Sport League Scores

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge Week 6, 10/13/25

Pattern: PBA 2025 Wayne Webb 37'

Scores:
194, 193, 144 489 total

Before lanes went on for practice my friend Tim and I were talking to one of our best junior bowlers who had won a youth tournament over the week end. The talk turned to margin of victory and both Tim and the youngster said they like to win by lots of pins. I said I love to win by a single pin and hate losing any close game. It happened that I was bowling Tim that night and the first game I won by 1 pin. We all got a smile out of that. I won the next by 19 but when we moved pairs for the last game neither of us really got lined up right with the result that Tim won by 18. I was extremely lucky to take wood since each head to head game is 10 points and wood is 20.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge Week 7, 10/21/25

Pattern: 2025 Open Championship (team) 39'

Scores:
131, 135, 147, 413 total

[Aslan]

Dang. Rough night.

[J Anderson]

Dang. Rough night.

Yes it was. Those who had been to Nationals said this pattern played very hard out there, however there was some speculation that it might play differently as there were doubts that our center would have gotten the conditioner specified for the pattern. That said, it was mostly operator error.

Buddies Winter Challenge Week 8, 10/27/25

Pattern: 2025 Open Championship (team) 39'

Scores:
155, 159, 180, 494 total

Still wasn't real sharp but much better than last week. Managed to win all 3 head to head games but only took wood by 9 pins.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge Week 9, 11/3/25

Pattern: 2025 Open Championship (team) 39'

Scores:
152, 149, 186, 487 total

Similar scores to last week, different results. First game was close through 5 frames, then my opponent got hot and finished with 224. Second game we moved from 49=50 to the either dreaded or loved 41-42. He dropped 30 some pins I dropped 3 due to a missed spare in the 10th. Third game I started getting better carry and my opponent started leaving awful messes almost every frame.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge Week 10, 11/10/25

Pattern: 2025 Open Championship (doubles & singles) 43'

Scores:
227, 214, 172, total 613

One of the bowlers that I crossed with last night had gone to nationals and had bowled in excess of 1200 for six games on this pattern. I listened to what he had to say while we were waiting for warm-ups to start, then I watched where he seem to be playing. My head to head opponent for the night had also listened and watched so the three of us were allaying around 3 at the arrows, pretty much straight up the boards. That first game I lost by 8. He had some problems with living splits the second game so I went ahead in total by 49. I'm not sure why but I started pulling shots, especially on spare attempts in the last game and lost the game by 8.

I had expected the lanes to change a lot since three of us were playing the same line. On each pair, once I found the line, and it was very similar on each pair, I didn't have to move.

[Aslan]

Still...you put up two games over 200 and a 600+ series...on a tough pattern.

And, in these type of leagues...if you can get good tips prior to bowling on it...that can be a huge advantage. The problem is, finding a bowler to provide tips that bowls very similar to you. That was always the knock on bowling ball reviews online. There usually isn't a low average bowler, or a bowler with tremendously low speed, or a bowler with a terrible release, etc... So, you end up watching the video thinking, "So if I could bowl like that pro...I could get pretty high scores with this ball." Yeah...IF you bowl like them.

[J Anderson]

Still...you put up two games over 200 and a 600+ series...on a tough pattern.

And, in these type of leagues...if you can get good tips prior to bowling on it...that can be a huge advantage. The problem is, finding a bowler to provide tips that bowls very similar to you. That was always the knock on bowling ball reviews online. There usually isn't a low average bowler, or a bowler with tremendously low speed, or a bowler with a terrible release, etc... So, you end up watching the video thinking, "So if I could bowl like that pro...I could get pretty high scores with this ball." Yeah...IF you bowl like them.

One of the things I learned when I first started bowling on sport patterns was to watch the other bowlers and see how they were playing the pattern. Lately I get caught up in what I’m doing and forget to look around.