My Week 21 bowling, frame-by-frame

My second game definitely was the highlight of the night. I had the front 7, then left the 2-4-8-10, and, after everyone was done acknowledging the run of strikes, I proceeded to convert the split to give everyone something else to smile about. It did figure that I missed an easy 4-7 after that, but I still finished a 242 out.

Result: 180-242-172=594
Average (60 games): 180
Average for last 9 games: 177
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 565

Composite average (114 games): 181

We won the last two games and total rather easily after losing the first game. Everyone contributed tonight, with both Kathy and Si bowling three games all over their averages, and Tom finished with a 560 after an under-average first game.

The usual standings update, after Week 20 of the season:

• Brunswick Mixed: After failing to win points from Creeden’s Mustangs, Let’s Mix Em Up is in a tie for 12th with The Fun Team and Lost & Found, four points behind Minds in the Gutter and Livin on a Spare, who are a point ahead of Sweet Rolls and two points ahead of five other teams. Stuck With Us, one of the teams tied for 4th, are tonight’s opponents.
• Sunday Niters: After winning two points from Team 4 (still listed as Adam & Steve on LeagueSecretary), The Three Stooges are in 3rd, two points behind Ten Is Enough and Here for the Beer, with Suzy’s Crew four points behind the lead in 4th. Broads With Balls are Sunday night’s opponents.

Junior told me last night that Kegel Broadway will be the lane condition for the 3rd quarter of the Pepsi league. As always, the link is to a PDF of the program sheet.

My Week 18 bowling, frame-by-frame

I really wasn’t feeling my best all weekend, and it showed in my bowling tonight. I missed spares in all three games, but minimized the misses in the third game to save my 500.

Result: 169-161-172=502
Average (54 games): 181
Average for last 9 games: 184
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 563

Composite average (111 games): 180

Opponents had a new bowler averaging in tonight, but we did determine that we only won the first game.

My Week 20 bowling, frame-by-frame

While I was over my average for the night, I left a lot of single pins out there, where, as is unusual, my left side, particularly the 4 and 7, was the bedeviling side. The bright side to my spare game, however, was that I did make an adjustment on the 7 at a time I couldn’t avoid leaving the pin, and made three straight.

Result: 193-179-188=560
Average (57 games): 179
Average for last 9 games: 175
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 556

Composite average (108 games): 181

Opponents won all four, with their anchor almost putting up a 700.

Updating my league standings after Week 19; both leagues are now in the second half of the season:

• Brunswick Mixed: Five teams, including Let’s Mix Em Up, won three points to start the second half, and we sorted to 8th place due to pinfall. The teams winning all four (in pinfall order) were Stuck With Us, Livin on a Spare, and Ebony & Ivories. Creeden’s Mustangs are tomorrow night’s opponents.
• Sunday Niters: After winning six points from Here for the Beer, The 3 Stooges are leading by two points over them and Suzy’s Crew (who are in 2nd due to pinfall), with Ten Is Enough and Ball Busterz tied for 4th, four points back. Adam & Steve are due to be Sunday night’s opponents, but a new bowler is bringing in a full team to take the vacant team spot, so that team’s name may change. Peter got high score mention on the standing sheet.

My Week 17 bowling, frame-by-frame

I almost recovered from my second game to save average, but I came up a couple of pins short. I’ll use the rest of the space here to explain my usual problem with the 10 pin, as I missed a few more of them tonight: I’m throwing my plastic ball at it, and it’s usually on line, but it hooks on the back end; keep in mind that that plastic ball is not supposed to hook at all.

Result: 182-155-207=544
Average (51 games): 182
Average for last 9 games: 201
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 573

Composite average (105 games): 180

Peter had a nice bounce-back night (662), and the only points we lost were the second game’s, in which we only lost by 11 pins.

My Week 19 bowling, frame-by-frame

Tonight was my comeuppance, as I was largely a victim of bad pin carry, and compounded it by missing more single-pin spares than I made. The 166 first game had my only double of the night.

Result: 166-139-140=445
Average (54 games): 179
Average for last 9 games: 168
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 576

Composite average (102 games): 180

The team got bad news in the loss of Ralph for the rest of the season due to an accident shoveling snow (injured knee). As poorly as we bowled tonight, we still managed to take three of four (first & third games & total by one pin).

