The Tenth Board

As I reported on Wednesday night, my team had a 3/4 night, and “Foxy SRS” “cooperated” by taking only one point themselves, so the deficit to 9th place for us has been cut in half. At the top, “The Dynasty” (next week’s opponents) hold a two-point lead on “Warren’s Girls.”

Individually, Eileen had both the high handicap game and high handicap series for the week, leading her average division for the week on a scratch basis, and John had the high scratch game in his average division.

My Week 26 bowling, frame-by-frame (Link to series on BowlSK)

As I said in my BowlSK comment, I just wished I thought to try the outside sooner, or the first game might have been different. Missing single pins didn’t help, either, but it should be said that I made both of my 7s tonight; I missed the 10 twice, so that was the bigger problem.

Result: 148-213-172=533
Average (78 games): 186
Average for last 9 games: 172
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 586

Both John (215-514) and Eileen (174-462) had personal best games and series tonight, so that was the big part of taking 3 of 4 points.

Week 9 of my virtual league saw my team, “Size 11′s,” pull off yet another five-point night, this time against “Where’s My Team?,” which included a buddy from the chat, “VampyreBowler” (though he hasn’t been on the chat recently). With three weeks remaining, my team is now solidly in third place, only two points behind “Pretty Much Average,” whom we’ve yet to bowl against in the round-robin portion of the schedule.

When the last place team loses to the next-to-last team, the former team can’t move up, of course, but, for the record, the gap between us and 9th place is now four points. “The Dynasty” and “Warren’s Girls” (this week’s opposition) are now tied for the second half lead, two points in front of “The Generations.”

My Week 25 bowling, frame-by-frame (Link to series on BowlSK)

Bright spots: first game was clean, and I made all of my single pins tonight. Bad spot: I wish I had more single pins to shoot at, especially in the third game, when I had three splits, one of which I just missed converting.

Result: 201-157-144=502
Average (75 games): 187
Average for last 9 games: 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 636

John followed up his 213 of last week with a good night, shooting in the 450s. Unfortunately, the team only took one point.

Week 8 found “Size 11′s” taking 5/7 from “Hambones,” a team which includes another chat buddy, “Dennis Michael,” and we did so despite both of my teammates outscoring me (I didn’t even beat our vacancy). The standings now find us in a tie for 3rd in points with “Pretty Much Average,” just two points behind “4 Marksmen.” Eight points still separate first place from seventh, but time is starting to run out for the teams near the bottom, as there are four weeks left in the league.