RENO INVITATIONAL AT ALBANY BOWL

We're 6-2 after the first two weeks.

After a few seasons in Over The Wall at Diablo Valley Bowl, we made a move to Albany Bowl for the 2013-2014 season. Over The Wall had fewer than ten teams the past two seasons and we were looking for a greater variety of competition. So far, the experience has been fun.

We got through the chaos of our first week with a 3-1 record. Since Laverne or Shirley (as The Coach dubbed them) ran off with the scoresheet before I could get our copy, I didn't have any stats until I picked up the league's stat sheet this week. As one might guess by looking at our scores, we lost the second game. Olivia wasn't able to bowl because she suffered a wrist injury the previous week.

WEEK 1  01  02  03  SER   AVG
VACANT 140 140 140  420
Sharon 160 134 183  477 159.0
Mark   207 175 213  595 198.3
Gary   160 180 115  455 151.7
Total  667 629 651 1947 169.7

Olivia rejoined us this week and played through her wrist pain. Though we received 38 pins in handicap, we struggled and fell behind early in the first game. We turned it on late but our comeback fell 11 pins short, 652-663. In the second game, we mounted another late comeback but this time we came through. With the aid of The Coach's sniper-like spare shooting, we narrowly pulled out the second game by a score of 694-691. We started out hot in the third game while our opponents faltered and the result was a 753-611 thrashing. The huge margin of victory in the third game earned us the point for total pins, 2099-1965, and gave us a 3-1 record for the second consecutive week. Our record of 6-2 after two weeks should place us somewhere near the top of the standings.

WEEK 2  01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 500 600
Olivia 115 122 176  413  3  413 137.7 176  413   0   0   0
Sharon 160 140 189  489  6  966 161.0 189  489   0   0   0
Mark   180 215 185  580  6 1175 195.8 215  595   3   2   0
Gary   159 179 165  503  6  958 159.7 180  503   0   1   0
Total  614 656 715 1985 21 3512 167.2 715 1985   3   3   0