Getting the oil removed from my ball yesterday turned out to be a good call: I had a fairly bad first game trying to figure out the line and speed I needed to play, but once I did, there was almost no stopping me, as I had a run of six straight in the second game and five straight in the third game en route to my best set of the season, a 654. As I noted in my own comment on BowlSK, a better first game and/or better spare shooting would’ve allowed me to threaten my first 700 series. The good games later proved to me that I could hang with one of the bigger dogs in the league, Bobby Geddes, and, indeed, I think I had him rattled a little bit in the third game.
Result: 173-247-234=654
Average (87 games): 184 Last 9 games average: 204
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 560
I think we won the last game by something like 80+ pins, but lost the first 2 games, so I didn’t know if we won the last game by enough to take total. If we did, it would be the best performance we’ve had against “The Badgers” this season. As another note from the league tonight, Rob Dickens continued his hot streak with a 256 second game, which I believe put him well over the “century” (100 pins over average).
It was a memorable night in the Westgate Mixed League tonight, as well, and I will deal with that in my next post.
The Tenth Board 