“JaMMeRs” had an immediate rematch against Team 13 in Week 14, and again took all 7 points, enabling my virtual team to finish the league in 9th place. “Bipolar Rollers,” consisting of “Joe Bowler,” “slaterracing,” “TominNJ,” and “Upriser,” won all 7 points from Team 12 to take the league championship. “Upriser” is on a championship team for a second time, the first virtual league participant to have done so.

“Rocket 5,” consisting of “Doogie,” “jbungard,” “mkhawk21,” and “Rocket,” set a league record four-man series in the last week.

After taking only one point from “Deadwood,” “Pinfall Wizards” fell to 6th in the standings, 13 points behind “The Mustangs,” who now hold a four point lead over “The Incredibowls.” This week on my team’s schedule: “Bottoms Up!”

My Week 15 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

My line was there pretty much all night, but my execution let me down for most of it. Particularly disappointing was a bad spare game night; I had worked it up to being something of a strength in recent weeks.

Result: 156-179-147=482
Average (45 games): 170
Average for last 9 games: 163
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 514

Berta had a solid night, but that was pretty much it. The point we did win is in question because it was close enough for a scoring error last week for this week’s opponents to have a say in the outcome when the error is corrected and averages adjusted.

“JaMMeRs” executed a much-needed sweep of Team 13 in the fall virtual league’s penultimate week, doing so despite “Rocket Jr” of the latter team putting up a 290 third game, which was a good enough 11 in a row score for recognition on the league’s “Honor Roll” page.

A quirk in the standings has my virtual team involved in an immediate rematch against Team 13 in this week’s positon round. The worst we can do is finish in a tie for our current position, 12th, and we can conceivably move up to 8th. Three teams, Team 12, “Bipolar Rollers,” and Team 4 can still conceivably win the league’s championship, with Team 12 having the advantage in points.

After winning all four points against “Warren’s Girls,” “Pinfall Wizards” move up to 5th place, 11 points behind “The Mustangs,” who hold a two point lead against “The Incredibowls.” “Deadwood” provides my team’s opposition this week.

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

After a couple of weeks under the mark, I finally got back over 500 on a night. It was far from an artistic success, with only one double, but I got better as the night went on. I was slightly worse on my spares tonight, with four missed “makeables,” including a couple of single pins, but I was still near 80% on those, so my spare game improvement continues to be a bright spot on this season.

Result: 143-172-192=507
Average (42 games): 171
Average for last 9 games: 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 528

Tonight was a watershed night for Carl. In his fifth season of bowling, he finally threw his first 200 game with a 204 in the second game. As for the rest of the team, Pat was solid, and Brian also had 2 games over his average. The result was the team taking all of the points.

“JaMMeRs” lost the lion’s share to “Legends,” taking only the second game, and allowed the latter team to creep closer to getting out of the cellar, as we’re now only 7 points ahead of them in 12th and 5 points ahead of “Silicon Stewart” with two weeks left. There is currently a tie at the top between Team 12 and Team 4, with “Bipolar Rollers” two points behind and “Wrecking Balls” four points behind.

After taking one point from “The 5 G’s,” “Pinfall Wizards” are now tied for 6th with that team and “Dee’s Boys II,” 14 points behind “The Mustangs,” who widened their lead over “Outta Da Guttah” to 4.5 points. My team bowls against “Warren’s Girls” this week.

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

Tonight was less of a case of the ball being bad and more one of “operator error.” I just couldn’t put two good shots together, and, when I finally did, a blower 7 greeted me. I am happy with my performance on “makeable” spares, and particularly single pins, but that latter category should have really been perfect, as I just went right of a 3 pin.

Result: 153-157-170=480
Average (39 games): 171
Average for last 9 games: 170
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 519

Team only took one point out of a match in which every game was decided by less than 30 pins. For my teammates, Berta was good again, and Brian was a pin shy of a 107 triplicate.

“JaMMeRs” won just the third game from “Silicon Stewart,” and now stand in a tie for 11th place with “Salty Dogs,” 23 points behind the pace set by Team 4, who lead both Team 12 and “Bipolar Rollers” by three points with three weeks left in the season.

After taking one point from “Bowling Stones,” “Pinfall Wizards” stand in 6th place, 11 points off of the pace set by “The Mustangs.” The latter team, however, has lost most of their lead, and now stand just a half point ahead of “Outta Da Guttah,” with “The Incredibowls” just three points back in third place.

“The 5 G’s” (with Nick Gomes rejoining after the girlfriend of one of the bowlers on that team lost interest and quit) bowl against my team this week.

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

My comment on BowlSK:

Chalk up tonight to stubbornly staying with a ball that seemed to lose its reaction and needed maintenance until it was too late to save the night, as my weaker Fast was better than the Hy-Road. The bright side was going 4/5 on my single 10 pin.

Result: 119-145-184=448
Average (36 games): 172
Average for last 9 games: 169
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 522

Brian has a personal goal of having a better score than his wife at the end of a night, and he almost pulled it off tonight with a tie at a 396 series score (in which he had a 178 first game, which may have been his personal best). Carl and Pat were both well over average in the third game to help me secure the third game point, our only one of the night.

“JaMMeRs” won just the third game from “Rocket 5,” but by enough pins to also take the point for series total. The three points of the week put my team in a tie for 11th place with “Salty Dogs,” 20 points off of the pace set by Team 4, who lead “Bipolar Rollers” by three points.

First, with the team, the three points we won from “Dee’s Boys II” enabled us to climb back up to a tie for 5th with “Bottoms Up”, 12 points behind the pace set by “The Mustangs,” who are still 3.5 points ahead of “Outta Da Guttah.”

As far as the “Turkey Shoot” went, I won my division’s prize, as the bowlers in my division ahead of my scratch total typically needed 700s to match my +92 (Ed Godino III had the high series with a 687, but had a 204 average going in), and Berta won hers, having the high scratch series in her division with one of the lower averages in the division.

“Bowling Stones” is the next opponent on my team’s schedule.