“The Four Stooges” won all seven in the position round from “The Fifth Element”, meaning our final margin of victory was 17 points, as the latter team was able to stay in second place. I remarked in my team’s thread that we “bowled” like Secretariat ran a horse race…slow out of the gate, but winning going away, like Secretariat’s famous Belmont Stakes performance.
The reason this post was delayed was that “X-Rated” posted a higher series score in the last week than “Don’t Look Ethel” did in setting the four-man series record in the league in Week 9, but did so with an “absent” bowler’s blind score figured into the total. As the previous record was “bowled” with all four bowlers submitting, I didn’t think it fair to either team to uphold one score or the other, and the USBC rule on high team score awards is that high scores bowled with an absent bowler get dropped down to the next lower class, such as four-man when the team normally bowls with five; as we’ve never had a trios league, however, this was not ideal. I eventually took “Joe Bowler’s” suggestion to keep the Week 9 score as the official record, but note the Week 10 score on our “Honor Roll” page. It is worth mentioning that the “absent” bowler would have only needed a series score of 454, or 77 pins under his average series, for his team to equal the official record.
The Tenth Board 