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S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F Kegler Chronicle INTEREST: VOLUME 1, ISSUE 14 MARCH 17, 2014
Playoffs are here
Livin’ on the The Playoffs are here... Edge Elimina- tor First of all, I want to say con- for their success, there were versity Personified did all they NBA Finals of gratulations to the 8 teams that those teams that hung their could to dump themselves out of Bowling made the playoffs. In the Ernie heads after their defeats. There the playoffs. They went 1 and 3 McCracken Division, Split Hap- were 7 teams fighting for a against Bumpers Needed. A
pens, Black Ballers, Mine’s in the playoff spot. The team that suf- good natured prodding from Gutter and Herrre’s Eladio! And fered the most disappointment TFD almost came to fruition. over in the Roy Munson Division had to be Strikes for Reps. The Only an 8-frame string of strikes Wrecking Balls, Bumpers Need- league champions from last sea- by Marcus Patton in the final ed, Diversity Personified and son, were nestled in 3rd place. game, kept them clean from the Danny & the Miracles. All they had to do was split with ultimate disappointment. Grab- There was much excitement Wrecking Balls to make the bing the final position was Danny in the last week of the and the Mira- regular season which cles. They were saw a lot of jostling for sitting in 6th position. In the place a ½ game I N S I D E McCracken division, behind Smac THIS ISSUE: Black Ballers decided to Talk which was a ½ game out of Week 16 end the excitement early 4th. S.T. didn’t Recap as they beat an under- manned Herrre’s Eladio bowl bad, but Week 17 by 36 pins in the 1st with Paul Augeri matchups game. After the 1st and Dan Dodd’s game, the Black Ballers very impressive The Good, were at ease and raced nights proved Bad and Ugly to a 4-0 sweep. too much to Lane Assign- playoffs. Unfortunately WB overcome. In the Roy Munson Division, ments wrecked their bid for the playoffs there was a whole bunch of Good luck to all the teams by impressively sweeping them. that are in the playoffs. This will The next 4 movement that happened. For For Wrecking Balls they jumped be interesting to see what tran- weeks the teams that received high-fives into the No. 1 spot because Di- spires.
The Eliminator and NBA Playoffs of Bowling
The final 8 in the Marques Edge “Livin’ on Scott Grim 162 70 #3 Jeremy Frankel vs. #8 Deb George the Edge” Eliminator are… Tom O’Hare 167 65 ABA Conference Avg. HDCP. Keith Lam 178 55 #3 Tom Kozakiewicz vs. #8 Chris Dube Chris Duffy 123 105 Vin Velez 195 40 #1 Cam Neal vs. #2 Brandon Peltier Cody Hardin 136 93 ——————————————— ————————————————— - Cam Neal 149 81 The Final 8 in the Chris Rossi’s NBA Finals Congratulations to Cam Neal and Tom Dave Dube 151 80 of Bowling are… O’Hare who not only made it to the Elite 8 USBL Conference in both contests but are on teams that are #1 RJ Shaw vs. #2 Tom O’Hare also in the playoffs. P A G E 2 Four More Weeks...
> March 18th – The League playoffs Tournament will compete in the NIT Tourna- begin. The 1st place team in each Division Singles Tournament qualifying – The top eight ment next week. plays the 4th place team and the 2nd place highest average bowlers who have not quali- team goes head to head against the 3rd place fied for the tournament will bowl head to The Chris Rossi’s NBA of Bowling and the team. All other teams continue to bowl head with the top four earning a spot in the Livin’ on the Edge head to head champion- against scheduled opponent as usual as each BIG 64 Tournament. All other bowlers who ship matches take place! bowler is bowling for seeding in the year end have not qualified for the tournament will singles tournaments on April 8th. bowl head to head to grab four positions to > April 8th – BIG 64 Tournament. The top keep their hopes alive for qualifying next 64 bowlers in the league go head to head, lose Singles Tournaments. After this week, the week. and you’re out, win and you advance, NCAA top 56 bowlers by average will earn a bye into basketball bracket style until we crown a the Big 64 Tournament. All other bowlers will The Chris Rossi’s NBA of Bowling and the champion. compete the next two weeks for the remain- Livin’ on the Edge competitions are both ing eight positions for the BIG 64 Tourna- down to their Final Four. NIT Tournament. The bowlers who do not ment. As of today, the cut line would be a 144 qualify for the BIG 64 Tournament will bowl in average. > April 1st – The League Champion- the NIT Tournament. Bowlers in this tourna- ship. The winner of the Roy Munson Division ment bowl two games and the top four The Chris Rossi’s NBA of Bowling and the will go head to head against the winner of the bowlers advance to a Final Four and then go Livin’ on the Edge competitions are both Ernie McCracken Division for the League head to head until we crown an NIT Champi- down to their Elite 8. Championship. on!
