SASBA MESSAGE BOARD

SE B of Y ballot

CJ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:09:33 GMT

The ballot is online on the main page in the SASBA NEWS Box at the bottom of the page.

Print it out and mail or give to Doug, these need to be to Doug by Dec 10.

Time to stir the pot

DLMoody — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:51:32 GMT

Roll Tide ROLL!

Ok all you, Beadreaux, Lablanc, Thibideaux, Hebert, Bertran, Benoit, Ouelette, LeJeune, Summers, Winstead, Stuntz, etc, watcha got to say?

DL Bama

Prayer Time

GeneralCounsel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:51:20 GMT

This Saturday at 10:00 several of us plan to have a season of prayer for our SASBA family and others. We will be asking Jesus to guide us and comfort all who have experienced a loss. Come and share, and if you do not know Jesus as your personal Savior this will be a time of learning and prayer. Lord Jesus please guide me and those who come or read this to seek Your will and Your comfort.

Ballot for B of Y is online

CJ — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:08 GMT

The BofY form has been posted on the web site. You will need to print it out and make your selections and then either mail it to Jim King or give it to Jim or Kathy at one of the next 2 tournaments.

Next 2 are Plano, Tx and Del Mar in Houston.

You can get the form on the main page in the "SASBA NEWS" box.

This is at the bottom of the page.

Revised form is on line now, 11/4 @ 1:53pm

Lesson

srbowl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:54:11 GMT

I had a bowling lesson from Bill Hall a few weeks ago. Last Monday I rolled 300-238-224-762 using Bill's new methods. It felt good at 75 to get another 300.
Thanks Bill!
Jamie

STATS

Bumpy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:33:53 GMT

When are the statistic's going to be updated. Last time was August.

Staying quiet

stanworkman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:26:33 GMT

Just got back from my yearly month long vacation to Pt Aransas. No shrimp left along the central Texas coast-- I ate it all ! Finished reading all the message board for the last month. Big surprize-- no comment.

4 member team lady hurt

alvintwister — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:40:39 GMT

anybody know a good lady bowler looking to bowl 4member our lady got injured call dennis francis 281-660-0260

Ballot for BOY voting?

JimKing — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:53:58 GMT

The ballot for BOY voting has been sent to C.J. and you can vote as soon as he gets it posted. You can print it out and mail it in or give to C.J. or Kathy at Plano or DelMar. You can email filled in ballot to C.J. as well. Deadline is November 30. Doug should have his submitted for the Southeast region by the end of the week or so.

Eligibility: If you bowled in at least one tournament in the Southeast, you can vote in that region. Same goes for Southwest. If you bowled in at least one of each, you can vote in both.

CLARKSVILLE TEAM ROSTER

pdhaze — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:46:20 GMT

I will be listing the names we have for the team tournament.
If you have told Delilah or I that you are bowling, we might have
forgot to get you on the list, I will have the list posted on Tuesday
morning.

Get you entries in, so that we have plenty of time to make the
teams.

I finally won something - My Report

GordonStuntz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:55 GMT

The short version: I bowled really well and won today in Buddy Tiernos Senior Tour. For those of you dont get nauseous too easily and want all the gory details, read on.

As many of you know, I retired a little over a year ago and have been working as hard as I can to improve my bowling. I have been bowling 6 or more games essentially every day unless I am traveling or fishing. Even after a year of doing this, I still look forward to practicing every day. After the first 3 months, I had to face the fact that just learning to repeat mediocre shots better wasnt going to get me too far. Inspired by a BTM article last Fall about finding and working with a coach, I tracked down Ken Yokobosky. Ken is a Gold level coach and one of the Team USA coacheshe is about 90 min from me and Ive been working with him since January. We have made so many changes to my game, I have lost track of them all. The biggest things were changing from a four step approach to five, increasing my ball speed (+1.8 mph), changing my hand position, and keeping my right shoulder back more until the release point. It has been really fun working with Ken and my game has improved enormously in practice. Alas, the improvement I have made hasnt been very evident in SASBA yet, although I have had a number of good tournament showings up here the past few months.

