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2010 Flanders Seniors Open, Latem

ISBT Senior Bowling Tour - Stop 4

Real Bowling, Saint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

21st to 25th July 2010

Champions: Angie Brown (ENG) and Barry Horne (USA)

Christel Carlsson Angie Brown Liliane Vintens

The 4th stop on the ISBT attracted 93 men and 25 women to Belgium for the 1st Flanders Senior Open. Scoring was high from the start, with four 300 games recorded throughout the tournament for Andre Geelen (BEL) Michel Perniaux (BEL) Leif Sjöberg (SWE) and John Bosch (NED.

Qualifying was over two 6 game blocks, with re-entries allow to replace the lowest of the first two entries. After four days of qualifying, the men's section was led by Olle Svensson on a 244 average, with local bowler Chris Van Damme just a few pins behind. The top four would go straight to the finals, the first two being joined by Andre Geelen and Yves Van Damme. In the women's section, Liliane Vintens and Lena Sulkanen went straight through. The unluckiest bowler of the week was Keith Howes, who hurt his arm during practice, and had to retire without posting a score.

Andre Geelan, Barry Horne

An early Sunday morning start saw 32 men and 12 women bowl a further 4 games to remain in contention. In the women's section, Angie Brown led the way, averaging 222, with Kaz Barfoot making good use of the desperado qualification to make the round robin final. The top 16 men bowled a further 3 games, with Ron Oldfield then being top of the list.

There then followed an 8 person round robin round, to win a place in the stepladder finals. In the men's section, Chris Van Damme (BEL) narrowly missed out on the all important 3rd place, with Andre Geelan (BEL), Barry Horne (USA) and Ron Oldfield (ENG) making it through. In the women's section, Christel Carlsson (SWE) won the top spot, followed by Angie Brown (ENG) and Liliane Vintens (BEL)

Stepladder Results (best of 3)

Both stepladder finals were decided on who could make the strikes, and not leave the corner pin taps which had been common throughout the week

Men

Barry Horne (USA) 231,253,239 beat Ron Oldfield (ENG) 238, 221, 208 by 2-1

Barry Horne (USA) 234, 254 beat Andre Geelan (BEL) 225, 253

Women

Angie Brown (ENG) 201, 211 beat Liliane Vitens (FRA) 173, 186 by 2-0

Angie Brown (ENG) 234, 244 beat Christel Carlsson (SWE) 214, 212 by 2-0

The tour now moves on to the well established tournament at Schiedam which starts on the 28th July.