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MAY 2, 2008 SPORTS THEPRESS.NET | 5B
Bowling
season
is pure
poetry
by Andy Antczak
Correspondent
One team, two team, red team, blue
team. Six teams have a shot with but a
week yet to go. If someone gets hot, this
could be anyone’s show. In the league
where the Trios of Scratch did Draft, all
the teams save for one will be given the
shaft. As sure as your dinner, the standings
are tight. But there must be a winner,
crowned next Monday night.
And today the great Cimentar Corp,
that marvelous team, is king of the
league, but things aren’t as they seem:
15 small little points spread the top from
the pack, so it’s time to get going, time
to attack. Team 10 and Team 6 need to
pick up some sticks. Coyote Brewery
and Kinder’s Meats need no tricks, only
treats. And Garner Investigative Agency,
what a hard name to rhyme, must dispense
with the pleasantry … just needed
some time.
Advice for the teams with a claim
to the top. Advice for the ones who now
must not fl op. The more lanes that you
read, the more shots you will know. The
more angles you play, the more strikes
you will show. Think left and think right
and think fast and think slow. Oh, the
shots you can throw if you go with the
fl ow. Teams are now on their own; they
know what they know. And they now
can’t be shown; they will go where they
go.
Pawloski (Coyote Brewery) shot 300
two weeks to the rear, Bob Rhiner (Discovery
Bay Dental) 974 in the one more
near. Rhiner, with double two-fi fty and
fours, sent Garner and team out through
the back doors. When asked to respond,
Garner did not look beyond. “I do not
like wash-outs and splits. I do not like
to waste my hits. I will not miss upon a
lane. I will not cause myself more pain. I
would not, could not whiff a 10. I could
not, would not miss again.” Tammy
Watt (Coyote Brewery) had three games
in the twos; shot 822 – those are hard-tofi
ll shoes.
So when the bowlers hit the alley,
you’d better keep a tally, ’cuz a team will
make a rally and this Monday’s the fi nale.
With six teams in the hunt, I will here be
quite blunt. For it’s time to get in front,
and not a time to punt. “Ten pins in the
pit, I submit, every hit, or just quit.” To
the teams for which spares are defl ating,
“Today is your day, your mountain is
waiting, so get on your way.”