This is Jen coming to you live from Strike-n-Spare! We are down a man tonight (Brandon pre-bowled) so the goal is to bowl as fast as we can and get out of here. Lane conditions are wet (that’s what she said) and there was a little difficulty in adjustments but I think we’re now getting hang of it.

WOO-HOO!! I just bowled a 245! My highest game ever! It was a close game against JDMC, we eeked out 2 points by 8 pins.

Now we are in the second game and have a lot of ground to make to up due to Brandon getting all makey-outty with his lady all of his second game. That’s gotta be the reason he would bowl a 159. Unfortunately, skills were not on our side this time. JDMC destroyed us by almost 100 pins. Maybe it had something to do with all of them bowling well above their averages and 3 out of 4 of us did not. That’s just a hypothesis, though.

It’s the start of the third game and the lanes seem much more normal now. You know how I can tell? I’m not getting 5 strikes in a row.

Bob here: OMG! Jen just bowled a 168 to make a series of 600!!!!! First 600 EVAR!

Back to Jen…

Okay, so we didn’t win the third game…oh wait, I spoke too soon.  We actually won the third game!  SOAL ended up winning 4 points and are still in solid 9th place.  Hey, we won the first half of the season, we wanted to give the other teams a chance to be a winner as well.

Well we weren’t able to pick up the win in the third game either but we won by enough in the first game that we still won overall total, picking up 3 points on the night. The snakes haven’t been doing so hot as of late and will probably fall to 9th or 10th place with next week’s standings. It’s a good thing that we won first place in the first half.

Bob was able to pick up three points, narrowly missing the bonus two points by only five pins. Andrew was able to pick up two and Brandon one while the leader, Jen, came away empty handed. With only four or five weeks left, it looks like it will come down to the wire again.

Don’t trashtalk if you can’t win. Also, don’t bowl shitty. Snakes lose the second by 15 but still up overall.

Roadkill crew became the roadkill after the snakes beat them by 61. Only bob and andrew got their point while jen and I fell a few pins short

Welcome to the wonderful world of live blogging. Stay tuned for live posts throughout the night.

This week’s bowling has been interesting and not in a good way. Because of a faulty lanes we are still in the middle if the second game. Every time someone throws on lane 43, it registers a gutterball on lane 44. Oy vey.

Ok, it looks like we’re going to get them to move us to lanes that work properly. Update soon.

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Now it’s the next day. Live blogging is fun, but once we moved lanes we were trying to hurry along: no time for shenanigans. Anyway. The lanes conspired against us, I am terrible at bowling, and we lost all three games. Arg.

Brandon, we were just bowling the blind, not bowling blind.  What happened to you?

This week we bowled the “blind” team aka we bowled against ourselves. In order to win our points, we had to bowl 90% of our team average, which meant that we had to bowl 610 or better scratch. The first game was a no brainer, we all bowled well, surpassing our needed score by 96 pins. The second game was a bit dicey. Brandon, the man with a 201 average decided that he was tired of putting up the big numbers and dropped a 134. He did not strike at all during the second game but he was able to get a mark in the last frame in order for us to win the second game by the skin of our teeth. Thanks for the contribution. By the time the last game came around, we figured out how to bowl and easily won it. Brandon got his groove back just in time to hang Bob in the pizza frame so we will be dining on pizza next week on Bob’s dime, again. Man, how many times has Bob had to pay? So the Snakes were able to not be one of those teams that loses to the blind. Whew, dignity is intact.

Oh yeah, did you notice that I put up the big scores this week? I beat all of the guys! Woo-hoo! Totally doing the booty shake!

Man, this week was tough. There were more ups and downs than episode of Behind the Music.  First game, no one made our average and we lost by 121 pins. Second game, we all made our average, had 5 straight snake attacks and won by 122 pins. Third game, only Andrew made his average and we sputtered to a halt, just 27 pins short of our opponents.

2 points overall.  Lame.

In addition, there were pizza frames on both the first (Bob) and second (Andrew) games, so we got to eat some pizza at half price for the two suckers.

Here are the scores:

Tonight was the last week of the first half of the Bill Porter Memorial League, the last chance to make a run at first place. Our awesome bowling last week and sweep of 7 points put us in second place coming into tonight. With two other teams tied with us for second and us one point out of first place, it was going to be a struggle. But it wasn’t just solely a battle with the the other teams, it was also a battle between Brandon and Andrew who were tied going into this week, and Bob, only three points behind them. Let the battle begin!!

We were teamed up with the Flying Pins, who had the same handicap as us, therefore, it was going to be a scratch game. We annihilated them in the first game beating them by over 100 pins. All four of us shot above our average and so Brandon and Andrew were still tied.

The second game was a different story, though. Both Bob and I fell apart and were each a little over 20 pins shy of our average. Brandon also failed to shoot his average. The only one of us that did was Andrew. Omigoodness, Andrew pulled into the lead! Because the three of us did not fare so well, we ended up giving the second game to the Flying Pins. Crap, we were hoping for a sweep in order to cinch first place. Now all we could do is hope that we win the third game and pray the other teams did not win 5 points.

The third game was a vast improvement and three out of four shot above our averages and we won the last game by 52 pins. Due to Andrew’s superior bowling skills and amount of trash-talking, Brandon couldn’t handle it and buckled under pressure. Andrew has triumphed and won the bet!!! Yeah Andrew!

Now, because of the closeness of the teams, we had to stick around and see how the other two teams fared against each other. BP’s House needed to win their third game big to come up with 3 points, and Chuck Bales came up big with a 247 to secure the overall against Abducted. With the third game in hand, we knew we were winner for the first half, which guaranteed us a chance to roll for first place in the league after the second half. We are a force to be reckoned with, I mean, really, we were the newbies on the league and now, they know they can’t mess with us or else we’ll strike with our fangs and our bowling balls! Tee-hee!

Go Team Snakes!!! HISSSS!!!

It’s getting close to the end of the first half, with next week being position round, so we knew we had to bowl well to close the gap between us and the teams ahead. Fortunately, we were able to bring our A+ game. Going up against Team 12, who was missing their third bowler and had to take his blind score, the Snakes struck again and again, with every member beating their average in every game, and 3 out of 4 getting their +50 bonus points. Brandon had nine in a row (aka “The Buffet”). I picked a 2-10 split (and came sooooo close on a bunch of others). I was hung in the third game pizza frame, so there will be pizza next week, courtesy of a bad split. We ended up beating Team 12 with our scratch score against their handicap — that’s how good this week was.