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2006 BBI
RESULTS
1st Place: Palazzo di Bocce #3
($8000)
Jorge Moreno – Rochester Hills
Jose Botto – Rochester Hills
Fabio Fin – Chicago
Place / Team Name / Team
City (although team members may live in other cities)
1st: Palazzo di
Bocce #3 – Orion
2nd: Delorme –
Montreal
3rd: Montreal –
Montreal
4th: Canada Bocce
#7 – Toronto
5th: Palazzo di
Bocce #5 – Orion
6th: Canada Bocce
#1 – Orion
7th: Palazzo di
Bocce #1 – Orion
8th: Felice
Construction – New York
9th: Rainbow
Creek #69 – Toronto
10th: Lakeview
Cemetary – Cleveland
11th: Windsor #2
– Windsor
12th: Palazzo di
Bocce #9 – Orion
Largest bocce purse in North
American draws crowd to Michigan
Bocce Invitational
attracts top players as support for sport grows
ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich.
November 6, 2006 - The Battaglia Bocce Invitational,
just completing its sixth year, attracted 34 of the best
teams in North America on October 27th-28th,
2006. The event included several teams from Palazzo di
Bocce, including one that took home the top prize of
$8,000. With a total purse of $16,500, the event has the
largest purse for a tournament of its kind in North
America.
The winning three-person
team, Palazzo di Bocce #3, was led by Jorge Moreno of
Rochester Hills, MI. He was joined by Jose Botto, also
of Rochester Hills, and Fabio Fin of Chicago, IL. Team
Delorme of Montreal placed 2nd and Team
Montreal of Montreal placed 3rd.
Another Palazzo di Bocce
team captained by Jason Wisniewski, Bocce Manager at
Palazzo di Bocce, took seventh place at the Battaglia
Bocce Invitational. Earlier this year, Wisniewski’s team
won the North American Team Championships and placed
fifth at the World Championships, held in Brazil, the
best finish ever for a U.S. team.
“The BBI continues to be a
wonderful opportunity for the top bocce players in the
area and from around the United States and Canada to
demonstrate their skills,” says Wisniewski.
In addition to local teams
based at the Palazzo di Bocce, competitors from
California, Florida, St. Louis, Montreal, Toronto, New
York, Cleveland and Windsor, Ont., were present at the
Battaglia Bocce Invitational.
Anthony Battaglia, developer
and owner of Palazzo di Bocce, founded the event in
2001, hosting the tournament at his home before moving
it in 2004 to the then, newly built Palazzo di Bocce.
“Bocce is a game that’s
unique in a number of respects, most notably because its
simplicity appeals to people of any age,” says
Battaglia, a former construction company executive who
took up the game in the early 1990s. A competitive
player himself, Battaglia was
designated as “Ambassador for Development of Bocce in
the North American Market” by the Confédération Bouliste
Internationale (CBI) and its President, Mr. Romolo
Rizzoli in 2006.
Battaglia’s goal of
increasing the competitive level of bocce play in North
America includes incorporating the Battaglia Bocce
Invitational into the Professional Bocce Organization
Tour as a Masters-type event in the 2007-2008 season.
“The momentum for bocce is
most certainly going to continue, thanks in part to the
popularity of tournaments like the BBI,” said Battaglia.
A unique characteristic of Palazzo di Bocce is being
able to offer both competitive play and the social
aspect of the sport, underscoring the fact that the game
for many is “just plain fun.”
“We are doing our part here
at Palazzo di Bocce to make sure that people from around
the country get the chance to experience this game in an
ideal environment. That will continue.”
Battaglia has plans to open
another Palazzo di Bocce in Chicago (in 2008) with other
cities to follow.
For further information,
visit
www.BoccePalace.com or call 248-371-9987 |
