Wednesday 22 August

We had another good turnout with 24 bowlers enough to make 6 teams of four. Right from the start the two all-men teams (by random pick) were head to head in competition, with players on both teams casting glances at the other scores. At the end of the first game the team of Ken, John, Garry W., and Shane were neck and neck with the team of Dan, Gary l., Scott, and Colin with a tied total of 803 each. None of the other teams appeared in contention at this point.

In the second game Dan's team pulled ahead with an 859 to a fading effort of 794 by Ken's team. In the third game Ken's group put on a surge finishing with an 875 and a total of 2472 which left Dan and Company needing at least 811 in the third game to win. So they thought. Down at the end of the alley behind a screen of empty Tiger beer bottles 'H' was leading his team of Ladies to a surprise victory. After posting team totals of 769 in the first, and 808 in the second, 'H' powered the team to victory with a personal best of 280 in the third. He was assisted with a 198 from Jo, 209 from Somsee, and a 226 from Nongruk giving a one game total of 913 and an afternoon total of 2490. This left Dan's team mumbling amongst themselves after beating their apparent rivals by 61 pins in the third but being clipped by 'H' and the Ladies who won with a come from behind victory of two pins.

Congratulations to 'H' the high game winner and Somsee, Jo, and Nongruk for a great win.

See you next week.

Wednesday 15 August

25 bowlers turned out, including two new welcome bowlers from Pittsburg USA John & Lois. We had 4 teams of four and 3 teams of 3.Right from the start the team of Ken, Jo, and Yung led the field with a wopping 693 total for the first game. This gave a team average for the first game of 231, 25 pins ahead of the nearest rivals. In this game Jo posted what turned out to be the high game of the day at 258. They went on to post two games more at 622 and 608 giving a final average for the day at 213.There was a strong challenge from the team of JJ, H, Craig and Dan which just fell short with a team average of 210. Craig with big shoulders took all the blame for the second place finish claiming he miscalculated how many strikes he needed in the final frame.The second highest game was posted by Dan in the first game at 249, but there must have been a little maritial rivalry at work because wife Tom on a different team had a 248 in the first game.
Congraulations to all, see you next week

Wednesday 8 August

As 25 bowlers turned up this week, we tried 5 teams of 5. Think it went pretty good, but takes a little longer.

Welcome back to Ken after his vacation in Canada and Bacca (regular visitor from Aust) managed to get out of bed and bless us with his presence. Shane James (Aust) on his annual holiday to Chiang Mai also had his first game since last Sept and hasn’t lost any of his form or style. We say farewell to Alex who is returning to U.K., hope you enjoyed your time with us.

The visitors, Bacca, Shane & Alex with Gary L and Oi were early leaders after the first game by 8 pins. But in the 2nd game the boys team of Les (228), Craig (272), Erik (207), Garry W (203) and Jim (204) went to a commanding lead of 36 pins. However consistency paid off and the boy’s team crashed in the last round (too many Tigers again) to allow Gary L, Bacca, Oi, Alex and Shane to win the day by just 11 pins.

Craig had best game handicap score cranking up a big 272, with 6 strikes in succession at one stage in his second game.

Best gross for the 3 games was Bacca with 502 pins. He grizzled about his handicap this week, wait until next week.

Les will be away for 22/8 and 29/8 and Gary Lyon will look after the book etc. Thanks Gary.

Catch you next week

Welcome back to ‘H’ who will be with us for 4 weeks before returning to work in Africa, also Bacca is in town, but forgot to come bowling. Another visiting from the U.K. is Jo & Rex’s niece Alex. Welcome to Chiang Mai Alex and we hope you enjoy your stay and we might see you again over the next couple of weeks. We also had a new local in Mogin, we hope you will be playing each Wednesday from now on.

Just the perfect number this week to make up 6 teams of 4.

1st round was very ordinary with all teams failing to make their handicap score of 800. Best were Da, Mogin, Dow and Colin with 791. They were still holding a slender lead of 13 at the end of the 2nd round from Dan, Surachot, Tom and Oi. Then in the last round from out of the blue, a strong performance from Les, Garry W, Rex and ‘H’ saw them come from 23 pins down to win by 39 pins.

Best Performances : Surachot 222 - 210 - 207
Rex 213 - 220 - 252

Highest Score Prize : Rex 252

See you next week.