> March 25th – The League playoffs contin- Singles Tournament qualifying – Eight bow- ue. 2 teams will go head to head for the Roy lers will go head to head for the remaining LANE Munson Division title & 2 teams go head to four spots in the BIG 64 Tournament. All ASSIGNMENTS head for the Ernie McCracken Division title. bowlers who do NOT qualify for the BIG 64 1-2: Pick Up Artists vs. FUN da Mentals 3-4: No Pin Intended vs. Where’s Julie? 5-6: Split Happens vs. Bears & Bulls Herrre’s Eladio! 7-8: Black Ballers vs. Week 16 saw 85 Top Bulls Bottom Bears Mine’s in the Gutter bowlers take to the lanes. Of 1. Paul Augeri +124 1. Dan Marques -109 9-10: Wrecking Balls vs. that number we had 47 above average. That’s 55% to the 2. Marcus Patton +114 2. Jeremy Slone -100 Danny & the Miracles good. This was one of the 3. David Ortiz +105 3. Temi Anjou -73 11-12: Bumpers Needed lowest totals in the past 4-5 4. Maura Jo Lynch +102 4. Kevin Trudel -56 vs. Diversity Personified weeks. 36 struggled to hit their 13-14: Dazed & Confused average. 2 leaguers hit their 5. Deb George +90 5. Josue Zamora -51 vs. Strikes for Reps average on the button (Garit 6. Nick Hagen -51 15-16: Duckpin Dynasty vs. Grigery and Brian White) Smac Talk 17-18: That’s How We Roll vs. TFD 31-32: Slow Your Roll vs. Affirmative Pin Action Good, Bad and Ugly 33-34: Bulfs vs. Lack of Week 10: Stephen D’Amico There were plenty of people to 150 and an Ugly 132 game. He Week 11: Tina Cerbone Pinterest choose from this week. Several of was 100 pins under average. Week 12: Tom Kozakiewicz 35-36: The Achievers vs. the highest averages including Paul Congratulations Jeremy, at least Franks & Burgers Tomlin (235), Chris Rossi (208) you didn’t have to use the T.P. Week 13: Ronnie Smith and Jeremy Slone (200) represent- Week 14: Bennett Forrest Winners ed the high average candidates. Week 15: Andy Peterson Week 1: Carlos Diaz Week 16: Jeremy Slone Double-digit scores were present Week 2: Grace McLean as usual. A 95 game by Stephen Also, I finally went back to week Week 3: Fred Emmons 10 to check out that week’s win- D’Amico and a 93 game by Scott Week 4: David Ortiz ner. I could not ignore the obvious Connor caught my eye. But at the from Stephen D’Amico. His aver- Week 5: Paul Ryan end of the day I had to continue age at that time was 133. He Week 6: Ronnie Smith rolled a 352 which was only 47 picking on Diversity Personified as pins under average, but he had Week 7: Scott Connor Jeremy Slone wins this week some rotten games. His good Week 8: Marcus Matthews game was 159. His bad game was award. Mr. Slone bowled a 224, 97 and his ugly game was 96. Week 9: James Richards Congratulations on winning week 10’s GBU Award.