In August, I was high qualifier in one of Buddy Tiernos Sr Tour events. Buddys tournaments are one day affairs where you bowl 5 games of qualifying and then 1 out of 3 from three age groups (50-59, 60-66, and 67+) go on to match play finals. The finals consist of single game, single elimination match play and the high qualifier gets byes all the way into the semi-finals. Everyone else is seeded according their qualifying score, regardless of age. I was +251 (with a 300 game) in qualifying in August and then had to sit out 4 rounds while field was narrowed down to three and me. In the semi-finals, I went strike, 10 pin/spare, bucket/spare, sheet and lost 267-266that was a little hard to swallow, but I got some revenge today! More on that below.

Last week in Kenner, I threw it just about as well as I can on Saturday. Sunday I was totally lost. Thats the way it has been for me in SASBA for months now...good on Sat or Sun, but never bothvery frustrating. My timing wasnt right this week in practice either on Mon, Tue, or Wed. Then on Thursday, everything came together againmy last four games were 268, 300, 269, 249threw it well Friday tooand, again on Saturday (yesterday).

So, I was really looking forward to todays tournament. I was striking at will in practice. Then, the lights came on and I started off strike, 10 pin/spare, strike, 4-6-7, 4-6-7. I had 75 after five frames, while almost everyone else had four baggers and five baggersgreat, just great, I thought. But, I re-grouped and fired 7 strikes in a row for 225 and then tossed 249-251-237-236 to wind up 4^th in qualifying.

I got one bye in the match play rounds and the first guy I bowled opened in the 2^nd and 3^rd frames taking some pressure off meI waxed him 248-172. Next, I had to bowl the guy who beat me 267-266 back in August. This time, I was the one with 267 and he left a few flat 10s for 238sweet!

The next game I had a double early, but then left 2 ringing 10s and a shaker 7 in the middle of the game. I got up in the 9^th on a strike and down 16 sticks. I threw four shots as well as I am capable of and punched out for 227. My opponent needed two strikes in the 10^th to beat me, but he left a 4-9 and I was in the finals. In the final match, I threw all 12 shots well, but had two taps early in the gamethe guy I was bowling was striking too, but I finished with the last six to win with a 259.

So, all the hard work and coaching is finally starting to pay off. I know I still have a long way to go, but Ill keep practicing every day until I get to the point where I can consistently bowl as well in tournaments as Ive been doing in practice.

ps Pete Seibel: I bowled Tom Smith in the title match

pps Stan: Buddy says "Hi" and hopes to see you in Vegas at the High Roller in a few weeks

Susan G. Komen bowling ball auction

Zapp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:49:07 GMT

Last weekend at Plano Super Bowl, we had a Bowl for the Cure. With it we had an auction and I purchased a National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. bowling ball; it is pink with the breast cancer ribbon on it. It is signed by Paul Flemming, Wes Mallot, Norm Duke, Dr. Dean Hinitz, and a few other notables. I will be collecting more autographs Friday during the day and Saturday morning. We will be auctioning it off before we start bowling Saturday morning. All proceeds from the auction will go directly to the Susan G. Komen foundation. We will give you a receipt for the purchase for your taxes. We will also be able to take a credit card if you do not have the cash.
All of us have been directly affected by this disease or have been very close to someone with it.

Thanking you in advance for your support.

Zapp

Happy Halloween

bowlingcrossroads — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:59:34 GMT

Had a little witch come to the front door and it made me think of SASBA. Happy Halloween.

Delmar Entries?

JimKing — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:48:56 GMT

We have room for 88 bowlers at Delmar in two weeks. Only 20 signed up so far. Let us know if you want to bowl at 210-867-9582

early 2010 tourney rescheduled

JimKing — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:50:44 GMT

The singles at USA Bowl originally scheduled for Jan.16-17 has been moved up a week to Jan. 9-10. Please make a note of the change.