Euro 5's at Ipswich

Bowled in this event with my beloved Jo and 3 English ladies!! These being Jemma Smith, Nikki Harvey (wallbanger) and Lisa John.

The first squad we played was the singles (5 games). I started initially with the pearl Avalanche, reason being the lanes were quite dry and this was on wood so the ball read earlier than you would see on synthetic lanes. After making a couple of good shots without the desired outcome I decided to change to the Swarm and move my feet and target deeper to try and create more margin for error and improved carry. This worked immediately as I went off the sheet for 290 first game after changing in the 3rd frame!! 2nd game played and scored well again aside from a poor shot in the 9th finishing with 245. The next 3 games I couldn't string the 10's together as previously I had so only managed to plus 10 more pins, thus finishing the block 145 over. This eventually placed me in 10th for the event.

Lisa did us proud though by winning the ladies singles section!!

Onto the first 3 games of team. We played these on Saturday afternoon/early evening.
I was thankful for playing these games with girls as there was less traffic on the deeper part of the lane on my team, this benefitted me greatly. As a team we shot 167 over for the 3 games, I got 185 of them!!!!! (279, 259, 257) all of the set with the SWARM. Looks like a goody!

2nd 3 games of team I didn't bowl well and the lanes played quite a bit different for me and quite a few others, I started with a 135!!!!!!!!!!! then made a drastic move of line and ball and hand position, and so finished with 550 so could have been a lot worse! We came 9th in the team so a fair effort from all of us. Lisa was 2nd in the all-events, Jemma 3rd and Jo 4th. I came 9th in the mens so not too bad, ave.225.

Next event World Cup qulifier.

Swarm ball review coming soon!!