My Week 27 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I really only had it together in Game 2, with splits dogging me in the first game, and then losing my release in my last game. The one good game did prove enough to help me to another 500.

Result: 160-198-148=506
Average (81 games): 166
Average for last 9 games: 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 559

The one good game was also the only game the team won, but it ended up being by enough for total.

Jim Andersen pretty much cleaned house in brackets last week, but I did make one final, beating Shawn in that to break even for the week.

After winning one point from Team 16, “Turkey Hunters” are now tied with “Ebony & Ivories” for 15th place, 9.5 points behind “Bowling Stones”, who lead “Y Not Us” by a point, “Sweet Rolls” by a point and a half, and “Knock Em Down” by 2.5 points. The “Bowl Pack” provides the opposition tomorrow night.

“Diamond Flush 2.0” won five of the seven from Team 8, and are now in 5th place, 17 points behind Team 3, who are now 13 points ahead of “The Big Red One” and Team 4 (members “Bwlnggd”, “Doogie”, “explorer05”, “mmalsed”, and “slowdown”), who had a top three all-time team series last week, landing second on the list with a 3,385.

My Week 26 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

After spending the entire month of February under the 500 line, I seem to have come out of it. I was happy that I could put together more than a double on a couple of occasions tonight.

Result: 176-161-204=541
Average (78 games): 166
Average for last 9 games: 170
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 564

Open frames in the 10th meant trouble tonight, as the opposing anchor struck out in the 10th in each of the first two games to take the points. The game I did close out well, we won.

There was also better news in brackets last week, as I beat Shawn and finished second to Fred Mellin in the other bracket for my $2 profit.

After winning three points from “Ebony & Ivories”, “Turkey Hunters” now sit in 15th place, 7.5 points behind “Bowling Stones”, who lead “Y Not Us” and “Spare Change” by a point and “Sweet Rolls” by a point and a half. Team 16 will be our opponents tomorrow night.

“Diamond Flush 2.0” could only manage two points in the rematch with Team 5, and are now in 6th, 15 points behind Team 3, who lead “The Big Red One” by six points and “The Chat Line” by eight.

Individually, “Fin09” of Team 3 had another 300, and “VampyreBowler” of Team 8 had a 290 game, the latter score which I alluded to in my Saturday night Facebook status (his real team set a new house record in Frederick, MD).

My Week 25 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I made the decision tonight to play straighter up the track than I usually do, and the decision largely paid off. If not for three single pins on the left side that I hooked past, I had a night where I could have averaged 180, which is a far cry from my bowling of the last month.

Result: 160-173-181=514
Average (75 games): 165
Average for last 9 games: 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 526

One of the single pin misses was an 8 in the 10th frame of the second game, and missing that cost the team the second game, as we ended up losing the game by a pin. Team did win the other two games and total, as Barry had the best night on the pair (550).

After winning two points against “Knock Em Down”, “Turkey Hunters” stand in a four-way tie for 15th and will bowl against “Ebony & Ivories” in tonight’s position round. The deficit is eight points to the leaders, “Sweet Rolls”, who now lead “Bowling Stones” by a half-point, one over “The 508 Boys”, and 1.5 over “Spare Change”.

Four points from “The Big Red One” left “Diamond Flush 2.0” 13 points behind the leaders, Team 3, who lead “The Big Red One” by six points and “The Chat Line” by seven. Individually, “Vannman” of “The Big Red One” submitted a set of scores that included a game in which he converted the 7-10 split, the first such instance in league history. The big split conversion helped him stay clean for the entire night.

The Amateur Bowlers Tour (ABT) has returned to Westgate Lanes…sort of. While the ABT itself hasn’t returned to New England, the Coke league will be using one of their patterns, #3, for the last third of their season, the overhead graph of which you may find here. It’s a long (44′), relatively light volume (about 23 ml) pattern w/ about a 4.8:1 ratio.

My Week 24 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

The first game looked like it might be the start of a repeat of last week, but I managed to stay clean until the 10th in the 2nd game. I threw away single pins, though, missing five of them tonight (all corner pins).

Result: 144-179-152=475
Average (72 games): 165
Average for last 9 games: 155
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 542

Barry had the best night on the pair tonight (591), but we got croaked in the third game for total after winning the first two.

February’s always been a tough month for me, it seems, but I hope the turn of the calendar will also be a turn of the corner.

This post is late because my timing was tight yesterday with having to leave for Coke league early…

“Diamond Flush 2.0” lost all seven to “Seven Wonders” and now stand in 6th place, 12 points behind Team 3, who lead “The Big Red One” by four points and “Seven Wonders” by seven points.

Plenty in the high score department this week: “Fin09” of Team 3 had a 300 game en route to an 808 series, which was the league’s first instance of the 300/800 feat. “trekguy” of Team 5 also had a 300 game, and “Fin09’s” 300 game helped his team to a 1,209 game, which is third all-time in the league.

After winning one point from “Sweet Rolls”, “Turkey Hunters” are in 16th place, 9.5 points behind “Bowling Stones”, who lead “Sweet Rolls” and “Oddballs” by 2.5 points. “Knock Em Down” provides the opposition in the coming week.