2017-18 Week 9 league standings update

My league standings update after Week 9:

  • Brunswick Mixed: After winning three points from Stuck With Us in a position round, Let’s Mix Em Up is a point behind them in 2nd place, with Last Empire three points behind the lead in 3rd and Dawg Pound four points behind in 4th. Party of Five are tomorrow night’s opponents.
  • Sunday Niters: After splitting four and four with Here For Beer, The 3 Stooges are 12 points behind the leaders, Ten Is Enough, in 5th place. Here For Beer and Ball Busterz are tied, four points behind the lead, in 2nd, with Suzy’s Crew eight points behind in 4th. Adam & Steve, essentially a vacant team now, are Sunday night’s opponents.

Westgate Warriors rout Darkside at Apple Valley Bowl

The Westgate Warriors began the interdivision portion of their schedule Saturday at Apple Valley Bowl in Plantsville, CT, routing The Darkside 38-2. The Warriors were led by Bill Beck, making his Warriors debut with a 761 in scratch, Jim Bessette (718 in scratch), Zach Thompson (664 in handicap 1), Jon Hester (656 in handicap 1), and Brian Egan (660 in handicap 2).

Tom Hedding wins 2017 BBA Bowler of the Year title

In the post above, the Brockton Bowling Association reported that Tom Hedding won their annual Bowler of the Year tournament today at North Bowl Lanes after defeating Jon Hester, 227-161 in the final match. Hedding was the top seed for the stepladder, and Hester first defeated Jim Burt, 227-203, then Danny Khuu in the semifinal match, 214-204, to reach the final match.

The association reported a record 60 entries for today’s tournament.

Shawn Syde tosses 300 in Sunday Niters

My Week 9 bowling, frame-by-frame

I followed up my Wednesday night with a much better Sunday night (comparing it to my two recent Sunday nights). I only missed one makeable spare and no single pins, and put together turkeys early and late in the second game for my 220.

Result: 186-220-177=583
Average (27 games): 177
Average for last 9 games: 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 549

Composite average (51 games): 175

Winning the second game by 168 pins (thanks to Ed’s 224, also) must have made Shawn Syde, one of our opponents, mad, because he proceeded to close out the night with a 300 game, and, indeed, if Shawn had bowled a better second game, his 800 was out there with a 288 first game. The teams split 4-4.

Nice bowling, Shawn! 🙂

Nov. 4 Adult/Junior doubles results

Results of today’s Adult/Junior doubles tournament at Westgate Lanes:

Senior Division

  1. Shane & Mike Litchfield 1,450
  2. Jerome Betsey Jr. & Russ Warmington 1,402

Prep/Junior Division

  1. Cody Esdale & Mike Simmons 1,397

They weren’t honor scores, but a couple of games I’ll mention were a 289 by Mike Litchfield and a 274 by Jerome Betsey, who had the high series for the junior bowlers with a 736.

Congrats! 🙂

Tom Hedding throws 300/878 in RI city tournament

“TomTom” Hedding has thrown off big sets before, but he had a true monster of one today in the Rhode Island city tournament at Lang’s Bowlarama, posting 279-300-299 for an 878 in his singles event (which appears to be his favorite event, as he also holds the Mass. state tournament singles record).

WTG! 🙂

Update: Tournament director Bryan Rhodes informed me that Hedding’s 878 is a RI city tournament singles record, and the 4th highest series ever bowled in the state.

Nov. 1 Brunswick Mixed recap

My Week 9 bowling, frame-by-frame

I was due for a “correction” the other way on Wednesday night, and I got it tonight with my most consistent night of the season. I had no more than two open frames in a game (2nd game), and only missed one single pin (the 7 that started the night) and one other makeable (a bucket). Of my strikes, only two were not part of a string.

Result: 216-201-213=630
Average (24 games): 172
Average for last 9 games: 184
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 535

Composite average (48 games): 173

One of our opponents had a higher series than me, but we still won 1st and 3rd games and total from first place in a position round, so we’re now within a point of the lead.

