Another week with two sharing the top spots...

Week 16 - End of First Half - December 20, 2014

Congratulations to ED TROICKE and JEFF LIND - both earning Bowler-of-the-Week status with their top notch bowling.  Ed shot 289-777 and Jeff shot 269-704 to earn these honors.

Other top bowlers included: Josh Kendall 230-620, Brian Gawlowski 215, Jack Fitzpatrick 214, Dean Heald 208, Ted Hudson 224-612, Liz Pratt 226-624, Matt Hoyt 252-600, Alice Hudson 183, Lynne Weir 180-514 and Ken Comtois 213-614.


Standings for week 16 can be seen HERE!

Week 17 - December 27, 2014

Two bowlers again this week reached the 700 mark! Congratulations to JOSH KENDALL 268-769 and JEFF LIND 247-701 both earning the Bowler-of-the-Week kudos.

Other top bowlers included: Liz Pratt 213-614, Matt Hoyt 212, Lynne Weir 181-502, Jeanette Wiley 170, Julie Lind 180, Jack Fitzpatrick 205, Jim Wedro 222, Ed Troicke 274-670, Freddie Wedro 166, and Ted Hudson 234-635.

After the games on December 20th, Jim Wedro and his team secured FIRST PLACE for the first half.  Stats for team standings are reset for the next 16 weeks.  We will continue the handicap process of the difference between the two teams bowling each other.  This is the most fair for all teams.

The first night of the second half was quite exciting with Jim Wedro's team players shooting top-notch scores leading them to take all four points from Ted's team.  

Standings for Week 17 can be seen HERE!

Two Weeks - Three Top Bowlers!

Jeff poses with long-time friend Liz
after earning Bowler-of-the-Week
for week 14!

  We start off with Week 14 - December 6th!  

Congratulations to JEFF LIND by earning the Bowler-of-the-Week kudos.  Jeff shot 237-691 to take top honors!

Other top bowlers included: Josh Kendall 202, Ed Troicke 203, Bruce Ottmer 186, Julie Lind 163, Brian Gawlowski 236-594, Jack Fitzpatrick 256-633, Audrey Wright 186-500, Mary Magee 139-391, Freddie Wedro 162-405, Ted Hudson 245-666, Liz Pratt 221 and Matt Hoyt 211.

See the standing sheet HERE for other details on week 14!

WEEK 15 - December 13th...

Ted and Ed shared Bowler-of-the-Week honors
with their scores of 719 (Ted) and 718 (Ed)

and...Ed kept us on our toes
as he shot the first 10 in game three!

Other top bowlers include: Mary Magee 131, Freddie Wedro 157, Dean Heald 220, Brian Gawlowski 221-596, Jack Fitzpatrick 204, Josh Kendall 245-642, Kay Gawlowski 166, Liz Pratt 220-645, Audrey Wright 182, Lynne Weir 199-532, Bruce Ottmer 172 and Ken Comtois 236-634.

The lanes were good for many of our bowlers tonight which is really good for confidence on the lanes.  We have just about completed the first half of our season and most all of us are pleased that we have made the move to Olympic for bowling this year.

Coming up on Saturday - December 20th - we will start bowling at 6:00 pm! This will help us be able to enjoy our dinner, desserts and gifts.  George promises us a great spread!  For this event we are not able to cover beverages to save on money (however, we will provide them at the end of the season) so you are all on your own for that. The plan is to bowl the first game, move to the higher lane numbers for our meal and gift sharing and then go back to finish bowling. Please bring your $5 (and $10 for any guests) to Jim before we start bowling clearly stating that it is for the party (and not jackpots - that goes in a different pocket)!

We hope that everyone participates in the gift exchange - you aren't required to though.  If you bring a gift, you may take a gift.  Everyone will get a number and choose their gift in that order.  We will also allow one steal on your turn only.  It promises to be a good time!

Now, back to business... there was quite an animated discussion again this week about the handicap process.  No matter what percentage we use to handicap, it will most likely end up with the same results.  So it was decided that we would continue to handicap the difference between the teams for this season and evaluate it at the end of the year.  This is the first time we have had a team with such high averages.  It happened only because of the way folks decided that they weren't going to bowl with us this year and how the new bowlers were assigned.  This was the only team that could take the new bowlers. Let's hope that this system will work well for the second half.

Look for the standing sheets for WEEK 15 HERE!!!  See you on Saturday!

Ed Troicke Takes Top Spot Again!

Showing Dad 'da money!

Ed Troicke is sitting in the Bowler-of-the-Week seat again this week.  Ed shot 258-721 for this honor.

Other bowlers topping the charts include: Julie Lind 200, Jim Weir 229, Jack Fitzpatrick 257-654, Jim Wedro 224-624, Jeff Lind 245-641, Lynne Weir 190-512, Freddie Wedro 167, Ted Hudson 219-610, Charlie Magee 201-571, Kay Gawlowski 148, Liz Pratt 212-601, Matt Hoyt 234-632, Rebecca Hoyt 160, and Ken Comtois 211.

Look at all those 600+ series!!! Nice bowling night for quite a few of our bowlers! Congrats to everyone for a great night!

Thanks to all who offered to bring desserts for the Christmas Party on December 20th.  Remember it's just $5 per bowler and $10 per guest.  Kids under 12 are free.

Due to a lot of recent conversations, it was decided that we really needed to change the way we handicap our teams.  Jim Wedro's team is packed average wise, so we have changed the handicapping from 100% of the difference between the team average and 750 to handicapping 100% of the difference between the two teams competing.  Doing it this way, both teams will start off even (ie. with the same team average).  This new handicapping process starts with this week.  No weeks prior will be changed. At the end of the season, we will review this once again.

A reminder for those who may have holiday events on Saturday evenings when you will miss bowling, we encourage you to pre-bowl sometime during the week (or before/after regular league bowling) so that your team will not suffer due to your absence.  If you have any questions about pre-bowling, please see one of the league officers.

That's it for this week.. Check out the standing sheets HERE!!