Greece Mine Singles Gold

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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.

Singles champs — Stefanidis, Dogan and Reviglio (click to enlarge)

Stefanidis opened his account with 190 and 180 then fired on all cylinders with games of 266, 213, 188 and 244 to win gold with the total pinfall of 1281.

The silver medal was taken by Habib Dogan of Ankara, Turkey, just 14 pins behind the champion, and the bronze was clinched by Italy's Marco Reviglio from Turin.

20-year-old Stefanidis, a keen bowler for the past ten years, was pleased with his first medal in the Mediterranean Challenge Cup. "I have won medals in the Youth Championships," he said. "At the start here I bowled well but in the third game the lanes opened up and I did very well. I did good on lanes 1-2 with a 266."

Apart from Stefanidis, the medals came down to the final balls of the tenth frame of the last game, with Israel's Lior Yizhaq Koren and Michael Wood from Gibraltar also in the hunt for a place on the podium when the medals are presented on Saturday evening.

Stefanidis and Gibraltar's Michael Wood claim the high game of the event to date, both rolling a 266 in the third game of the Singles.

The record 13-nation event will see the women take to the lanes Thursday afternoon. Tomorrow the disciplines switch to Doubles for both divisions and then the first three of six games in the team event.

Full results and information on www.fiq.org/mcc and click on the MCC logo.

P	Player	Fed	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	AVG	Total
1	GEORGIOS STEFANIDIS	GRE	190	180	266	213	188	244	213,50	1281
2	HABIB DOGAN	TUR	222	201	195	199	191	259	211,17	1267
3	MARCO REVIGLIO	ITA	238	205	181	208	198	214	207,33	1244
4	LIOR YIZHAQ KOREN	ISR	183	203	206	246	188	213	206,50	1239
5	MICHAEL WOOD	GIB	197	208	266	188	199	174	205,33	1232
6	EVANGELOS KRIZINIS	GRE	170	216	224	207	192	204	202,17	1213
7	NEIL SULLIVAN	MAL	175	200	246	216	194	172	200,50	1203
8	MARCIAL OVIDE	CAT	184	193	169	237	206	178	194,50	1167
9	YONI BILLIAUT	FRA	178	211	180	204	197	193	193,83	1163
10	MATEJ FEGUS	SLO	223	179	179	177	220	185	193,83	1163
11	RON BERLOV	ISR	187	231	161	193	210	179	193,50	1161
12	CHRISTOS KRASSAS	CYP	173	213	193	194	179	204	192,67	1156
13	MARK SPITERI	MLT	176	176	168	202	192	201	185,83	1115
14	ZIAD MOKNI	TUN	192	211	190	169	165	186	185,50	1113
15	JEROME DURUPT	FRA	166	192	159	172	194	223	184,33	1106
16	MOISES PEREZ	CAT	162	178	203	192	181	189	184,17	1105
17	TAYGUN ERKESKIN	TUR	180	205	152	178	215	165	182,50	1095
18	CHARIS PANAYIOTOU	CYP	202	178	172	188	205	146	181,83	1091
19	DANIELE BRONZETTI	SMR	161	193	192	176	186	171	179,83	1079
20	GIOVANNI BATTAGLIA	ITA	203	177	152	162	178	194	177,67	1066
21	ZIGA KALAN	SLO	223	199	154	139	170	173	176,33	1058
22	ETTORE BACCIOCCHI	SMR	177	158	204	166	182	161	174,67	1048
23	DAMIR BRNIC	CRO	157	165	172	215	151	149	168,17	1009
24	MATTHEW STOTT	GIB	149	150	149	175	156	177	159,33	956
25	VEDRAN VEDRIS	CRO	144	160	197	127	178	143	158,17	949
26	KHALED MEZIOU	TUN	140	144	151	158	160	155	151,33	908