Sport League Scores

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/4/24(Week24)

Pattern: 2024 US Open Pattern #3

Scores: 155, 141, 138, 434

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/11/24(Week25)

Pattern: 2024 US Open Pattern #3

Scores: 166, 214, 177, 557 series

This week I started on 49-50, a pair that typically plays with significantly more hook on lane 50. Only took 9 frames for it to dawn on me that with almost 50' of oil with a 1.25 to 1 ratio, the two lanes played the same. Moved to 41-42 and decided to try the HyRoad. This pair almost always hooks more and it might not have been as much as usual but it was enough for the lanes to play differently. the last game I didn't get quite the carry as I had game two but it was a solid game until I wife a ten pin in the tenth.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/18/24(Week26)

Pattern: 2024 US Open Pattern #3

Scores: 138, 146, 211, 495 series

You would think third time on the same pattern would be the charm and I would improve on last weeks decent scores. I had too much speed on the ball in the first two games, even when I had tried to slow it down. It really hurt to foul on the fill ball of the tenth game one and to fouls on the first ball in the tenth game two. I doubt if I have any more than 5 fouls total in the last ten years of bowling. The 211 was on the same pair that I shot 214 last week. On to something new and different next week.

[Aslan]

Only took 9 frames for it to dawn on me that with almost 50' of oil with a 1.25 to 1 ratio, the two lanes played the same.

Yeah. One of the many significant advantages pros have over amateurs...it seems like they see something and make immediate correct decisions. For me, it seems like I spend more than game trying to figure things out.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 3/25/24(Week27)

Pattern: ???????

Scores: 148, 170, 170, 488 series

The league manager is out at the USBC Masters. It was supposed to be a new pattern this week, definitely played different, but no word on what the pattern was.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 4/1/24(Week28)

Pattern: ???????

Scores: 149, 155, 172, 476 series

Forgot to ask so I still don't know what pattern we're on. There were several complaints that it didn't play like last week. I wish I had enough consistency to be able to complain about that.

[Aslan]

I wish I had enough consistency to be able to complain about that.

Yup. I know that feeling.

[J Anderson]

Buddies Winter Challenge 4/8/24(Week29)

Pattern: ???????

Scores: 154, 175, 234, 563 series

Talked to one of the guys who usually knows what the pattern is. He was pretty sure it was U S Open #4 but that was from knowing it was a U S Open pattern and judging how it played the first 2 weeks.

Because I moved up in the standings after last week I wound up starting on 47-48 as I had last week. That may account for the higher scores or maybe it was due to the eclipse

[Aslan]

A lot of bowlers, including myself, would LOVE to shoot a 234 on a sport pattern. Highest I managed was a 220 and that was on the 45' Black Diamond...back in mid-2019.

[Timmyb]

A lot of bowlers, including myself, would LOVE to shoot a 234 on a sport pattern. Highest I managed was a 220 and that was on the 45' Black Diamond...back in mid-2019.

Shot 700-something on Cheetah a few years back, but after watching the pros decimate the pattern, I guess that's not a big accomplishment....