If you look back on the board....probably a year or even longer someone had a post about bowling memories. I replied to that, but I figured this was a good chance to bring something as special as this back as a topic.

What is your most memorable moment in bowling? It could be your first 300 game, your first 600 set, you first 800 set even, OR you could go the route I am going to go---mine is a bowling moment spent with my father and some good friends.

It was probably my 2nd year bowling. My father had been bowling since the mid 70s. A buddy of mine had just finished his 1st year of bowling. We were all set to go and bowl in our local city tournament. The first time for me and my buddy. Since we were both really new to the game, and reactive had only come out a year or two prior our averages were low. Before that tournament we had used urethane, but all of us invested in a reactive ball about a month before the tournament.
My average at the time was 165 or so, my buddies 155-160. My dad and my buddy's dad both averaged about 175-180. So as you can see we had handicap on our side.

I cannot really remember our scores right off, but I do remember roughly. A friend named Willie Brown bowled 712, My dad and Donnie's dad each bowled 650-660s, I had 640s and Donnie bowled right around 600. Our ending score was 3495.

Up to that point my dad had not won so much as a league championship, same with Donnie's dad. So we were thrilled that we were in the lead. ONE PROBLEM though!!!!! There were 2 squads remaining after ours. We were so excited and so nervous at the same time.....we kept calling and calling to find out if we had been knocked off.

It was not until the 11pm news that we found we had won. Being able to win a championship so early in Donnie and my bowling careers was special, but being able to share that with your fathers was totally AWESOME.

It is THE time in bowling I will never forget. Sharing something that special with my dad was priceless. He is still alive, and still bowling. He is the person that got me into bowling at the age of 16. Bowling was something for him and I to do together. Add to that winning a city tournament, something that could never be taken away from us. No matter how good or bad of bowlers we were at the time, we accomplished something that can only happen once a year.

WELL, there you have it, that is my bowling story.


Lets see what yours is!



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Mine would have to be when I got to bowl with my two older brother's and my father for my first couple years in men's league there were also other family members bowling with us and close friends of the family as well. With my father no longer around and both brothers living in different areas then I do that would have to be it. Next would have to be my one and only 300 game.
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Seeing a friend of mine shoot her first 300.  I was so much happier for her than I could be for anything I've done or could do.  As much effort and desire as she puts into bowling, seeing that 12th ball clear the deck was probably one of the coolest things I've seen.
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Two memories as well for me. The first would be my senior year of high school when I competed in the state Coca Cola tournament at Westgate Lanes in Brockton MA. After qualifying in 3rd my father and I went back the next day to bowl the next 8 game head to head competition. I finished 2nd overall and won $500 in scholarship money, averaging 210 for the tournament with a Columbia yellow dot. The kicker would be the following year when I went to my first college conference match and see that the winner of that year's tournament was bowling for Western New England College and he remembered the first and last match we had against each other (we split 1-1)...

My second memory happened in the fall of 1990 during my sophomore year at UMass Lowell. Missing the team van to go to a conference match in Newburgh, NY, I drove myself 3 and 1/2 hours to the bowling center and beat the team van there by 45 minutes. After beginning the day with a 175 game I proceeded to bowl 220 and 290 in the team event for 685, and then reeled off another 682 in the doubles match. My coach shook his head but was very happy to see me average 227 for the day, as was I...

Matt

Edited on 5/12/2004 11:46 PM

Ex, I feel the same way.  My dad hasn't seen my bowl either of my 3 300s. That is one thing I really want to do with him being the one that taught me the game and such.
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