Week 2 - nowhere to go but up. Yep - we started this week as the #18 team out of 18. We take on a brand new team with a 4-person average of 427. For perspective, our 4 person average (with a vacancy) is 717. That will change when my wife starts bowling (she took two weeks off to attend a meeting and then to fight a migraine) - we handed them 261 pins per game. :0
Game 1 - missed TWO 10-pins (one in the 12th so . . .) - this is going to be an ongoing theme. 210. I bowled fine, but our leadoff just couldn't get her head out of . . . well. We lost the point and were down 34.
Game 2 - clean except for another 10-pin (I DID pick up one in the 9th so . . . small victories?) and punched out in the 10th to roll over the punchout pot. 192 and we won the point and just a tad over even for total.
Game 3 - AGAIN with the 10-pin. Missed in the second frame. C'mon! - I did pick one up in the 6th. Their anchor (avg 149) bowled out his ARSE, hitting 247. Thankfully our leadoff was bowling her average; our second bowled great and it came to me, in the 10th frame. In my brain I was saying, "OK, this is the JOB, this is entirely what it's to be to be ANCHOR - do the job." We were up 4 and both of us were on a double. Head's up, baby! He went first (I was doing the scores so had an excuse, LOL) and struck. OK - I strike. Good. He then leaves a ring-10 and picks it up. I have to strike and get count - which I do, strike and ring-10. We win the point and total.
Felt good to DO MY JOB. Felt good for the team to stand up, overcome 261 pins of handicap and take 3 points. I think we're a good team and have potential to do something this season.
Now - about those 10-pins.
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