2017-18 Week 8 league standings update

Updating my league standings after Week 8; Sunday Niters will be added later…

  • Brunswick Mixed: After winning a point from Living on a Spare, Let’s Mix Em Up is in 2nd place, three points behind Stuck With Us, who we bowl against tomorrow night in a position round. Dawg Pound is five points behind the lead in 3rd, and Creeden’s Mustangs 5.5 points behind the lead in 4th.
  • Sunday Niters: After winning two points from We Don’t Give a Split, The 3 Stooges are tied for 5th with Suzy’s Crew, eight points behind a tie for the lead between Ten Is Enough and Here For Beer (Sunday night’s opponents). Ball Busterz are two points behind the lead in 3rd, and We Don’t Give a Split six behind in 4th.

Oct. 29 Sunday Niters recap

My Week 8 bowling, frame-by-frame

Just about anything I did tonight would have better than last week’s disaster, but this wasn’t what I had in mind, because I only had a double in the first and second games, and paid a penalty on most of my bad shots. I also didn’t close out well, because the second game was the only time I threw three balls in the 10th.

Result: 159-169-142=470
Average (24 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 162
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 544

Composite average (45 games): 171

Peter was absent for a third week, so we had to take a vacant instead of his blind. Ed had a 208 second game, and that produced the only two points we won.

Oct. 25 Brunswick Mixed recap

My Week 8 bowling, frame-by-frame

Not quite what I had in mind to bounce back from Sunday night, but I was at least reasonably happy with my third game, which had a late double to cover one open frame. It was also a better night on my 10 pin, missing only one out of four.

Result: 164-139-195=498
Average (21 games): 166
Average for last 9 games: 168
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 502

Composite average (42 games): 172

Ralph and Brian had good first games for the only game we won tonight.

“Mr. 900” leads Westgate trio to Bay State Open title

As noted in the Facebook post above, a Westgate Lanes trio consisting of Paris Cook, “Mr. 900” Hakim Emmanuel, and “Tom Tom” Hedding defeated Charlie Unthank, Bill Sheehey, and Tommy Pelham, 437-425, in a two-game, Baker format final match to win last Saturday’s Bay State Open event at East Providence Lanes. The post also noted that they bowled a Baker 300 game in their semifinal match.

The Bay State Open uploaded the final match to Facebook, and it is embedded below:

Congrats guys! 🙂

2017-18 Week 7 league standings update

Updating my league standings; I reserve the right to add the Sunday Niters update later:

  • Brunswick Mixed: After winning four points from Spare Us, Let’s Mix ‘Em Up is in 2nd place, a point behind Stuck With Us for the lead, with Dawg Pound two points behind the lead in 3rd, Creeden’s Mustangs 3.5 points behind in 4th, and 5 Spares four points behind in 5th. Livin on a Spare will be our opponents tomorrow night, with a position round looming next week.
  • Sunday Niters: After losing all eight points to Ball Busterz (and I failed to mention it was a position round previously), The 3 Stooges are six points behind that team in 4th, with Ten Is Enough and Here For Beer tied for 2nd, four points behind the lead. We Don’t Give A Split are this week’s opponents.

Oct. 22 Sunday Niters recap

My Week 7 bowling, frame-by-frame

I was just never really comfortable tonight. My usual line wasn’t holding pocket, and I tried just about everything I knew with little success. I knew a correction was coming, but I wasn’t expecting to fail to break 400.

Result: 132-125-129=386
Average (21 games): 178
Average for last 9 games: 174
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 558

Composite average (39 games): 172

We were once again missing Peter, but, this time, we lost all eight on a night where just about everyone struggled.

Oct. 18 Brunswick Mixed recap

My team got good news prior to bowling tonight in the addition of a fifth member, Ralph Marple III, the son of the Ralph Marple who was my first summer league teammate. Ralph the younger has been on a few teams in Brunswick Mixed, but missed the first part of the season due to surgery. This Ralph can bowl a bit, as well, so my team is happy to have him.

My Week 7 bowling, frame-by-frame

I was finally back in the 500s in this league, though I sort of wanted my second game back. Along with adding Ralph, we made a lineup change, putting me in the lead-off spot, where I have some comfort from being in that position on my Sunday night team, and Brian took over our anchor spot. This marks the first time I haven’t been my team’s anchor in Brunswick Mixed, but I feel the lineup change helped me tonight.

Result: 192-148-190=530
Average (18 games): 167
Average for last 9 games: 168
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 520

Composite average (36 games): 176

Four out of five of us were over 500, with Tom having the high game of our group (233). Team once again won all four, and we were told before leaving that we took over 2nd place.