Weird STUFF!! It happened to me last night in our scratch league. We bowl second shift so sometimes there's still a great shot and other times it can be ugly.

Anyway, I was bowling against a friend and we had both found a great line to the pocket. About halfway through the game I went to him and jokingly said "hey, how about we just end this game in a tie?"  He agreed and we kept on striking through the ninth.

Before the tenth frame I asked him if he wanted to go first, or should we trade shots? We decided to trade shots. I went first, he went second, and so on. After I struck on the 12th ball I/we didn't celebrate until after he went Brooklyn and carried.

It was great fun, and I honestly wanted him to keep striking, because I wanted to be able to say that I was part of a rare thing when two guys bowling head-to-head both rolled 300 games against each other on the same game.

On a side note, we also tied the second game at 221, but an ugly split for me in the last frame of game 3 kept me from winning series, but I didn't care a bit. He won 757 to 743. I also didn't throw a single strike during warm-ups. I kept leaving the 10 pin, or a 7 pin, but decided to move left and swing the ball more and it ended up working. I used the Ultra Zone polished with Snake Oil.

Anyone else see this happen before? Just curious...




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Lane Carter, Strike Zone Pro Shops - Salt Lake City, Utah
Brunswick Amateur Staff
www.brunswickbowling.com

Congrats to you and your friend!

A few years ago, my teammate shot 300 and her opponent shot 299. That was the only point we won that game (scratch five person teams / match points).

Mike,

Surely a man of your talents could have gotten a 317. I, on the other hand, am a mere mortal so I had to stop at 300...




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Lane Carter, Strike Zone Pro Shops - Salt Lake City, Utah
Brunswick Amateur Staff
www.brunswickbowling.com

One of my previous teammates has had a 300 as well as several 700s and an 800 in a league last year.  His team lost more games than they won, including the ones where he shot 800 and 300.

my high series and 300 game we lost both the game and total wood as a team
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Was doing doubles pot bowling after league one night, and I shot 300.  My partner shot about 140 and we lost.  The part that is funny to me is about halfway through the game, he checked to see who the partners were, and then looked on the screen and comes over to me and says, we still have a chance.  I burst out laughing cuz this guy has 5 out of 6 frames as opens.  It really sucked at the time cuz it should have been an easy 50 bucks or so, but now I'm known as the guy who has shot 300 and lost.
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Let in the DOGS - I've got a HAMBONE for them!

To all the haters, get over it!

I subbed last night. The anchor on the team we bowled shot 300 first game and they lost by 86 pins.