My Week 32 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Second games have generally been the bane of my bowling existence this season, and tonight was another case-in-point. If you’ll refer to my log (in the “Author’s links”), I am now averaging almost a full 10 pins under my first game average in the second game this season.

Result: 187-133-165=485
Average (96 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 169
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 566

Team generally got run over the first two games, but we salvaged the third game.

After winning three points from “SR Spares”, “Snakes On A Lane” stand tied with “Anger Management” and “3 Plus 2” for 11th place with two weeks left in the season. “Mustangs” are the new leaders, by a point over Team 16 and “Bowling Stones” and two points over “We Split 4 No 1”. My team finishes the regular schedule with “3’s Company”. For the leaders, “Mustangs” will bowl against “Bowling Stones”, Team 16 against “The Doables”, and “We Split 4 No 1” against “WTF Over”.

My Week 31 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I don’t use my Reign of Fire often because I sometimes think I have problems getting it to rev up, but, when I was lost in the second game, I thought to pull it out of my locker with nothing to lose, salvaged something out of the game, then proceeded to have one of my few clean games of the season, which I was proud of also because I converted a couple of splits, including a 3-6-7-10, to stay clean.

Result: 180-146-197=523
Average (93 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 170
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 526

Team won the first game big, lost half of the lead in the second game, then rallied around me to win the third game for three points.

“Tripped 4s” won four points from Team 3 in the last week, just enough to force a tie for last place with them. The final margin of victory for “6-Pack Abs” was 14 points.

Although I’m doing stuff for this league year-round, my summer vacation from it starts now. 🙂

After failing to win points against “The Doables”, “Snakes On A Lane” are alone in 14th place, a point behind our week’s opponents, “SR Spares”. We are 10 points behind the leaders, “Bowling Stones”, who lead “Mustangs” by two points and “Spear Me” by 2.5 points. The leaders’ lane assignments have “Bowling Stones” against “Sweet Rolls”, “Mustangs” against “3 Plus 2”, and “Spear Me” against “The Dynasty Is Back”.

I neglected to mention in last week’s recap that Brian had a 497 scratch set, and that should be a high (scratch or handicap) for men’s “C” last week.

My Week 30 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Left side spares were my weakness tonight, particularly where my single 7 was involved, as I missed all three of those, and pulled a 2 pin, as well. The positive I’ll take from this is that I did find a comfortable line in the third game with my Marvel Pearl for my 215; I just wished my other two games were like my third.

Result: 146-154-215=515
Average (90 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 163
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 617

The opponents’ pre-bowls were pretty good, particularly from their anchor, and the bowler present for them had two good games, as well. My team lost all four as a result.

There was a $1 refund on brackets, but that was all I got back from last week.

Winning three of four from “Anger Management” found “Snakes On A Lane” tied with them and “The Doables” for 10th place, 10 points behind the pace set by “Bowling Stones” with four weeks left. “Bowling Stones” lead “Mustangs” by two points and Team 16 by four. My team bowls “The Doables” tonight, but I’ve been told most of them have pre-bowled, so it could be a quick night. For the leaders, “Bowling Stones” bowl against “Spear Me”, “Mustangs” against “Sweet Rolls”, and Team 16 against “Anger Management”.

“Tripped 4s” managed only two points from “Good Luck Bad Luck”, and we’re now one point behind Team 3 in last place entering the last week of the league. “6-Pack Abs” clinched the championship with one week left, so congrats to the members: “Dennis Michael”, “Domokun”, “Doogie”, “General Pounder”, and “Joe Bowler” (the last two of whom are now two-time champions).

My Week 29 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

The lanes seemed tough tonight, so I was fairly happy with my 495, because I thought my look was a bit better than a couple of my higher-average opponents (who I realized I forgot to note when I posted the standings update today: “Anger Management”).

Result: 183-151-161=495
Average (87 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 166
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 604

As I alluded to, two of my opponents were well under average, and the result for us was three points.