I titled this “Getting away with it” because I wasn’t flushing very much tonight, but did get decent carry, especially on my five “Brooklyn” strikes. A strike is a strike is a strike is a strike, though, and they came in enough bunches to get good scores. Indeed, if my spare shooting was better in the second game, it would’ve been my best set of the season, and I would’ve at least had a shot at my first-ever “30 clean” performance.
Result: 243-172-226=641
Average (78 games): 182 Last 9 games average: 207
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 572
It did seem like the other team was off of their game tonight, and that helped us to a winning night. I pretty much carried my team in the first game, lost the second game, but then had Helen and Ted get a key turkey and a double (respectively) late in the third game to all but seal it. Helen told me afterward that she thought she could’ve had a 200 game herself if she could’ve closed it out.
People’s Tournament note: The People’s Tournament will be having events each of the next two weekends, starting this weekend (Mar. 14 & 15) at Strikers East in New Hampshire, then the following weekend (Mar. 21 & 22) at Town Line Ten Pin in Malden. Of course, I will post results for each event here (with links to the recap on the People’s Tournament site) when they become available.
The Tenth Board 