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Bedposts

A 7 and 10 split

Granny’s Teeth

An assortment of pins

(one version)

Tandem

When one pin is behind

another

Bucket

Four pins in a diamond

shape, either in ththe front

left, or right (one version)

Head Pin

The pin in the front or in

the center

or

A bucket, minus one pin

(one version)

Three Quarter

Bucket

Seniors start high

school bowling league

Senior Andrew Boe lifts

the bowling ball slightly

behind him.

He hops a step, lets his arms

fall, and frees the ball.

The ball shoots to the right

and travels on the edge of the

alley.Boe leans and motions his

hands to the left.

The ball finally curves left

and rockets right into the pins.

Strike.

Boe, along with seniors Matt

Rolain and Matt Pitlock, share

a passion for bowling. The boys

want to share their passion

with other students by starting

a bowling league between the

three Rochester Community

Schools high schools. They

took the idea to Principal Larry

Goralski for approval, who

until recently, left the boys

unanswered.

“I went up, put my hand on

[Goralski’s] shoulder, and asked

him if we could do a bowling

league,” Rolain said.

But the idea wasn’t really

Rolain’s at first. North Hill

Lanes Owner Tom Langan told

the boys the idea of possibly

putting something together for

high schools in the area.

“We thought it was a good

idea,” Rolain said. “So I went

into the office and scheduled

a meeting with

Mr. Goralski—”

“—multiple

times,” Boe

i n t e r r u p t e d ,

right before

throwing a ball

down the alley.

“ Y e a h ,

several times,

actually,” Rolain

said, laughing.

“He said it’s a

good idea, that

he doesn’t know

why anyone

hasn’t done it

before.”

To make the league work,

the bowlers need to find at

least four teams of five players.

Goralski will also try to get a

teacher team together. And

on top of that, the bowlers are

going to try to get teams from

Rochester and Adams to join

the league, according to Boe.

“It’d be nice to get all the

schools involved,” Langan said.

“The big thing for us is just to

start somewhere.”

Rolain realizes that this

program will only start small

and work its way up.

“Basically this year it’s just

going to be a club instead of an

actual league,”

Rolain said,

“but hopefully,

it’ll turn into a

league.”

G o r a l s k i

still has to

decide the

sponsor of it if

it’ll be a club.

“I have to

decide, that if

[Tom Langan]

gives us a good

price and if it

fits in the club,

then I can

actually have him be the sponsor

of it, or if a teacher wants to run

it.” Goralski said. “If not, like

the basketball league, we just

run it informally.”

Goralski plans to run the

bowling league the same way he

runs his basketball league. Since

Stoney opened, Goralski has

run an intramural basketball

league on the same concept of

the bowling league.

“The goal is to see if we

could do the same thing with

bowling,” Goralski said, “[if we]

could do a six, eight, ten week

season and at the end run a

tournament.”

Apart from the possible

future bowling league, Boe,

Rolain, and Pitlock bowl in a

current youth league at North

Hill Lanes.

The boys have been bowling

in a league at the local alley for

two years. For 15 weeks out of

the year, the boys bowl every

Saturday for three games from

9:15 to 11:30 a.m.

“One time Pitlock threw a

double gutter ball,” Boe said,

laughing. “He threw it in the

gutter, it bounced out and rolled

into the other gutter.”

“You got to have a better

memory than that,” Rolain

said to Boe, shaking his head.

“My favorite memory is when

we used to go bowling like five

times a week last year.”

“Oh yeah,” Andrew perked

up. “We’d go on Fridays and

like four times on Saturday.”

Rolain found that bowling

is more than just bowling for

him.“We found out that it’s

actually our passion in life.”

Rolain said.

by Nick Cruz

Managing Design Editor

“He doesn’t

know why

anyone hasn’t

done it

before.”Senior Matt Rolain

Bowler Bio

Andrew BoeAdam Rolain

Matt RolainMatt Pitlock

Grade: Senior

Highest score: 182

Average score: 130

Average speed: 12.5

mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 12

lbsStyle: Two-handed

Grade: Sophomore

Highest score: 145

Average Score: 107

Average Speed: 15.5

mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 12

lbsStyle: One-handed

Grade: Senior

Highest Score: 169

Average Score: 141

Average Speed: 16 mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 12

lbsStyle: One-handed

Grade: Senior

Highest Score: 199

Average Score: 119

Average Speed: 13 mph

Bowling Ball Weight: 14

lbsStyle: One-handed

Bowling Jargon

LEt

Four pins in a diamond

shape, either in ththe front

left, or right (one version)

Head Pin

The pin in the front or in

the center

A bucket, minus one pin

(one version)

Three Quarter

Bucket

November 30, 2011

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SOURCE 5Bow

ling Quiz

think you’re a pro?

Take this quiz and find out!

A player has

received a six

pack in bowling

if they...

A foundation is…

In bowling,

Grandma’s

Teeth is...

A turkey in

bowling is…

A bowling team

does not aspire…

a. Have abs

b. Have six cans of pop

c. Have made six strikes in

a row

a. a strike in the first frame

b. a strike in the ninth frame

c. a strike in the first frame

and then a big fill

a. An assortment of pins still

standing

b. Two pins still standing

c. Three pins still standing

a. Three strikes in a row

b. A real turkey… sandwich

c. Strike made by missing

the head pin

a. to all receive 300

games

b. to have a big fill

c. to be a rat club

Answers: 1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Frame-by-frame

One-Handed

Senior Matt Pitlock

Two-H

anded

Senior Andrew Boe

Take a closer look at the difference between

one-handed and two-handed bowling.

Bowling Jargon

(Compiled by Alexandra Zurkan,

Brooke Meharg, and Nick Cruz)

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