THE HAGUE - The Hague players of SIS Schoonmaak have made in ten matches a big gap on top of the league. The four regular players in the line-up seems the perfect team players and have by for the most game points with a big lead. One match to go before the winter stop (Sunday, December 23), SIS Schoonmaak has 19 match points out of 10 matches and a score of 71 game points. L&B Ledermode and STZ Zundert are the numbers two and three with 13 match points and 50 and 48 party points respectively. The four players of SIS are all in the top 20 of best scoring players. Glenn Hofman is the proud leader with 1.612 over ten matches, Jean van Erp has 1.526, Jeffrey Jorissen 1.470 and Raimond Burgman 1.309. Jeffrey Jorissen is the only player in the league with 400 caroms out of 10 matches with 10 victories. Jean van Erp also has the maximum of caroms, after 9 wins and 1 draw.
This Sunday, in the last match before the winter stop, SIS Schoonmaak travels to HCR Prinsen in Haarlo, the match that was decisive for the title this year. Both teams are in full swing: SIS with the four regular players Hofman, Van Erp, Burgman and Jorissen, Prinsen with Jaspers, Leppens, De Kleine and Pijl. All top players are present again, to forward some nice matches: Jaspers-Hofman, Horn-Merckx, Leppens-Van Erp.
The top four of the ranking in averages is formed by four players with half or less than half of the number of matches. Frédéric Caudron has 2.197 out of five, Birol Uymaz 2.109 out of three, David Martinez 2.041 out of three and Dick Jaspers 1.887 out of four. Roland Forthomme is the best of all players with all the ten matches. The Belgian recorded 1.796 ahead of Glenn Hofman with 1.612 and Jean van Erp with 1.526.
Roland Forthomme had the best run with 18, followed by Jean van Erp, Barry van Beers and Birol Uymaz with 16. Jean van Erp and Jeffrey Jorissen were the only two players with the maximum 400 caroms in ten matches and Birol Uymaz had the best match so far: 40 points in 9 innings, 4.444 of average.
The rankings after ten matches:
Best average (number of matches)
1 Frédéric Caudron 2.197 (5)
2 Birol Uymaz 2.109 (3)
3 David Martinez 2.041 (3)
4 Dick Jaspers 1.887 (4)
5 Roland Forthomme 1.796 (10)
6 Eddy Merckx 1.640 (6)
7 Glenn Hofman 1.612 (10)
8 Jean Paul de Bruijn 1.553 (9)
9 Jean van Erp 1.526 (10)
10 Martin Horn 1.517 (4)
11 Eddy Leppens 1.502 (7)
12 Jérôme Barbeillon 1.500 (2)
13 Dave Christiani 1.493 (10)
14 Frans van Kuyk 1.469 (10)
15 Jeffrey Jorissen 1.470 (10)
16 Peter De Backer 1.394 (8)
17 Javier Palazón 1.379 (1)
18 Peter Ceulemans 1.374 (9)
19 Gökhan Salman 1.361 (3)
20 Huub Wilkowski 1.329 (10).
Best matches:
1 Birol Uymaz 40 in 9 (4.444)
2 Eddy Merckx 40 in 13 (3.076)
3 David Martinez, Jean van Erp and Dick Jaspers 40 in 15 (2.666).
Best runs:
1 Roland Forthomme 18
2 Jean van Erp, Barry van Beers and Birol Uymaz 16
5 Eddy Merckx 15
6 Ronny Lindemann, Glenn Hofman, Dick Jaspers 14.
Most points:
1 Jeffrey Jorissen, Jean van Erp 400 out of 10
3 Raimond Burgman 389 out of 10
4 Rik van Beers 387 out of 10
5 Steven van Acker 384 out of 10.
The program for Sunday (21th December, 13.00):
HCR Prinsen-SIS Schoonmaak
Jaspers-Hofman
Leppens-Van Erp
De Kleine-Burgman
Pijl-Jorissen
Bousema Lochem-L&B Ledermode
Horn-Merckx
S. Galla-Christiani
De Jaeger-De Backer
Van Schaik-Valentijn
't Hartje van Wanrooy-STZ Zundert
Bulut-Forthomme
Spoormans-P. Ceulemans
Van de Ven-B. Van Beers
Van Havere-R. Van Beers
A1 Biljarts-Dallinga.com
Rudolph-De Bruijn
Van der Spoel-Van Acker
De Zwart-Van Nijnatten
Wienk-Dallinga
't Ivoor-Aardexpress
Martinez-Lindemann
Melnytschenko-De Laet
Wilkowski-Van Venrooij
Roofthooft-Thiele
Burgmans Biljarts-Team Eekhoorn
Janssen-Van Kuyk
B. Ceulemans-K. Ceulemans
Van Manen-Hermans
Roijers-Miatton