Had another rough night at the Shrewsbury KOH tournament.  It was my best 3 game set to date.  (I have now bowled in it 3 times.)  Anyway, I started out trying to roll my ball down the 5 board, and the 1st couple of shots looked good.  But on my 3rd ball in warm ups, my ball grabbed the lane as soon as it touched the lanes.  I am attributing that to the wood lanes being worn on the outside.  I moved in a little bit, and started bowling for score rolling the ball over the 2nd arrow with my ball going out to about the 6th or 7th board.  As the lanes started to hook more, I moved my feed to the left 1 board at a time, keeping my target as the 2nd arrow, and that worked for the 1st 2 games (220-191).  However, when we changed lanes for the 3rd game, I was in the pocket on the left lane, but couldn't find it on the right.  The 1st 3 frames on the right lane were 2-8-10, 3-6-10 and the big 4, and I did not pick up any of them.  I finally moved where I was standing 4 boards to the left, and moved my mark 2 boards to the left and I found the pocket on the right side, and lost it on the left lane.  Oh Well.  :(  Overall, I felt like I was picking up my spares better.  However, I did miss 3 makable spares through the 3 games, and I missed the cut by 30 pins.  My scores were 220-191-152 for a 563 series on the NCAA #2 pattern.

For those college bowlers (past and present) do you have any suggestions on how to play the different NCAA patterns?

I feel like I am close, but I don't get a chane to practice on the conditions prior to the tournaments.

My pin counts can be viewed at http://www.bowlspot.com/share/T1hbQ9dCsums558

Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving.