“Cryssen” apparently dropped out of the league, and, by rule and available replacements, his place was taken by another bowler, “cgrimes.”
As for the week’s result, “Diamond Flush” won all 7 from “Mooseknuckles” to pull into a tie for 5th with “Executionists,” 20 points behind the leading “Ordinary Average Guys,” who lead “Got Wood?” by 12 points with four weeks left.
“Dave800” had the week’s honor score, a 300 game.
Not an April Fool’s joke, I promise. 😀
A second update this week is needed because “Deadwood” has created a three-way tie for second, with (as noted earlier) “Pinfall Wizards” and “Dee’s Boys II” also involved. The schedule has my team up against the last-place “Bowling Stones,” “The 5 G’s,” the leaders, bowling “Outta Da Guttah,” and “Dee’s Boys II” and “Deadwood” bowling each other.
Congrats to Dave Townson, my first league secretary back in the day, on games of 279, 268, and 256 for an 803 series tonight in the Thursday Handicap Doubles league! 😀
My Week 30 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
I was fighting it most of the night, but I was happier with my spare shooting than usual, though I could’ve stood to make more spares in the second game.
Result: 190-166-165=521
Average (90 games): 173
Average for last 9 games: 181
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 538
After losing the first game by 49 pins, Pat came on strong with two games in the 150s, and Brian had a 172 third game, enabling us to win those two games, and total by 33 pins. “The 5 G’s” took all four points, so they now hold the second half lead, with “Pinfall Wizards” and “Dee’s Boys II” tied in points for second, two behind the lead.
Not sure if this qualifies as a league or a tournament post, so I put it in both categories…
The youth program ran its honor squad on Saturday, for which bowlers qualified by earning a singles patch during the season. The high scores in each age group are below; scores are handicap, I believe, except for the scratch division.
Bantam Boys
Bantam/Prep Girls
Prep Boys
Junior Boys
Junior/Major/Senior Girls
Major Boys
Scratch
Congrats to all of the winners! 😀
“Pinfall Wizards” fell out of the tie for second place after losing all four points to “Outta Da Guttah,” but remained two points behind “Dee’s Boys II” and are a point behind “The 5 G’s.” Tonight represents a chance to move at least close to the lead: We have the leaders, while “The 5 G’s” will be opposed by “The Mustangs.”
Congrats to “Tom Tom” Hedding on a 300 game tonight in the Brockton Ten Pin League. Again, we have video of his last strike courtesy of Adam Johndrow, embedded below:
Congrats again Tom Tom! 😀
NEBA reported that Alex Aguiar was the champion of the event held last weekend at AMF Circle Lanes in East Haven, CT, defeating Tom Durand 224-150 in the title match. The title is Aguiar’s 12th, tying him with Dave Forcier for 5th on the all-time list.
The PBA reported that Gary Erickson of N. Attleboro, MA was among the cashers in last weekend’s PBA East regional tournament at Mt. Greylock Bowl in N. Adams, MA. John Furey of E. Windsor, NJ was the champion, defeating Noel Vega of Forest Hills, NY in the title match 227-207. The event was contested on the PBA’s Scorpion oil pattern.
The unofficial results of the 50th annual Brockton Bowling Association Championships can be viewed in a PDF file by clicking here. The association hopes to make the results official soon.
In Week 2 of the winter season, “Diamond Flush” was on the short end of a 4-3 split with “Got Wood?”. Last week, my team got help from an 11 in a row 299 game from “jbungard” and took the lion’s share (5-2) in the rematch. We moved up two spots to 7th as a result, 22 points behind “Ordinary Average Guys,” who got 12 points of separation from the rest of the league, with “2-bit Bandits” and the aforementioned “Got Wood?” tied in points for second.
A few notes to wrap up the day-to-day from the Brockton Bowling Association tournament:
And a stray one from other action: Rob Young, the Brockton Bowling Association president, told me he converted the “Big 4” this past week in the Coke league.
Hall of Fame Dinner set for May 5: The Hall of Fame Dinner was announced before the team squad today for May 5 at Harry’s Westgate Pub & Grill (inside Westgate Lanes). Ticket information will be announced soon. Sadly, there will be no tournament that weekend.
Definitely the highlight of the third day of the Brockton Bowling Association championship tournament today was Ed Roberts in the team event, as he posted games of 258, 279, and 279 for an 816 series. His team, which also included Alex Aguiar, Gino Beniamino, and Vin D’Aleo, largely followed his lead, as they posted a second game of 998 (four-man team), and I’ll comment on their series tomorrow when I look at the leaderboard (provided I have wifi access, as I didn’t really have it today or I would’ve posted this sooner).
