Post by: s_hemker on January 22, 2009, 11:33:16 AM
my first 300 (and only one so far) was in a local singles tournament with a top prize of $1,000 where you bowl 6 games and keep your best 5 bowling on a different pair each game...my first game was the 300 then followed it up with first 2 strikes second game, nice split open, and banged out for a 262, so 800 is a definite possibility, only to follow that game up with a 161. following that game i throw a 279 so i really hate myself for that 161. then after that throw another 160+ game and follow that with a 234...well lets just say i placed 3rd in the tourney winning $200...i lost out by 4 pins!!!! 4 pins was the difference between $200 and $1,000
Post by: s_hemker on January 22, 2009, 07:49:29 PM
Post by: Spider Ball Bowler on January 22, 2009, 08:07:19 PM
We bowled a few games, and my first game I shot 300.
No HJ, No BJ,nothing.....we dated for a few months after that, but I mean come on...it was a 300!!
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Post by: Xcessive_Evil on January 22, 2009, 08:10:11 PM
I will add that it was 2 weeks after a 6-month deployment however.
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Post by: Elite_Digger on January 22, 2009, 08:10:29 PM
My second 300 game (just last fall) came 18 years later and was alot more relaxing and subdued....oh and I threw good shots for all the strikes and had a much better series (757)... =)
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Post by: johns811 on January 22, 2009, 08:55:37 PM
I know somebody who bowled a 300 without shooting 600.
Post by: mumzie on January 23, 2009, 12:07:29 AM
I know of an older lady in town who shot 300 in her senior league.
After the game was done, and the excitement died down, she turned to her teammate and said "maybe now, someday, I'll finally shoot a 600 series"...
She'd never had one - and didn't that day, either.
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Post by: Jay on January 23, 2009, 12:45:51 AM
Post by: s_hemker on January 23, 2009, 06:33:04 AM
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A blind man can shoot 300, we have a 162 average bowler who throws the ball 13mph and drops it before the foul line shoot 300 2 weeks ago. So I believe the only true honor scores left are 800 and 900.
was he left handed? because that would explain it...j/k
either way a 300 is still an honor score, because it takes some nerves of steel to complete it (at least with all "good" shots), especially if it's the first one!
Post by: tarheel_bk on January 23, 2009, 06:37:56 AM
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Post by: bowlingnut07 on January 23, 2009, 06:40:43 AM
but about a guy in our mens scratch league
anyways
he starts off with the first 5 and his girfriend walks in
and starts yellin and screamin at him like ive never seen
shes sooo mad as she found out he was cheatin on her.
so he goes and bowls # 6 comes back and she starts in again
and next thing u know shes starts beatin the crap out of him . he ends up with a bloody nose and his face all scratched up meanwhile the whole time he keeps throwin strikes and ends up shootin 300. something ill never forget it . it was like each frame was a round in a boxing match. lol
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Post by: B-Team 300 on January 23, 2009, 08:27:05 AM
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Post by: Danes07 on January 23, 2009, 08:30:37 AM
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my first 300 was in a high school match. in the 9th frame the opposing coach sat next to me and kept saying "You ever done this before? must be nervous, would hate to leave a ten pin right now huh?". i struck out, but my team still lost by a pin, ONE PIN!!!!! the other team (these are 4 man teams) avg. 245. i thought it was quite funny
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I would have lost it on the coach. Trying to play mind games with a kid bowling for an opposing team...thats pretty low.
On monday, the guy that owns the house shot 300 his last game. He had spent a lot of time that night on the roof of the bowling alley clearing off snow and ice as the roof had developed a leak. Then he comes in a shoots decent the first 2 games and then shoots 300 the final game....with 2 domino strikes in there for good measure.
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Post by: B-Team 300 on January 23, 2009, 08:34:35 AM
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my first 300 was in a high school match. in the 9th frame the opposing coach sat next to me and kept saying "You ever done this before? must be nervous, would hate to leave a ten pin right now huh?". i struck out, but my team still lost by a pin, ONE PIN!!!!! the other team (these are 4 man teams) avg. 245. i thought it was quite funny
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I would have lost it on the coach. Trying to play mind games with a kid bowling for an opposing team...thats pretty low.
On monday, the guy that owns the house shot 300 his last game. He had spent a lot of time that night on the roof of the bowling alley clearing off snow and ice as the roof had developed a leak. Then he comes in a shoots decent the first 2 games and then shoots 300 the final game....with 2 domino strikes in there for good measure.
