Friday - October 28, 2011

Rough Week Bowling

Bah, humbug.

We split Tuesday on Greed League, 3-4. Good thing we won big the first game, because we lost the next two by just a few points each. Our team is in 2nd place, but I don’t know if we’ll hold onto that after this week. Still, I was bowling mostly well. I’m getting a lot more on the ball lately, and getting it further out to the dry so that it comes back sharply. Unfortunately I don’t have the line quite right yet, so my scores are only a bit over average even though I’m hammering the pocket almost every frame. Something needs a minor adjustment, and then I’ll start getting lots more strikes. Right now I’m getting way too many nine counts, but at least the leave isn’t always the 10 pin. I hate the 10 pin.

We lost pretty bad Thursday on Cheap League, 2-5. Conditions were just plain weird. Worse, one of the lanes had been bowled on before our league started, so the two lanes were very different. I know it’s unreasonable to expect the bowling alley to clean the lanes and then lose sales by setting them aside for several hours because leagues are coming in, but it would be nice if they could refresh the lanes used for open bowling. Thursday night is a big league night for them, with 2 6:30pm leagues, a 7:30pm league, and then a 9pm league. The kid usually runs the lane machine at about 4:30, and that’s the dead part of the day; probably only half a dozen people at most come bowling between 4:30 and 7:30. So you’d think it wouldn’t be much trouble to set 4 or 6 lanes aside, and then clean and oil them at about 7. That’s only about 5 minutes work. This house is all synthetic, so the oil doesn’t need a chance to settle in like it used to with the old wooden lanes.  Whatever; half the challenge is adapting to varying conditions. Once again I was hooking right into the pocket, but getting more 9s than strikes. But my spares game was pretty good, so I wound up rolling 10-15 over average each game. We bowled the low average team, a group of beginners we gave a 138 pin handicap to. And naturally they had their best night ever! One woman on their team threw a 191 followed by a 179, which is outstanding given her 113 average. They were getting headpin strikes with their wimpy straight ball throws, while we were all hooking in powerfully and leaving pins. Go figure. That’s how it goes sometimes. So our Thursday team will sink even lower in the standings, probably down to last place after this week. Funny thing is, we have the highest average and the greatest number of scratch pins of any team on the league.

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