Will To Win: BOWL BAY AREA'S ONE-BALL TOURNAMENT

Will To Win: BOWL BAY AREA'S ONE-BALL TOURNAMENT: Are you interested in an unusual test of your bowling skills? Pete Hagin's Bowl Bay Area is hosting an eight-gamer on June 2nd (Sunday)...

Here are our scores:

     SHARON MARK
1      115   144
2      211   135
3      167   200
4      158   158
5      169   172
6      155   181
7      114   164
8      124   200
TOTAL 1213  1354
AVG    151   169

PBA EXPERIENCE - WEEK 3 RESULTS

Sharon subbed for Olivia this week which was our last week on the Cheetah pattern. Next week we switch to Chameleon. Actually, that will be in two weeks. We won't be bowling next week because of the Memorial Day holiday. We will switch to Chameleon on June 3rd. The way I bowled on Cheetah the past two weeks, I can't say I'm unhappy to see it go.

I haven't bowled on Chameleon before and I won't be able to practice on it in advance. Diablo Valley Bowl will be hosting Bowling Bay Area's single ball 8-gamer and an ABT tournament on June 2nd. I suspect that won't leave any lanes open. Sharon and I are bowling in the single ball 8-gamer so I won't be able to practive on Chameleon even if they do put it on a few lanes.

Here are tonight's scores. It's almost as painful to type them as it was to bowl them.

WEEK 3  01  02  03  04  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG HSER 200 700 800
Olivia                       4  505 126.3 182  505   0   0   0
Mark   123 192 160 118  593 12 1917 159.8 204  692   1   0   0  
Sharon 128 149 185 136  598  4  598 149.5 185  598   0   0   0
Total  251 341 345 254 1191 20 3020 151.0 345 1220   1   0   0

PBA EXPERIENCE - WEEK 2 RESULTS

Olivia was present this week but we still don't have any handicapping. Until our entering averages can be established, we won't know the total scores or standings. This was our first of two weeks on the Cheetah pattern. This is the pattern the produces the highest scores on the PBA tour. You certainly couldn't tell that by our scores. Oof!

WEEK 2  01  02  03  04  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG HSER 200 700 800
Olivia 117 160 132  96  505  4  505 126.3 182  505   0   0   0
Mark   135 163 175 159  632  8  632 158.0 204  692   1   0   0
Total  252 323 307 255 1137 12 1829 152.4 336 1220   1   0   0

PBA EXPERIENCE - CHEETAH

Cheeth - 35'

We will be bowling on the Cheetah oil pattern in weeks #2 and #3. It's a 35' pattern with a high volume of oil and it's the highest scoring pattern on the PBA tour. I sought out some tips for bowling on Cheetah and found a couple from About.com and Epic Bowling. Click on the links to view them.

I also found these videos from You Tube:

PBA EXPERIENCE - WEEK 1 RESULTS

We started with a meeting to establish our league rules. Rather than a regular sport league, this will be a PBA Experience league with the champions qualifying for entry to a regional PBA tournament. For our league to qualify, we must bowl on PBA patterns for a minimum of 12 weeks. Our season is 13 weeks long and we already had Dead Man's Curve on the lanes for our first night. We will bowl on PBA patterns for the remaining 12 weeks which will allow us to qualify for the tournament entries.

Anothing thing that will be done differently this year is we're not breaking each night's bowling into two sets of two games to be bowled on different lanes against different opponents. We will bowl a four game series on the same pair of lanes each night.

Olivia was absent so I bowled solo tonight. I don't know if we won because we don't have the handicapping listed.  Our averages from last year's Sport Doubles 23 league weren't reported to the USBC. I have the stat sheets so I know Olivia's is 132 and mine is 163. I emailed copies of last year's stats to Diablo Valley Bowl so they can get our averages on the record and figure out the handicapping and standings.

WEEK 1  01  02  03  04  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG HSER 200 700 800
Olivia 132 132 132 132  528                          0   0   0
Mark   147 204 181 160  692  4  632 173.0 204  692   1   0   0
Total  279 336 313 292 1220  4  632 173.0 336 1220   1   0   0