My first order of the night was to get my ticket for the Hall of Fame dinner, as I want to attend that to honor my old buddy Steve Travers. As I did last week, I also had a game of warm-up before league started.
Strikes were few and far between tonight, but the blessing in disguise was that my spare game was much better overall: only two misses on spares that weren’t either splits or washouts. I was leaving a lot of single pins (11) but only missed one of them (a 10 pin to end the first game). I was getting a lot of splits later on, but converted the 5-7 in the second game on a lucky break.
Result: 163-182-155=500
Average (63 games): 178 Last 9 games average: 168
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 558
Team only managed a two-point split because we got croaked in the last game. Rick Boerman, the “Backyard Bowlers” resident Yankee fan, threw a 200+ game at us in said last game to provide much of a 150-pin plus margin. Our star tonight was Pat, who was well over his average for the first two games.
The Tenth Board 