2010 Alpa Senior Open, Buxtehude/Germany
Champions
- Ladies: Farida Pascoal Blom
- Men: Ron Oldfield
Men : 2nd Dan Ahlquist (SWE), 3 rd Chris Vandamme (BEL), 4th Kalle Gaiser (GER)
Perfect game Barry Horne
Day 5 and Finals
The 3rd stop of the International Senior Bowling Tour (ISBT) showed again that the format with separated Women and Men divisions together with separated finals and price money is not only the vision of the ISBT Presidium but moreover very much appreciated by the ladies as they have their ‘own’ competition. Also the ranking is a separated competition between men and women.
Due to the ESBC Championships in Vienna, only one week ahead of the ALPA Senior Open apparently some well-known players could not make it to Buxtehude. Nevertheless the tournament welcomed a good mix of players from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Ireland and Austria.
Despite the extreme heat at, especially, the Friday and Saturday squads these were the highest scoring sessions of the week with Dan Ahlquist (SWE) leading by two breathtaking 6-game series of 1537 and 1472 total 3009 pins an qualifying average of ample 250,75! As from Day 1 Farida Pascoal-Blom (NLD) took the lead and stayed there until the finals on Sunday.
The Sunday-finals were of very high quality whereas the winners in both divisions were decided in the last game and even in the last frame with the men.
You could feel the intensity at both the top four (4) ladies and the top ten (10) men. Due to the advanced scoring processing system of the ISBT the players and the audience were kept informed on a game by game basis, this feature was very well appreciated by all bowlers, ladies and men and the audience.
The processing was carried out by Torbe Gaiser with Ad vd. Jagt in the background monitoring the processing.
This way the audience could follow their favorite(s) easily which was much appreciated.
As it was very tensive with the men’s division the outcome was very surprising in the end. Winner of the men’s division Ron Oldfield (GBR) and runner-up Dan Ahlquist (SWE) were eventually separated by just three (3) pins!
At the ladies division leading lady Erna Buysse (BEL) after 3-games of final play lost track in the last and final game whereas Farida Pascoal-Blom (NLD) took her change and clinched first place with a strong finish in frames 9 and 10.
Iggi Zech (GER) took her change as well and finished on a well deserved 2nd place.
Day 4
Men
The last three (3) qualification squads were, among others, used by players to make sure they made the qualification cut. Others used them for ‘practice’ like Dan Ahlquist (SWE) no need to bowl again as he was already placed first and nevertheless shot a 1472 adding his total even higher 3009 pins ample 250 average!
Asking why he bowled again in this temperature ‘I just like to play, I love the game of bowling’ he said.
Due to late arrival of Chris Vandamme (BEL) he could only bowl in the last available squads (8-9-10) on Saturday.
Notwithstanding the inside heat (40 deg.) he managed to bowl two solid 6-game series of 1460 and 1426 totalling 2886 pins averaging 240,5.
Despite that Chris is a well known and classy player this still is a world class performance earning admiration of the players in his squad and the remaining qualifiers. Chris took over 2nd place from Barry Horne (USA).
Ladies
In the ladies division fine scoring lefty Barbara Karnasch (GER) pulled the attention on Saturday morning by scoring two 6-game series of 1223 and 1239 total 2462 just 10-pins short of #1 Farida Pascoal-Blom.
The qualification cut for the ladies was 2214 pins and with the men 2569 pins.
Plus two (2) ladies desperados Andrea Wisse (BEL) and Else Skovgaard (DEN), the Male desperados qualifiers were Christian Stefan (AUT), Arthur Dähn (GER), Kalle Gaiser (GER) and John Skovgaard (DEN)
Charley Blom
ISBT Tour Manager
Day 3
All insiders thought that the total score (2x6gms) of 2833 by Barry Horne (USA) could not be beaten.
But Dan Ahlquist (SWE) thought differently and found a shot on the left hand side what looked like a Swedish tornado.
Not withstanding the heat inside the bowling which reached temperatures of over 35 deg. C. Dan was zeroed in and shot his first set of 6-games in de 1st squad of 1404 and shot his 2nd set of 6-games total of 1537 (!) totaling 2941 averaging 242,5 over his 12-games set.
Guy Latry (BEL) followed with a 12-game total 2709 and Bill Goldwasser (BEL) shortly behind Guy Latry with 2669.
Ron Oldfield (ENG) still in competition with his first set of 6-games 1355 pins followed by Geir Anseth (NOR) with a first 6-game total of 1323, Jürgen Preuss (GER) with 1309 still are also in competition for a high classification.
Charley Blom,
ISBT Tour Manager
Day 2
Day 2 of the ‘Early Birds’ showed that the Top 4 qualifiers in their first round of 6-ganes qualifying games made no mistakes.
Barry Horne (USA) shot a solid 1388 totalling 2833 for first place in the Early Birds and Miroslav Chylo (GER) followed with a 1367 2nd set of 6-games qualifying for 2nd place in the Early Birds. Total pinfal of 2803
David Tan (GER) took 3rd place with 2722 pins and Gerrie de Graaf (NED) took 4th place with 2715.
With the ladies Farida Pascoal-Blom (NL) was never in danger for 1st place and took the lead from day 1. Totalling 2472 with a 2nd set of 1213 pins, 92 –pins ahead of Erna Buysse (BEL) which settled for 2nd place.
This concludes the 2-days of Early Birds with qualifiers for the finals as follows:
Ladies
1. Farida Pascoal-Blom (NET) 2472
2. Erna Buysse (BEL) 2380
Men
1. Barry Horne (USA) 2833
2. Miroslav Chylo (GER) 2803
3. David Tan (GER) 2722
4. Gerrie de Graaf (GER) 2715
Charley Blom
ISBT Tour Manager
Day 1
Day 1 On the opening day of the tournament de ‘Early Birds’ showed that the scores will be high at this year’s edition of the tournament.
Leader of the Early Birds is Thomas Witt/Ger with a solid 2x6 games serie of 1313 and 1333 totalling 2646 pins.
Man of the first squad Miroslav Chylo/Ger (Kiel) shot a 1436 and set the pace for the bowlers for the 2nd squad.
Man of the day Barry Horne/USA shot a last 3-game serie of 812 (300-276-236) including a perfect in his 4th game totaling 1445 pins, Barry took over with this score the leaderboard for the 2nd squad.
Host Kalle Gaiser was very happy with the results so far and with more players coming results will be very promising towards the end of the tournament.
With the ladies after two squads of Early Birds Farida Pascoal-Blom/Net took the first place with 1259 pins over her first six games leaving behind Yvette Murrat/Bel, winner of the Arthur’s Senior Open, Monheim with a score of 1095 over her first six games.
Charley Blom
ISBT Tour Manager
Barry Horne 300 in Buxtehude.
In the 2nd squad of Buxtehude, Barry Horne succeed in scoring a 300 game in his 4th game!
It's Barry's 84th official perfect game.