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DON'T FORGET TO SUB FOR ME

I'm in Chicago now so I won't be bowling in Hot Spot on Tuesday or Mike Rocha Trios on Thursday this week.

Eli will sub for me in Hot Spot on Tuesday and Dietrich will sub for me in Mike Rocha Trios on Thursday. The only thing you guys will need to do besides show up and bowl is fill out one of those USBC application forms. I have already paid in advance for the bowling.

This is the only week I need Dietrich to sub for me in Mike Rocha Trios. The league has the night off for Independence Day on July 4th and I will be back in time to bowl on July 11th. However, I will miss the next three weeks of Hot Spot so Eli will have three weeks of free bowling on Tuesdays.

Good luck, gentlemen!

MIKE ROCHA TRIOS - WEEK #5 RESULTS

Will To Win: 7 - Team 1: 0

We anticipated the need for some big scores this week because the stat sheet showed oppenents who carry averages of 239 and 240. As it turned out, Mr. 240 was up in Reno bowling in the USBC Nationals. Shane subbed for him and as we well know, Shane is no slouch.

We were spotted 33 pins in handicap but they were needed only in the first game. We won the second and third games scratch in an unexpected lopsided sweep. We topped our previous high game in the second and third games and topped our previous high series by 198 pins, Eli was especially hot, shooting a 705 series. As a team, we averaged 216.4 for the night.

The scores:
623-598, 715-550, 709-564, 2047-1712
I'm fairly certain none of us were expecting to outscore them by 335 pins.

WEEK 5  01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 550 600 700
WILL   157 224 205  586 15 2766 184.4 235  586   5   2   0   0
MARK   211 232 214  657 15 2927 195.1 234  657   7   3   1   0
ELI    222 226 257  705 15 2966 197.7 257  705   7   3   0   1
TOTAL  590 682 676 1948 45 8659 192.4 682 1948  19   8   1   1

HOT SPOT - WEEKS #1 - #3

Here are the first three weeks' stats for Hot Spot. We've struggled the past two weeks but I'm confident we'll break out soon.. Eli will be filling in for me the next three weeks while I'm on the road.

This week we won the first two games and had a 117 point lead in total pins. Unfortunately, we fell apart in the final game. We lost the third game and the point for total pinfall. What opened as a promising evening turned into a 2-2 split. But no worries. We'll bounce back.

WEEK 1    01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 550 600 700
DIETRICH 185 185 185  555                          0   0   0   0
MARK     213 195 232  640  3  640 213.3 232  640   2   0   1   0
WILL     232 174 161  567  3  567 189.0 232  567   1   1   0   0
KIMLANG  177 226 190  593  3  593 197.7 226  593   1   1   0   0
TOTAL    807 780 768 2355  9 1800 200.0 807 2355   4   2   1   0

WEEK 2    01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 550 600 700
DIETRICH 172 243 173  588  3  588 196.0 243  588   1   1   0   0
MARK     158 176 169  503  6 1143 190.5 232  640   2   0   1   0
WILL     208 163 138  509  6 1076 179.3 232  567   2   1   0   0
KIMLANG  197 197 197  591  3  593 197.7 226  593   1   1   0   0
TOTAL    735 779 677 2191 18 3398 188.8 807 2355   6   3   1   0

WEEK 3    01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 550 600 700
DIETRICH 217 190 150  557  6 1145 190.8 243  588   2   2   0   0
MARK     173 190 178  541  9 1684 187.1 232  640   2   0   1   0
WILL     186 208 126  520  9 1596 177.3 232  567   3   1   0   0
KIMLANG  152 231 185  568  6 1159 193.2 231  593   2   2   0   0
TOTAL    728 819 639 2186 12 5584 186.1 819 2355   9   5   1   0

TUESDAY HOT SPOT NEWS

As I noted earlier, Will and I are bowling in the Hot Spot league at Albany Bowl on Tuesday nights. I will be out of the state from June 22nd through July 10th so I'm going to need a sub in Hot Spot and Mike Rocha Trios.

Eli agreed to sub for me for the three weeks I will miss in the Tuesday Hot Spot league (June 25th, July 2nd, and July 9th).

I will miss only one night of Mike Rocha Trios at Castro Village Bowl. That will be June 27th. We don't bowl on July 4th and I will be back in time to bowl on July 11th.. Dietrich Skidmore who bowls with Will and I in Hot Spot has agreed to bowl for me on June 27th. Dietrich also bowls at Castro Village. He averaged 199 in the Reno Gamblers league this season so that's the average he will use when he bowls in my place in Mike Rocha Trios.

