The Tenth Board

After being swept by “The Generations,” my team is now all the way down to 9th place, just 4 points out of the league cellar. As I alluded to in yesterday’s post, the race at the top got tighter, as there is now a three-way tie between “4-MTD,” “Butz N Gutz,” and “The Mustangs” (with the teams listed in pinfall order). The second cycle starts with my team facing “Vakinc” next week.

My Week 9 bowling, frame-by-frame (Link to BowlSK)

I figure if it wasn’t for the three splits in the second game, I might’ve had a decent night. I didn’t necessarily avoid them in the first game, either, but I did convert on a 6-7 (the real highlight of the night for me). A move to a different pair, necessitated by a problem with the ball return (more on that later), also didn’t help (and it seems the pair I was bowling on has been hit with technical glitches more often than the rest of the league this year). The thing I’m really not proud of about last night was the two single-pin misses in the third game, which would’ve made it an over-average night.

What happened with the ball return was that, somehow, a pin found its way into the ball return track, and eventually jammed balls at the point of the return proper. It cost my buddy Eric the ball he uses most of the time; fortunately, Eric had a spare ball (spare in the sense that it was an extra one) and could continue without really having it affect his game. I’m hoping management springs for a new ball for Eric, as I hate to see what happened to Eric happen to anyone.

Result: 183-168-180=531
Average (27 games): 181
Average for last 9 games: 178
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 572

I felt I bowled worse than I did because the rest of the team wasn’t really doing well, either, and we were swept by “The Generations.” Shawn told us that all of the top four teams in the league were involved in a match with another team in the group, and that the first-half race became even tighter as a result.