Yes, a meaningful post on Christmas Day.

After taking a point from “Kickin Ass,” “Spare Parts” are in a tie for 8th place with “The Mustangs,” with this week’s opponents, “WTF!!!”, two points behind. With just a week left until the position round for the first half, “Dee’s Boys III” lead “Deadwood,” “Sweet Rolls,” and “Heavy Metal” by seven points and will only have to win one point in the last two weeks to qualify for the roll-off without help from other teams.

Merry Christmas everyone! 😀

My Week 16 bowling, frame-by-frame (Linked to BowlSK sheet)

I thought back to a previous lesson with Ray, and thought my release would improve if I targeted further down the lane than the arrows, and it largely helped. I left no splits, but my spare game was still “meh,” although a bright spot was making three of four single 10 pins.

Result: 225-163-172=560
Average (48 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 181
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 534

Tenth frame heroics by me again won my team a point (first game), but that would be all my team would take on the night.

After taking one point from “Heavy Metal,” “Spare Parts” were in a tie for 7th with “The Mustangs” and “The 5 G’s,” 11 points behind “Dee’s Boys III,” who are five points ahead of “Deadwood.” My team faces “Kickin Ass” tonight.

Because a technical error in one bowler’s score submission was discovered, and the bowler’s scores as he posted in the forums would have resulted in different champions had I received them, I declared “Cold Turkey” co-champions of the Fall 2012 virtual league. Congrats to users “BOSStull,” “dgordon0408,” “Russ I.,” and “slaterracing”.

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

Most of the spares I missed tonight were again on the left side, but I feel I’m starting to get that side figured out, as I had reasonable spare game games in the first and third games while leaving mostly spares on that side.

Result: 196-154-186=536
Average (45 games): 175
Average for last 9 games: 177
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 566

We ran into another hot team, but they gave me a chance to steal the third game, and, perfectly capable of doing so, I did with the XX9 in the 10th.

“Spare Parts” fell to a tie for 6th after failing to take points from “Dee’s Boys III,” sharing the position with “The Mustangs,” “There’s 3 and 2,” and “The 5 G’s.” The 6th place tie is nine points behind “Dee’s Boys III,” who lead “Split Happens” by four points. My team bowls against “Heavy Metal” this week, which will be our “Christmas Bowl” week (same deal as the Thanksgiving “Turkey Shoot,” with a prize for the bowler who is the most over his/her average in each division).

“Fantastic 4” picked up a net win over Team 2, but the 4-3 result was not enough to move up in the standings, so my team ended in 4th place, seven points behind the champions, “Front 9”; congratulations to team members “Chuck,” “ijohn83” (who is now a two-time champion), “Rocket” (the father of one of my teammates this season), and “sk8shorty01” (a long-standing forum and chat buddy). 😀

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

On a night I thought I bowled worse than I did, Brian Egan (who I believe was seeing me bowl for the first time) told me he thought I was throwing the ball well and just getting bad breaks. Maybe I’m just too hard on myself. 😀

Result: 197-173-167=537
Average (42 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 171
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 529

The aforementioned Brian Egan threw a 781 at us tonight, and was the biggest part of his team’s sweep. To be fair, though, I could have had a strike or two in the 10th third game and probably won; that didn’t happen.

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

The lanes favored my weak equipment for the first time in a while, but I realized probably late that I needed to keep my speed up, which led to an inconsistent release.

Result: 165-200-162=527
Average (39 games): 174
Average for last 9 games: 183
Next week’s AVG+1 score: 541

There was not much the team could have done tonight, with Shawn putting up a 750 on us, which included a 278 second game (front 9). Carl actually had the high game for my team, stringing five in a row for his first time in the third game for a 201.

After winning the lion’s share from “There’s 3 and 2,” “Spare Parts” moved into 2nd place, two points behind “Dee’s Boys III” but a point ahead of “Split Happens.” “Sweet Rolls” (Shawn’s team) await us this week, with a date with the first place “Dee’s Boys III” next week becoming important if we can hold position.

There was no change either in “Fantastic 4’s” position in the standings or the number of points behind the lead despite winning five of seven from “Pocket Rockets.” “Front 9” and “Cold Turkey” are now the teams tied for the lead, with Teams 2 and 10 three points behind.

Individually, my 73-over game and 132-over series were both the high over-average performances of the week. 😀

After winning all four from “The 5 G’s,” “Spare Parts” are now in 3rd place, just two points behind “Split Happens” and only a point behind “Dee’s Boys III.” “There’s 3 and 2” will provide the opposition in the coming week.

I’ll comment to this post when I know if either me or any of my teammates won a “Turkey Shoot” prize.