Page 4 | Thursday, June 24, 2010 | THE BOWLING NEWS <strong>The</strong> USBC Nationals as experienced by the Ballard’s <strong>Bowling</strong> 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 <strong>Bowling</strong> 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 <strong>Bowling</strong> Solutions #3 team has now been together <strong>for</strong> 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. <strong>The</strong> 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. <strong>The</strong> 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. Plastic balls are your worst Saturday June 26th 7:30 PM Check-in at 6:30 PM $20 Sweeper entry fee Mystery Score - 1st Game Strike Pot King and Queen Tickets • Mega-Shots Every Night Crazy Eights after Sweeper $5.00 entry fee - up to two re-entries COME JOIN THE FUN! Strike pot tickets every game All split conversions pay money enemy at nationals. <strong>The</strong>re 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. <strong>The</strong> tracer is a dash at about 45 to 50 feet down the lane that can be used as a target <strong>for</strong> your breakpoint. For the last two years the tracer or a board right seems to be the proper placement <strong>for</strong> 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 <strong>bowling</strong> 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 Mr. Bill’s Color Pin Sweeper Susan B. Koman Bowl <strong>for</strong> the Cure Sweeper A fi ve Dollar or more donation will receive a limited edition Mr. Bill Bottle Koozie! Also we will be raffl ing off a special pink Susan B. Koman <strong>bowling</strong> ball. Come join us <strong>for</strong> this great cause! Handicap 90% of 220 Ladies four-bagger pays $5.00 once a night. Men‛s fi ve-bagger pays $5.00 once a night. Will also pay out men‛s and women‛s high series each night - scratch/handicap Handicap-Scratch-Ladies Brackets $5.00 each Cross-Over Doubles $1.00 per person Mr. Bill 817-557-0749 Cell: 817-925-3892 2001 S. Great Southwest Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 972-641-4406 or 972-647-2275 <strong>for</strong> 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 <strong>for</strong>tunate as it seemed that the people who bowled the team event be<strong>for</strong>e 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 <strong>for</strong> 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 <strong>for</strong> a 1245 series. Un<strong>for</strong>tunately 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. <strong>The</strong> 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 <strong>for</strong> 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 <strong>for</strong> 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 <strong>for</strong>ward to <strong>bowling</strong> 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 <strong>for</strong> 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. 3101 N. IH 35 Round Rock, TX 78664 (Exit 256 N.) 512-255-8826 (Lanes) 512-255-8619 (Fax) www.interstatelanes.net
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