15 Feb 2009 at 18:20 | Published by: Hans | Views: 8927 | News search

This weekend a U23 national Team competition was played in Sirnach, Switzerland, on indoor eternit. 3 teams from Switzerland, 2 from both Germany and Sweden and one from Italy participated. The main reason for these competitions is for the countries to get some tests on over-aged juniors that might have and a hard time taking a place in their countries general class teams. All participating teams should have at least one girl, but Sweden has chosen to participate with 2 girls and 2 boys in each team.

On Saturday all team meet each others in matches where won lanes counted instead of results. After that the result was that all countries had 1 team each into the best four and therefore also into the semifinals. Best during Saturday was Germany 1 on 11 points. Second was Italy on 9 points and then Switzerland 1 on 8 points and Sweden 1 on 7 points.

In the first Semifinal Switzerland 1 was beating Italy 1 with 26-23 lane wins on two rounds (178-181 in strokes). In the second Semifinal Sweden was taking a surprisingly win against Germany 1 with 20-16 (176-179 in strokes). In the finals Sweden was making the process short with Switzerland after an excellent 172 round against 182 for Switzerland (25-21 in won lanes).

Best individually among the boys where Denis Kapke, Germany with 20,9 in average and Melanie Blaser, Switzerland with 21,5 in average.

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