The centre is renowned for being dry as it is an old wooden lane centre. The scoring was high as the pattern was quite walled up even though it was dry. We started with a 5 game singles event moving lanes after every game. I used my dry zone solid for the first 4 games, I had only drilled this ball on Friday night. I was so impressed with how calm this ball is, It is definately going to be used for any shorter oil patterns I face. I love the original dry zone, the solid however is more even and over all I would say hooks less when drilled with the same layout. I switched to the avalache pearl when the lanes dried out more as this gets longer down the lane. I only managed 980 in the singles finding a couple of pairs very tricky I had 2 sub 200 games.
After the singles we had a 3 game block of 5 man. We drew lanes 7&8 we had trouble getting the corner pins out as a team. The lane felt like it was hooking too much too early then under reacting on the back end. We finished with 3036 for the 3 games. Not too bad for the first time the 5 of us had played together! I used my dry zone solid for the whole block to try and even out the under over reaction I was seeing.
After the squad we travelled to a hotel, the closest we could find that had rooms was 20 miles away. I'm not sure what was happening in Ipswich last weekend, but it felt like half of England was there! We had a nice meal then got a good nights rest ready for the Sunday.
The rest seemed to do us all well and I felt like we were much more of a unit on the Sunday. We opened up with a huge 1170 followed by 1160 and 1080. So putting us over 3400 for the day and 5th place over all! I really enjoyed bowling with the guys and hope we will be able to bowl together in another tournament soon!
Next weekend I am playing in lakeside Peterborough in the world cup qualifier. The winner will get to represent England in Mexico later on in the year!
Zara
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