Bowling Spencer on August 17, 2006 05:23 am
Strong Finish to the Season
Last night was the last competitive night of the summer bowling league. We had a nice, strong finish and won all three games plus total pins. The win comes with a bit of an empty feeling as the other team didn’t even show up except for one person and you have to have at least 2 of the 4 be there for anything to count. He seemed very disappointed and upset with his team and who can blame him? Basically, it meant that as long as we were all within 10 pins of our average all games, we’d win. We all bowled fairly well regardless and probably would have won at least 2 of the 3 games even if they had fielded a team.
I bowled my second best series of the summer, which I’m proud of. Unlike the last good one, which just seemed to be all luck, this time I’d made some changes to my approach and delivery that look to be helping with two of my biggest issues: consistency and speed. Here are my scores and averages for the whole season:
| Wk# | Date | Lanes | Gm1 | Gm2 | Gm3 | Series | Avg | Run Avg |
| 1 | May 24, 2006 | 9-10 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | -1.00 |
| 2 | May 31, 2006 | 15-16 | 137 | 183 | 144 | 464 | 154.67 | 154.67 |
| 3 | Jun 07, 2006 | 11-12 | 187 | 162 | 134 | 483 | 161.00 | 157.83 |
| 4 | Jun 14, 2006 | 13-14 | 151 | 133 | 166 | 450 | 150.00 | 155.22 |
| 5 | Jun 21, 2006 | 23-24 | 147 | 205 | 149 | 501 | 167.00 | 158.17 |
| 6 | Jun 28, 2006 | 17-18 | *206* | 198 | 192 | *596* | 198.67 | 166.27 |
| 7 | Jul 05, 2006 | 19-20 | 200 | 139 | 149 | 488 | 162.67 | 165.67 |
| 8 | Jul 12, 2006 | 9-10 | 152 | 160 | 171 | 483 | 161.00 | 165.00 |
| 9 | Jul 19, 2006 | 15-16 | 143 | 156 | 156 | 455 | 151.67 | 163.33 |
| 10 | Jul 26, 2006 | 11-12 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 163.33 |
| 11 | Aug 02, 2006 | 13-14 | 172 | 150 | 155 | 477 | 159.00 | 162.85 |
| 12 | Aug 09, 2006 | 23-24 | 167 | 197 | 170 | 534 | 178.00 | 164.37 |
| 13 | Aug 16, 2006 | 25-26 | 186 | 203 | 167 | 556 | 185.33 | 166.27 |
| Game Averages: | 168.00 | 171.45 | 159.36 | |||||
I ended up with an average just 4 pins off of my goal of 170 which isn’t bad considering it was a fairly arbitrary number based on what I used to bowl 7 years ago.
The next league starts Sept. 6 so that gives me three weeks to just practice, recondition my balls (insert dirty joke here) and get ready for the next season. Don’t worry, the bowling blog portion will return. We’ve even ordered really spiffy bowling shirts and if we can’t beat the other teams with talent, we’ll at least look better losing!
