Was
I pressured to give you an especially good blog this week? You betcha!
There are lots of good stories to tell, many highlights to recount.
There
was no theme today for Week 6 of the Philly Pinoy Mixed Fall League (MFL). I had sent text messages to my Team Papaya
teammate James Que to coordinate on the color of our attire. “Black and blue” was the reply, but it came
too late! So our team colors were “Black
and blue…and PINK!” Makulay!
Our
marquee matchup of the week was Team Papaya versus Team Santol, hot off a sweep
on Week 5 of Team Lansones in the epic Deo vs Deo Giyera de Patani. Team Santol’s team captain is Philly Pinoy’s
Sports Commish Jay Lizardo, and his
teammates are Bowlcoholic Ed Nicolas
(who was absent due to death in the family) and my idol (oh how I envy her
swing!) Alice Deo. All three players are MFL veterans, making a
mark in last year’s league. Jay was in
the winning team of the 2013 MFL, Team Daing (as in “Daing! Ang gagaling nila!”), with Joel Deo and
Lanie Santos. [Factoid: Joel D
and Lanie are still in the same team this year, Team Lansones, with Jay’s place
taken by Jojo Sangalang.] Alice was in
the second place team of the 2013 MFL, Team Kropek/Kilawin with Roy and JP
Tanedo (not in 2014 roster). Wow, two
Santol teammates were in last year’s finals!
Ed was in Team Lapulapu with Mitchie and Dennis, where he gained a
reputation for “sandbagging” his average, as he always seemed to play above
average! That’s what naturally happens
when you have continuous improvement, di
ba, Pareng Ed? Here is a photo of
Team Santol, courtesy of May Libo-on.
There
were a couple of couples matched against each other tonight. The Battle of the Young Ones (Once?) pitted
Giovie of Team Durian with hubby Jun of Team Rambutan in the lanes next to
us. At the farmost left lanes were Chelo
of Team Pakwan matched against Roy of Team Suha on the Compendio Game of
Throwns. Previously, Jon of Team Mangga
had prevailed over wife Rosie of Team Rambutan.
But the gals reigned supreme when my Team Papaya defeated my Go Papa
Joel’s Team Atis, and last week, Alice’s Team Santol swept Joel D’s Team
Lansones. The momentum is with the ladies:
go gals!
Alice
and I ended up looking like we were teammates: matching pink shirts, yeah! And Jay, Man in Black, looked like he was
teamed with James and Gabriel in their black and blue shirts.
They
were still oiling our lanes when practice was about to start. And that seemed to be the theme of the night:
OIL, lots of it, too much of it. We
could swear that gallons of oil were laid out on those lanes. Binuhos
at inubos ang langis sa lanes. I
sing to those oily lanes, in the tune of Sharon Cuneta’s Tubig at Langis:
Sobra ang
langis
Bola’y di
umiikot
Sobra ang
langis
Sa mga pins
ang bola ay dumadaplis
O kay bilis
niyang lumihis
O kay saklap,
puro mintis…
And
oh, how those lanes flummoxed poor James all night long: he was not getting the
ball reaction he needed! On the other hand, oil was not a
factor for Jay or Gabriel, since they throw straight balls. Alice and I did okay on the first game, as we
could still compensate for the oiliness by adjusting on the lanes. Jay and Alice fought to keep it close, and James
was struggling, but with some amazing play from the Wonder Kid Gabriel, and
some 10th frame heroics from your “no longer pusong sawi” happy blogger (naks!),
we took the first game by 38 pins. Thank you to my coach, Donna Roberts, who is helping me become a prow-pey-show-nahl amateur!
By
the second game, the lanes were getting the better of me as well, but I fought
to shake “the curse of the open frame” by switching from Cruella da Ball (which
kept coming up short, ayaw lumiko!) to
my Cake Boss (in retrospect, maybe I waited too long…). I tried hard to keep up with Alice, who was
throwing strikes, which was scarily reminiscent of her breakthrough week
against hubby Joel D, before the oil started doing a number on her ball’s
trajectory as well.
Gabriel
continued to play amazingly well. Throughout
that second game, we kept asking him to “save us!” coz he was playing better
than both James and me. Thank you, Grace
and James, for this wonder of a kid Gabriel!
