Post by: E_V on April 09, 2010, 02:26:08 AM
Team – 2:30 on 4/3, lanes 19-20
I threw a Bounty Hunter Pearl drilled 5 x 4 with a small hole up and in from my axis to control the back end a little more. The surface was a 2000 pad by hand. This is the same ball I used a few months ago on the fresh at the USBC Masters, also at the stadium, and had a lot of success there.
I looked around 8-10 for all three games of team, getting the ball to around 4-6 at the break point. I never really had to move and shot 247-202-245 – 694, and our team posted 3088. Not bad but we all felt like we left some pins out there. I know I whiffed a ten pin, had 4 ring tens and a couple solid nines.
Singles and Doubles – 5:30 on 35-36 and 33-34
For doubles and singles we scouted our pairs out for a while before we bowled and we saw lots of rev rate and surface on our doubles pair, and two teams of probably 140 average bowlers on our singles pair. The odd part though is that the guys on our doubles pair started around 12 at the arrows with a lot of surface, but never really got left of 18 or so.
In the four shots of practice we saw tons of hook, but some push downlane. I went through my Lunatic and Bounty Hunter Pearl before settling on my Break Point Pearl (drilled 5 ½ x 5, box finish) in the 5th frame playing around 22 at the arrows. After games of 237 and 244, with my partner adding 259 and 279 we were on pace to take the lead. With lots of good shots the last game, and chasing the oil into about 26 and both of us doubling in the tenth we ended up with 1507, taking the lead by 9. Here is a link to the story on bowl.com:
http://www.bowl.com/news/xmlburner.jsp?xa=./webapps/ROOT/news/main/data/040510VermilyeaandMersch.xml
After all the excitement we finally got going with singles and as we expected this pair was almost ten tighter. I switched to my Break Out and just followed the oil inside from there to end up with 652, and a 2104 all events score. I had an amazing ball reaction with three different balls on three different pairs.
I also have to add that while bowling a squad at the Bowlers Journal Tony LaCaze and I put up a doubles effort of 1972. Tony shot a blistering 1020 and I added 952 throwing a mix of the Lunatic and Break Out, both at 4000. It was an amazing weekend and I couldn’t be happier. A big thanks goes out to Eric Thomas and his team at 900 Global for making some amazing stuff!
Erik Vermilyea
Post by: cosmo on April 09, 2010, 10:43:39 AM
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Post by: 230-n-up-or-bust on April 09, 2010, 11:07:59 AM
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Post by: dogman666 on April 09, 2010, 11:19:12 AM
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Post by: E_V on April 09, 2010, 12:48:45 PM
If anyone has any other question about nationals or the shots at the Bowlers Journal or BTM just ask, I spent a lot of time around there as well last weekend.
Erik
Post by: ggtrey on April 09, 2010, 01:36:05 PM
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Post by: psaunders300 on April 09, 2010, 02:40:51 PM
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Thanks,
Paul Saunders
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Post by: rvmark on April 09, 2010, 03:58:03 PM
Mark
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Post by: Tex on April 10, 2010, 12:50:51 PM
Congratulations on your success in Reno. Great job and thanks for the feedback.
Edited on 4/11/2010 0:01 AM
Post by: 025900 on April 10, 2010, 01:04:42 PM
Earth Ball
Link
Break S75
Brak Point Pearl
Break Pearl
Bounty
Lunatic
Just ordered a:
BH Pearl
Break Out
This equipment fits my game perfectly. Thanks to 900G for making a good quality product. Also Eric Thomas has always been helpful when I have contacted him.
Thanks for posting your scores and great bowling.
Post by: E_V on April 12, 2010, 04:16:14 PM
My Bounty Hunter Pearl is drilled pin up, as is the rest of my equipment. I have a unique axis point (6 1/4 straight over) and I track over the middle finger and thumb on my first flair ring. If I drill anything pin down it tends to just bounce down the lane. I do think in general though that pin down layouts will be better out there this year since the key seems to be consistant mid lane roll and not back end recovery.
Thanks again everyone!!!!
Erik
Post by: Tex on April 13, 2010, 11:19:53 PM