Wednesday - December 07, 2011

Stable as a table

Another boring bowling blog post.

We split 4-3 last night on Greed League. Our opponents were the team full of ringers, 3/5 of whom work for the bowling alley and thus practice constantly. We took the first game by 11, and took the second game by about 30. Then they really pulled the stops out while two of our guys slumped, and beat us by 160 in the third game, so they got the win and the wood. But to get that win they had to bowl their best, and that’s going to hurt their averages. Oh boo hoo.

I didn’t throw anything spectacular but I was fairly consistent and over average, so I was definitely contributing. I threw a 594 series, just missing the 600 mark. 218, 192, 184, so I was about +/- 16. Not too shabby seeing as I’m carrying a 166 average in this league. I only muffed two throws the whole night, one of which was a spaz ball in the 9th of the third game, a 5-4 open that cost me the 600. Rats. But my 10 pin corner throws were 100% for the night. I didn’t miss a single 6-10 or a 10 pin shot. I’m happy with that. My other flubbed shot came in the second game, when whatever the heck I threw left a really strange leave, the 1-2-6-8-10. Weird. That’s a dogleg of pins on the left with a pair of pins off on the right with a big hole in the middle. Never saw that one before, so I had no idea what to throw to make it. But I remembered the old advice that if you’ve still got the headpin it’s a strike ball, so that’s what I threw; the ball turned into what was left of the pocket, pins went flying, and I made it. Cool.

I think we’re still in 2nd place. I didn’t check the standings sheet. We need to do better than split 4-3 to keep that. Some 7-0s and 5-2s would be better.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/07/2011 at 09:46 AM   
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