil Pervukhin	Ukraine	6	1256			1256	209.33
16.	Jorgen Mathiesen	Norway	6	1252			1252	208.67
17.	Alex Basala	Slovakia	6	1249			1249	208.17
18.	Mike Bergmann	Netherlands	6	1249			1249	208.17
19.	Hugo Bonnefoy	France	6	1242			1242	207.00
20.	Bart van Beers	Netherlands	6	1225			1225	204.17
21.	Maxime Dubois	France	6	1216			1216	202.67
22.	Maksim Landau	Russia	6	1214			1214	202.33
23.	Roman Karlík	Slovakia	6	1214			1214	202.33
24.	Marin Vedriš	Croatia	6	1212			1212	202.00
25.	Liav Yehene	Israel	6	1199			1199	199.83
26.	Alexey Stepin	Russia	6	1199			1199	199.83
27.	Mathias G. Ankerdal	Denmark	6	1198			1198	199.67
28.	Mykola Sielin	Ukraine	6	1195			1195	199.17
29.	Håvar W Skog	Norway	6	1194			1194	199.00
30.	Ziga Zalar	Slovenia	6	1193			1193	198.83
31.	Sidney Schroschk	Germany	6	1183			1183	197.17
32.	Niklas J. Sørensen	Denmark	6	1181			1181	196.83
33.	Enzo Franco	France	6	1181			1181	196.83
34.	Jóhann Ársæll Atlason	Iceland	6	1178			1178	196.33
35.	Tim Cerkvenik Muzafirovic	Slovenia	6	1168			1168	194.67
36.	Emanuele Camponesco	Italy	6	1167			1167	194.50
37.	Sven Fekeža	Croatia	6	1161			1161	193.50
38.	Nikolaos Serelis	Greece	6	1157			1157	192.83
39.	Emanuel Jonsson	Sweden	6	1148			1148	191.33
40.	Jan Tříska	Czech Republic	6	1147			1147	191.17
41.	Robin Skans	Sweden	6	1145			1145	190.83
42.	Lassi Aalto	Finland	6	1142			1142	190.33
43.	Artemijs Hudjakovs	Latvia	6	1141			1141	190.17
44.	Domantas Čepulis	Lithuania	6	1140			1140	190.00
45.	William Svensson	Sweden	6	1139			1139	189.83
46.	Tomáš Vrabec	Slovakia	6	1136			1136	189.33
47.	Carl Kinnunen	Estonia	6	1134			1134	189.00
48.	Alessandro Rossi	Italy	6	1130			1130	188.33
49.	Jeppe Jakobsen	Denmark	6	1128			1128	188.00
50.	Matthew Terry	England	6	1127			1127	187.83
51.	Matthew Magro	Malta	6	1123			1123	187.17
52.	Steindór Máni Björnsson	Iceland	6	1120			1120	186.67
53.	Ólafur Þór Ólafsson Hjaltalín	Iceland	6	1120			1120	186.67
54.	Alexander Beck	Norway	6	1118			1118	186.33
55.	Joppe Belmans	Belgium	6	1117			1117	186.17
56.	Gregory Leroy	Belgium	6	1112			1112	185.33
57.	Yaroslav Pokutnii	Ukraine	6	1111			1111	185.17
58.	Austin Taylor	England	6	1109			1109	184.83
59.	Darren Pellegroms	Belgium	6	1103			1103	183.83
60.	Martyn Jones	Scotland	6	1102			1102	183.67
61.	Andrey Badin	Russia	6	1098			1098	183.00
62.	Pascal Kempgens	Germany	6	1098			1098	183.00
63.	Laurynas Narušis	Lithuania	6	1095			1095	182.50
64.	Ágúst Ingi Stefánsson	Iceland	6	1094			1094	182.33
65.	Borja Sanchis	Spain	6	1093			1093	182.17
66.	Dávid Vilina	Slovakia	6	1086			1086	181.00
67.	Nikolaos Moutesidis	Greece	6	1086			1086	181.00
68.	Rokas Rudžinskas	Lithuania	6	1085			1085	180.83
69.	Rene` Höflich	Austria	6	1078			1078	179.67
70.	Eyal Damari	Israel	6	1078			1078	179.67
71.	Chris Thomson Nairne	Scotland	6	1073			1073	178.83
72.	Patrick Weichert	Germany	6	1070			1070	178.33
73.	Daniel Addison	Scotland	6	1068			1068	178.00
74.	Noah Emanuel Wilfinger	Austria	6	1066			1066	177.67
75.	Edward Xuereb	Malta	6	1028			1028	171.33
76.	Maksim Eremenko	Russia	6	1026			1026	171.00
77.	Clement Bernard	Belgium	6	1018			1018	169.67
78.	liron l Ashkenazi	Israel	6	1016			1016	169.33
79.	Patrik Pechar	Czech Republic	6	1013			1013	168.83
80.	Philipp Galler	Austria	6	1013			1013	168.83
81.	Eleftherios Montsenigos	Greece	6	1007			1007	167.83
82.	Liran Hayoun	Israel	6	975			975	162.50
83.	Connor Parry	Scotland	6	970			970	161.67
84.	Mustafa Kara	Turkey	6	964			964	160.67
85.	Stefano Gaido	Italy	6	961			961	160.17
86.	Fatih Fidan	Turkey	6	956			956	159.33
87.	Alexis Stamatiou	Greece	6	956			956	159.33
88.	Nino Haselauer	Austria	6	955			955	159.17
89.	Mehmet Gokhan Bilgin	Turkey	6	952			952	158.67
90.	Cezar Feliu	Romania	6	930			930	155.00
91.	Emre Inan Karahan	Turkey	6	929			929	154.83
92.	Giorgio Gragnaniello	Italy	6	906			906	151.00
93.	Jeno-Roland Suciu	Romania	6	895			895	149.17
94.	Tamas Verzar	Romania	6	832			832	138.67