August 14th, 2000: Week 11 of the Youth/Adult League
Games/Series 214, 159, 168: 541
Total Score: 5,489
Rating: Great
Average: 166.333 (+1.4)
Team Rating, Wins-Losses: Average, 1-3
Team Total Wins-Losses, Place: 30-14, 3rd/20, 4 gms. behind 1st
Line
Week 11 proved to be a turning point for me personally. I came down with
a cold just 2 days before Week 11, but it didn't stop me from performing
to the best of my ability. I felt that I did what I needed to do.
Unfortunately, the opposing team laid the smackdown on my team in
the first two games, averaging 901 pins SCRATCH in those games.

Game 1: My equivilently-averaged teammate and I shot wonderful games.
My team's overall score was very high, but Team 8 shot 906 pins SCRATCH
to win by 73. I got a streak of 3 strikes in a row to end up with a clean
214.

Game 2: A mid-game "pit-stop" threw me off after the 2nd frame of game 2.
However, in the 9th and 10th frames, I got strikes to salvage a 159.
My team cooled down dramatically while Team 8 was still red-hot. This
was why my team lost by a season-high 204 points.

Game 3: A 43-point win in Game 3 wasn't nearly enough to salvage my
team's hopes for first place. It would have had to set every record
possible. My team would have had to bowl 1,005 pins SCRATCH in Game 3
in order to split the series 2-2. The only problem is that it's a full
99 pins over the record high scratch game.

Summary: I showed no signs of the "great depression," even though my
team was crushed. If anything, I wanted to beat my equivilently-averaged
rival, and I beat her by 8.

This proves that an illness won't be able to stop me.

My team pre-bowled Week 12 because they would not be able to show up
otherwise.