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i would have lost it on her, but i was only a sophomore and it being my first chance at 300, i was quite nervous and my mind was racing, not until after did my coach remind me that i should have cussed her out of the alley
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Post by: Oskuposer on January 23, 2009, 08:41:38 AM
The funny thing about this, is that this was the first time my mom or dad did not come to a tournament and as an experiment it worked lol. to this day neither of them have seen a 300.
(Forest Gump Voice On)My second sanctioned 300 was memorable too it was a saturday afternoon league with an oil shot like a box of chocolates(Forest Gump voice Off). lol I shoot 178 193 167 and the final game i was bowling this girl that i had to give 60 pins to. She started with the front 3 and i am like
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Post by: gsback on January 23, 2009, 08:54:54 AM
The first 300 I threw I had the pleasure of doing so when I was bowling with my 9 year old son in a Youth/Adult league. He was so excited....probably more than me.
Sad thing is the second time I shot a 300, the next was below 200. Oh well.
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Post by: CharlieBrown on January 23, 2009, 10:07:44 AM
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My 2nd had a good story. I was on a date with a chick for the first time, and since we lived far from one another, our meeting place was a bowling alley.
We bowled a few games, and my first game I shot 300.
No HJ, No BJ,nothing.....we dated for a few months after that, but I mean come on...it was a 300!!
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Post by: bgballer42 on January 23, 2009, 10:44:46 AM
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Post by: blkjk21 on January 23, 2009, 10:53:13 AM
My dad doesn't bowl anymore, and I'm just waiting for one of my sons to return the favor.
Post by: se7en on January 23, 2009, 11:03:49 AM
I had two shots go through the nose where the pins toppled over and a couple brooklyns.
Around the 9th frame a crowd started to gather. This house had about 20 300 games thrown in it throughout the history. I buried 3 flush shots in the 10th to get it. Was pretty exciting.
Yet was one of my worse games performance wise. I've thrown so many 250+ games that were leaps better. That's bowling for ya.
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Post by: BBU on January 24, 2009, 05:08:26 AM
My second 300 game: 162-300-226 Flash Force
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Post by: ebo4life on January 24, 2009, 05:51:27 AM
I walked into a house ive never bowled in before and since I just recently moved next to this house I decided Id try bowling it. well the league I decided to bowl jn has 7 established pros in it so I went in a little nervous. There was one team looking for a bowler so I offered my services and the first game ever in the house I shot my first 300! All of a sudden everybody in the house including the pros started asking bout me---I wrote it off as just a fluke but then proceeded to throw first 8 in second game!!! Ended night throwing 777,
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Post by: NOTHUMB on January 24, 2009, 10:19:52 AM
About 7 years ago, a buddy and I had a friendly bet going---$5/game---$20 for a sweep.
1st night of the league---I shoot 230+, 230+, 300. $20. Now I was a sub---so not bowling close to every week. But I had bowled a few nights here and there. But he and I hadnt bet. So then, a little later in the season we catch a night where we are close to each other again.
We do the same $5/game, $20 for a sweep. I bowled terrible the first 2 games. 193 (which won), 160+. So we are even for money....
The last game he comes down about the 7th or 8th frame looking prouder than ever. "Looks like you'll be paying me tonight---I shot 268". I point at my scoreboard. He just says "You have got to be kidding me". I finish the 300. He disappears for about 5 minutes. He comes back---and he pays me---with $5 of pennies......
The night of the 2nd 300 in that league, something else happened. I had been throwing very few strikes. I struck on the fill ball of game 2. At the time, my best friend and his buddy had shown up. I told them they werent allowed to leave because I was on a string---a 1 bagger. So they stood there and we talked the whole last game---while I continued to string. My dad came in, in about the 3rd frame. He says in about the 6th frame---well Im going to go to the bathroom and hit the road. I said, "You know, you cant change anything on a string. Id hate for you to go to the bathroom now and have my string end". So they all stayed and I finished the job. I thought that was kind of comical.
