Rollin, Rollin, Rollin...
Posted by BowlerCluke Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:13 PM
… keep them wins a-rollin’. That’s exactly what
Factor X did against Wayne Coe, Ray Coe and the rest of Donelan’s
Supermarket, extending both their current win streak (eleven
straight matches) and their lead over the second-place Animals.
Matt Coe Avenges “Family Affair” Round I Loss
Don’t let their fourteenth-place seeding in the
standings fool you; pesky Donelan’s Supermarket has proven on
several occasions this season that if you take them for granted,
they can beat you. Just ask the Leftovers, or even Factor X after
their surprise 3-2 loss to Donelan’s in round one. In that first
eventful meeting, it was older brother Wayne Coe who “muscled up” on
Factor X’s superstar, taking advantage of Matt Coe’s worst shooting
night of the season, whooping up on him 564-543 and leading his team
to the win that at that time halted Factor X’s longest winning
streak of the season at five consecutive weeks.
Determined not to let history repeat itself, Matt
Coe almost single-handedly pulled his team through their
lowest-scoring production of the last eight weeks for still another
come-from-behind 4-1 victory in the latest family in-fight. Opening
with his low game of 223, he along with teammate Tom Clukay (222)
helped bring the team back from the brink of disaster in game one,
making up almost 80 pins of their 110-pin deficit in the final two
frames of the game. Donelan’s still earned the win, but to one of
the league’s elite come-from-behind teams this season, a 33-pin
deficit sure seems a lot more palatable than triple digits.
“We’ve got ‘em right where we want ‘em,” Clukay
joked to some of his teammates following the disappointing loss.
But as game number two got underway, it was
Factor X – not Donelan’s – who appeared to be on the verge of losing
composure as, for the first time in several weeks, the pins just
would not cooperate on pocket hits. By midway through the game
Donelan’s had once again built a big lead and was threatening to
take control of the match. Fortunately for Factor X, there was one
bowler on the team for whom pin carry was not a problem… and he was
bound and determined to do something about his team’s plight.
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2nd Consecutive Win Propels X into Fifth
Posted by BowlerCluke Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:25 PM
Factor X celebrated the return of their newest leadoff bowler
with a definitive 18-2 stomping of the Low Rollers, launching them four full
places up the standings ladder into fifth place; their highest position in the
standings since their 15-5 win over Double G&P way back in week number one of
the current round.
“I wish we could bowl those guys all year long”
… were the sentiments echoed by the Factor X trio of Tom
Clukay, Bill Allen and Henry Caouette following their 18-2 dismantling of the
Low Rollers. Combined with an equally-impressive 17-3 win against them in round
two of the season, it brought Factor X’s record against them to an incredible
35-5, taking better than 87 percent of their points against them this season.
 “You’re
averaging what, 175?” Low Roller leadoff Jeremy Hutchinson quizzed Clukay
shortly after completion of the match.
“If you could see some of my other sets this year, you’d
understand where that number came from,” Clukay responded regarding his entering
average.
After struggling through almost three-quarters of the 2008-09
season, the team’s captain has finally begun to show signs of life as the end of
the season approaches, although the Low Rollers would argue that signs of life
began well before that. In his six games against the Rollerballs, Clukay has
been a one-man wrecking crew, taking 7 of 8 individual match points, bowling a
season high game of 265 (February 12th), a season-high series of 669
(this past week), and averaging better than 215 pins per game against them.
It didn’t take Factor X long to get in the swing of things
this past week; the team shot 575 scratch en route to a 26-pin win in game one,
Phil Gauthier’s 225-213 win over Bill Allen accounting for the only match point
the Low Rollers would come away with in the opener. Consistent shooting by the
X Men again in game two led to more of the same, with Ashley Blake eking out a
slim 197-194 win over Henry Caouette thanks to her clutch tenth-frame spare, but
X extending their overall lead to 8-2 after two.
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