I spent the whole of practise fishing around playing up 3-4-5 with my Siege but had trouble getting comfortable. Darren was playing around 10-11-12 straight up the lane with very little rotation also with his Siege. The fresh is vicious on this pattern and the slightest mistake is magnified at the break point. Darren being Darren and getting out of the ball so clean made them look pretty easy and shot 230+ I stayed clean and made a double for 198. A solid start considering quite a number of strong pairings were just scraping 300 between the two of them. We moved to the next pair and they appeared to be hooking a bit more. We were following Korea and El Salvador. The guy from El Salvador had a pretty high rev rate and was playing outside of 10 so we were expecting the difference. Half way through the game I looked lined up and doubled 6th and 7th frames. Darren was in and around the pocket and then the transition came. After a double my ball decided not to hook so I washed out 8th and 9th and Darren's jumped and went through the face for a big split. We closed the game out with 9 spares for a 325 game :(
We both made the move in and the lanes continued to open up and give us a bit more margin for error. Both Darren and I used our Brunswick Siege's the entire block and finished in 8th place 130 off the medal pace.
The three finalists were Columbia, Korea and Malaysia.
Darren and I decided we needed to get out of the bowl for the afternoon so we visited the local shopping centre. You would not believe how enormous it was, 9 stories high!!! We went for some lunch and they were showing the bowling final in the restaurant. The players were solid during the matches, as a tv final on that pattern fresh would be far from easy. Korea showed the benefits of their strict training regime and emerged in gold medal position, with Columbia taking silver and Malaysia bronze.
Tomorrow we will play the singles event and have to make the top 10 to go through to the round robin where all scores go back to scratch.
