After winning six points from Split Happens, Pin Pals are tied for 5th in points with three other teams, six points behind Team 15, who lead Where Is B?, Ten Is Enough, and Adam & Steve by four points. We bowl against the leading Team 15 Sunday night.

It’s the league’s practice to list the week’s high scores in a “bulletin board” on the standing sheet, listing a bowler’s high game over 200 and any series close to or over 600 (there was one 595 series mentioned this week). I made that list for the first time last week, and Lee’s 249 turned out to be the week’s high game again.

My Week 5 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Brutal night to start, with my change to the Marvel Pearl to start the second game pretty much saving what score I had. I missed two single pins, but I had a boatload of tough spares and splits, including the 4-6-7 three times. I did convert one of the washouts, however.

Result: 128-177-184=490
Average (15 games): 178
Average for last 9 games: 176
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 549

I still managed to be high on the pair, with Barry’s double in the 10th third game helping us win the one point we did.

EDIT: Almost forgot that brackets started in the league last week, with me finishing second to Hy Bao (one of the Coke league bowlers who has joined Brunswick Mixed this year) and Shawn in my two finals for the $1 loss.

Furious Five won three points (third game & total) from Sphere Chuckers to fall a point behind VEGBAGS in second place. Team 2 and Team 8 are in a tie for third, five points behind the lead.

One of the subs, Stubs, posted a 300 game for 4th and Roll, and this might be the first example in this virtual league of a bowler bowling an honor score in his very first week of participation.

My Week 4 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

After two weeks without one, I broke my deuce game “ice” in this league in my first game tonight. After never really having been a multi-league bowler in my bowling life, I’m finding my consistency between my two leagues, as I only missed last Wednesday’s score by a pin tonight.

Result: 212-173-192=577
Average (9 games): 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 523

My five-bagger in the first game joined Lee’s run, with him finishing with a 249, and, combined with Rachel also bowling her personal best game (157), we won the first game easily. Lee wasn’t as good in the other two games, however, so I ended up high on the pair for the night, with the team also winning the second game for six points. Rachel ended up with probably her first 400 series (402).

After winning three from Team 14, Seven Deadly Pins is tied for 9th with three other teams (Lost Empire 2, Striking Gentlemen, and Ebony and Ivories), five points behind Spare Us, who lead Steak and Lettuce and Team 14 by two points, and Lickety Splits and Mixed Nuts by three. Ebony and Ivories will provide the opposition for my team in the coming week.