Yes, in addition to bowling an adult junior league on Mondays with my daughter, one of my Monday night teammates and his son, I'll be bowling in my first sport league on Thursday nights in another house in Merrimack, NH. It's a trios league, and last summer they put out 6 different patterns for the summer, I think keeping each one in rotation every 2 weeks. The patterns last year were the following lengths: 15 feet, 20 feet, 30 feet, 40 feet, 45 feet and 50 feet. I'm guess with the two shorter patterns you can forget about using anything above light oil equipment and plastic (depending on the volume of oil...) and that with the 45 and 50 foot patterns, my heavy oilers will get a workout...but you never know.

I look forward to this experience, I know that my average will probably be closer to what I average on Tuesday nights then my Monday night THS, but I think I will learn a lot about my game and I'm a patient person, so I think I will improve as the summer goes on.

Matt

Unless, you have a Sport Bowling sanction it isn't Sport Bowling.  It may very well be tougher than the house shot but it isn't Sport Bowling.  I would encourage everyone to pursue Sport Bowling not as an alternate pursuit in the summer but as a year round activity.
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Count me in this summer, second in a row for me.  I bowl it at a different center tha my usual house.  Full AMF HPL synthetics and shoddy synthetic approaches to boot.  Between lack of focus in the summer and pure crap bowling on my part I think I averaged a whopping 150 or so last year.  I am really trying to get my brain in to shape this year and start taking everything seriously again so this will be my best shot at doing so.  It doesn't start till June for me and is only 11 weeks long but still looking forward to it.  Highlight last year was going 111, with like 7 gutters or so,214 finding a decent shot,130 something because the pair broke down and we moved back to fresh.
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Matt,

If you can average in the Sport league, what you averaged in your Tuesday night, that would be amazingly great. Most people's averages drop atleast 30 pins, some as much as 50 pins from the house shot. Because of those differences, most people do not like to bowl 36 weeks of it during the winter.

I, for one, will NOT bowl a sport league this summer.  In fact I will not bowl any organized league this summer.  But, what I will do is have them run a tough pattern (maybe the one we had this weekend) so I can work on some release issues and actually practice some - what a concept!!
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