With my addition of the National Bowling League Championships link to the sidebar in the “Tournaments” category, I noticed an oversight: The link to the Virtual Tournaments site was still in the “Bowling Sites” category. Wanting to keep the tournaments together, even the virtual ones, I re-categorized the Virtual Tournaments link to the “Tournaments” category.
Congrats to John Mayo on his second 300 game of the season in the Thursday Night Patriots league. This time, Adam Johndrow got video of the last strike, which, after minor fixes, I’ve uploaded to YouTube and embedded below. 😀
Ray also showed me a flyer for the National Bowling League Championship after my lesson that someone had dropped off in his pro shop. Conceptually, this is a virtual tournament, but competition is for teams of five instead of individuals, all ending with a 96 team head-to-head roll-off with a potential $50K first prize based on 10K teams entering the NBLC. The flyer also said all competition takes place without leaving your home bowling center.
I’ve added the link to the sidebar (in the “Tournaments” category) for those who’d like more information.
Today’s lesson was more of the same from previous lessons, but today, Ray moved the tape on the lane right up to the break point, and something seemed to click, as I threw four or five good shots in a row. When I mentioned last night’s problem with the right side, he told me to line up for the 10 but also aim for the tape, and project to it. After missing a single 10 I had standing, the last balls were with me throwing my 10 first, then my strike ball, with me contacting the 10 every time and the last strike being just about dead perfect. Ray called this a good lesson, and I had to agree with his assessment. My next practices will also have me shooting 10 first, then strike.
My Week 29 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
The way I’ve been bowling, there has to be a bad game in a set somewhere, and tonight, it was the first game. If I just make all of my spares in that game, I probably threaten a 600. On the good side, my left side was less of a problem than it has been, as I only missed one of the spares I had on that side, and I made the lone 7 pin I had. However, two of the missed spares in the first game were single 10s, and I missed one other 10 without picking a single one up on the night.
Result: 149-189-208=546
Average (87 games): 173
Average for last 9 games: 189
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 537
Berta was absent (and will be again next week), and, with the tear she’s been on, we could’ve used her tonight, as we failed to win a point. A bystander who took one of the lanes on my pair after we bowled told me he thought my teammates let me down, to which I only told him, “That’s bowling.”
“Diamond Flush” won just the third game against “Presto,” but by enough to eek out a win on total pins, for three points on the week (This was better than we did against them in Week 1, where we failed to win a point). We now sit in 9th place, 20 points behind “Ordinary Average Guys” but 6 points ahead of “Kingpins” in the cellar. “Ordinary Average Guys” lead “Got Wood?” by 7 points.
Last week was one of the highest scoring that I could remember, as there were two honor games (a 300 by “Joe Bowler” and a 296 by “Lumpytire”), 4 279 games, and 2 other games in the 270s. “Lumpytire,” in fact, had one of the 279 games, as well, and only missed having the 5th 800 series in league history by a pin. The scoring frenzy prompted me to look for a report in Perfect Secretary that gave league-wide average information: The league-wide average this season has been 201.08, and last week’s average across the league was 205.23, more than four full pins higher.
This weekend was the first weekend of the Brockton Bowling Association’s 50th championship tournament and, while there were no crazy scores, I can relate that I saw Keith Tantillo convert the “Big 4” (the 4-6-7-10) during his doubles event today (I had to miss yesterday because of a commitment to my family). One thing I did do for the association was post the weekend’s raffle winners (for a ball and two pairs of shoes) to our Facebook page.
Something I did do today that I haven’t done in close to two years was take my bicycle to the lanes. I had been shy about making the trip up on my bike because of the road construction that had been going on, and that wrapped up before this winter; most other times I’ve been there since then, I’ve had to take my bowling gear with me, which means no bike but either a cab or the BAT bus. I do want to take my bike out more, however, not only for my general health, but also to get my legs in better shape for bowling.
Westgate Lanes will host a cosmic bowling fundraiser for Gracie’s Mission on Saturday night, March 31, from 8-10 PM. The cost is $25/person, which includes shoes, and reservations can be made by emailing the organization.
The goals of Gracie’s Mission are education on holistic veterinary treatment and providing financial assistance to low-income households with veterinary treatments for their pets. More information is available on the organization’s website.
