Before I go into how I did last night, a couple of notes…first, I learned during the Brunswick Mixed roll-off week that Rob and I are practically neighbors, and he and his wife Grace (who does the actual driving) offered me a ride to the lanes from now on (and back home as well, of course), so that will save me a bus ride on most league nights. What will happen is that I can now walk to Rob’s house to connect with him on the outbound trip. Second, Rob is again my teammate for the summer, and we are joined by John and Eileen. As captain’s prerogative, I named the team “Trip N Shred,” which was a name used by one of the teams in my virtual league over the winter that I liked so much that I decided to “borrow” it.
My Week 1 bowling, frame-by-frame (Link to series on BowlSK)
There was some to like and some to not like from the first night. I didn’t like that my spare game decided to desert me in Game 3, mostly due to chopping a 6-10 and a couple of 3-6-10s. The things I liked: my 222 middle game (which I believe is the best game I’ve ever had on the first night of a league), and actually making the 7 more than I missed it (made it 3 times in 5 attempts, and the 2 I missed were in the opposite direction of how I had been missing it during the winter).
Result: 165-222-143=530
Average (3 games): 176
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 532
Eileen had a solid 419 set tonight, and enough of us were over average in the first and second games to take points against a team that included my old friend Hawk, a good bowler that I didn’t really know (I’ll comment later when I know his full name), and two vacancies. Bill (the other bowler) had a game in the 250s in the last game, so that helped them take the third game and total; there are worse ways to start a league than to split the points evenly. 😀
I wanted to mention a couple of other things: First, my cousin Debbie told me Dave was in the hospital and had to miss the first night of summer league, so my thoughts go to their family. Second, Al D’Aquino, a new bowler that I “met” online through the BowlingFans.com chat, joined the league. I occasionally looked over to see how he was doing, and, though I knew he needed a lot of help with his game, his balance problems were the thing that stuck out, so I suggested that he try to hold his position at the foul line when he practices, a drill that helped me a lot when I was first learning the game.
The administrivia for this post is the beginning of the usual transition between leagues…I added the link to the new stat sheet on BowlingTracker.com to the “Author’s links” section of the sidebar. As usual, the standings sheets will be added when they’ve been posted for the first time, and the old league links will be removed from the section after the third week of the current league.
The Tenth Board 
The “new” bowler on the opposing team was named Bill Goldman.