My last game was what really killed me tonight, as I couldn’t really find anything I liked, but a couple of simple spare misses hurt, too. First game was a 190, but could’ve easily been clean except for a couple more spare misses. Here’s hoping I can regroup next week.
Result: 190-156-144=490 Average (18 games): 178 Last 9 games average: 172 Next week’s AVG+1 score: 546
I started "The Tenth Board" to chronicle my experiences during the road back to league bowling after my heel fractures in 1999 (it took me 7 years before I started thinking seriously about it). I now use the blog as a combination of a personal bowling journal and a news site mostly about Westgate Lanes (Brockton, MA) and its bowlers.
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I must have ended up with your lost pins. I ended up with a 742 triple.
I’m not sure if I’d know what I was looking at. We’re playing two different games, sir. 🙂 You’re shooting ten pin and I’m doing five pin. I have to admit the 742 was a once or twice a year thing. If I’m around 600 for 3 games that’s a good night for me. (In five pin a perfect game is 450). The big thing I’ve noticed is, since I started bowling more than 3 games a week my average has improved each year over the six years I’ve been bowling.
Of course…didn’t think five-pin was found anywhere in the US (I did know it’s popular in Canada). I admit I know nothing of five-pin scoring (other than the 450 perfect game score), so I don’t know what sorts of scores are considered standards (in tenpin, you’re doing well if you score better than 700 for a three-game set, and even a 600 series can be considered respectable).
Generally speaking there are as many perfect games bowled in five pin over the course of a year as there are perfect games thrown in ten pin in one day. I don’t think five pin is more difficult. I do think there is more luck involved in five pin. A good pocket shot can yield some surprises. Some of them good and some not so good.
A professional caliber average would be around 270-285. An exceptional game is pretty much anything over 350.
I have thrown a few 300’s and a few 740 triples, but I would never enter a scratch tournament playing for cash.
Here is a link to the Canadian 5 pin site http://www.c5pba.ca/
There are some lnks there to some national tournaments and a cross Canada tour of five pin alleys in celebration of 100 years of 5 pin bowling.
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I must have ended up with your lost pins. I ended up with a 742 triple.
cheers,
Gar
Nice set, Gar…maybe I should shoot some video and have you look at it. 😀
I’m not sure if I’d know what I was looking at. We’re playing two different games, sir. 🙂 You’re shooting ten pin and I’m doing five pin. I have to admit the 742 was a once or twice a year thing. If I’m around 600 for 3 games that’s a good night for me. (In five pin a perfect game is 450). The big thing I’ve noticed is, since I started bowling more than 3 games a week my average has improved each year over the six years I’ve been bowling.
cheers,
Gar
Of course…didn’t think five-pin was found anywhere in the US (I did know it’s popular in Canada). I admit I know nothing of five-pin scoring (other than the 450 perfect game score), so I don’t know what sorts of scores are considered standards (in tenpin, you’re doing well if you score better than 700 for a three-game set, and even a 600 series can be considered respectable).
Generally speaking there are as many perfect games bowled in five pin over the course of a year as there are perfect games thrown in ten pin in one day. I don’t think five pin is more difficult. I do think there is more luck involved in five pin. A good pocket shot can yield some surprises. Some of them good and some not so good.
A professional caliber average would be around 270-285. An exceptional game is pretty much anything over 350.
I have thrown a few 300’s and a few 740 triples, but I would never enter a scratch tournament playing for cash.
Here is a link to the Canadian 5 pin site http://www.c5pba.ca/
There are some lnks there to some national tournaments and a cross Canada tour of five pin alleys in celebration of 100 years of 5 pin bowling.
cheers,
Gar