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The USBC Nationals as
experienced by the Ballard’s
Bowling Solutions #3 team
By Clint Dacy
One of my favorite tournaments
of the year is the USBC
Nationals. It serves as a time to
bowl with my friends in a very
competitive environment on a
very challenging condition.
This year’s tournament
was held in Reno, NV, at the
National Bowling Stadium. If
you have never made the trip
out there you really should go
and check it out if you get the
chance.
My Ballard’s Bowling Solutions
#3 team has now been
together for four years, and our
goal was to put a team together
that we could take every year
and be competitive.
I think we have finally put
together a good mix of players
who can work together to
break down a lane properly.
My teammates are David
Smith, Brad Hunter, Terry
Taylor, and Brett Cooper.
The first couple of years we
bowled well, but struggled to
score. Now that we are in our
fourth year we are starting
to understand how to break
down the lanes properly, and it
reflected with our score.
The key is to get everyone
playing in the same zone to
build a track in the lane. This
can be very difficult if you get
matched up with the wrong
team on your pair.
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enemy at nationals. There is
always a heavy volume of oil
on the lane, and plastic balls
only push oil down the lane
causing tighter back ends and
erratic hook spots.
What you want to do is to
use balls with some surface
that will soak up oil, and by
playing in the same spot on
the lane your team can build a
tunnel to the pocket.
With four of our team members
being right handed, we all
started off playing around 12 at
the arrows with a break point
around nine down the lane at
the tracer.
The tracer is a dash at about
45 to 50 feet down the lane
that can be used as a target for
your breakpoint.
For the last two years the
tracer or a board right seems to
be the proper placement for a
successful shot.
In team we missed several
easy spares the first game and
shot 968. It’s very easy to bowl
a bad game on the fresh at
nationals so we were pretty
satisfied with that.
After seeing our shot open
up to 15 to 10 we began bowling
very well and shot 1128 the
second game.
In our last game the back
ends got a hair tighter and a
couple of errant shots cost us
a shot at 1100. We ended up
shooting 1062 the last game
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for a 3158 team series, which
currently is in 55th place.
Our scores were Clint Dacy
621, Brad Hunter 566, David
Smith 596, Terry Taylor 693,
Brett Cooper 682.
In doubles we were fortunate
as it seemed that the
people who bowled the team
event before us were able to
adequately break down the
lanes and we all bowled pretty
well.
My doubles partner Hunter
shot 656 and I shot 676 for 1332
doubles score which is currently
in 106th place. We both felt
it could have been a lot more,
as I am sure everyone does, but
overall I think we were both
happy to have bowled well
together.
We were able to get deep
into the lane and bounce it off
the tracer down the lane at the
10th board and still able to get
it back to the pocket. Misses
left also skated to the hole so
we had a good amount of room
to play with.
With team and doubles a
success we were ready to go
into singles and have ourselves
a big all events score.
We crossed with David
Smith and Brett Cooper and
as always they both had solid
sets. Brett is like a machine
and he bowled well the whole
tournament. In doubles Brett
shot 642 and David shot 603 for
a 1245 series.
Unfortunately in our singles
event we caught a pair that
had previously had multiple
people throwing plastic so
there was oil everywhere and
we all struggled the first game
of singles with Brett being high
with 207 and everyone else
was below 185.
The ball I was throwing in
doubles was skidding too far
down the lane and every mistake
I made paid the ultimate
price. I split eight times in
two games for a score of 133
followed up by a 147.
I jokingly told my teammates
that it only took me 22
frames to get to 300. Everyone
else seemed to find their
groove in game two, but I
struggled for a 147 and well
on my way to my first sub 500
series in a long time.
Brett shot 633, David shot
612, and Brad had a nice couple
of games and ended with a 647
series.
Overall it was a great
experience and I look forward
to bowling nationals every
year. Maybe with a couple of
more years together we can
make a run at an eagle, or at
least pound the senior brackets
when David and Brad mature a
little more.
At Forum Bowl
Wallace wraps up 300/777,
Hoyle smashes 300/760
Brandon Wallace led the
high-set chase last week at Forum
Bowl with a power-packed
300-251-226 = 777 Sundowners
league showing.
Karen Hoyle dominated the
ladies with a blue-ribbon 213-247-
300 = 760 Twilight production.
Wallace and Hoyle shared
high-game honors as each recorded
award-winning perfectos.
FORUM HIGHS
Homer Dudley (no-tap) 300-821,
Sandra Rogers (no-tap) 252-680, Ricky
Ellis (no-tap, 4 games) 290-1115,
Whitney Herr (no-tap, 4 games) 244-
823, Chuck Walker 244-651.
Sandi Chappel 150-419, Michael
Rumey 233-581, Elaine Mason 224-608,
Eric Edwards 216-632, Ronceynius Neal
202-584, James Parsons 245-635, Pam
Griffin 205-545.
Mike Newton (4 games) 265-953,
Jamie Weaks (4 games) 236-866,
Tony Hodge 278-684, K.B. Empy 288-
730, Kristal Canales 204-555, Adam
Borcherding 246-641, Sylvia Wolk
173-428.
Chuck Mooney 247-632, Eva Lopez
254-533, Don Hoyle 257-731, Roberta
Haffner 232-621, Jeremy Allen 246-683,
Carolyn Perez 266-577, Rick Nagler
227-665, Amanda Turner 213-535.
At Interstate
Lindner lands 687
ROUND ROCK — Paul Lindner
led the scoring parade for the
week at Interstate Lanes with a
free-wheeling 216-215-256 = 687
Classic Trio session.
Youth bowler Alex Sumruld
paced the ladies with a lofty 219-
195-177 = 591 Summer Generation
Gap set.
INTERSTATE HIGHS
A. Salehesthehar 233-639, Rowena
Barfield 157-409, Ann Quinn 201-511,
Jerry Connoly 174-452, Fern Aguilar
141-344, Ron Gillis 279-651, Ann Quinn
169-464, Jose Montelongo 201-569, Lisa
Archuleta 158-460.
Bobby Harmel 265-611, Brenda
Walker 177-499, Richard Will 215-577,
Ann Shivers 170-489, Mark Quinn
254-671, Mindy Ventura 174-467,
Clay Julian 237-640, Jan Alderman
165-454.
David Bowman 206-562, Celena
Adkins 148-373, Joe Ramon 176-486,
Dana Scott 126-355, Todd Black 216-
613, Susan Black 157-430, Steve Traynor
225-606, Lisa Sumruld 166-391.
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