Strikes and Spares
Despite weather, bowlers find green on the lanes Okay so the ground hog saw his shadow. Are we going to let a little cold, snow, ice, and gloomy days bother us?
No way. We are bowlers and Pennsylvanians that ought to make us Mother Nature’s worst nightmare.
We can roll a gutter ball and come back and roll a perfect series. We know there is always some green under the snow.
A few area bowlers found some green on the lanes this week. Finding that their game blossomed even though the weather outside was not conducive to growth is one more proof you cannot keep a good bowler down.
Out of Manor Lanes in Hopwood scores were coming up 2s and 7s. Bob Sible Jr. rolled his first 245, 243, 228, ending up with a 716 series in the Monday Majors. Other scores of note are Justin Malik 289747, Al D’Andrea 276, and Rich Boyer rolled a 276.
Rounding out the Monday Majors is John “Cowboy” Clinton 279728, Ed Floyd 720 and Lou King 713.
We cannot forget to mention a Thursday Nighter, Dave Simpson who had a 269 game.
The following scores from Manor Lanes missed the cutoff last week, but they should still be recognized. Monday Majors: John Hardy 269, Kevin Fasulkey 278717, Bobby Umbel 268759, Dave Show turned in a 738 series and Bob Doyle finished this run off with a 268.
In the Tuesday Universe League Joe Kerns rolled a 278, and in the Thursday Nighters Rob Conchilla 257687. Bowling their first 201s in the Friday Rockwell League were Joe McMichaels and Phil Hall. Mike Sackett had a 606 series in The Friday Wildthings League.
Championship Bowling is returning to Fairbank Bowling Center for the next two weeks, starting Tuesday for two additional weeks of qualifying on the Sport Shot. The format for this event will be the “Big 33” three-man teams, Baker style. Three bowlers, three games over three pairs of lanes.
The three person teams can be men, women or mixed. The first bowler rolls the first, fourth, seventh and tenth frame. The second bowler will follow up with the second, fifth and eight frames. The third bowler – you can see where this is going – bowls the third, sixth and ninth frame.
To mix things up a little, teams will alternate lanes, league style. All teams will shift one pair to the right after each game.
A player may enter as many teams as he or she desires and each team may qualify for the TV show Top Eleven as long as that player has two different teammates for each team. Should a player have two or more teams qualify for the TV show, that player is permitted to bowl on each of those teams and may even bowl against themselves.
If a bowler wishes to reenter the same team more than once, that is permissible but the team may only qualify for one spot (highest) on TV show.
The cost to enter the event is $33.
Several area bowlers commented on the passing of Dick Weber. The same comment comes up from everyone, “He was one great guy.” More than one bowler had an opportunity to personally observe him bowling. Hopefully we can follow up with some additional first hand stories about this man in future columns. If you have a personal story to share about Weber I would enjoy hearing it.
Today is the St. Jude Charity Event at Klondike Lanes in Masontown.
Everything starts at noon, and Joe Pascia says it will run until the goal of $10,000 is reached. I hope many have a chance to make the drive and participate on the lanes or just come out to make a contribution to this worthwhile endeavor.
Bowlers, how about assisting the proprietors of the bowling house with the reporting highlights of the week? Each week the e-mail contact is listed at the bottom of this column. Once the house verifies the outstanding scores, send them in via e-mail to be included in the column.
I am sorry but I cannot report on weekly league actions, but if you have an outstanding bowler in your league let us hear about them.
The sun is shining outside; there is green sticking up through the snow. It won’t be long folks; however, everyone in favor of turning that ground hog into a bowling ball bag let me know.
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