My Week 2 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Three at least reasonable games this time. The Fast was used all night and I’ve found it reasonably controllable on this shot. I’m really on a positive with how this league is starting.

Result: 169-182-201=552
Average (6 games): 180
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 548

Team got stomped on in the first game, so total was never really in doubt, but the only game we salvaged was the second game, which I struck out in the 10th in for the point.

Deadly Pins (with the 7 dropped from the name) was one of seven teams that won three of the four points in the first week. An unnamed Team 14 was the only team that won all four in the first week. Creeden’s Mustangs will be our opponents tomorrow night.

For anyone wondering about the lane condition for the first third of the 2015-16 Coke league I have posted the PDF of the shot at that link. It is a 37′ pattern with a 5.23:1 ratio. Copies will also be on the bulletin board near locker room and also in the pro shop.

Furious Five won all seven points to open the fall virtual league season, and was the only team to do so in the first week. Team 1, 4th and Roll, and All 7’s won five of the seven, rounding out the top half of the league.

My virtual league also got started in the week about to pass, and my team, named Furious Five, is comprised of Dylan585, Lumpytire, Mikestormbowler91, and sk8shorty01 as my teammates. I’ve always wanted to “bowl” with that last teammate, as we’ve been online correspondents for a long time now, so I’m really looking forward to this fall season. 🙂

I came into tonight knowing I was going to have at least four bowlers, because Si Rosenthal, one of my first friends in bowling, messaged me to say he was joining my team for this season. I picked up a fifth in Jeff Gottfried, who is about a 140 average bowler. It looked like my team was going to be team number 7, so I suggested the punny 7 Deadly Pins for a team name, which was agreed to.

My Week 1 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Recalling that I only managed a 429 first week last year, the 100 pin improvement was most definitely a better start this year. I still had the clunker game, but a timely ball change produced a 222 third game.

Result: 172-135-222=529
Average (3 games): 176
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 533

My 529 was second high series on the pair, but the 222 was the high game. Team was hopeful for three out of the four, but we’ll see when the first standings are out.

The links transition will probably begin tomorrow.

It was probably a foregone conclusion, but, with the recent publication of the Brockton Bowling Association yearbook for this past season, it became official that Sean Richard, with his 237 in the Patriots league, which was a new Westgate Lanes record average, had earned association high average honors. The 4th page in the linked file has the list of high averages for the season.

Congrats again “$eany Ka$h”! 🙂

Spare Us ended up tied for 14th with Wild Samoans in the final league standings, so, as normally happens, the money involved in 14th and 15th place will be combined and divided equally. This means about $1.25 more per man than we would have received if we didn’t move up at all; you could say my clutch bowling the other night meant $0.625 per game I won for everyone on my team.

My Week 13 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

This was not such a bad way to end my summer league. I started slow, but made few mistakes once I had the right ball in my hand. As shall be explained below, the end was better than my start in some ways.

Result: 160-197-191=548
Final average (39 games): 169
Average for last 9 games: 159

My clutch bowling was tested tonight, as I had to double in the 10th second game and mark the third game for the points in those games. I was high on the pair, with only one other bowler on the pair shooting over 400.

I need to see what the result of the match ahead of us was, but I can report that Lost Empire won the league by one point, so congrats to the members of Lost Empire: Joe Tam, Sammy Wong, Dave Chin, Paul Dang, and Ricky Chan (who was a sub for the team).

The Coke Classic league has, in the past, had an 840 cap on teams’ entering averages, but, in a move announced last night on the Westgate Lanes Facebook page, the league will remove the cap on entering averages this season, which they hope attracts more teams to the league. Team entries will be taken right up until the league’s opening night on Sept. 14.

After earning a 4-4 split with Team 7, Spare Us is in 15th and will bowl against Pinheadz Wednesday night in the league’s position round. We are 16 points clear of our opponents, so we’re assured of not finishing last. With a sweep and a favorable split of the points in the match immediately ahead of us, we can tie either Wild Samoans or Team 7 for 13th.

At the top, Full Strength leads Lost Empire by two points and Doesn’t Matter by four, so the latter team needs to sweep and get a favorable split of the first place match to tie for first.

My Week 12 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

There was still one bad game, but I did improve with every game, and the third game was clean, so that’s the positive I’ll take out of it.

Result: 122-151-195=468
Average (36 games): 167
Average for last 9 games: 146
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 507

The 6-10 chop in the second game cost us the points, but I was happy to get out of there with the third game (by 133 pins) and total.

After failing to win points from Lost Empire, Spare Us is in 15th (out of 16 teams), and Lost Empire took the league lead based on that, now leading Full Strength by four points, Team 10 by six points, and The Minions and Doesn’t Matter by eight points; our deficit to the lead is 30 points. We bowl against Team 7 next week, the last week before position round. At the top, Lost Empire bowls against Oops, Full Strength against The Minions, Team 10 against Pin Laws, and Doesn’t Matter against Pinheadz.

My Week 11 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

This was the reverse of last week: Bad first two games, decent third game. Opening up the lane a bit in the third game gave me my best chance, but I made more spares in that game as well.

Result: 120-123-179=422
Average (33 games): 169
Average for last 9 games: 151
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 543

Team had no chance tonight, particularly in the last two games, where our opponents bowled 900+ scratch in both of those games.

After winning four points from The Minions, Spare Us are in a four-way tie for 12th, 26 points behind Full Strength, who lead Lost Empire (our opponents for this week) by four points and The Minions by six points.

My Week 10 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I did OK early, but with the approaches having been resurfaced, footwork was tricky, and by the time I figured that out, I ran into splits, combined with a cold spare game on other spares.

Result: 174-133-123=430
Average (30 games): 171
Average for last 9 games: 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 521

Teams split the first two games, with our opponents having the advantage for total, and if I had made a pretense at average third game, we win six points, but we did escape with that game for four points.

After winning six points from Has Beens, Spare Us is tied for 12th with Team 8, 24 points behind Full Strength, who lead Team 10 by two points and Lost Empire and The Minions (our opponents Wednesday night) by four points.

My Week 9 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

My tendency was to come up light on stuff tonight, and, unfortunately, the tendency held on my single 7 pin, to the point where I missed three of them. I was able to put strikes together a couple of times in the last game, however, which saved my 500.

Result: 165-163-180=508
Average (27 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 162
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 555

Both Patrick and Joe were 40+ over average in the second game, which we won by 100+ and was most of the difference for total after we also won the third game.

After failing to win points against Wild Samoans, Spare Us is tied for 13th with Team 8 and No F In Strikes, 24 points behind a tie for the lead between The Minions and Team 15. Team 10 trails the leaders by two points, and Lost Empire by four. Wednesday night’s opponents will be Has Beens.