Mounts Bowling

This will just be a quick post before league this evening.

Last Monday Llyle and I shoed up for week 6, the second week on the US Open oil pattern. In week 5 we found out that the entire league average was about 177 and in week 6 the entire league average was 178; marginally improved. Week 6 for the two of us was quite close to the league average for the week and as a result we didn’t fare as well as we did the week prior.

In week five John and I shot just shy of 190 for the 6 games and we brought home 14 points on the night but last week Llyle and I shot a combined 175 average and only brought home 6 points.

Lyle struggled quite a bit as he hadn’t bowled on this shot yet this summer and I fared slightly worse than I did the previous week. My scores mostly dipped because I missed about 4-5 spares that I shouldn’t have whereas in week 5 I only missed about 1-2. Missed spares really add up if you’re not careful and I was defiantly careless last week. This week I’m really going to have to focus on taking my time on lining up for my spares.

Last week I also found the shot to play similar to the week prior but it was a little tighter of a shot. I played the lanes very similar week-over-week but found last week to be a little more wet-dry. I think this is because more people started playing deep inside than the week prior but then again it could have been because of the people we followed; different rev rates and trajectories. Who knows really, but I do know they played similar and fairly consistent. This week I’ll just try to be a little sharper and see if I can increase my scores based on the experience I’ve built up over the past 12 games.

My game scores last week were: 189-166-223-160-180-172 for a series 1090 or 181 average. I’m pleased to have kept all games over 160 (something I didn’t do last week) though I’d like for them to be higher still. Week 7 bowling is underway tonight at 9pm so I’ll report back with my results. For those following along at home my game by game scores for each week of this league can viewed on my main Open Doubles 2009 page.