As usual, updating my league standings, after Week 18:

• Brunswick Mixed: As I alluded to in the Week 18 recap, Let’s Mix Em Up finished the first half in second place, two points behind Dawg Pound. Creeden’s Mustangs finished third, 4.5 points behind the lead, and Lost & Found  ended up 4th, five points behind. My team starts the second half tomorrow night vs. 5 Spares.
• Sunday Niters: Only Here for the Beer won all eight points to start the second half, and The 3 Stooges the only team winning six, putting us in second. Suzy’s Crew and Ball Busterz are the teams tied for third, splitting 4-4.  We go for the lead Sunday night, as we’ll be facing Here for the Beer. I received high score mention on the standing sheet this week.

 

My Week 16 bowling, frame-by-frame

I didn’t quite start the second half of this league the way I ended the first half, but, where I was still over 600, I’ll take it. The first game was either nine or strike, and there were just too many nine-drops. Carry was better in the other two games, with a five-bagger in each.

Result: 173-210-235=618
Average (48 games): 182
Average for last 9 games: 196
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 568

Composite average (99 games): 181

A bad game by Peter cost us the first game, but we won the other two and total.

My Week 18 bowling, frame-by-frame

Respectable night tonight, though with a bit of a letdown in the third game, in which I had my only single-pin misses. Second game was clean, and I think everyone knows I’ll take any clean game.

Result: 176-214-183=573
Average (51 games): 181
Average for last 9 games: 174
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 589

Composite average (96 games): 181

Team won all four, but we needed the first place match to split 2-2 to force a one-game roll-off for the half, and Dawg Pound won all four, meaning we ended the half in second place.

Again, only one league to update…

• Brunswick Mixed: After failing to win points from Lost & Found, Let’s Mix Em Up is in third, two points behind Dawg Pound, who are a half-point ahead of Creeden’s Mustangs, and 2.5 points ahead of Sweet Rolls, who are in 4th and are our opponents for the position round to end the first half. Individually, Ralph had the high scratch series in the men’s “D” division last week with his 521 series and Si high handicap series (646) in the same division.

With New Year’s being the unofficial halfway point of the bowling season, I devote my usual post to the high averages, series, and games in Westgate’s leagues, based on the currently-available standing sheets. Averages are based on a minimum of 36 games, and youth bowlers are included with their gender, where applicable.

Men

Average: 239.3; Jim Ferguson (Thursday Night Patriots, 45 games)
Series: 826; Sean Richard (Westgate Mixed)
Game: 300; Ryan Yelle, Sean Richard, Peter Cappola (Westgate Mixed), Keith Kaestner, Tom Hedding, Brian Egan, Jim Ferguson, Paris Cook, Sean Richard, Stephen Major (Thursday Night Patriots), Mike Henrikson, Kevin Coleman (TNBA), Shawn Syde (Sunday Niters), Paris Cook (Boston Rhythm & Bowling), Danny Khuu (Pepsi-Cola Classic), Wu-Zen Cheah (Firefighters)

Women

Average: 195.0; Chris Major (His & Hers, 45 games)
Series: 697; Sandi Litchfield (Thursday Night Patriots)
Game: 268; Laura Beaudet (Brunswick Mixed)

Notes:

• With the 300 games for the men, the list is only indicative of the bowlers and leagues, not the number thrown by the bowler.
• Readers interested in a particular league can find individual standing sheets on Bowler Express or LeagueSecretary.com (where the BBIS league’s sheet may be found).

My Week 17 bowling, frame-by-frame

My physical game has been known to go in the tank when the holidays roll around, and I’m fearing that that’s the case now, as I’ve been under average each of the last two weeks in this league. An otherwise dreadful spare game was salved with two “baby” split conversions, and I never had more than a double all night.

Result: 157-179-161=497
Average (48 games): 180
Average for last 9 games: 173
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 565

Composite average (93 games): 180

Ralph had the best night of us (521), and we failed to win points on a night when first place only took one point.

Just one league to update, with the other on hiatus for the holidays…

• Brunswick Mixed: After winning one point from Gutt Er Done, Let’s Mix Em Up are in second, a point behind Dawg Pound, with Creeden’s Mustangs 2.5 points behind the lead in third and Sweet Rolls 4.5 points behind in 4th. Lost & Found are tonight’s opponents, and, as the end of the first half is next week, I’ll give the opponents for the other leaders: Dawg Pound bowls against Sweet Rolls, and Creeden’s Mustangs against Spare Us. Tom, with his 214, had the high scratch game of the week in the men’s “C” division.