Vdubtx's bowling scores

[Jaescrub]

Nice. Even with me being awful at bowling I love shooting on harder patterns. I even found some I shot well on. Have you had a sport shot you really liked yet?

[vdubtx]

Been awhile since my last update. Had some vacation time since the last time I bowled.

Johnny Petraglia pattern was actually a pretty fun one. I didn't shoot all that well, but was figuring it out as I went along.

June 25
171-180-160 = 511

I was high on the pair. My teammates struggled mightily on this one. Had a few washout misses as I got the ball out just barely too far and ball struggled to make it back to pocket. Missed a few single pin leaves as well.

Average is down to 176 for the 4 weeks I have bowled. Didn't bowl this past week as was on vacation, and won't be bowling next week due to work requirements.

When I return week after next we will be on another pattern so will be learning that one to start out. Not sure what the pattern is just yet.

[vdubtx]

Ready to get back into the swing of things. Haven't bowled league in a few weeks. Had vacation and work the past several weeks so it kept me away.

I did get a few games in on vacation, bowled with a buddy of mine and his son to get together. Bowled a 300 the last game for our get together.

Got some practice in yesterday, just a few games. Was extremely hot in the center so couldn't take it any more.

I do know for our sport league tonight, we are on the Carmen Salvino pattern. 44ft so should be a nice challenge.

[vdubtx]

7/16 Sport Short - Carmen Salvino pattern
186-165-147 = 498
Season average at 174 through 15 games.

Played an inside line which is what I did research on from prior PBA shows on this pattern. Worked for awhile and I just did not make big enough moves during the night. Was super hot in the center and that is certainly not my favorite thing to deal with when bowling.

Anywho...on to next week.

[vdubtx]

Been awhile since my last update:

The 7/16 date was supposed to be Carmen Salvino, but was actually the Mark Roth pattern.

7/23 Mark Roth
176-150-137 = 463 horrible spare shooting led to my poor night.

7/30 Mark Roth
195-169-137 = 501 spare shooting better, but not doing so well on transition on this pattern

8/6 Carmen Salvino
167-159-200 = 526 did better on this pattern once I moved right and went up about 7, the lane opened up for me.

8/13 Carmen Salvino
200-213-200 = 613 It's been while since I shot 600 on anything let alone a Sport Pattern. LOL! Missed 2 make able spares on the night so I should have been closer to 640.

Season average is right on the verge of hitting 175 at 174.93

One more week to go and our team has firmly locked up last place. LOL!!!! Oh well, it was a good time and learning how to play the patterns was a lot of fun. I think this will certainly make me more versatile and make transition a bit more apparent to me, hoping I can catch it earlier this season and get my average up even more.

[vdubtx]

Last night of the Sport Shot league.

Spare shooting was good on the night, only misses were on washouts, 2 of them. Picked up 3-4-6-7-10. Hit my Idol with a 1000 grit pad before bowling and had a nice line to the pocket. Very touchy if barely left it went high.

175-197-207 = 579

Ending league with 176 average for 30 games. Not great, but I did learn that I can play an outside line with my performance the last couple weeks. Many of these patterns, if I had learned earlier in the season to play outside, I would have been better off than playing the middle of the lane. My spare shooting early on in the season was atrocious, so glad that has made a come back.

Ready to get into the Fall seasons after Labor Day. Bowling 3 leagues this fall. My regular tuesday league - 5 person competitive teams. Adding Wednesday in a HUGE league, 58 teams with lots of money potential. I subbed a few times on Wednesday this past year and did really well. Thursdays giving up my usual mixed fun league for a Trio's late league that has many of the best bowlers in the area competing. This league is at about 9pm on lanes that are not re-oiled so will be a nice way to learn to bowl on fried up lanes.

So, stepping away from the fun mixed leagues and upping the competitive aspect of my season. Will continue to bowl miscellaneous tournaments as well. Have a big Dallas area tournament this Saturday evening.

My goals for the next year are:

1. To not have a series below 600, I had 5 series under in 2017 season.
2. Keep my single pin spare shooting(especially 10 pin) in the mid 90% range. Not counting 10 pins last league season, I was picking up 96%, 10 pin was picking up at 90%.
3. Adding a few more honor scores would be most welcomed this next league season as well.

[vdubtx]

League Kickoff last night and not too much to report. I felt I bowled just so-so, was able to put some strikes together but open frames killed me in first four frames of games 1 and 2. Not to make excuses, but I tweaked my back last week and have been in a bit of pain since then. Tylenol doing it's thing and a heat pack yesterday helped. Better today so on the road to recovery. Bowling last night actually helped stretch it a bit.

200-224-215 = 639

Game 1 ended with 5 bagger to salvage a 200 to start the season.
Game 2 actually had the last 8 strikes for a whopping 224 LOL!!
A wiggling and then flagged 10 pin in 10th frame of game 3 ended what should have been in the 240's.

Spare shooting was atrocious. Only made 1 multi pin spare on the day out of 5 makeables. Not good at all.

Cobwebs are dusted off and on to my first regular Wednesday night league.

[vdubtx]

OK, so my number one goal can be scratched off. We encountered some seriously crappy lane conditions last night. LOL!!

173-189-212 = 574

Not much else to say other than I had zero carry and lots of 10 pins, only missing 1 on the night. Otherwise it was just a spare shooting kinda night.

[mc_runner]

I had the same goal and blew it on week 1 - same as last year. Same situation too! Ah well - if you're gonna have a rough week might as well have it now.

[vdubtx]

Week 1 of bowling is in the books.

Last night was much better, on a Trio's league that is a late shift league after mixed league is done. So, lanes were starting to burn up. We bowl 4 games each night in this league and it is a match play format. Many of the regional tour players are in this league.

255-223-256-211 = 945 for the night. Not a bad first night in a completely new(to me) league.

Happy to say that I was able to work through that the transition of bowling on burning up lanes and adjust accordingly. Made last minute decision to give my trusty ole Roto Grip Haywire a 2000 surface and a little bit of polish and that is what I ended up getting the best look with. Made lateral moves and kept swinging it further and further down the lane. My target started at about 45 feet down lane standing on about 27 and crossing about 17 at arrows. I think I was at about 50 feet down lane and standing on 33 and crossing 21-22 at arrows by end of last game.

Spare shooting on the night was very good. Didn't miss any makeable spares but did leave 4 splits on the night.

Team mate shot a 299 in game 1. He tugged it just a bit leaving a stone 9 pin.