His smiles don’t come cheap, though, matipid
siya sa ngiti. At the end of a
strike, his Tito Olee of Team Rambutan on the next lanes was saying, “Smile, I’ll
pay you 50 cents!” to which we said that was too low: piso, piso!
In
the end it was Commish Jay with his straight ball who took Game 2 by the
proverbial balls (pun intended). He found
his line, hit his stride and was suddenly hot hot HOT, so hot it was raining
strikes, spares and amazing marks galore, resulting in a 180 game. Hanep,
we were watching “The Jay Lizardo Show” as his proud parents watched on! Game 2 goes to Team Santol and it is DEAD
TIED since Team Santol’s win was by the same margin Team Papaya had in Game 1,
which was 38 pins.
Game
3, game on: winner takes all! James
lamented that he could not strike at all in that third game. Alas his night was a wash, but that’s okay
coz tonight was the night Gabriel and I got to take the heat off our secret
anchor, who has won it for Team Papaya with his amazing play for so many of the past weeks: go team! You will be back, James, ikaw pa, babalik ka rin! Gabriel
the Wonder Kid got unbelievably even better in Game 3, galing galing, mana kay Grace.
The BowlStar was back, playing a clean game as my Cake Boss delivered the
goods. Jay and Alice were not giving up
and kept it close, so close that when it got to the 10th frame with
only Alice and me left to play, the difference was a mere 3 pins. Alice had a strike going in and I had a spare, patay kang bata ka, hihikain ako sa excitement! Jay and James started discussing the
different scenarios where either team could win: hacheche, let me throw the ball
nalang, hindi kaya ng powers ko yang mga iniisip ninyo! Alice throws her ball…and leaves the 1, 2 and
8 pins. I throw mine…and leave the 2
pin. If Alice gets her spare, we are
dead, D-E-D dead, I tell you. She throws
her ball and….it…leaves the pins untouched!
OMG, the humanity! Got lucky
there, trulily, Team Papaya pulls off a win in a match that could have gone
either way, we were so evenly matched.
Thank you for such an exciting night, Team Santol!
So
as the ball rolls and the oil foils best laid plans, the guys reigned supreme
in both Giyera de Patani tonight. Rosie,
Jun and Olee of Team Rambutan all had awesome nights and made short work of
Team Durian, making Jun the victor of the Battle of the Young Ones/Once. Giovie had a great night: the Philly Pins will
giant on Wednesday (maghihiganti…thanks,
Raul Q!). Paul played well too: go my
Bowlinator teammate! At the far end, I
witnessed a victory dance/hug amongst the Team Suha teammates (Roy, Eden and
Edwin) who had frontally assaulted (harap-harapang
sinugod) Team Pakwan (Edmer, Chelo and Ivan), in a sweep that made Roy ruler
of the Compendio Game of Throwns. The
collective scores of both teams seemed much lower than in previous weeks, but Eden
had a breakthrough performance that made Team Suha’s sweep possible: yebah, so proud of you, my dear! Just to keep score, momentum is with the guys
in the 2014 MFL Giyera de Patani: 3-2 guys in the lead against gals.
My
poor godsister Brenda appeared to have used up all her mojo at her Wednesday night
USBC league, where she played her first 400 game and scored a whopping 170 for
Team Bowlzilla with Joel C, Romy and Desi, but could not get her groove with
Team Duhat (nang kita’y napilayan),
which was soundly beaten by Team Lansones.
Team Chico’s Grace, Dennis and Blue combined their super powers to beat
Team Mangga’s Jon, Mitchie and Lowen. Team
Bayabas suffered loss in the hands of Team Langka, with Rolly ascendent and
Rico transcendent. I witnessed Rico
stringing strikes, and commented that he was building the Great Wall of China,
not just a picket fence! He humbly
responded that I should have seen what my Go Papa did.
And
what exactly did my Go Papa do? I missed
it, did not see any of it, but apparently it was a sight to see, what my Go
Papa did: strings upon strings of strikes, nerves of steel, Superstar All Star
performance, and a level of play that we should have all just stopped to
watch and witness. He went in with an
unbelievabowl 212 average and had scores of 194, 258 and 257 (which could have
been higher), for an unprecedented 709 series and 236 average for the
night. Apparently, Romy, Marlon and String
of Team Guyabano were able to grab Game 1 in their match against my Go Papa’s
Team Atis with Lino and Lolet, but then Joel exploded in the next two games and
that was the rest of the story. As
Marlon said, Lino and Lolet were so relaxed as Joel took them all to
school. Romy said that Joel should be “Employee
of the Month” as being Player of the Week is no longer enough. I guess my question is, how high can he
go? How much higher CAN he go? Wait and see, wait and see! Go Papa!
