The Masters’ gold medals were won by Niki Schiza of Cyprus and Italy’s Marco Reviglio. Schiza defeated Catalonia’s Sandra Torrents to take the ladies’ crown over two games The two bronze medals were taken by Lauriance Celie of France and Sue Abela of Malta. The Catalonians had one more chance of taking the gold when [...]

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Three of the four matches in the men’s Masters quarterfinal were decided 2-0 and thr fourth went to 2-1. All Events leader Habib Dogan of Turkey beat Ron Berlov of Israel as first of the 2-0 winners and was quickly followed by local player Marcial Ovide of Catalonia, taking out Frenchman Yoni Billiaut 2-0. Greece [...]

Overnight leaders in the four-person team event of the 14th Mediterranean Challenge Cup, the gallant quartet from Turkey, were not able to maintain their travel on all six cylinders Saturday morning and dropped from first place to seventh over the last three games. Honors for the gold went to France in a close fought final [...]

MIXED TEAM For quite a while it looked as though the Greeks were going to dominate the first three games of the Mixed Team, placing themselves in the running for gold in the third discipline, but a superb three-game run of 705 from Turkey’s Habib Dogan set his quartet in first place at the halfway [...]

No double troubles for the boys from Greece, hitting the high spots with a convincing win in the Men’s Doubles at Bowling Pedralbes, Barcelona on a warm and sunny Friday afternoon. Georgios Stefanidis from Patra, Greece and Athens partner Evaggelos Krizinis put together a nice 2551 to take the gold medal to deny the Turkish [...]

Competition was extremely tight as the 12-nation women’s field took the delightful lanes of Bowling Pedralbes in Barcelona on Friday morning, April 1,  for the distaff Doubles discipline of the 14th Mediterranean Challenge Cup, superbly organized by Promedia. Once again, the scores came down to the final balls of the tenth frame of the sixth [...]

SINGLE WOMEN Hopes BY Greece making the double of gold medals in both men’s and women’s singles Thursday afternoon were dashed when Sue Abela of Malta clinched the title with a six-game total of 1328, a score 47 pins better than the 1281 posted by Georgios Stafanadis of Greece to win the Men’s Singles this [...]

Thursday, March 31 – Competition got off to a great start Thursday morning at Bowling Pedralbes, Barcelona with   Georgios Stefanidis from Patra, Greece taking the gold medal in the Men’s Singles of the 14th Mediterranean Challenge Cup. Stefanidis opened his account with 190 and 180 then fired on all cylinders with games of 266, 213, [...]

ALL SET FOR THE 14TH MEDITERRANEAN CHALLENGE CUP A confirmed entry of a record 13 nations will be competing at the hospitable 14-lane Bowling Pedralbes in Barcelona this week, running March 30 through to April 2. This prestigious annual event has three new nations competing this year, Croatia, Slovenia and Tunisia, joining stalwarts, Catalonia, Cyprus, [...]