With the New Year, I devote the usual post to the high scores for both the men and women at Westgate Lanes during the season in-progress at the unofficial halfway point of the winter season. It will be based on the league standings sheets I have available at press time. High average will be for a minimum of 36 games, and youth bowlers will be included with the adult bowlers if they otherwise qualified.

Men

Average: 241.0; Sean Richard (Thursday Night Patriots, 45 games)
Series: 804; John Kunan (Westgate Mixed)
Game: 300; Alex Major (Coke Classic), Dana Gomes (Brunswick Mixed), Steve Healy, Harry Thibeault, Ed Alfieri (Westgate Mixed), Sean Richard (2), Roy Ellis, Carl Hanson, John Benenato, Mike Trent (Thursday Night Patriots), Nick Sauve (Saturday Seniors [youth])

Women

Average: 212.6; Sandi Litchfield (Westgate Mixed, 48 games)
Series: 749; Sandi Litchfield (Westgate Mixed)
Game: 280; Kris Voss (Thursday Handicap Doubles)

Readers interested in a particular league can check the standings sheets on BowlerExpress at http://www.bowlerexpress.com/4westgate except for the Tuesday Scratch Sportsmen League, which posts only on LeagueSecretary.com

After managing just a point from “WTF!!!”, “Spare Parts” were in a tie for 9th with that team and “Angry Birds.” “The Incredibowls” will be our position week opponents, with a finish of no worse than 13th assured, and a finish of 8th possible. “Dee’s Boys III” just need to win one point from “Sweet Rolls” to secure the roll-off position, with the latter team needing to sweep to force a one-game roll-off for the first half title.

My Week 17 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I had been sick the last few days, so I was unsure until this afternoon that I’d be bowling, but my fever did break, so I felt I could give it a go, and ended up doing enough to raise my average. Even with that, the only spare I seemed to be lined up for was my single 10, and that only after missing the first two and making an adjustment with the next one I left.

Result: 212-163-183=558
Average (51 games): 176
Average for last 9 games: 183
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 558

Team took the first game, but then we got stomped on in the other two.

Yes, a meaningful post on Christmas Day.

After taking a point from “Kickin Ass,” “Spare Parts” are in a tie for 8th place with “The Mustangs,” with this week’s opponents, “WTF!!!”, two points behind. With just a week left until the position round for the first half, “Dee’s Boys III” lead “Deadwood,” “Sweet Rolls,” and “Heavy Metal” by seven points and will only have to win one point in the last two weeks to qualify for the roll-off without help from other teams.

Merry Christmas everyone! 😀

My Week 16 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I thought back to a previous lesson with Ray, and thought my release would improve if I targeted further down the lane than the arrows, and it largely helped. I left no splits, but my spare game was still “meh,” although a bright spot was making three of four single 10 pins.

Result: 225-163-172=560
Average (48 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 181
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 534

Tenth frame heroics by me again won my team a point (first game), but that would be all my team would take on the night.

After taking one point from “Heavy Metal,” “Spare Parts” were in a tie for 7th with “The Mustangs” and “The 5 G’s,” 11 points behind “Dee’s Boys III,” who are five points ahead of “Deadwood.” My team faces “Kickin Ass” tonight.

Because a technical error in one bowler’s score submission was discovered, and the bowler’s scores as he posted in the forums would have resulted in different champions had I received them, I declared “Cold Turkey” co-champions of the Fall 2012 virtual league. Congrats to users “BOSStull,” “dgordon0408,” “Russ I.,” and “slaterracing”.

My Week 15 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Most of the spares I missed tonight were again on the left side, but I feel I’m starting to get that side figured out, as I had reasonable spare game games in the first and third games while leaving mostly spares on that side.

Result: 196-154-186=536
Average (45 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 177
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 566

We ran into another hot team, but they gave me a chance to steal the third game, and, perfectly capable of doing so, I did with the XX9 in the 10th.

“Spare Parts” fell to a tie for 6th after failing to take points from “Dee’s Boys III,” sharing the position with “The Mustangs,” “There’s 3 and 2,” and “The 5 G’s.” The 6th place tie is nine points behind “Dee’s Boys III,” who lead “Split Happens” by four points. My team bowls against “Heavy Metal” this week, which will be our “Christmas Bowl” week (same deal as the Thanksgiving “Turkey Shoot,” with a prize for the bowler who is the most over his/her average in each division).

“Fantastic 4” picked up a net win over Team 2, but the 4-3 result was not enough to move up in the standings, so my team ended in 4th place, seven points behind the champions, “Front 9”; congratulations to team members “Chuck,” “ijohn83” (who is now a two-time champion), “Rocket” (the father of one of my teammates this season), and “sk8shorty01” (a long-standing forum and chat buddy). 😀

My Week 14 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

On a night I thought I bowled worse than I did, Brian Egan (who I believe was seeing me bowl for the first time) told me he thought I was throwing the ball well and just getting bad breaks. Maybe I’m just too hard on myself. 😀

Result: 197-173-167=537
Average (42 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 171
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 529

The aforementioned Brian Egan threw a 781 at us tonight, and was the biggest part of his team’s sweep. To be fair, though, I could have had a strike or two in the 10th third game and probably won; that didn’t happen.