While shooting to take out only 1 stick for a triplicate, you would be purposely not doing your very best on that particular shot, no matter how you look at it.
Throwing your very best on each and every shot is the way the game is intended to be played, regardless of how one tries to rationalize a situation to fit their own ego.
So even though, as someone has already mentioned, you wouldn't be detrimentally skewing your total average over the course of many games during the season, you would be looked at by quite a few of your fellow competitors as someone who places individual goals over the integrity of the game, which is your case, since you made the decision to go for a trivial triplicate.
May you have learned a valuable lesson from this experience.
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Regards,
BowlingWolf