Injury plagues us - one of our members also rides horses and was involved in a rodeo (I don't think she was competing in this event but I don't know) and her horse spooked, throwing her off the horse. She landed hard, broke EIGHT ribs, her clavicle and scapula and fractured her L1 and L2 vertebrae and got a concussion and a punctured lung (thankfully she was wearing her helmet, which she rarely does) - so . . . she's out. She THINKS she'll be back in a couple of weeks . . . ROFL. So we were bowling without her and her husband - so -20 on a head's up night.
Practice - I'm having issues with getting pocket shots to carry . . . Teal is hitting the pocket but let's see if we can get more with the Trouble-maker.
Game 1 - 4-pin, strike, 10-pin, strike, 4-7-10, strike, 6-9-10 (whiff), strike strike pocket 7-10. Ugh 168. Fighting to get the little adjustment. We lost the point BIG. One of theirs bowled 278, and the other three all bowled up. What ya gonna do?
Game 2 - start through the nose with a 3-4-6-7-10 then did OK. picked up 4 10-pins and a 3-6 to hit 208. We still lost. They are HOT tonight.
Game 3 - whiff a 10, then too slow and through the nose for a 3-4-6-7 (completely pull the crap outta it to only get the 4-7) and then similar in the 4th (but picked it up) and then solid the rest for 195. Just could NOT score high enough to beat them - they were HOT HOT HOT.
Frustrating night. I went through all three of my balls and just could not get a consistent reaction. I did a lot of different things - down and in, hit flat and left 10-pins. Straight and in - if I was PERFECT it was good, otherwise, pocket 7-10, 10-pins. Swing it - had to slow so much down to swing it that I would go too slow and leave nasty splits. I ground it out for 571.
Good note - I picked up 6 10-pins and only missed 1. YAY!
Avg: 204
High Game: 300 (1) -- High Series (785)
Mr. Teal (Rhino Pro 15#); Zen Master (15#); Trouble Maker (15#); Nova (15#); White Dot (16#)
Kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
yeah - tell me about it! I've been less than 50% for a few weeks, after not missing for more than a month. :/
Avg: 204
High Game: 300 (1) -- High Series (785)
Mr. Teal (Rhino Pro 15#); Zen Master (15#); Trouble Maker (15#); Nova (15#); White Dot (16#)
Kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
We're back - skipped last week (making it up soon) but we're back. With a sub for our injured player.
Practice started with Mr. Teal (as always) and he was doing well, mostly very swishy strikes, but that's fine.
Game 1 - missed a dang 10-pin AGAIN. Good game, though. 237. Unfortunately the other team did really well - 3 of them bowled +20 to +30. What are ya gonna do? Lost the point.
Game 2 - Entire team doing well - I missed ANOTHER 2 10 pins but picked up 2 others . . . I switched to the Zen Master since Mr. Teal just wasn't really hitting. It was getting more and more swishy and I was watching the 6 pin get less and less powerful ramping into the 10 . . . trying to stay ahead. 5-bagger and ALL pocket shots so . . . good choice. Score was lower - 215 - but we were doing well. One teammate shot 279 and everybody else was at or above average so we took the point going away.
Game 3 - One bad miss - 6-10 and I picked the 10. LOL - otherwise solid. 235. The other team put up a fight until the 9th when they all went open and we all struck (I was on a double) and we blew them out. Point for game and total.
At the 8th frame in game 2 my shoulder locked then popped. NOT pleasant. . . so I focused on really loose and easy delivery to try to plug through. Ached a bit but was definitely do-able and was able to be smooth and did well. Shoulder is fine today - probably just delivered something weird.
Avg: 204
High Game: 300 (1) -- High Series (785)
Mr. Teal (Rhino Pro 15#); Zen Master (15#); Trouble Maker (15#); Nova (15#); White Dot (16#)
Kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
nice night!
Arsenal "15# Global Eternity Pi-45x4.5x40" "15# 900 Global Xponent-60x4.5x40" "15# 900 Global Zen Soul-60x4.5x40" "15# Roto Grip Idol Helios-90 x 2.25 x 45" "15# 900 Global Altered Reality-50x3.625x30" "15# Brunswick Uppercut-80x3.625x35" "15# Brunswick Igniter-70x5.5x35" "15# Raw Hammer Pearl 45x5.75x40" "15# Brunswick T-Zone"
Rev Rate about 270 @ about 15.5 MPH at the pins* High Game: 290 - High Series: 733. PAP: 5 1/8"x1" up; tilt 20*, rotation 75*. YTD highs - 290-733
Oh, and LEFTY!!!
Thank you!
Avg: 204
High Game: 300 (1) -- High Series (785)
Mr. Teal (Rhino Pro 15#); Zen Master (15#); Trouble Maker (15#); Nova (15#); White Dot (16#)
Kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
Those 10-pins.
And, it just goes to show you...even with an open here and there...if ya can just run some strikes together, you can still score well.
VERY unhappy. We went up against the league's biggest sandbaggers, and with one vacancy and one absence, I knew we were in for it.
Plus the lanes were . . . weird. I had a good reaction, but very few people did well. I had a good reaction, then I didn't, then I did, then I had over . . . was weird. Turns out I was also over-reacting to what I was seeing. I started with the Zen Master.
Game 1 - started great. 4-pin then turkey. Then missed a 10, and juuust missed a 2-4-10. And that's the way the rest of the game went. 170 - and we lost. Decided to move to the Teal Rhino.
Game 2 - MUCH better, although the score doesn't reflect it. I had the right lane DIALED but couldn't get the left. 194 - and we lost.
Game 3 - still had one lane dialed, but fought the other until the end when I decided to take Vicini's advice and, "go back to the beginning" - double, used my strike ball to pick up a 10-pin (which I NEEDED) and then left a 7 - needed a mark in the 10th to win the point.
This was NOT a satisfying night, at all. Nobody really had a good time. High-average bowlers tended to struggle.
I also was extremely sore - we had done an art show Thursday night (did NOT do well) and another which we set up Friday morning, came back Friday afternoon/evening and then all day Saturday (did pretty well) and then tear down Saturday night. Really beat me up - on my feet for 12 hours a day, then moving heavy ceramic items, etc. Ugh - need MORE pain meds! LOL
Oh well - we got a point, we're doing a makeup on Sunday so we'll see.
Avg: 204
High Game: 300 (1) -- High Series (785)
Mr. Teal (Rhino Pro 15#); Zen Master (15#); Trouble Maker (15#); Nova (15#); White Dot (16#)
Kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
Hate those nights. And same here...there are many nights where game 2 I crumble then game 3 I go back to what I did game 1 and can't miss.
But gotta say...glad I'm sitting out this summer. It was nice not having to go last night.
Arsenal "15# Global Eternity Pi-45x4.5x40" "15# 900 Global Xponent-60x4.5x40" "15# 900 Global Zen Soul-60x4.5x40" "15# Roto Grip Idol Helios-90 x 2.25 x 45" "15# 900 Global Altered Reality-50x3.625x30" "15# Brunswick Uppercut-80x3.625x35" "15# Brunswick Igniter-70x5.5x35" "15# Raw Hammer Pearl 45x5.75x40" "15# Brunswick T-Zone"
Rev Rate about 270 @ about 15.5 MPH at the pins* High Game: 290 - High Series: 733. PAP: 5 1/8"x1" up; tilt 20*, rotation 75*. YTD highs - 290-733
Oh, and LEFTY!!!
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