Mine was a frustrating 5 frames with a 57 in the 5th frame! Couldn't carry a spare or a split for 5 frames. Lucky, I was able to strike out to the 10th with 202.

But that game in general.. put me to the limit of frustrating and in the end.. I used the concept of "Don't get mad, get even" and I was firing the ball to the pocket with a roar of "Yea.. YOU BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP! You better fall down now! Who's in control now? Not You!" lol. That was what going on in my head. lol.

Sometimes, you get caught in the moment.. you do forget what you were bowling for. Heh.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA,TAHOMA">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA,TAHOMA">Originally posted by lorok:
those high expectations can hurt too james... i've gone in thinking the same thing after some great practices and end up shooting sub 600 for sure. i get the high series when i'm not expecting it. gotta focus on each shot and forget about everything. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA,TAHOMA">Ugh, I can SO relate to that. EVERY STINKING TIME I have a good practice and think I've finally figured something out, I bowl like pure and utter poop at the next league. It's depressing, to say the least. It's like every time I think I've made progress, I quickly find myself starting all over again.

My worst league game was last week on Wednesday. I have a 208 avg, was doing well the first 2 games, a 233 and 224, then topped it off with a 138. Don't know what happened, just lost concentration I guess. The opposite on my Sunday league. On that league, I avg 180, but had a 236, 234, and a 207. Go figure! Same house, varying degrees of oil. That night was light to med as opposed to the normal med to heavy, which my Freak Out and Animal like because they hook more and I can play my favorite line...35 to 8-10.

Let see probally Family League i was in when i was junior bowler which i shot a 98. Yeah i think it was the last day of league and they provided pizza and all and i didn really concentrate on bowling. I was just eating and just throwing the ball like that. At that time i was junior scratch bowler averaging 160.

Now at adult league my average is now 170-180 and worst i shot was probally 120.

I had a overall bad night in the youth/adult league over the summer. I was averaging 185 going into that night and shot 149-138-160 for a 447 series. The worst series I shot in 2 1/2 years. I couldn't hit anything. I came back and shot 616 the next week. Crazy how that works.

Well this season my lowest game is 143, with a 173 avg. As for my previous season my lowest was 107, with 160-ish avg. Can't remember anything before that though. I'm too young, i believe

After averaging 180 last year I've bowled a 119 and a 121 this year with multiple scores in the higher 120's. Needless to say my average this year has started out less than stellar, around 154.

Working on that handicap? Last fall, I had a 157 average after 3 weeks, then I shot a 635 series in week 4. Ended up 3rd for the season on handicap series.

For the first 2 weeks of the season, bowled on the same pair of alleys, shot 443 with a 128, and 448 with a 138, Last night I had 691 with a 279. But, we killed our opponent with my handicap. Usual average is 195 in other leagues.

Go figure?

The first game of this season I shot a whopping 114,I started
with a 188 avg. Lanes were drier than usual but not a dessert, it was just me making dumb shots. I rebounded the last two games for a 507 series.