KEGLER CHRONICLE VOLUME 1, ISSUE 14 P A G E 3 Week 16 Recap enough to pull out any wins. SYR drops to the playoffs. 10th. David Ortiz (+105) leads the way in LANES 1—2 sweep. Achievers top out in 8th place. Split Happens 3-1 Mine’s in the Gutter Lanes 31-32 The number 1 seed was on the line. Split Hap- T.F.D. 2-2 Lack of Pinterest pens did not miss their opportunity. RJ Shaw Lanes 11-12 The outcome was much different than the last 623 series led the assault. MitG had a slim Pick Up Artists 1-3 No Pin Intended chance at the No. 1 seed but ended up dropping time these two teams met when TFD won 4-0. Paul Tomlin finishes the year as the top average That time, Chris Rossi rolled his personal best to 3rd place. Tim Cheung (-29) has been bowl- bowler in the league again (235). He has held ing better of late. This could benefit them in 793 series. Since that night TFD’s inability to win that title every year since joining the league. No the close games has cost them any chance at the the 1st round of the playoffs. Pin Intended bounced back late in the year. playoffs. Scott Grim continues to bowl well, 516 They did well as Fred Emmons 551 carried team +30, even with a bad case of tendonitis. Maura Jo Lynch has her best night ever. She had a personal LANES 3-4 to final week win. best game of 150 and her personal high series of
Herrre’s Eladio! 0-4 Black Ballers 357. Black Ballers were the only team in jeopardy of Lanes 13-14 missing the playoffs. They stood up to the task Diversity Personified 1-3 Bumpers Needed Lanes 33-34 as they smashed a depleted Herrre’s Eladio! The T.P. props might have gotten in Diversity Marcus Edge (568) and Jesse Lewis (551) led the Personified’s head for the first 2 games, but they Affirmative Pin Action 1-3 Franks and Burgers charge. H.E. couldn’t be eliminated so they boys at finally pulled their heads out of their took one on the chin as Eladio Batista and John APA’s disappointing season has finally ended. (beep!) for the last game. Slone and Marques Danon Bell had his best year ever finishing the Musulin were unavailable. were a combined 209 pins under average. regular season at 159. But Bryan Burgan strug- Bumpers Needed enjoy rolling against D.P. 8 of gled all season to get his game together. He 12 games rolled were above average. finished a disappointing 170, 14 pins under his Lanes 5-6 average from last season. The backbone of F&B
Dazed and Confused 3-1 Duckpin Dynasty (the brothers Koz) struggle once again as both The playoff run for both teams were over when Lanes 15-16 finish under average. They need to thank Berger Black Ballers won their first game. Good efforts Strikes for Reps 0-4 Wrecking Balls and Cerbo for lifting their butts to victory in the by Deb George (570) and John Gluszak (610) Defending Champs Strikes for Reps eliminated final week. were for naught. A great season for Duckpin after poor performance in final week of regular Dynasty came to an end. DD made great season. SFP drops from 3rd to 6th. Josue Zamo- Lanes 35-36 strides this year and if they stay together could ra (-51) and Kevin Trudel (-56) have tough be more trouble to opponents next season. nights. Wrecking Balls vaulted from 4th to 1st. Where’s Julie? 1-3 FUN da Mentals 10 of 12 games above average. How quickly a team can fade. Where’s Julie, which won the league just two years ago, finished Lanes 7-8 in last place this year. They suffered the loss of Bulfs 3-1 That’s How We Roll Lanes 17-18 Milton Jackson for the 2nd year in a row. Bowling Keith Lam (+34) and Nancy Devaney (+28) Smac Talk 1-3 Danny & the Miracles with 3 players doesn’t lead to winning many games. Janice Glanovsky has got to be glad her stand out on their respective teams Only ½ game separated these two teams which team won’t be tormented by this editor continu- held down the 5th and 6th spot in the standings. Everyone on D&tM was above average. Paul ally picking them to win. Lanes 9-10 Augeri achieved 2 personal records (high game Slow Your Roll 0-4 The Achievers 234 and high series 640). Even with Andrew Scott Hohenschutz, 619 series, wasn't good Hydes +77 and Carlos Diaz’s +53, Smac Talk couldn’t muster enough offense to make it to Playoff Picture ERNIE McCRACKEN DIVISION Gutter won the 1st game 917-916. Tim Cheung rolled 2 games above LANES 5-6 average helping Mine’s in the Gut- LANES 11-12 1 SPLIT HAPPENS vs. ter earn a 2-2 split. 2 BUMPERS NEEDED vs. 4 HERRRE’S ELADIO! 3 DIVERSITY PERSONIFIED Faced off in Week 11 with Herrre’s ROY MUNSON DIVISION Faced off in Week 11 and Week Eladio! Besting Split Happens 3-1. 16. It looks like the Bumpers have RJ Shaw rolled 276; 609 series. LANES 9-10 Diversity’s number as they went 3- 1 WRECKING BALLS vs. 1 both times they faced. Slone shot 644 in week 3, but Chris LANES 7-8 4 DANNY & THE MIRACLES Duffy countered with 404 +38 and Faced off in Week 6. Wrecking above average all 3 games. 2 BLACK BALLERS vs. Balls won 3-1. Wrecking Balls had 3 MINE’S IN THE GUTTER 10 of 12 games bowled above aver- Faced off in Week 3. Mine’s in the age.