It was a fair tussle for honors between Stuart Williams of England, Chris Klerk of the United States and Denmark’s Frederik Ohrgaard going into the last of the four games for those finishing qualifying in 25th to 42nd places. That is until ‘shining light’ Sami Lampo of Finland decided to spoil the party by firing [...]

It was a case of ‘last chance saloon’ for the 28 intrepid souls fortunate enough to gain a place on the final qualifying squad on Saturday night, the winner sure of a place in the final but the rest hoping to come home with a score better than 1302, the 42nd place cut. The man [...]

It comes as no surprise that PBA star Amleto Monacelli from Venezuela should rise to the top and become champion of a squad, the only disappointment maybe is that he left it to the penultimate session to do just that. The PBA and USBC Hall of Famer started his six game tour of Bowling Pedralbes [...]

Reputed to be unlucky for some, Squad 13 was very much in favor for Markus Heinonen of Tampere, near Helsinki, Finland, the second finn to win squad honors this week. Opening his account with ten strikes foa 289, Heinonen followed that with 257 and 204 but slumped to 179 before recovering with another 257 and [...]

It is always good to see a member of the fairer sex take a turn at leading a squad and who could be better than lithe blond Rebecka Larsen from Gothenberg, Sweden? No stranger to the Bowling Pedralbes lanes, having been a finalist here in the annual European Women’s Masters, Larsen enjoyed a Saturday morning [...]

The first of the visiting Americans to hit the headlines is Miquel Lopez from Phoenix, Arizona, a student at the bowling famous Wichita State University in Kansas. He came through to top Friday’s final squad with 1379, three pins better than the target set by Mik Stampe of Denmark, finishing his six-game set a few [...]

There is a man in the house who loves to bowl on thse Bowling Pedralbes lanes, and that is Ildemaro Ruiz from Venezuela. Yes, it is a long way to go home for lunch, but Ruiz set the pace here on Tuesday night with 1424 and on his re-entry this evening fell just short of [...]

Taking what we think Dominic Barrett claims as his rightful place. the top of the leader board, the Englishman has certainly booked his place for the final on Sunday morning, set to be rolling off with the top 24 at midday. Romanian coach American Joe Slowinski earlier stated that the Bowling Pedralbes lanes here in [...]

When it comes to deciding as to who knows their way around the pairs of lanes at Bowling Pedralbes the name of Thomas Larsen from Denmark quickly comes to mind. The young Danish international and national team member won the Catalonia Open here a couple of years ago and is always a contender come finals [...]

A perfect evening for young Mr Dominic Barrett from Colchester, England, rolling the tournament’s first 300 this year in his fourth game of the squad and ending with a six-game total of 1418 to slip neatly into third place in the current standings. A truly talented squad saw brave attempts to keep up with Barrett’s [...]