Joe as you state, a prominent and lost part is that he is a genuinely nice "kid". His parents have raised 2 wonderful sons, and the father is a supportive, but not pushy Dad.

As to his High School average, that is straight from the ECIC records, and was published in Saturday's Buffalo Evening News, and headlined in the bowling column. Also stated he shot 279 in the final game of the Festival of Lights Tourney in Niagara Falls, which propelled his teAm to a 13 pin win (total 6 games) over my sons school to win the tourney. (sidenote, my son was 2nd in singles for the tourney).

As to the traveling youth league, they use variations of patterns at MANY different houses throughout the region, and yes, his average is lower in that league, but still in the high 220's. Even though it is a competitive league, it is by far a more "fun" environment than the High School league.

Believe this, I have watched him personally bowl against Brad Angelo, trading shots, using different lines, starting at the twig and going as deep as capping the gutter crossing the 5th arrow! This youngster is GOOD!

I am proud to have gotten to know him, his brother and father through bowling, and if anyone has any doubt about any of this, please come to WNY, watch, and maybe bowl some with myself and others for fun.

As for Tracker798, this invite is also for you. Since you have no profile, percentages are that you are not from WNY. If you are in WNY, let me know when we can get together so as to watch "young" Westfield and his talents.
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Pass on my congratulations.  I can only dream of accomplishing such a feat.  Invite him to join the website.  For my real feelings check my post "I'm Mad".
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Old bowlers never die, we just don't score as often

That is amazing that at that age he has so much talent. Hopefully he can keep up the great bowling and move on to become a great one in the pros. If that's what he wants to do with his life.

Half my age and twice the bowler. lol. More power to him.

And to all of you who dont believe, or want to talk about the wall he must be on....why don't you stop being jealous of his talent and state the obvious. The kid is dam good and deserves the proper credit for what he can do.
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You can always hit em hard when you've got the balls

Lefties are the only people in their right minds.

no1bucsfan

all i can say is wow. to be that young and put up those kind of scores is pretty amazing. congrats to him and i hope he keeps up the good scores.

I have only been averaging 252.1 the last few weeks in practice.

And it's taken me 4 years to get to this point.

Of course I do most of mine when I'm alone.  Also when I get done with a game most of my scores have different colors on the score sheets.  I only use that change score thing a few times a game when if I'd tried I really would have made the spares.

At the pace I'm improving 4 years and 252.1 I think since I ONLY averaged 200 in my first year that at this pace and with that little score thing I should be at about 301.7 at the end of the next 4(only extrapolating at a straight line improvement).  If I start practicing more even higher(geometric improvement)!

REgards,

Luckylefty
PS I may be pullin a little leg here!