**UPDATE IS FURTHER DOWN IN THE THREAD**

Just had an unbelievable night in our draft scratch league. Together with my teammates, we set what a couple of the old-timers in the house tonight believe is the highest three-man game ever rolled in our city. I shot 245, our middle bowler shot 278 and our anchor shot his first 300 for an 823 team set.

What is interesting about this is that, as a draft scratch league, we are not a stacked team. I entered the league at 194, and entered tonight with a 200 average (left tonight with a 203). Jeff, our middle guy, entered with a 198 and left tonight with a 207. Our anchor averages almost 220 and has bowled several regionals and TQRs, but had never shot 300.

We also shot 2120 for a three-game set. I was clean for 29 frames -- I missed the baby split conversion in the sixth frame of my 245 -- and shot 673 overall.

I never would have dreamed I would be part of any kind of scoring record (at least not a high-scoring record...maybe a low-scoring record -- ha!). But as soon as we were done a bunch of guys started telling us we'd shot a tremendous number and someone went looking for the association record book.

We had a lot more area to play with than usual tonight, that's for sure, but I'm still happy about it.

It didn't really sink in until after we finished. None of us paid any attention to the running score during the game. I was more interested in whether my teammates would both shoot 300 (Jeff lost his in the eighth). I'd never had a teammate shoot 300 before while I was there. I've had them shot at me before, but never with me.

Also, I now have 10 consecutive games in this league over 200, which is by far a personal record.

Balls used:

Me -- Break S75 for all games, Break Pearl on the fill ball in the second game only, Lane #1 XXXL Starburst for two 10-pins
Jeff -- Track Animal for all shots
Danny -- Ebonite Gamebreaker, spiral viz-a-ball for right-side spares

Jess

Edited on 7/24/2009 6:12 AM

Edited on 8/22/2009 5:04 AM

very nice Jess, hope this success continues on
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Great bowling, Jeff. Congrats!
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"None are so blind as those who will not see."

Really nice rolling!  Always love to hear good stories like this for a change.  
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Scott

Thanks everybody.

I think the thing I'm happiest about here is that this is a draft league, so it was impossible to get three sky-high averages onto the same team at once.

Danny had one of the highest entering averages (214), so he was automatically made a team captain and drafted Jeff (198) and me (194). He drafted us because we like to have fun and don't get bent out of shape if we bowl badly every now and then.

Together, we had the LOWEST aggregate average of any of the 13 teams in the league. But we're sitting in either first or second right now and a big part of that is attitude.

Jeff has rolled 279, 289 and 278 over his last three weeks, Danny is bowling probably the best he's ever shot and I'm definitely at my highest average for this many games (203 for 24) ever.

And by the way, that S75 is a helluva ball.

Also, thanks go to Rick Leong (tenpinspro on this site) for his help in coaching me via long-distance.

Jess

Update...

Not only was it a city record, it was also, unbelievably, a new record for three-man teams in our entire association. Here's the link to the honor board for our association:

http://www.alabamabowling.com/caba/records.shtml

They misspelled my last name (it's "Nicholas," not "Nichols") but I really don't care.

Also, we won the league despite having the lowest entering average. But we didn't stay the lowest. Jeff picked up to 204 and I finished with a 205, an 11-pin improvement. On our Tuesday night league, I finished with 215. Pretty much all of the summer was spent rolling 900G/AMF stuff.

Jess

p.s.: Note the disclaimer at the top of the link -- record-keeping in the past in this association has been spotty, but we're the highest of what they've been able to find so far. I would not be surprised if we eventually get knocked out of that spot when someone finds older records, but we've got it for the time being.

Edited on 8/22/2009 5:10 AM