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    Default Picked up this spare leave to save my clean game.....

    I had a couple strikes in the third game on league night and I was leaving easy spares to pick up. In the eight frame my ball hit a little high and I left the 6-8-10 pin. My thought right after was Oh no! I knew how my ball was working that night so I just thought that I will pretend that I just have to go after the 6/10 like I did a few times that night. As luck would have it the ball hit the right side of the 6 pin just enough to throw it into the 8 pin for a spare. I finished the 9th frame with a spare and the 10th frame with a spare/strike. That 6-8-10 pick up got me some high fives and some nice pick up from the folks around me on our league. We bowl every other Saturday on our league and I missed the Saturday before this one because of the flu. That means that I didn't bowl for a month and had no practices either. Having bowled for 28 years in this league sure helps out in situations like this.
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    Awesome clean game save!

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    Well done! And may I ask, what was your score for that game?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HowDoIHookAgain View Post
    Well done! And may I ask, what was your score for that game?
    It was only a 186 because I couldn't string any strikes. I think I had a total of three strikes. I started out with a strike in the first frame and I got another strike in the 10th frame after my spare in the 10th. The other one was around the 5th frame. The other frames I was leaving one or two pins after the first ball that I picked up of course. So it wasn't a high score but it was a clean game and I always like those even if the score isn't a high score of 200+.
    Arsenal: Raw Hammer Orange/Black Hybrid 14lbs, Blue Hammer urethane 14lbs, Columbia 300 Lava Ball Plastic 14lbs, Highest scratch series 710 Bowling 38 years Never hit that 300 game. Highest game 276, had 11 strikes and one spare in the middle of that game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hammer View Post
    It was only a 186 because I couldn't string any strikes. I think I had a total of three strikes. I started out with a strike in the first frame and I got another strike in the 10th frame after my spare in the 10th. The other one was around the 5th frame. The other frames I was leaving one or two pins after the first ball that I picked up of course. So it wasn't a high score but it was a clean game and I always like those even if the score isn't a high score of 200+.
    Hey, a clean game is a clean game, lol. And if you look at it frame-to-frame, and not by points, it looks even better with how many spares you got!

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    Having marks in every frame with no opens does look impressive.
    Arsenal: Raw Hammer Orange/Black Hybrid 14lbs, Blue Hammer urethane 14lbs, Columbia 300 Lava Ball Plastic 14lbs, Highest scratch series 710 Bowling 38 years Never hit that 300 game. Highest game 276, had 11 strikes and one spare in the middle of that game.

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    Oh yeah. I remember making that split back when I was bowling in a high school baker game. Good pickup!
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