Well it looks like I might be starting the season off as a sub for several weeks. The captain of the team I was originally suppose to bowl with on Saturdays before I decided to take some of this season off just had surgery and will probably need someone to fill in for him.

I'm bowling in our Monday night scratch league, and our Wed. night mens league. Monday I shot 681, tonight I shot 635. Not a bad start.

I don't start up until next Friday, but I'm really looking forward to this season. Even though my summer league didn't go as well as my teammate or I would have liked, the last 2 weeks I got it together and figured a lot of things out. Going to hopefully carry it over to the next league.

Most of my team is back, we lost one bowler, but we had a replacement for him already lined up from the end of the last season.

Mark

Last night was my first time bowling on a house shot since April. Wow is it different than Sport shots. Before I left the house, I was going to switch out my Cell for my X-Factor but I forgot. Big mistake. My Paradigm and my Special Agent were too much ball, let alone the Cell. I know better for next week. It was fun getting back out there again though. I shot 540 (eh) and I left a LOT of pins out there. I missed stupid spares. I left 1 split all night (3-10). At least my team won all of the points.

My team situation is clearer after last night, though I still don't know if I'm going to be on a full team. There are 3 of us that I know are trying to form a team, including a female that was on another team in my summer league and a displaced sub from last season (the league voted not to allow subs this season). My league secretary is sort of expecting 2 other bowlers to show up next week for the start of bowling, and if both of them do show up, they'll likely be placed with the 3 of us for a full team.

Hey guys - been awhile. Hope all is well.

I had the pleasure of meeting cgeorg last night.

cgeorg - It was very nice meeting you finally :-)

Figured since fall league started I would start posting again - I bowled over the summer but really didn't concentrate although I somehow managed to maintain a 158 through the summer - have no idea how I did that.

I felt good going into last night - wish I knew why so I could continue that mood. Whatever it was paid off. I went into last night with a 155. I ended up bolwing a 202, 195, 170 for a 567. I am pretty excited over those scores - best I have had in a long time.

Just realized I posted my stuff in the wrong thread, here it is in the *right* one (I know you all want to read it twice :))

http://www.bowlsk.com/games/view-series.html?series=7130

641. I bowled fairly well, but had some carry issues. Hit the pocket 77% of the time, but only carried 2/3 of them. Made a great adjustment in the last game on the left lane, moving right and throwing the type of release I used on the Cheetah. Needed a mark on that lane in the 10th to win my bracket, and I struck out.

** Good luck with the team situation, Richie.

** cgeorge, nice shooting and congrats on making some good decisions.

(posted this earlier, but the board is buggy once again)

Well I finally had my first night in my first league since I was a kid. It's a mixed league with 80% of 220 handicap and a 30 point system.

It didn't go as well as I had been anticipating/hoping. I was frusterated as hell before I even started bowling. I was stuck in two separate traffic jams on the way there, I had to rush to get prepared for bowling, I had to fill out all of the paperwork, etc. I was in no way calm when it came time to roll the ball. Let me just say that the first ball I rolled went straight into the gutter... and the rest of my first game didn't get any better. I started out the second game fairly well marking in the first 4 but then out came the residuals from the first game... more gutters. I started out the third game like I had done in my first and later part of the second but then I realized what I was doing wrong. I was opening up my hips causing my shoulders to open which was allowing my swing to go out to the right. I fixed my gutter issue and marked out from the 6th on for a 173. What an embarrasing night... 403 At least I was able to pull out my first individual point on my last game. Hopefully next week I'll be able to pull out 3 individual points as my average is "artificially low" at the moment.

Time for me to practice more before next week. Things can only get better from here... right?

At least I had one highlight from the night. I took part of the 50/50 jackpot. Enough to cover my sactioning fees.

Let1, hang in there and I'm sure your season will be quite rewarding as you become more comfortable and encounter less traffic jams