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The handicap is the difference of the sum of averages between the two teams that are facing each other (sometimes then multiplied by a percentage, such as 90%), or an amount calculated from a score that is above the highest team average in the league so that each team gets a handicap amount.
Baker format: A team game scoring format in which a team's members bowl frames in a repetitive order to complete a single game (example: bowler A bowls frames 1 and 6, bowler B bowls frames 2 and 7, and so forth). [22] Named after 1950s American Bowling Congress officer Frank K. Baker. [22]
As candlepin bowling uniquely allows the use of fallen "dead wood" pins to remain on the lane to be used in assisting the felling of standing pins for spare and split conversions, still the most notable split in the candlepin sport is the "spread eagle", the six-pin leave made up of the 2-3-4-6-7-10 combination, that due to the aforementioned ...
"Split" (S): Taking out the headpin and one of the three-pins, scoring 8 on the first ball. Difficult to obtain a spare on the second ball but if accomplished, this is known as a "split-spare". Many bowling associations will offer a special pin for this achievement. "Strike out": Finishing the game with Three or more strikes.
Junior Aubrie Cooke tossed a 183-192-375 set, Maryann Rush adding a 155-134-289 round, Haley Row adding a 133 and Audryna Reid shooting a 107.
Poster for the first national bowling competition sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress. Highest per-game average scores: individual competition (216), doubles (200), five-man teams (181). [108] A protest was filed against the highest-scoring doubles team, alleging use of a ball that was a quarter-inch larger in circumference than permitted.
The average score was 78. A bowling alley in Windsor, Vermont, United States, in about 1910. Tenpins and duckpins are stored on a shelf behind the pit areas, suggesting that the same bowling lanes were used by the different variations of the sport. A drawing from a 1956 patent issued to the inventors of the first automated candlepin pinsetter.
This season has also seen the fourth-ever 7–10 split conversion in a televised PBA Tour event (and first since 1991), accomplished by 18-year old rookie Anthony Neuer in the semifinal match of the U.S. Open. [4] Kyle Troup has set the PBA's single-season earnings record this season, with $496,900. [5]