My Week 28 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
Tonight was, though lower scoring, similar to last week in the staying clean department. I had basically the same number of open frames, and reduced the number in my bad game by one; I just couldn’t strike for the life of me in the bad game. A plus was that I had 11 single pin leaves that I could shoot at for spares, and made all but one of them (a 7 that I didn’t hook at enough).
Result: 204-152-212=568
Average (84 games): 173
Average for last 9 games: 180
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 561
Berta was over 500 herself again tonight, and just about everyone else did enough that we won all four points.
With my team close to the lead this late in the half, it’s getting time for me to pay attention to what the teams around us are doing. “The 5 G’s” also took all four points tonight, but “Dee’s Boys II” only took three, so the result of the night is that we remained in a tie with “The 5 G’s” for second place, but climbed to within two points of the leaders, “Dee’s Boys II.”
I’ll comment with next week’s opponent when I know if any of my teammates led their division this week (Berta has a good shot at something this week.).
“Diamond Flush” failed to win any points against “Ordinary Average Guys,” and dropped all the way to 9th place, 18 points behind the aforementioned team and only 5 points ahead of “Kingpins” at the bottom of the standings. “Ordinary Average Guys” are now 7 points ahead of a logjam at second place between “Executionists,” “2-bit Bandits,” and “Got Wood?”.
After splitting against “The Mustangs,” “Pinfall Wizards” maintained a tie in points for second place with “The 5 G’s” and continued to creep closer to the lead, as we’re now just three points behind “Dee’s Boys II.” “The Incredibowls” are this week’s opponents.
Individually, Berta had both the high scratch game and series for the women.
I put in a rare Thursday night appearance at the lanes last night, and, during my stay, Adam Johndrow told me that on Wednesday, while I was bowling league, he was practicing on one of the lanes by the desk and picked up the 7-10 split. He added that this is the second time he’s done it in practice, but never in competition.
My Week 27 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)
I told “CoachJim” about my issue with turning the hand early over the weekend, and he suggested giving an article Joe Slowinski wrote a couple of years ago about use of the balance arm a look. The balance arm point was the one I tried to keep in mind tonight, and the result was my best night in two months. I fell apart in the third game, but I did have 22 clean frames out of the first 23, and my second game (the clean one) may have been my best of the season based on feel.
Result: 207-220-161=588
Average (81 games): 172
Average for last 9 games: 176
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 523
Berta keeps improving, as she improved on her high series with a 546 (a personal best, of course). After losing a close first game, the second game was a big blowout in our favor, but the other team recovered from that to take the third game for another split of the points for us.
The People’s Tournament reported that Mindy Hardy (Strikers East, 204 avg.) defeated Zach Leverant (Westgate Lanes, 180 avg.) by a score of 263-216 (with handicaps) in the title match of the event held on Feb. 26 at Strikers East. Among the 16 cashers, Maya Christie (135 avg.), Rosemarie Daniels (165 avg.) and Mike Major (208 avg.) represented Westgate Lanes; Craig Glatky (168 avg.) represented North Bowl.
I mentioned there was something interesting about the Inside Bowling site in a comment to a previous post, and that is that that site is actually also home to a webcast. The webcast is in its second season, and you can find both audio (right from the archive pages) and video (link to their UStream channel) for the archived shows (there’s a separate link for the live webcasts, though I don’t know when those run). They also have forums (though I think I’ll stick to the site I’m on, since I practically work for them now 😀 ) and a Java chat available (keep in mind this is the St. Louis-based site I mentioned earlier, so they may be locally-focused). I’m linking the site because of the big name guests on their webcast, and it can be found on the sidebar in the general “Bowling Sites” category.
Further digging from “The 11th Frame” turned up BowlSpot.com, which powers the blog. This site offers bowling stat tracking and possibly other interactivity (I’ll be registering tomorrow and post additional notes as a comment), and also powers, besides Jeff Richgels’ blog, Pete Weber’s website (those of you who watched this year’s US Open will certainly know who “He Is” 😀 ) and InsideBowling.com, a site devoted to bowling in the St. Louis area. The main site gets the link on the sidebar, in the general “Bowling Sites” category.
I had known that USBC Hall of Famer Jeff Richgels, who has my respect for doing well year after year at the USBC Open Championships (he is the captain of the defending Regular Team champion Turbo 2-N-1 Grips 1), writes a column for Madison.com (Wisconsin, where Richgels is from), but I didn’t know that he also had a blog site at 11thFrame.com until I saw a post of his linked in the USBC’s Twitter feed. Of course, the link is now up in the blogroll on the sidebar.
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