Ramos Leads Brazilians in Right Guard Open Skate Park Prelims

 Rodolfo Ramos | cr. AST

Rodolfo Ramos and Rodil Araujo Jr. led the Brazilians back to the top of the skate park prelims at the Right Guard Open in Cleveland, Thursday.  The two actually tied on the top of the leaderboard but Ramos was given the top qualifying spot thanks to a tie-breaker.

Greg Lutzka helped stop a sweep of the top three spots by edging Carlos De Andrade for third-place.  Fabrizio Santos rounded out the country’s representation by taking the 9th spot in qualifiers.  Rodolfo’s bro Wagner (19th) was among the six Brazilians to miss the cut.

Austen Seaholm, Chad Bartie and Mathieu Therres were among the non-Brazilians to advance to the finals, where Ryan Sheckler, Paul Rodriguez and Chaz Ortiz await as the top three pre-qualified for the finals.

The finals will take place Saturday and be webcast live on AST.com from 1-2 p.m. ET/10-11 a.m. PT.

Here’s the lineup for Saturday’s final (in order)

12. Fabrizio Santos
11. Mathieu Therres
10. Dayne Brummet
9. Chad Bartie
8. Austen Seaholm
7. Carlos De Andrade
6. Greg Lutzka
5. Rodil Araujo Jr.
4. Rodolfo Ramos
3. Chaz Ortiz
2. Paul Rodriguez
1. Ryan Sheckler

Skate Park Prelim Results – Right Guard Open
July 17, 2008 – Top Nine Advance

1st    Ramos, Rodolfo    86.5
2nd    Araujo Jr., Rodil    86.5
3rd    Lutzka, Greg    82.25
4th    De Andrade, Carlos    81.5
5th    Seaholm, Austen    81
6th    Bartie, Chad    79.25
7th    Brummet, Dayne    79
8th    Therres, Mathieu    78.5
9th    Santos, Fabrizio    78.25
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10th    Fuenzalida, Danny    78.25
11th    Sereika, Christian    77
12th    Oliveira, Ricardo    77
13th    Barr, Jason    76.75
14th    do Rosario, Danilo    76.5
15th    Hyppolito, Fabio Sleiman    75.5
16th    Fernandez, Chad    74.75
17th    Colamonico, Kurtis    73.75
18th    Peterson, Mike    72
19th    Ramos, Wagner    71
20th    Cudlipp, Chris    69.75
21st    Grundy, Russell    69.5
22nd    Oliveira, Tulio    67.5
23rd    Fellers, Sierra    67.5
24th    Simonetto, Michell    64
25th    Jones, Rodney    62.5
26th    Kendall, Chris    57.75
27th    Mendes, Chris    50.25