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

Finally broke the deuce ice for the season tonight, but don’t ask me what happened in the second game.

Result: 201-137-183=521
Average (15 games): 162
Average for last 9 games: 164
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 498

My team got the better of a 3-1 split of the points. This was the first night of the five so far in which both Barry and I were over 500 for the night.

Quick night, as both teams had two vacancies, and a bowler was absent on the other team. There are still bowlers on the lanes in all three leagues (I’m guessing at the deaf league) as I post this.

After winning all four points from Team 16 last week, “Turkey Hunters” moved into a tie with them and “Bowl Pack” (who we bowl against tonight) for 7th place, three points behind “Striking Gentlemen”, who are a point ahead of “Bowling Stones” and “Ebony and Ivories”.

Individually, Barry had the second high handicap series for the men last week.

“Pin Seeking Missiles” won five of seven (2nd & 3rd games, and total) from “Triple x-X-x”, and moved back up to 4th place, three points behind the leading “The Whole 9 Yards”, who are now a half point ahead of “Wrecking Balls” and one ahead of “Probable Cause”.

The league saw its first individual honor score of the season in “sk8shorty01’s” 290 game.

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

By all rights, I should have gotten out of there with a 500 tonight, but three straight easy spare misses in the third game cost me that.

Result: 155-178-144=477
Average (12 games): 159
Average for last 9 games: 165
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 485

Barry had the best night on the pair tonight (570), and was the biggest reason my team won all four. He told me he couldn’t remember his last 200 game in Taunton (2nd game tonight was a 210).

After failing to win points from “We Split 4 No 1”, “Turkey Hunters” stand in a six-way tie for 10th, five points behind the leading “Lickety Splits”, who are a point ahead of “Ebony and Ivories” and Team 16 (our opponents Wednesday night), and two points ahead of “We Split 4 No 1”, “Striking Gentlemen”, and “Bowling Stones”.

“Pin Seeking Missiles” ended up winning only the first game from “The Whole 9 Yards” and now stand in a tie for 6th with Team 7, four points behind “8 Ain’t Enough”, who lead “Wrecking Balls” by a point and by two over “Probable Cause”.

Speaking of two of those leading teams, “Probable Cause” (Team members “bigcall”, “General Pounder”, “ijohn83”, and “vdubtx”) had a top 3 all-time game (972) and series (2672), and “8 Ain’t Enough” (Team members “Chuck”, “Mikestormbowler91”, “VampyreBowler”, and “Vic44”) also settled into 3rd all-time game (the aforementioned game by “Probable Cause” was 2nd all-time).

My Week 3 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

The second game was my undoing tonight, as it became a “strike or nothing” game with a whole lot of nothing between the strikes. I didn’t help myself missing consecutive 7 pins on the same lane in that game, however.

Result: 172-141-171=484
Average (9 games): 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 482

The other team got a solid night from their anchor, who I want to say was clean until the very last frame, and won all four.

After winning three of four from “Sweet Rolls”, “Turkey Hunters” are tied for 6th with “Oddballs”, two points behind the leading teams, “Lickety Splits”, “Ebony and Ivories”, and Team 16. Our opponents tomorrow night will be “We Split 4 No 1”.

“Pin Seeking Missiles” won four of the seven points from Team 1 last week. Team 8 nearly swept Team 7, with both teams splitting the points for second game, so we stand two behind Team 8 in 4th, with “DJSW” and “Probable Cause” tied for second, a point behind the lead.

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

Better night overall, except for single pins, and the saving grace for that was I didn’t have all that many to shoot at. My main struggle was getting my release timing squared away, but that got better as the night went on, and I finished strong, with a turkey starting from the 8th frame in the third game.

Result: 152-180-193=525
Average (6 games): 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 486

Donald was over average for the night, and Barry backed me up third game. Team won second and third games, with the third one comfortably, for three points (including total).

The fall virtual league is starting this week, and I find “champ”, “Dylan585”, and “Fin09” as my teammates, but “Fin09” couldn’t bowl this week, so “TheDemolitionMan” will be subbing on my team, which we named “Pin Seeking Missiles”.

Along with ourselves and “Looking For Wood” (our opponents last week), “No Names” and “The 508 Boys” split the points, which the top team in pinfall is in 9th position (out of 20 teams). “We Split 4 No 1” and Team 16 were the teams winning all four points in the first week. Tomorrow night, we bowl against “Sweet Rolls”.

As a note, because of the number of teams, the league has decided to have two position rounds in each half, so I’ll note when each one comes up.

My Week 14 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

My +1 to end the league was there tonight, but I missed four single pins, three on the left side, one of which, if made, would have given the +1 to me. That said, however, I was only under average in the second game, and not under by double-digit pins. Most of the dip in my moving average below was my bad Week 12.

Result: 193-168-191=552
Final average (42 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 172

Things were promising after the first game, but we got crushed in the second game, and needed the two points out of the third game to force a three-way tie for first (as things turned out), but I didn’t give Jim enough of a chance.

Congratulations to the members of the winning team: Ed Godino Jr., Debbie Dion, Peter Cappola, and Jewel Wilson

I mentioned in my last recap post that my team was at least tied for first with Team 5, and we bowl against them next week, but Team 1 can tie for the championship if they sweep and either my team or Team 5 wins six, and Team 1 wins outright with seven points and our match splits 4-4. “Lucky Thirteens” and Team 2 are tied for 4th three behind the lead, so those teams need to sweep and the matches ahead of them to split 4-4.

Individually, Jim had the second high scratch game and series (with a 719) this week.

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

I bowled just well enough to make my +1 tonight, making enough spares to keep myself afloat. There were no more than two open frames in any game, with every game also having at least a double (though I had no more than a turkey in any game).

Result: 177-184-180=541
Average (39 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 176
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 553

I was crossing with Tony Attardo tonight, and he didn’t make it easy on us in the first two games, but Jim put up a 279 in the last game to help us salvage two points. I think Team 5 won six, so we’re at least tied with them for first going into the position week.

After splitting 4-4 with “Ghetto Stars”, “It’s Jim’s Fault” leads by four points over Team 5, six over Team 1, and eight over “Budweiser”. In the last week before position week (this coming week), we bowl against “Lucky Strikes”, Team 5 against “Shake ‘N Bake”, and Team 1 against “Budweiser”.

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

Just didn’t have it tonight, as I got very little going.

Result: 146-156-157=459
Average (36 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 527

Lou and Jim both shot 244s to help us win the first game, and it turned out to be barely enough for total (8 pins).

Team 1 actually only won two points this week, so our lead over them is four points. Also, Team 2 is now climbing into contention, seven points behind us in 4th. Our opponents next week will be “Ghetto Stars”.

In the high scores category, we had the second high scratch team series this week.