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Qualifying Rounds in Reno, Nevada

Shark Pattern with flatter ratios and flatter front to back taper. This made the lane play like the streets of Reno. We had a ton of snow while we were there and the roads were a slushy mess. Imagine bowling on lanes like that and you will have picture of what the bowlers were dealing with. Have the wrong game and ball and it was like walking through the slush in Tennis shoes.

Just like mom always told us in bad weather it is a good idea to be prepared.

OK mom I understand now and will bring out my "galoshes" sooner. Once your socks and feet get cold it is not much fun trying to warm up. 






ConstructionJobs.com Championship
Round 1 Round 2
 
Format

Best 4 out of 7 Match Play

Brunswick Staff Performance

Not very good. Parker continues to show improvement on the Shark pattern by qualifying 3rd. Brad has always done his best on the Shark pattern in qualifying in 18th place.
Sean Qualified 34th. 3 pins out
Tom Baker 35th. 5 pins out
PJ Haggerty 36th. 5 pins out
Mika Koivuniemi 38th. 12 pins out
Mike Mineman40th. 31 pins out
Stevie Weber 41st. 42 pins out
Sean Swanson 44th. 52 pins out

It was a week were I thought we got caught without good ball reaction. We did not get our shipment of balls and wanted to use Twisted Fury's. This goes back to having balls stolen in between Baltimore and Spartanburg and the holiday crunch that gets us almost every year.

Sean, Mika, PJ and Tom had spent most of the time in the cut but fell out with bad games late.

Mike started out well and gradually fell from there.

Stevie can't put strings together and seems to have problems with angles on the lane almost every week.

Sean Swanson never had a look. He left all his arch balls at home and we should have drilled him up another Wizard. I had them on the truck but did not hook up with Sean to get it done.
Brunswick Balls Used

Everything you can imagine. Parker used the Twisted Fury for the most part

Brad used a combination of Vapor Zone, Fury Pearl

Mika used a Twisted Fury, Total Inferno, Blast Zone

Sean Rash used a Vapor Zone, Sidewinder


Cut Averages

Just over 202 Roger Kossert was the cut at Plus 38
 
Qualifying Round Recap

Slush and messed up traffic across the house is the short and sweet description.