You’ll have to decide.
First, let me say, we’re no experts here. However, the total pinfall for all three games went to the Common Council (newbies Brian Solomon, Julia Kerr and Mark Clear joined us veteran bowlers Larry Palm and myself) over the Mayor’s Office (Mayor Dave, George Twigg, Joel Plant, Andrew and Ronda Statz).
GAME ONE
Council Team 1240
Mayor’s Office 1167
GAME TWO
Council Team 1259
Mayor’s Office 1231
GAME THREE
Council Team 1285
Mayor’s Office 1269
While we suspect that the Mayor’s office has been hiring new staff based on their bowling ability due to the way he came in all pumped up and ready to “crush” the Council, we were still able to defeat them, which is a little bit more challenging when they actually show up. Apparently the Mayor reported that Ray Harmon was out with an injury so Joel Plant and Andrew Statz picked up the slack for the first two games and George Twigg and the Mayor got their mojo back and picked up their games in the third game. I have to say, Andrew is quite the efficient bowler but rumor has it that Statz and Plant may be written out of the budget at the end of this year.
Style points go to Mark Clear for showing up in the best bowling duds.
The pom pons have been passed from Lauren Cnare to Julia Kerr (shown here in her lovely new shirt) who cheered us on by shouting “good job” followed by high fives whether we bowled a gutter ball or a strike.
She claims she’s never bowled with the (oh, how do I say this) with the big balls before and that where she came from the balls were smaller. I have no idea what she was talking about . . . but then there is alot about bowling that I don’t understand or feel the need to.
And the Mayor gets the “bad cliche” award for showing up in his Brett Farve jersey.
Brian Solomon was disappointed that there wasn’t more than just bragging rights on the line and suggested that we play for the rights to go to Japan next week. So, he got even by getting us all to shout just as the Mayor was bowling for the channel 27 cameras. The Mayor followed up by doing his best Homer Simpson impression of choking Bart/Solomon.
So, without further spin (which there was very little of on the lanes), here’s the scores.
Konkel 92, 98, 71
Solomon 148, 146, 134
Kerr 56, 64, 103
Clear 96, 97, 111
Palm 96, 102, 114
Twigg 71, 103, 139
Plant 112, 151, 128
A Statz 163, 147, 109
Mayor Dave 97, 83, 136
R Statz 57, 80, 90
There was some dispute if we were going with the total pinfall or with the actual scores, but since its league rules (and its my blog) . . . we’re going with the pin fall.
Note: We bowled with a Twigg, a Plant and a Palm. And we’re hoping that a resolution will be presented to the Council honoring the winners and that it will be sponsored by the alders from the 15th and 20th so that it can be sponsored by Palm – Thuy (Palm Twee). Sorry, that was Brian’s joke after drinking a beer or two (and eating bowling alley food) immediately after a 10 day fast.
