Just 13 players took on the lanes at Veitvet Bowling Center in Oslo, Norway, Monday in the fifth qualifying squad of the Norwegian Open, the 17th event of the 2007 European Bowling Tour.

Owe Herrmann (right) led the squad with 87 over par (based on a 200 average) thanks to a 290 in game #2, the highest game of the tournament thus far. Herrmann's 1287 six-game total was good for 19th place in the overall qualifying standings.

16-year-old Jeanette Bogen Lauvlid used high games of 233 and 220 for a 1225 series. She added 48 pins handicap, the standard on the European Bowling Tour, for 1273 pinfall total to move into 22nd place.

Veitvet Bowling Center proprietor and Team Norway anchor Petter Hansen (left) started the squad with back-to-back 256 games but was unable to improve on his 1374 high score as he added four sub-par games to finish with 1254.

Ingunn Øien (right), all from Norway, is leading the tournament since Squad 1 with 1466 pinfall total and an average of 236.33.

The Norwegian Open 2007 is the 17th stop of the 2007 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's Challenger events. The tournament offers total prize money of 351.000 Norwegian Kronor, approximately 65,250 U.S. Dollar or 45.715 Euro. The winner will receive the 60.000 NOK top prize ($11,150/€7.815).

Qualifying continues on Tuesday, Oct. 2, with Squad 6 and runs through Saturday, October 6 with the final Squad 18 scheduled for 8 p.m. local time. (GMT +1). Qualifying will conclude with the one-game Desperado Squad around Midnight.

The top 40 players from the qualifying will automatically advance to the finals. They will be joined by the top four players from the first weekend (combined standings of squads 1-4) not among the top 40 and the top 4 from the Desperado Squad.

The top 12 earn two byes, while players ranked 13-24 will bypass the first round. The first three rounds of the final consist of four games from scratch with half of the field advancing to the next round.

Once the field is cut to the top 12, players bowl two games from scratch to cut to the top 8, then the top four, who advance to the semi-finals (No. 1 vs. No. 4, No. 2 vs. No. 3). The winners of these one-game matches will bowl for the title and the 60.000 NOK top prize.

Bowlingdigital will cover the event live from Oslo commencing Friday, October 5 all the way through to the finals on Sunday, October 7.