Today I bowled the PTBC doubles at Maldon, Essex. I bowled with Matt and thank goodness I did! Matt bowled amazingly, he used his copperhead with a Rico drilling the whole tournament!
I struggled to find great ball reaction. I threw every ball in my bag, moved around the lane and still had carry issues. So I decided my best look was playing up the gutter with my new RATTLER still tapping quite a bit, but seeing as Matt was striking so much I just had to stay safe. I had +21 for 8 games and only had 2 games over 200 so A LOT of spares!
We finished on +161 as a team for the 8 game block and were in 4th place. This meant we got a bye through one round so had a long lunch. Our first match was against 2 of the junior team England stars Jake and Elliot. This pair of the lanes were playing very different to the rest of the tournament. Matt, Jake and Elliot had a few under over issues. I had the best look of the day, typical!
We won that match then went on to play Jemma Smith and Hayley White. Hayley had great ball reaction and so did Matt. Both finished with 250+ games so it was between Jemma and I as neither of us had the greatest look. Jemma pipped me by 20 or so sparing a 3-10 split in the 9th, then striking the first in the 10th, putting an end to our tournament.
Over all the tournament was excellent, a fun well run event and the number one seeds in qualifying, Rob Thurlby and Mike Quarry ended up champions.
I'm off to Tilburg, Holland on Wednesday to play an EBT stop. Its a dual pattern event one lane short one lane long so great practise for the championships.
Zara
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