According to the most recent published match play bracket, Jon Van Hees is through to Friday’s third winners bracket round in double-elimination match play after defeating Bryan Kretzer 669-660 (three-game, total pinfall matches) and Tom Daugherty 641-434. Alex Aguiar was eliminated in the first losers bracket round after losses to Nathan Bohr (672-657) and Robert Gotchall (670-628).
2012 USBC Masters update #1
January 27, 2012Alex Aguiar, Jon Van Hees qualify in top 20 at USBC Masters
January 26, 2012The PBA reported that New England bowlers Alex Aguiar (Dartmouth, MA, 11th) and Jon Van Hees (Charlestown, RI, T20th) have both qualified in the top 20 at the USBC Masters, taking place at the Sunset Station Strike Zone in Las Vegas. Match play gets underway later today, and I will continue to track their progress.
Jan. 25 league night recap
January 25, 2012My Week 21 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
I’m thinking now that if I can just get everything together, I could make a run, but I’m still too inconsistent. The game I bowled well (except for the missed 7) was the third game. It’s fortunate I’m due back in tomorrow for another lesson. 
Result: 148-164-201=513
Average (63 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 583
If Berta didn’t have an under-average second game, she may have been able to make another run at 500 tonight. Team only won one point, mostly thanks to Jim, our league president, throwing a 729 at us, which is as well as I’ve ever seen him bowl.
Grant Henderson III throws 11 in a row 290 in TNBA League
January 24, 2012Congrats to Grant Henderson III for an 11 in a row 290 game Friday night in the TNBA league. 
Winter 2012 Week 2 virtual league results
January 23, 2012“Diamond Flush” had a one-point net loss to “Got Wood?” in Week 2, and the match could’ve easily been tilted one way or another…my team only won total by 20, and handicap was a factor in the first two games, with my team losing the first game by only two pins. We remain in last place, with “2-bit Bandits” the top team after Week 2, two points ahead of Team 10 and “Ordinary Average Guys.”
Kris Voss posts 716 set in Westgate Ladies
January 22, 2012Congrats to Kris Voss, who happens to be a 1984 classmate of mine at Brockton High School, on having games of 247, 225, and 244 (I don’t know if these are actually in the order bowled.) for a 716 set last Tuesday night in the Westgate Ladies league.
Jan. 22 league standings update
January 22, 2012Splitting the points against “Outta Da Guttah” didn’t turn out to be that harmful for my team, “Pinfall Wizards,” because there is now a three-way tie in points at the top between us, “Deadwood,” and “The Mustangs,” with “Deadwood” having the pinfall advantage over my team and the latter team with less pinfall than us.
“Dee’s Boys II” provides the opposition for my team this week.
Craig McPherson Jr. posts 11 in a row 298 in Sunday Niters
January 21, 2012Congrats to Craig McPherson Jr., who threw an 11 in a row game of 298 last Sunday night in the Sunday Niters league.
Note about problem with RSS feed in sidebar
January 20, 2012If my readers have noticed that there’s been nothing new in the USBC’s RSS feed in my sidebar since the World Women’s Championships in September, it’s because the USBC has developed a problem with the feed. I have alerted them to the problem, but these things may take time to be rectified. Please bear with me…I have little control over it.
“Bowling With Chris” added to blogroll
January 19, 2012This has been a good week for finding personal bowling blogs: Last night, I found out that one of my virtual league bowlers, known to me as “kwik8,” has started a blog. He puts it up front that he is a member of the Seismic Bowling review staff, so many of his future posts will be about the new Seismic ball releases. To throw him a bone, I’ve added his blog to the blogroll in the sidebar.
Jan. 18 league night recap
January 18, 2012My Week 20 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
I usually don’t get off to good starts, and I was clean through 12 frames tonight, but with the spare misses after that point, I definitely left some pins on the deck.
Result: 216-154-177=547
Average (60 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 178
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 571
It was a good night for Brian, who was over 400 for the first time in my memory, but the team only managed to split the points after our opponents ran away with the second game.
Alex Aguiar wins NEBA Cambridge Credit Counseling Invitational in Norwich, CT
January 18, 2012Congrats to Alex Aguiar on yet another NEBA title, this time the Cambridge Credit Counseling Invitational last weekend at the Norwich Bowling & Entertainment Center in Norwich, CT. The title is Alex’s 11th.
Spelling of bowler’s name corrected in posts
January 17, 2012I have been alerted via a recent NEBA result that I may have been in error on a bowler’s last name, with the bowler with a recent 300 game in the Tuesday Scratch Sportsmen league having the actual last name of Corneau (the R and N sort of blend together for Comeau on the LeagueSecretary.com standings sheet). The error has been corrected both in the initial post about the 300 game and in the mid-season round-up post.
Copyright information added
January 17, 2012I’d been seeking a way to do it, and had thought about using custom CSS (which would eventually cost extra), but saw that copyright information for this blog could be added via a text widget in the sidebar, so I’ve done so. Gotta protect myself.
Three personal blogs added to blogroll
January 17, 2012Thanks to a new referrer that I spotted in my blog stats recently, I found three new (to me) personal bowling blogs, listed below:
- “Bowling in the Burgh,” done by a bowler in the Pittsburgh area.
- “Bowling Roller Coaster,” by a bowler in the Washington, DC area.
- “Joanie’s Bowling Blog,” by a female bowler in Colorado (there was no information on the specific area of the state).
The links to these blogs appear in the sidebar, in the “Blogroll” category. Welcome!
Tina Gannon tosses 290 game in Coke league
January 17, 2012Congrats to Tina Gannon, who threw an 11 in a row game of 290 last night in the Coke Classic League, making it the best game thrown at Westgate Lanes to date by a woman this season.
The Coke league is currently bowling on the Kegel “Boardwalk” pattern.
Winter 2012 Week 1 virtual league results
January 16, 2012“Diamond Flush” lost all seven points to “Presto” in Week 1. Since my team was the only team to lose all of the points last week, we are dead last and the latter team leads the league. “Mooseknuckles,” “Ordinary Average Guys,” and Team 2 were the other teams to win at least five points on the week.
Jan. 15 league standings update
January 15, 2012“Pinfall Wizards” won four points last week, as did “The Mustangs.” My team has the pinfall advantage, so my team is technically in first place for the moment. The round robin cycle starts again this week with “Outta Da Guttah.”
Jan. 11 league night recap
January 11, 2012My Week 19 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
It was not my best night (and possibly excusable because I’m also dealing with the loss of a fairly close friend), but the pressure was on in the 10th in both Games 2 and 3, and I delivered, the second game to win the point, and the third game to shut my opponent out.
Result: 136-168-199=503
Average (57 games): 173
Average for last 9 games: 186
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 533
The team started the second half by taking all four against the first half winners, and Carl and Berta were the biggest reasons for it: Both shot close to 500, Carl missing by just a single stick.
Jan. 10 notes
January 10, 2012Just a couple of notes as my second half of the season is about to get underway:
- My real team is scheduled to bowl against the defending champions and first-half winners, “The Incredibowls,” tomorrow.
- My winter virtual league season also gets underway this week, and I’m on a team with “Cryssen,” “jbungard,” “slaterracing,” and “trekguy.” Our team name will be “Diamond Flush,” arrived at by the fact that diamonds are a form of carbon, which has the atomic number of 6 (our team number), and that a poker hand of five diamonds is a flush (while also suggesting the “flush pocket hit” term in bowling).
