Yippee! Roll the drums and sound the trumpets. We've had a 1300 and so a new name at the top of the leader board.

Young Nicki Ainge from England has taken the tournament by the bootstraps and knocked Clara Juliana Guerrero off her perch,

posting 1306 with five consecutive 200-plus games and a 192 finish, therefore to all and sundry the first 1300-plus series of this year's event.

Scoring was much higher on this the fifth squad. The earlier players did not hit a 1200 series and on this squad there were five over par.

Sweden's Helen Johnsson came second to Ainge, starting with 257 to get the adrenalin flowing but slowing off the pace to finish with 1260. Padst EWC champion Kirsten Penny, also from England took third on the squad with 1221.

"I felt really confident today," commented Nicki after her squad. "I don't know why. I came out this morning in practice and felt I was throwing the ball pretty good, so once I hit a 200 in the first game, which is quite difficult on the fresh oil, I felt a lot of confidence. I didn't have any problems with changing lanes until the last pair. The first five games I just had to make little adjustments, but nothing drastic, but I had to make some major changes on the last pair and had a lower game.

"I'm having a very quiet year as I've hardly bowled. I bowled at the beginning of the year and then got injured, so I was out for five months. I came back in June for the U S Open so other than that and the World Championships I haven't played very much, so it has been a really quiet year for me.

"The women's world in Hong Kong was a great experience, although it didn't go as well as I wanted. I thought I bowled well but my match-up wasn't great and the scoring pace was so high.

"for the rest of this year I will be playing out the English events because when I was injured I didn't get enough ranking points. I will obviously bowl the English Open and maybe go to Qatar."

Just one qualifying squad left, taking to the Bowling Pedralbes lanes at 17:00, so an earlier than usual finish tonight. The top 24 will advance to tomorrow's final rounds, two sets of four games then the top four playing best of three game semi-finals and final, both web-streamed on www.fcbb.net, produced by CatTV. Well worth a look from 15:00 CET.

STANDINGS AFTER SQUAD 5 of 6:

VII EUROPEAN WOMEN'S MASTERS PRESIDENT SAMARANCH TROPHY

PROVISIONAL QUALIFICATION

P	Player	Federation	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pins
1	Nicki Ainge	England	208	213	226	232	235	192	1306
2	Clara Guerrero	Colombia	224	201	205	225	232	202	1289
3	Luz Adriana Leal	Colombia	179	235	173	278	218	183	1266
4	Helen Johnsson	Sweden	257	214	192	192	200	205	1260
5	Bettina Lund	Denmark	234	224	237	171	187	206	1259
6	Sandra Torrents Pelaez	Catalonia	262	205	185	175	215	204	1246
7	Daria Kovalova	Ukraine	208	186	227	223	206	196	1246
8	Laurence Gaillard	France	156	248	214	256	191	170	1235
9	Roosa Lunden	Finland	192	214	191	202	212	220	1231
10	Britt Brondsted	Denmark	190	212	207	214	215	188	1226
11	Kirsten Penny	England	181	172	189	202	246	231	1221
12	Gaelle Laplanche	France	186	190	212	225	201	197	1211
13	Eva Jonsson	Sweden	220	184	189	201	199	210	1203
14	Krista Pollanen	Finland	175	163	211	210	203	235	1197
15	Nina Flack	Sweden	190	215	195	190	181	217	1188
16	Rebecka Larsen	Sweden	184	204	182	202	211	202	1185
17	Joline Persson-Planefors	Sweden	232	178	181	206	200	181	1178
18	Elin Adolfsson	Sweden	171	214	221	200	197	165	1168
19	Rosa Mas Puiggros	Catalonia	216	202	189	168	204	188	1167
20	Mai Ginge Jensen	Denmark	168	229	218	188	196	166	1165
21	Jenny Wegner	Sweden	191	197	186	172	219	196	1161
22	Niki Schiza	Cyprus	198	153	191	215	178	203	1138
23	Josefine Linderoth	Sweden	222	164	208	174	166	200	1134
24	Reija Lunden	Finland	179	209	170	170	204	201	1133
25	Anja Ginge	Denmark	206	168	232	176	195	156	1133
26	Sanna Pasanen	Finland	185	178	174	167	215	207	1126
27	Cristina Sanz Moreno	Catalonia	182	191	201	170	211	171	1126
28	Aude Saint Marc	France	181	192	150	243	197	155	1118
29	Ida Andersson	Sweden	172	212	201	182	173	176	1116
30	Randi Kryger	Denmark	168	188	206	183	192	178	1115
31	Sue Abela	Malta	153	168	176	208	215	178	1098
32	St�phanie Dubourg	France	161	191	169	159	213	199	1092
33	Nathalie Dimartino	France	193	187	149	198	149	189	1065
34	C�lie Lauriane	France	194	171	157	171	164	203	1060
35	Roser Romero Burgos	Catalonia	203	146	181	180	206	143	1059
36	Laetitia Cardi	France	159	191	157	162	190	197	1056
37	Francisca Nu�ez Hernandez	Catalonia	137	209	168	158	166	206	1044
38	Meritxell Sanchez Lloansi	Catalonia	181	182	144	159	220	157	1043
39	Val�rie Murat	France	160	159	176	195	173	179	1042
40	Lia Mojarro Postigo	Catalonia	157	153	158	202	167	184	1021
41	Hakamaki Tiia	Finland	171	154	208	166	178	142	1019
42	Anja Svaneberg	Denmark	147	185	201	127	204	154	1018
43	Noora Alanko	Finland	171	200	138	161	174	168	1012
44	Sandra Oliva Tudela	Catalonia	176	155	179	179	163	158	1010
45	Nickie Marie Lund Bogeskov	Denmark	168	149	178	144	193	167	999
46	Carmen Carneiro Sanchez	Catalonia	169	191	142	169	151	170	992
47	Ingrid Julia Ingles	Catalonia	158	184	150	155	188	140	975
48	Irene Molera Teruel	Catalonia	129	146	160	228	171	135	969
49	Francisca Melendez Bejar	Catalonia	159	164	133	119	192	189	956
50	Merc� Burgues Flamarich	Catalonia	149	155	149	147	171	151	922
51	Elisabet Cejudo Justo	Catalonia	138	167	144	165	117	157	888
52	Noelia Rastrero Medina	Catalonia	161	156	148	129	168	126	888
53	Sandra Barange Villavecchia	Catalonia	163	115	146	144	132	140	840