On
Tour with Brian Voss
Denny's World Championship - Indianapolis,
IN (Mar. 20 - 26, 2006 )
Woodland Bowl, what a great bowling center to host our Players Championship!
My thanks to the host staff. Anyways, good week, but a little short.
We've played on this pattern for a few years now so I have a bit of
feel for it. I have a good record on it, but still haven't won it
since 1988. Started out a little slow in the first round of qualifying,
only about 40 over. But the scores weren't that big, so I wasn't that
far out. I was using Scorpions and Aliens drilled aggressive. There
were a lot of ways to play the lanes, but the pattern was a little
longer and flatter, so you had to make good shots. I moved up each
round, and eventually ended up 15th. I had drilled a few Cheetahs
with bottom weight, and they worked really good out of the box. Real
smooth, and the surface matched up good. I was paired against Patrick
Healey Jr., whose been bowling pretty good lately. We had some good
matches, going to the tenth a lot. I left two solid 7-10's against
him in the first game, one in the tenth frame to lose, not the right
way to start. We went back and forth for a few games, and then he
got me down 3-1. I got it going for the next few games, flirted with
a 300 in game six, so another 7th game match was on the rise. I started
out with a turkey, he with a spare and a turkey, then I leaked one
a little, and split, then eased up on another for another split, and
he kept striking all the way to the ninth frame to shut me out and
end my bid. Tough tournament to win, but a good appearance. Only two
weeks left. Ahhhh!
BV
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