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Post by: JohnP on January 24, 2009, 10:49:54 AM
My first (and only, so far) 300 was shot in the summer of '73 in Beaumont, TX. Lacquer finished lanes that played best inside the third arrow, using a Brunswick Black Diamond in a scratch doubles league. The center's owner had drilled the Black Diamond for me and convinced me to move inside, which I had been practicing. I had only recently shot my first 700 series, so when I started with 248 and 236 my thoughts were on doing well enough to have another 700. After the first six all I thought was that I'd really have to mess up not to have a 700. In the seventh or eighth frame I tripped a 4 pin, the only shot that wasn't packed, and started thinking 300. After the ninth the owner came over to watch, and I went back to talk to him. I told him I thought I'd move back out to the first arrow for the tenth frame. He almost had a coronary, I still can't believe he thought I really would. The first shot in the tenth was no problem, but when time came to throw the second ball my knees were shaking so bad I almost couldn't pick the ball up. Still managed to pack the final two for the 300. Then the owner told me I had just set a new city record high 3 game series, 784, beating the old record by 9 pins. Not long after that the owner sold the center and the new owners came in and blocked the lanes. As far as I know (I moved away in the spring of 1974) I still hold the city record for a series bowled on unblocked lanes. -- JohnP
Post by: David Lee Yskes on January 24, 2009, 12:03:19 PM
Well i decided to bring out my old El Nino, and got a practice lane and was feeling pretty good about my reaction. Well it was the second shift of the tourny but we ended up with fresh lanes!!! I start out first game going up 10, and have the first couple strikes and a few more, by the 9th frame of course everyone was getting quiet, and i flush my 10th, 11th one, i tug it and it goes brooklyn and i get a trip 6!!! and flush the 12th,,, That was the only time i've had everyone who was bowling in the tourny come up and high-five me and give me congrats.... Because after that, the house went from a super hard shot, to completely blocked....
The other special part was my mom happend to come watch me bowl and was so happy for me that she was crying.. which also happens to be the only time she's seen me bowl a 300....
now for a good story about someone shooting 300, a friend of mine Jeff Clear, was pot bowling someone and shoots 299 against said guy, and is like come on i was just in the zone and bla bla bla, and gets this guy to go double or nothing the next game, and proceeds to shoot 300 lol.
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Post by: Juggernaut on January 26, 2009, 08:36:53 AM
Next week rolls around and he bring the old Hammer. Not really wanting to use it for a whole set ( because it didn't fit me all that well), I start out with my reactive ball, which was over reacting from the get-go. In the tenth frame, I pick up the old Hammer and say " What could I hurt now, it couldn't be any worse".
First shot went WAY light, so I moved my feet10 boards right for the fill shot. Ball hit weakly and left a weak 7 pin ( I'm a righty).
Next game, I move two more boards right ( out into the dry ) and pipe the old Hammer right up the 7 board. It made a small arc to the pocket and carried a light shaker. I thought "well, not impressive, but I think I'll go ahead and throw it until it doesn't work", so I continued.
Frames two and three were more of the same, clipping the headpin and carrying light mixers. Not trusting that, I made another two board adjustment in the fourth frame. Feet on twelve, ball out over the five board, POW High flush, ten in the pit. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Not really trusting, or believing, I just told myself don't fix what isn't broken, so I continued to throw the ball the same as best I could, and it continued to strike. Then came the tenth frame.
First ball came clean off my hand, felt like I got a little extra on it, but it settled into the pocket a touch high and rolled the four pin. First ball down.
Second shot seemed to hang just a bit, but the follow through was good and the ball was on line. Settled into the pocket lightly and carried a hard swisher. Second ball down.
Third shot and I was so nervous you could hear my teeth chattering, or at least it felt that way. My friend spoke up and said "Just do what you've been doing and don't think about it", so I tried, but I felt weak and the ball seemed to weigh 20lbs. I got to the line SOMEHOW, and released the ball early with about 2/3 the revs I normally have, and about two boards inside my mark and all I can say is THANK GOD FOR URETHANE! That old Hammer just laid there, a frozen rope to the pocket. The last thing I saw was the five pin sliding over into the seven pin for my 300.
I've shot a couple more since then, but that first time will always be in my memory. The thrill, the excitement, the relief.
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Post by: MikeIII on January 26, 2009, 04:07:32 PM
My latest 300 I threw on a broken leg. I had rolled my right ankle 2 weeks prior, Xrays were negative but the pain persisted so I went for an MRI. That was on a Friday, Tuesday I bowled the 300 and weds I got word I fractured my shin bone. I'll use that as the excuse for the 161 follow up game after the 300. It really wasn't an excuse I could barely walk on it. I missed 3 weeks total and was back out there.
Post by: echidapus on January 26, 2009, 07:05:42 PM
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Post by: BT808 on January 27, 2009, 09:10:31 PM
My first was in a 4 game block
186-180-300-170 WOO!
To make it even unbelieveable, I picked up a ball that was just sitting on the Pro Shop counter before the 3rd game just to see how it fit. It was the owner/pro shop guys ball... He tells me to "throw it if you want". I proceed to shoot 300 that game never having thrown the ball before in my life!
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