Got ROLLED last night.
New team - and short timer team, they're leaving July 1. The dad and son have the wierdest drillings - they use a way-offset thumb so they basically palm the ball (they do use the thumb hole) but can't do anything else. Then combine with their 1980 Brunswick balls and they make a MESS of the lanes. The two hit a ton of strikes but can't pick up any right-side spares. Loud, over-exhuberant. Since they just started, their averages started WAY low but are going WAY up . . .
Game 1 - pretty solid. I was inside of their mess and they hadn't pushed oil down to my break yet. Split in the 8th but in the pocket most of the time. 203.
Game 2 - missed a 10-pin. Gah - I'm starting to pick them up again but. . . arg frustrating. Then I wiff a 9. Really? Then wiff a 3-6-10. 168. Coulda-woulda-shoulda.
Game 3 - got the right lane down after a baby split, but never really figured out the left - ring 10, 6-10, ring 10, 3-6-10 - was trying to get better entry. 186. Was a better game than the score reflects.
We lost all four.
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