Buddies Winter Challenge League
Pattern: Don Johnson 40’
138, 171,174, 173
Spare shooting was horrendous the first game. It was still a little bit off the rest of the night.
Buddies Winter Challenge league
Pattern ??? 37?
163, 193, 209, 185
Subbed again for the same friend. I was crossing with one of the guys from the pro shop, the mother of one of our best junior bowlers, and two of our junior bowlers.
John
Buddies Winter Challenge League
Pattern: Don Johnson 40’
138, 171,174, 173
Spare shooting was horrendous the first game. It was still a little bit off the rest of the night.
John
Well, we're through the first four weeks of Buddies Summer Challenge and I'm just getting around to posting my scores. Amazingly the recap from the most embarrassing set has gone missing, and we don't even have a dog. Anyway here are the other scores:
6/7/21 Billy Hardwick pattern
Set 2: 167, 180
Lost both games to one of the guys from the proshop who was subbing.
To give an idea of how bad the missing set 1 scores were, I had an average of 151 or 152 going into week two.
6/14/21 Billy Hardwick pattern
Set 1: 157, 168. Lost both to one of the kids who graduated from our youth league 2 years ago.
Set 2: 170, 160. Lost both to another Youth league alumnus.
6/21/21 Marshal Holman pattern
Set 1: 145, 170. Won the first game by 2 pins, lost the second by 15. Was bowling one of the three people in the league older than myself.
Set 2: 142, 190. Lost both to one of our current youth bowlers, ( Because it's a singles league, Youth bowlers are allowed to compete with their prize moneys going into their USBC Smart Accounts )
6/28/21 Marshall Holman pattern
Set 1: 185, 183. First game was close until my opponent struck out in the 9th & 10th to win by 27 pins. Second game I won by 32.
Set 2: 178, 151. My opponent was a woman who is filling in for her husband who signed up for the league and has yet to throw a shot. I won both games. First week that my spare shooting wasn't completely horrible. Naturally now that I'm starting to fell like I know what I'm doing in this league we don't bowl on the 5th.
John
The youth bowler thing is kind of interesting. Is this bowler under 18? If so, how difficult was it to get all of the adult bowlers on the league SafeSport compliant?
The requirement that all adult bowlers bowling with junior bowlers having to be SafeSport compliant is what caused all adult leagues at our center to pass rules that bowlers must be 18+. Most of the adult bowlers flat-out refused to become SafeSport compliant [many threatening to quit any league with under age 18 bowlers] so there was really no choice but to require 18+. There were not a lot of under 18 bowlers, but there would be occasions where juniors would come in as subs or something of that nature.
Before SafeSport no one really cared as long as the parental permission form was signed, but then when the requirement came out it became a hot button issue.
Buddies Summer Challenge
Pattern: Del Ballard 34’
Set 1: 163, 203
Set 2: 179, 185
The first set was supposed to be against one of the best junior bowlers in the state, but she was off at Junior Gold. Her older sister subbed for her and really struggled to get the ball to stay on the right side of the headpin. Second set I was supposed to face a college student who had been in our local youth league. She was also away at Junior Gold. Her sub was a young woman who bowled for Sacred Heart University and has made the stepladder of at least one PWBA tournament. She struggled a bit the first game with a bunch of splits, but figured things out the next to beat me by about 30 pins and take wood for the set.
John
Buddies Summer Challenge
Pattern: Del Ballard 34’
Set 1: 179, 134
Set 2: 172, 178
Surprisingly I won both games the first set. Found out later my opponent had missed last week and thought we were on a longer pattern.
Second set won the first game, lost the second but took wood.
John
Buddies Summer Challenge league
Pattern: Mike Aulby 38’
Set 1: 188, 201
Set 2: 168, 220
The first set I won the first game by 38 and lost the second by 41☹️
The next set I lost the first by 2 and won the second by 61.😁
John
BuddiesSummer Challenge League 8/2/2021
Pattern: Mike Aulby 38’
Set 1: 234, 151
Set 2: 183, 161
Bad spare shooting kept me from sweeping the first set. Second set I trailed the first game start to finish and lost by 5. Next game I again trailed right up to the tenth but then my opponent opened the last frame, letting me win the game and wood.
John
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