I also felt pretty bad for the guy I was matched up against. He's a friend of mine and one of the best bowlers in the association. He beat me series but I got him two out of three individual games and didn't deserve to beat him either time.
First game, we go to the 10th tied. First ball, he pures it and strikes. I throw one of my better balls of the night and also strike. Second shot, I throw it too fast, almost spin it, and get a light trash strike where the 7-pin is the last thing to go and it just kind of faints off the lane. Jim gets up, drills the pocket but leaves a 4-pin.
Third game, same basic scenario. Needing to go XXX to lock him out, I do just that on two terrible shots where I should have left split-split and one mixer. (He beat me in the second game 260-something to 190.) I apologized to him afterward. There's no way I should have been anywhere close to him.
Jess
Edited on 2/25/2009 11:54 AM