For those of you who don’t follow my tweets or Facebook updates, Jeff bowled his first 300 game last night. Shout out to Chris of McCorvey’s Pro Shop. He drilled both of our bowling balls. I went from a falling 160 average to a 182. Jeff’s average has been over 200. Don’t ask what the other two games were, he was so excited from the 300.
The Game itself. It was Jeff’s first game. He bowls on a different team than I do, so I didn’t realize what was going on until I wandered down to his lane around the 8th frame. He asked if I had come down to take his mind off what was going on, that’s when I realized he had the first eight. At that point, being a student of the psychology of the game, I knew not to mention anything. After he rolled the 9th strike, he came down to my lane, he was getting very nervous. I watched from my lane as he rolled the 10th strike. As he was rolling the 11th strike, I started down to his lane. As he was on the approach for his final ball, I could see he was trying to relax himself. He rolled the 12th ball, I could see he had rolled it a little light and by his reaction he disappointed with it too. I watched the ball roll all the way down the lane, it was going “Brooklyn” – just a bit left of the headpin. It was a strike! I let out a scream (very similar to the one I let out when D1 beat her opponent by ONE pin in a tournament she was bowling in) Jeff fell to his knees, he was so excited, and the crowd that a potential 300 game draws erupted in applause. I went down, gave him a big hug and then made room for the rest of the “congratulators”. We have a great league secretary, she started the paperwork for his award as we bowled our other two games. Think we also need to give a shout out to our Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Adkison, who fixed Jeff’s right shoulder about a year ago. He’s been working on my knees.
Now he needs to get his ring size for his award.
How cool is that!!!!! Too bad we could not have been there to see it. Love ya both!