Last night we bowled the other team we hang out with, the Malcontents. (We bowled them in our first league about 4 yrs ago and got along because they drank as much as we did!) I was a little worried; as Gus was supposed to tank and help bring his average down, because I knew he’d want to beat Tony. Tony, for the record, is a VERY good bowler-last yr his best game was a 290, but in the first part of the year he is on a golf league and thus is….well, not as “alert” as he could be, so he’s bowling more in the 180-215 range. Anyway, Gus ended up nearly beating him and having two good games-right around 200- and one bad game which brought his average down to around 190, which is STILL above where it should be, but that’s how it’s going to have to be. Let’s just hope Gus keeps it up and continues to get 200+ most games. :)
Esme did pretty good, I don’t have the score sheet right here but she beat her average/stayed pretty close to it for all 3 games – it’s the snazzy ball (gift from me, of course) and her tie dye shoes that do it. :P
It was Agnes’s first night and she had fun, did a good job of listening to instruction. She flirted with that foul line a bit too often but did pretty good in the last game and ended up with around a 97 average- a solid average to improve upon! (she just needs her own shoes and ball!!)
Me…man, I stank up the joint. And this time, I don’t even have the excuse of “trying to throw off”. I was SUPPOSED TO BOWL GOOD! Instead, I got an 80 on my first game. Yes, and EIGHTY- I just couldn’t hit my mark for the life of me and my spare ball is totally gone-I even dropped the ball twice! Ug. My “high game” was a 109. (normally I am a 120ish bowler, when I was bowling often, I was up to a 135 average) I think my average might have even gone DOWN a pin or two. So, I’ll be hitting the lanes this weekend to practice, that’s for damn sure.
Even with my colossal flop, we still managed to win 2 out of 3 games and took total pins, so we got 5 out of 7 points. This is, of course assuming Tony figured out everything using bowling scorekeeping and not golf scores!!! (Which, speaking of points and pins and scores, I guess I need to elaborate on that. I’ll explain in another post this week) So, we’re probably hovering around the middle as placements go, (here are around 30 teams, by the way) but we really can’t count anything as real placements until all of us establish an average.
Hopefully my practice helps me get my game back!!! Next week-Pearl, Gus, Mabel, and Thaddius!
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