A few words of warning to Eli -- don't bring a bunch of aggressive balls to Albany Bowl. I'd say you won't need anything more aggressive than your Vibe and your Blue Hammer. Maybe bring something stronger just in case but definitely expect to bowl on lightly oiled or dry lanes. By the third game, you might be using your Hammer spare ball for strikes. Maybe we can get over there for some practice before I leave town.

MIKE ROCHA TRIOS - WEEK #4 RESULTS

Will To Win: 2 - Team 7: 5

We were off our game a bit for a second consecutive week -- and for a second consecutive week, we came out of it with a 2-5 mark. Eli's first game was the only one in which any of us broke 200. It wasn't any one thing that hurt us. We caught some bad breaks, we had some failures in execution, and we had an opponent who warmed up to put up big scores in the second and third games. We managed to pull out the first game but it went downhill from there.

No worries, though. We'll bounce back next week. We'll take on Team 1 who it appears will be spotting us about 75 pins per game. That's what happens when you have bowlers averaging 239 and 240 on the same team.

Surprisingly, none of us has hit a 600 series through the first month of the season. With all that handicap rolling our way, this would be a good time for us to crank out three of them and seize all seven points.

WEEK 4  01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 550 600

WILL   189 189 171  549 12 2180 181.7 235  582   3   1   0

MARK   151 175 190  516 12 2270 189.2 234  596   4   3   0

ELI    213 194 187  594 12 2261 188.4 214  594   4   3   0

TOTAL  553 558 548 1659 36 6711 186.4 633 1750  11   7   0

MIKE ROCHA TRIOS - WEEK #3 RESULTS

Will To Win: 2 - Team 5: 5

We entered the evening in a four-way tie for third place with a record of 9-5. Our opponent, Team 5, was one of the teams with whom we shared third place and they were spotting us 20 pins.

It took us awhile to find our stride and we fell short in the first game by a single pin, 529-530. It was a frustrating loss but we bounced back in the second game with our highest score of the season and a 653-569 victory. It looked like things were running smoothly at that point but the third game turned into a seemingly endless string of splits, chops, and washouts. We followed up our highest score of the season with our lowest and a 478-598 defeat.  We also lost the point for total pinfall by a score of 1660-1697. Our record for the night was 2-5 which dropped our overall record to 11-10.

WEEK 3  01  02  03  SER  G PINS   AVG  HG   HS 200 550 600

WILL   164 203 138  505  9 1631 181.2 235  603   3   1   0

MARK   161 227 181  569  9 1754 194.9 234  596   4   3   0

ELI    184 203 139  526  9 1667 185.2 214  572   3   2   0

TOTAL  509 633 458 1600 27 5052 187.1 633 1750  10   6   0

HOT SPOT AT ALBANY BOWL

Will is bowling in the Hot Spot summer league at Albany Bowl on Tuesday nights. When one of his teammates dropped out unexpectedly Monday, Will called me to see if I'd be interested in taking his place since I work nearby.

I decided to give it a shot. I hadn't bowled in a league at Albany Bowl since the early 80s. The league looks pretty good, with thirty teams. One thing I wasn't prepared for was the extremely light oil on the lanes. The three balls I brought in were way too aggressive and my shots were sailing past the headpin.

The Motiv Ascent Solid

After the third frame, I ran out to my truck to get my Motiv Ascent Solid, a ball desgined for light oil. From there, everything was fine. I shot 213-195-232 (640). Will shot a 232 in the first game but as the lanes broke down, he experienced the same difficulties I had. It was a struggle to find a ball that would work for him on the dry conditions. He finished 232-174-161 (567).

Clearly, league bowling at Albany Bowl is going to require some additions to the arsenal for extremely light oil conditions. I ordered a Motiv Ascent Pearl that I hope to have ready by next Tuesday. Will is looking for another ball, too.

The Motiv Ascent Pearl

I'm going to be out of town from June 23rd to July 10th so I will need someone to sub for me on June 25th, July 2nd, and July 9th. I will have everything paid in advance. Eli, maybe you can stand in for me for those three weeks.

I will also need someone to bowl for me in the Mike Rocha Trios on June 27th. We're not bowling on July 4th and I will be back to bowl on the 11th. If either of you has a teammate from another league that would like to bowl for me that night, bring him on. He won't need any money. I will have that night paid in advance also..