RENO INVITATIONAL - WEEK #15



Blockheads: 1 - Team 8: 3

As one might expect, The Coach was thrilled when he saw we were bowling on lane 13. The way things started, it appeared there may be something to his disdain for that lane. The first game was a disgusting mixture of gutter balls, splits, and missed spares. As if that wasn't enough, our opponents bowled well and we were beaten by 128 pins. Not only were we down a game but it looked like the most we could hope for was a split.

Then in the second game, our roles reversed. We had the hot hand and scored 783, our highest game of the season. With 22 pins of handicap, our total was 805 and we won by 116 pins. So after the second game, we were even at a game apiece and we had pulled to within 12 pins for the series. If we could win the final game by 13 pins or more, a 3-1 series victory would be ours.

The third game was close through the first six frames but we tailed off just as our opponents got hot again. We lost the final game and the series, 1-3. We put up our second highest series score of the season but it wasn't quite good enough. It was very much the same story last week. We bowled well and exceeded our team average but our opponents were a little better.

Even though we came out on the short end, I was proud of the way we battled back after the brutal beating we took in the first game. As I noted earlier, we had our highest game and second highest series scores of the season. Olivia scored her high series and after a miserable start, The Coach topped his previous high in the second and third games. We may be out of the running for the first half of the season but we're rounding into shape for the second half which is just a few weeks away.

     Blockheads       Team 8
  PINS HCP TOTAL   PINS HCP TOTAL
1  586  22   608    736   0   736
2  783  22   805    689   0   689
3  673  22   695    744   0   744
T 2042  66  2108   2169   0  2169

WEEK 15    01  02  03  SER   G  PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 500 600
Olivia    172 170 169  511  32  4887 152.7 201  511   1   2   0
Sharon    122 205 154  481  45  7339 163.1 233  580   1   4   0
Mark      179 218 158  555  45  8359 185.8 256  613  14  12   1
Gary      113 190 192  495  45  6907 153.5 192  503   0   3   0
Stephanie                    3   321 107.0 113  321   0   0   0
Total     586 783 673 2042 170 28263 166.3 783 2074  17  21   1