Helped by a 30-clean night from Fin09, Mad Blogger & Co. won all seven from Little Lebowski and now stand in 4th place, 11 points behind Pay the Lineage, who lead Little Lebowski by seven points and Team 2 by 10 points. The team had the high team game (second game) for a second straight week.

My Week 26 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Tonight was rather disappointing, as I never put together two strikes, and had some spare misses in the last game that left me only a pin over average on the night. Three single pin misses, and none were the 10.

Result: 174-171-148=493
Average (75 games): 164
Average for last 9 games: 163
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 569

Composite average (156 games): 166

Lee shot 738 tonight, but the real strength of the first game was Rachel, who had her personal best 185. Team won the first two games and hung on to win total by four pins.

After winning three points from Team 14, Seven Deadly Pins moved into a tie in points for 9th with Lost Empire 2 and Right Turn Clyde, four points behind the new leaders, Creeden’s Mustangs, who lead Lickety Splits by a point, 4 BAGA + 1 by point and a half, and Steak and Lettuce and Sweet Rolls by two points. Spare Us will be our Wednesday night opposition.

After winning all eight points from Macs, Pin Pals stand in a tie in points for 5th place with Bowling Stones, 14 points behind Suzy’s Crew, who lead Where is B? by five points and The 3 Stooges (our opponents Sunday night) by eight points.

Individually, Lee had both the high game (258) and series (706) of the week in the league.

My Week 27 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Scored better than my bowling tonight, because six of my 14 strikes were Brooklyn strikes, two of them coming together to cover my only open frame of the second game. In said second game, I also had a double on two better shots for my first deuce game in a while.

Result: 161-205-186=552
Average (81 games): 169
Average for last 9 games: 166
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 534

Composite average (153 games): 167

Barry told me he and Donald pre-bowled, but we couldn’t use them because it was a position night. The rest of the team still did enough to win the first two games by enough for total, with the third game a close loss that could have easily been a fourth point.

Mad Blogger & Co. won five points from Team 2, and now sit in a tie for 5th place with Fantastic Four and House Hacks, 16 points behind the leaders, Pay the Lineage, who lead Little Lebowski by five points and Team 2 by 13 points. The team had the high team game of the week in the league with a 911 first game.

Special note about one of my virtual league teammates: You know a house is tough if there’s never been an 800 series in over 50 years of its history, and TimL put up a 762 last week, which is now the house record in his house in South Dakota, which opened in 1964.

Finally, wronghander, who most of you know is really my friend on the North Shore, Bill Sheehey, submitted his 4th career 300 game, but the first of his that’s counted for the virtual league. WTG Bill! 🙂

My Week 25 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

This was my best Sunday night since early December, and I thought I bowled better than my scores. I was 82% on makeable spares tonight, with the three missed ones all coming in the second game, in which my punch-out from the “foundation” 9th saved my over-average game. I made my +1 score on the button.

Result: 167-167-192=526
Average (72 games): 164
Average for last 9 games: 159
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 567

Composite average (150 games): 166

Lee was the only one on the team with a game under his average tonight, but still had two other games in the 250s for his 700 (706). Team won all eight, with my strikes in the 10th second game coming in a fairly clutch situation (needed to go 9-out to win).

After failing to win points from Ebony & Ivories, Seven Deadly Pins moved down into a three-way tie in points for 9th with Lost Empire 2 and Striking Gentlemen, four points behind leaders Steak and Lettuce and Creeden’s Mustangs. 4 BAGA + 1 is in 3rd by a half-point, Sweet Rolls in 4th by a point, Mixed Nuts in 5th by a point and a half, and Lickety Splits in 6th by two points. The position round sorting has us facing Team 14, in 12th a point behind us, for the second time in three weeks.

John Hayes Jr. asked me to pass along that the BBIS league needs one or two subs for a bowler this coming Friday night. One of the subs must have an average between 123 and 163 to replace a sub who started last Friday night, but the other sub can have an average between 123 (20 pins less than the sub’s average) and 193 (20 pins higher than the regular bowler’s average). If you meet the above criteria and can come in to bowl Friday night, please contact John Hayes Jr. or use the contact form on this blog and I can pass along to John.

My Week 26 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

Lanes were playing tighter than usual, so I was playing my “B” game a good deal of the night, but the double 7th & 8th frames third game were pretty good shots for my “B” game. I had three single pin misses that game, including consecutive 10s, or that third game would have been better.

Result: 187-136-156=479
Average (78 games): 169
Average for last 9 games: 163
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 576

Composite average (147 games): 166

Team lost all four, but highlights for my team were a 222 game from Barry, and Si made a couple of tougher splits, a 6-7-10 and a 5-7 (lefty).

Congrats to Lights Out, with members Shawn Hagan, Hakim Emmanuel, Devon McGregor, and Dave Chalifoux, for wrapping up the second third of the Coke league season last night. With 481.5 points, they also start the last third in the lead for overall points (the prize fund pays out for each third of the season, as well as for overall points).

After winning four points from Split Happens, Pin Pals stand in 6th place, 20 points behind Suzy’s Crew, who lead Where is B? by seven points and The 3 Stooges by 14 points. Macs will be the opponents Sunday night.

Lee’s 258 turned out to be the high game in the league last week.

Junior has decided that ABT #3 will be used once again for the last third this year, with the top graph linked above. For those who may have forgotten, it’s a 44′ pattern with 23.6 mL total oil at a 4.8:1 ratio. I’ll try to get the pattern printed out for the house and pro shop this week.

Mad Blogger & Co. won four points (second and third games) from House Hacks, and have pulled even with that team for 6th place, 14 points behind Pay the Lineage, who lead Little Lebowski by three points and The Pin Pals by seven points. The league is now halfway through the regular schedule (eight weeks left, including position round).

My Week 24 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I had a decent first game, but the night became too “trick or treat” after that. The last two games were punctuated by six splits, but I did manage to make a couple of the easier ones.

Result: 177-147-126=450
Average (69 games): 163
Average for last 9 games: 151
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 526

Composite average (144 games): 166

Lee started with a 258, but Rachel managed to be high on the team second game with a 155. Team split the points 4-4, but in both of the last two games, we could have secured the points with a double from me in the 10th, but I failed to deliver.

After failing to win points from Team 14, Seven Deadly Pins fell to 4th place, three points behind Steak and Lettuce, who lead 4 BAGA + 1 by a point and a half and Creeden’s Mustangs by two points. Four teams are tied in points for 5th, a point behind us. Ebony and Ivories will be Wednesday night’s opponents, with a position round coming up the following week.

The Sunday Niters league schedule has finally been updated due to the league’s contraction, and Pin Pals will be facing Split Happens for a third time this season, never in a position round, tomorrow night.