Eleven is pretty good, but...

...opportunities like the one I had tonight do not come along often, if ever.

Unfortunately, while I threw a good ball in frame seven, the seven pin decided to be a little stubborn.

It was that mere pin which was the difference between a wonderful score and bowling immortality.

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Jon Sexe said...
Wow! That is quite impressive. Congratulations!!!

Jon Sexe said...
Did the 7 pin wobble at all in the 7th or was it not hit at all?

26 said...
Nothing. I left the seven pin solid. It might have been more painful to have missed if it had danced and almost fallen.

Amy said...
I am, as they say, impressed.

Shannon said...
Nice work, what with the wrist and all.

26 said...
Fortunately, it's the other (right) wrist that hurts.

26 said...
On a side note, the very next time I bowled I put up 12 straight strikes. Unfortunately, it was nine in one game and three in the next. One of the guys we were bowling against that night has about twenty 300 games and he told me I should still be proud of it, regardless if it was over two games or not.

Screwballz repeat!

In a unforeseen turn of events, the Screwballz (Gina, my mom and dad, and my aunt and uncle) won the last twelve points of the season (we needed to win at least ten) to outright win the championship this year and repeat as league champions.

We finished with a 70-28 record (33-16 in the first half, 37-12 in the second half). By taking the last twelve points, we won both the first and second half titles, thus eliminating the need for a bowl off for the championship in two weeks.

Last night, I bowled the first 600 series of my life (after just missing with a 597 two weeks ago). I bowled 205, 212, and 203 for a total of a 620 series. The night boosted my season average to 178 and assured myself the league's most improved bowler award this year.

Gina also had a good season, improving to a 130 season-ending average, even though she had to bowl around the bowling ball in her belly for part of the year.