Well today was our first tournament as a club and it was the GWBS/TNBA doubles/singles in Alexandria, Virginia at US Bowl. When I first walked in I thought that these lanes would be caked up with oil (but soon found out that it wasn't). I proceeded to the sign up desk to sign up and get ready to bowl. This particular tournament was a USBC sanctioned/TNBA certifed which means in order to participate you had to be a member of the TNBA organization. I signed up, met up with my partner(Ms. Yvonne Humphries) and headed to my lanes which was 15/16. In practice I started with the Blast Zone(stack levrg, sanded to 600 wet sand) standing around 19 20th throwing across the 10th board out to about 4,5th board. This line was alright but I didn't feel comfortable playing it so I move in and tried some other balls and finally found my line.
Oil Pattern: The pattern to me seemed like a version of the US OPEN or a modified version of a Reverse Block.
Ball of Choice: Brunswick Blast Zone, and Ultra Zone.
Line :The line I found in practice was what I went with. Standing 30th board,crossing 19th at the arrows, and using 10,9,8 as my break poing anywhere left wasn't holding and anywhere right wasn't recovering.
Game 1: 236. I was working on a "HAMBONE" lol. going into the 10th frame,got the first one and on the second ball I got slow with my speed and left 4 pin.
Game 2: 205. I started x 9/ x 8-. A couple of bad breaks and high shots later I finished with a 205.
Game 3: Game three was crazy. I had been eyeing the raffle stand and headed for it. I bought some raffles and won to prizes. I was feeling good so I bought a slice of cake(Y did i do that) and was eating that and bowling at the same time. The cake was extra sweet and i was jacked up and couldn't hit me mark anymore and finished with a whopping 169.
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