The
MFL Week 6 League Standing Sheet has been posted on the Limerick Bowl website. Here is the summary of Week 6 team standings.
Team Guyabano retains the top spot but Team Chico is gaining ground in the second place spot. Team Papaya managed to land the #3 spot but is tied with Team Pakwan on number of wins. Team Atis is #5 and Team Langka has risen to #6.
| Team # | TEAM | RANK | CURRENT | Wk 6 | |||
| win | loss | win | loss | ||||
| 6 | Guyabano | 1 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | |
| 3 | Chico | 2 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |
| 10 | Papaya | 3 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | |
| 11 | Pakwan | 4 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | |
| 1 | Atis | 5 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 1 | |
| 7 | Langka | 6 | 11.5 | 12.5 | 3 | 1 | |
| 9 | Mangga | 7 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 3 | |
| 5 | Durian | 8 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 3 | |
| 2 | Bayabas | 9 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 3 | |
| 13 | Santol | 10 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 3 | |
| 14 | Suha | 11 | 10.5 | 13.5 | 4 | 0 | |
| 4 | Duhat | 12 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 3 | |
| 12 | Rambutan | 13 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 1 | |
| 8 | Lansones | 14 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 1 | |
Here is the rundown of fabowlous performances from the 2014 MFL Week 6.
Top Male Players: My GoPapa Joel seems unbeatable at this point, no words, no words. My Team Papaya secret anchor James is still in the top three but Paolo has leapfrogged into second place.
1. Joel C (Atis) 216
2. Paolo (Bayabas) 190
3. James (Papaya) 187
Top
Female Players: Philly Pins, my Philly Pins are still the top
three gals in the MFL. I regained the
top spot but only differ from Mitchie and Angie by 5 pins (2818 total pins),
while Mitchie and Angie are dead tied at 2813 total pins. Amazing: pareho
kaming tatlo!
1. Jing (Papaya) 156.6
2
and 3. Angie (Langka) and Mitchie
(Mangga) 156.3 (tie)
200-Clubbers: We have six (6) this week, which is a decrease from previous weeks. Must be the oil…sobra sa langis….
·
Joel C (Atis): 258,
257
·
Blue (Chico): 235
·
Rico (Langka):
233
·
Romy (Guyabano): 224
·
Jon (Mangga): 200
= dahil sa buhok ni Rosie, ganda!
·
Paolo (Bayabas):
200
Breakthrough PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: These players logged an average for the night that was more than 10 pins above their previous average:
·
Gabriel (Papaya): The Wonder Kid had scores of 125, 130 and 135 for a 131 average for
the night against his previous 114 average.
Wow!
·
Olee (Rambutan):
He was playing like the Olee we know and love, with scores of 155, 185 and 186
for a 175 average for the night (160 previous average). Galing!
·
Jon (Mangga): Came
in with a 152 average and had a 167 average for the night, with scores of 156,
200 and 147. Yebah!
·
Paul (Durian):
Paul had a 155 average for the night (scores were 138, 152 and 175), against a
previous average of 145. Go Paul!
·
Jing (Papaya): With scores of 171, 137 and 186, I had a 164
average for the night against a previous average of 154. Sana
tuloy tuloy na nga ang pagka BowlStar ko…
LOVE
TEAM OF THE WEEK is Jun (Rambutan) and Giovie (Durian). Our newest
Bowlcoholics both had stellar nights.
Jun logged scores of 95, 160 and 172 for a 142 average for the night
against a 125 previous average. He was
throwing my Go Papa Joel’s old Lanemaster black ball: it is never coming
back! My Philly Pin teammate Giovie had
scores of 143 (I love you daw!), 116 and 132 for a Sunday average of 130
against a 115 average coming in.
Wowowee! Oh, to be Young and in love…with bowling!
OUTSTANDING
TEAM PERFORMANCE was by Team Chico! Congratulations! Second time around, ah!
·
Dennis had
scores of 161, 180 and 173 for a 171 average for the night, against a previous
average of 150. It’s the beer…yeah!
