The meeting of the Brunswick Mixed League went fairly smoothly, with the main items discussed being dues (Westgate Lanes went up on league lineage, so a dues increase had to be voted on) and a by-laws amendment pertaining to entry averages (a couple of bowlers in the league had to sit out all of last season with injuries, so we changed it so that the league could go back 2 years for an entry average). We did see a few new faces (more on a couple of them later), so that should portend well.
I had hoped some friends would show up for the meeting, but they didn’t, so I tried to go back to my old team. Unfortunately, Carl wanted to bowl with a couple of the new people, John and Eileen Ruhl (I’ll try to clarify the relationship in the future), so a team was formed with Carl, the Ruhls, Patrick and myself, meaning Helen and Ted (whom I found out later in the night are actually brother and sister) won’t be bowling on my team this year. I thought Carl had wanted to be team captain, but none of us marked captain status on the team sign-up sheet, so I told Shawn I’d be temporary captain (Carl didn’t want to bowl in the no-tap tournament and had left when Shawn asked me about who was my team’s captain.) until I knew what Carl wanted to do.
This no-tap was a bit better for me, but it didn’t look like it at first, as I had 4 splits in the first game; however, I did get the last 5, including 3 natural in the 10th frame, for a 169. My other two games were much better, with the last one being ruined only by a single open (chopped the 3 off of the 3-6-10), with all strikes otherwise (I don’t remember how many of those were natural), for a 263. I ended up with a 684 scratch, 729 score with handicap, and for a while, it was looking good to cash. However, two of the Boermans, Rick and Mark, came in as part of one of the last groups with each of them scoring better than 800 (Rick won with an 806), and I got bumped out of the money.
The first night of bowling for the new season is this coming Wednesday night, and, if any of my friends show up to bowl, I will have to tell them that the teams are already more or less formed, and that they should’ve shown up last night if they wanted to bowl with me.
The Tenth Board 