Lisa and I relaxed in the sun before our second block of doubles.
Today we played the long pattern and it felt totally different to official practise. The lanes played a lot tighter. I started off with my Thunder Zone and it looked excellent in practise and then for the first 5 frames then it started going a bit long and leaving flat 10 pins. In the feel ball I threw my Blast Zone and it looked better. I threw my Thunder Zone for the first frame on the next pair though just to see if they were any different and it looked really good and struck so I stuck with that for the second game. However it started going too long again so i made the change to my Blast one and moved in. The Blast looked really good on the lane but I couldn't work out the carry. I got it rolling earlier, then later, moved right then left. The reaction looked so close to being right I was hesitent to make any big changes and Lisa was doing well so I didn't want to risk having a low game as we were doing ok for the top 4. However with two games to go we needed a couple of good games. I made the move in and increased my axis tilt and it worked, but I didn't have much room for any mistakes. Lisa's ball reaction was all or nothing, when it was right it carried when it was wrong it was a split. Unfortunately we finished 14 pins short of the top 4 :(
Neither of us were aware of what pinfall was required to make it but we were aware we were close. In hindsight we did the best we could and didn't make many mistakes. We have learnt what works and doesn't now on the two patterns so hopefully the scores will reflect!
The Trios Teams are as follows:
Team 1
Jenny Billingham
Nicki Ainge
JoJo Allsebrook
Team 2
Jemma Smith
Lisa John
Zara Glover
Team 1 bowl at 9am tomorrow on the short oil and we play at 12:30 also on the short.