·
Blue had
scores of 159, 235 and 173 for a 189 average for the night against a previous
average of 177. Blue, Blue, Blue!
·
Grace had
scores of 108, 155 and 172 for a 145 average for the night against a previous
average of 131. Galing talaga ni Grace…
PLAYER
OF THE WEEK is Rico (Langka) for building the Great Wall of China. Scores of 179, 190 and 233 gave him a 200
average for the night against a previous 174 average.
SUPERSTAR ALL STAR (and forever the one shining star in the horizon of
this BowlStar) is Joel (Atis). As mentioned above, he had a 212 average and
had scores of 194, 258 and 257, resulting in a 709 series and 236 average for
the night. Super galing, bow…
SHINING
STARS that had amazing single games
were Jay (180!), Jeff (172!), Lanie (171! Prebowled =
missed you!), Lino (169!), Roy (161!), Eden (160! 141!), Jojo (159!),
Rosie (158, it’s the hair, it’s
terrific!), Rolly (146!), Chona/String (128!) and Victor (117!). Great job, everyone!
LUCKY
STRIKE RAFFLE (50/50): Our Raffle
Queen, Alice M, took care of the raffles this week: thank you! Our winner was Joel D of Team Lansones, with
a $39 prize. Congratulations! Our pot of additional prize money from the
raffles is now $243, wow! More prizes
for us!
REMINDERS
on our THEME NIGHTS:
·
It is PHILLY TEAM
Night this Sunday, October 19, Week 7. You
can wear your (black daw, sabi ni
Roy) Eagles gear, or your Phillies or Flyers
shirt. Kung wala, don’t limit yourself to pro teams, as you can wear your
Great Valley, Downingtown East, Villa Maria, Villanova, Pin Killers, BowlDawgs,
or whatever Philly team shirt you have.
·
There is no theme
for October 26, MFL Week 8. You can
continue to wear pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, or wear Filipino
shirts in honor of Filipino- American Month.
·
Please be
reminded to go get your bowl-ready Halloween outfits for our Bowloween Night on
MFL Week 9, November 2. Your bargain
basement costume for this year and for next year’s MFL may be found in the
costume stores after October 31st, or get creative and make your
own! Magbabalik
ba si Luigi? Anong magiging kulay ng buhok ni Ivan? Abangan!
ADDITIONAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS and REMINDERS:
·
Team Captains,
please kindly hand over your team’s pay envelopes to me by the end of the FIRST
game. I have not gotten any summary of
payments from Limerick Bowl in the past weeks because I have had to hand in the
envelopes after league. Your help is
greatly appreciated!
·
Folks, let’s try
to take a 5-10 minute break at the end of the first game. This is a good time to make sure you have
paid your bowling fees for the night, buy your Lucky Strike 50/50 raffle
tickets, pay for the delicious empanadas you ordered from Alice Deo (and order
more for the next week), take a bio break, get dinner at the snack bar, get
more beer, make chica with your amigas at the other end of the building, and
consult with your favorite Bowl Whisperer or bowling angel. I know we get too caught up in the
competition we miss the chance to interact with folks in the other lanes, even
the ones on your lanes! I am guilty of
this, but enough already. We only have 5
more weeks in the league: let’s make it last even 5-10 minutes longer.
·
Please be
reminded that it is absolutely
imperative that all bowling fees are paid by Week 9, November 2, which
happens to be our Bowloween Night. This
will allow Limerick Bowl to have our prize monies available to us on our Finals
Night on MFL Week 11, November 16.
Please
kindly note that a line-up change is in the works for Team Mangga with the
unforeseen withdrawal from the league of Lowen
Gono due to shoulder injury. Get
well soon, my dear practice buddy and former Balut teammate! It appears that we will be adding a new
league member this coming Sunday (mystery,
simulan ang chimis kung sino kaya ito…).
Team Captains will receive additional communications via email, as your
concurrence to the proposed line-up change will be required in accordance with
our league rules.
Only
5 more weeks are left in our league schedule.
Too fast, too fast, time is flying too fast! We hope you are enjoying the league. Nawa’y
ikinagagalak ninyo ang ating munting liga.
Kaligayahan naming paligayahin
kayo (naks!).
See
you at the lanes, my dear MFLers! Bowl,
baby, bowl!
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