Howard Peterson - Bowling
Lannon grabs weekly honors
Bobby Lannon bowled 764/289 at White Oak Lanes and was the area’s top bowler for the week. Shane Nickelson rolled a 290 game and 744 set for second place.
At The Bowler, Travis Walters was highest rolling 739/258. Corey Shirey followed scoring 683/248.
CP Sines bowled 729/267 for the high at Rainbow Lanes. Adam Braithwaite was next rolling 640/279.
Bob Greene’s 714/238 was highest at Wilson Lanes followed by Clay Corbin’s 707/275.
At Sherwood Lanes, John Leptic scored the week’s high of 628/266. Tony Ferraro was next bowling 627/233.
The PBA Experience League at White Oak Lanes reports Bobby Lannon rolled the top score for the week of 635/222. Don Parsons and JM Sites were next, rolling 630/221 and 617/226, respectively. Adam Blackburn bowled the high game of 234.
Michele Hitchens was the area’s top lady bowler for the week. Samantha King was next at that center, rolling 570/212.
Crystal Uhl was highest of The Bowler ladies rolling 601/215. Candi Dolly followed scoring 590/204.
Lou Dille’s 585/213 was highest of the Rainbow ladies. Jamie Burdock was next bowling 559/194.
Joette Bean scored 522/194 for the ladies high at Wilson Lanes. Julie Greene was next rolling 513/179.
Anna Combs’ 489/187 was the week’s high at Sherwood.
Bill Smith III bowled 624/216 at Rainbow Lanes and was the area’s top senior bowler for the week. John Riley’s 587/215 was the high senior score at The Bowler. Bill Middleton bowled 523/197 at White Oak Lanes and Milton Fairgrieve rolled 417/176 at Sherwood Lanes.
Justin Boyer was the area’s top youth bowler for the week rolling 676/247 at Wilson Lanes. Alex Folmer bowled 662/228 at The Bowler. Wade Robinson rolled 654/245 at Sherwood. Cody Morton scored 652/258 at Rainbow Lanes and Larissa Blizzard rolled 620/232 at White Oak Lanes.
One of the important factors to improving your average (aside from better spare shooting) is to learn how to increase the counterclockwise (for a right handed bowler) rotation of your strike ball.
If you are now throwing only a straight ball at a full pin deck, you need to learn how to make it hook. There are several methods, however, the most popular is using a fingertip drilled ball then positioning the ball during the pushaway with your thumb at 10 o’clock using a clockface in front of you and obviously your fingers would be at 4 o’clock. Keep your wrist in that same position during the downward travel and the backswing. After a slight hesitation at the top of the backswing your wrist should force the ball into the counterclockwise rotation by rapidly turning the wrist into a handshake position. You should never over rotate. One rule is that you should not be able to see the back of your throwing hand. The follow through should be straight up towards the ceiling. Practice and the use of a reactive resin ball will certainly help your scoring. Good luck bowling and have fun striking out!
Howard “Pete” Peterson is the bowling columnist for the Cumberland Times-News. He can be reached at petesbowling@atlanticbb.net.
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Lease’s 792/269 week’s high
Buck Lease scored a pair of 700’s during the week including the area high of 792/269 at The Bowler. Travis Walters scored a big 289 game and 736 set and was next high.
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Smith rolls 300 game, Coughlin 700 set
Troy Smith rolled another perfect game scoring 695/300 in the Thursday Night Mixed League at White Oak Lanes.
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Greene’s 788/299 week’s top score
Bob Greene rolled a near perfect 299 game and 788 set for the week’s top score in the local area. Greene also scored a 747 set that same evening.
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Evans, Williams roll 300
Shawn Evans in the County League at The Bowler rolled a perfect game in his 698 set. In the AARP Seniors League, Paul Williams also scored a perfect game in his 705 set. Too bad that league in not sanctioned, missing out on national recognition plus personal awards.
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Davis perfect, Gable leads area, Richards top senior
No scores from The Bowler this week. Snow kept me from picking them up. (Should have gotten them early on Tuesday.) I will include them in next week’s column.
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Walters area’s top roller
Peyton Hartman put together a triple-double Thursday evening in leading Keyser to a 12-point, 61-49, win over hosting Hampshire.
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Yates’ 813/300 best of blockbuster week
Some kind of a record was set for the week in local area bowling centers. An 800 and four 300s plus five scores of 280-plus were bowled in the local area. A very large number of games with 10 or more strikes.
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Brobst near perfect with 298
Mike Brobst, close to adding another perfect game to his 30-plus list, scored 755/298 at White Oak Lanes.
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Bishop rolls area high 298 game
AJ Bishop bowled an honor score 298 game and 737 set in the Tuesday Night Mixed League at White Oak Lanes.
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Wolford bowls week’s best set
John Wolford rolled 756/276 in The Bowler’s County League and was the area’s top bowler for the week. Tom Fairgrieve was next scoring 721/278. Steve Shook in the Tuesday Strikers League bowled a 284 game in his 702 set.
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