Wednesday 21st February 2024

Bowling Battle 

Today’s adventure walking along the canal from Woodlesford to the outskirts of Leeds was postponed due to the shocking weather. 

Nevertheless the lads rallied round and decided on another Ten-Pin Bowling session. 

This would take the Lads back to an establishment in the heart of Leeds, a place they visited quite a few weeks back. Which  brought much excitement and pleasure for them.

So it was Colin , Brian, Mark, Derek and John, that would step forward once again and set foot inside this building. 

The building in question is the refurbished Ten Pin Bowling Alley situated in the Merrion Centre in the city. A suggested time of 11:00 was agreed for the group to meet up, so after the formal handshakes it was a change of footwear for some and step up to the mark so to speak.

We were assigned lane 26, so with the scorecard filled in alphabetically Brian once again was first into action bowling with a rather decent bowling action his good form stayed with him throughout our first game closely followed by Colin and Derek, the rest of us just plodding along trying to get into some sort of rhythm. 

Eventually things began to change as each frame passed us by with a couple of Strikes entered on the scorecard. 

However, It would be Brian and Colin who came out on top for our first game with unfortunately a score of less than 100 for both of them, with a winning score of 87, well done Brian and Colin. 

Now on to our second game, maybe a different result this time round with our skills slightly improved. 

However, Colin did improve and came out the winner but only just in front of Derek. John started off like a train but soon ran out of steam. At one time he thought he was going to be asked to play for the over 80’s but alas it never transpired. 

The overall winner when combining both games was Colin the Champion with Derek securing second place, well done to both of them.

At the end after a very enjoyable two hour session the lads all made their individual ways home and were looking forward to their day out in York.