After winning three points from “The Incredibowls”, “Snakes On A Lane” stand tied for 14th with “Nuckin Futs” and “WTF Over”, eight points behind “Bowling Stones”; their lead is by point over “We Split 4 No 1” (our opponents in the coming week), Team 16, and “Sweet Rolls”.

My Week 22 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

At the end of my night, I told Karen, my partner in the mixed doubles last weekend, about this and asked her where this was when I was bowling with her. I was mostly happy with how I bowled, and, while there’s always a clunker in the three with me, it seems, I did hit my +1 on the button. There was only one missed single pin (a 7), and I made both of my splits as well as a couple of washouts. I really just need to learn to relax when I bowl, because I do well when I’m relaxed.

Result: 226-192-163=581
Average (66 games): 176
Average for last 9 games: 182
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 597

It was a quick night, with two bowlers absent on both teams, and a vacancy on the other team, besides. Team took three of four, with Brian over average for all three games.

I should say I usually dread February, because not much good happens to me in that month, but my average has been trending up in the month this year rather than down, so I hope to carry this through the rest of the winter season.

“Tripped 4s” lost five of seven points to Team 1 despite setting a new league record for a five-man team series with 3,378. We now trail “6-Pack Abs” by 16 points and are in 5th place; the leaders have an 11 point lead on Team 1.

EDIT: Forgot to mention also that “BOSStull” of “Good Luck Bad Luck” submitted an 811 series this week, and “sk8shorty01” of Team 3 had a 290 game, in addition. The league at-large averaged close to 208 for the week.

After winning three of four from “Split Happens”, “Snakes On A Lane” are now tied for 17th place, nine points behind “Bowling Stones”, who are two points ahead of a three-way tie for second between “We Split 4 No 1”, Team 16, and “Sweet Rolls”. “The Incredibowls” will be my team’s opponents in the coming week.

Before bowling started tonight, the league voted to make up the missed week last week later in the season, but another weather cancellation would result in that week not being made up.

My Week 21 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I recognized early on that I was rushing through my bowling and trying to force it, but it took the rest of the first game for me to completely calm down. Once I did, however, I generally made better shots, and the scoring followed, particularly in the third game.

Result: 160-186-220=566
Average (63 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 175
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 581

It was a quick night, because Berta and Brian pre-bowled last week, not knowing whether we’d cancel for snow. Team took three of four after losing the first game by 51 pins.

I got a $1 refund from my brackets, but lost all four I was in. I recently also decided to calculate my profit/loss in Excel, reconstructing my bracket results from my league night posts. I will share the worksheet at the end of the season.

“Tripped 4s” lost all seven to the leaders, “6-Pack Abs”, and, combined with all seven lost by “Good Luck Bad Luck”, “6-Pack Abs” now have a ten point lead on the latter team, and 13 over us.

My make-up bowling for Week 5, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I suppose I could have just given up on the week and taken 10 off my average, but I’m not one to “mail it in.” There were just not enough strikes for me out there, and the spares I did miss were costly, as well. Still, it was a tall order, because my team needed me to shoot 214, 222, and 194 in each game to get to our team average, and that might have been asking too much today.

I figured I should note here that, with a snowstorm having hit this morning, my league canceled for tonight. We probably won’t make up the night, but that leaves me without my regular virtual league score, so I plan on going in this weekend to get my virtual league bowling in for the week (it’s allowed under our rules).

“Tripped 4s” won only the third game from “The Ocho”, leaving us tied for third with them, six points behind “6-Pack Abs”, who increased their lead to three points over “Good Luck Bad Luck”.

A member of Team 1, “Rocket Jr”, submitted a 297 game last week. It should be noted that he’s a clean series machine, because I almost expect him to tell me he had 30-clean when he submits every week (and it was last week). And he’s still only a youth bowler. 😀

Failing to win points from “Bowling Stones” meant that “Snakes On A Lane” slipped into a tie for last place with “WTF Over” (Note: There has been an 18th team that joined the league to begin the second half.) and the sweep enabled “Bowling Stones” to take a one point lead over Team 16. My team bowls against “Split Happens” this week.

My Week 20 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

The third game had a kind of “too little, too late” feel to it, but some of that was my own doing w/ the single pin misses.

Result: 169-137-193=499
Average (60 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 179
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 556

Team lost three rather close games; I really needed the first strike in the 10th third game, but didn’t get it.

“Snakes On A Lane”, after failing to win points against “3 Plus 2”, are tied with six other teams at the bottom, while the same number are tied for the lead with seven points each; Team 16 has the pinfall advantage. My team bowls against “Bowling Stones” tomorrow night.

“Tripped 4s” took five of seven from “Fab 5”, but “6-Pack Abs” won all seven last week to leapfrog into the lead, with my team and “Good Luck Bad Luck” tied for second a point behind.