Earlier today I bowled in my second regional of the year. This one was held at Lane-Glo Lanes in New Port Richey, FL. Lane-Glo Lanes is very well known throughout the bowling community as a bowling "hot spot", as both Lane-Glo lanes host a variety of well-known tournaments, and this regional event (New Port Richey has two different Lane-Glo bowling centers, one on the South side of town and one on the North side of town. We bowled at "South", as we usually do).

I bowled on "A" squad, and started on lanes 13 and 14. I had a good reaction playing up 6-7 with a Columbia Ricochet, but threw it very bad, and scored a 145. The second and third games I started to bowl better, but was only able to manage a 170 and a 174. In the fourth game, the pair started to break down pretty fast, so I started moving left, and began to swing the track area more. I managed a 191. The fifth game was bowled on the end pair of the house, which was on 43 and 44. I had a great ball reaction, playing inside of the second arrow, but I left 2 opens for a 187.

Games six and seven were my "experimentation" games, as I tried different alignments to see what would work best. The fooling around worked for me in the last game as I shot 240.

With the exception of games one and seven, I bowled somewhat respectable for me. Take out those games and replace them with a pair of 190's and I finish around -60, which would have been pretty good for me.

My next regional tournament will be Palm Coast, FL, at the end of this month. I am bowling in a local tournament tomorrow, because I feel pretty good about my bowling right now.

- Joe Tex

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