For what its worth, here's our rundown of this trip.

I had a little bit of car trouble, got to the Hoinke about 11:30 Sat.

We shot the 2:30 doubles.

Me 164 - 174 - 189.  Not a very stellar performance.

I started the first game using my DT Thing.  Shot appeared to be acaross 20 out to about 12.  First 2 shots went brooklyn, ball was hooking up about 35'.

I switched to a higher RG ball, Primetime.  I got about 1' more skid, just enough to leave 4-6-7, 4-6-10.

Switched to plastic XXXL in about the 6th frame after going spare buzzard, spare.  Shot straight up 10 with decent reaction, just couldn't carry the corners.

Kendog was using the Thing Returns, had a playable shot across 18 out to 10.  Great length, booming backend.  No room for error though, a little slow it was thru the beak, a little fast left washouts.

Thongprincess and Livespive had even less of of a shot.

Sunday I shot doubles again, 9:00 AM, fresh oil.  Used the Thing in practice, same results as before.  Ball was just hooking up too early.

Switched back to the plastic, played up 9 board.  Shot 222 - 241 - 189.

Thought I had things figured out until the 3rd game when the wheels fell off again.

The people that were scoring were playing deep with a ton of revs keeping the breakpooint around the 12 at around 40'.

Thongprincess shot teams with a group from Hamtramck, Mi, 1200 squad.  2d shift on the lanes.

She's a lefty, shot for her was around 9-10 with firm speed.  She was just eating the pocket up, wsn't getting the carry she deserved.

She shot 193-211-201.  Last game should have been a big game except for 3 solid 7s.

I wouldn't really call it a reverse block, the outsides were dry enough to play, you just couldn't hit the outside early with any kind of swing.

Oh well, there's always next year.  Hopefully we can have afew more people show up.  May have picked up 20 new ballreviews members from the Hamtramck group.
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~~~SrK - Have balls, will travel

1st law of combat, "Bullets always have the right of way"