To get the formalities out first, Mid State won the Tuesday Night Merchant League defeating Champion's Pro Shop in the roll off. Cry Baby Craigs was victorious in the one night tournament.
Although I felt like I put a tidy bow on my season with a substitute outing in Owatonna, I found myself Moonlight Bowling a couple of Saturday nights ago. I didn't expect much going into the night, but what I found when I got there was 10 lanes of bowlers on a late April Saturday night. Quite a departure from March when there wasn't enough bowlers to even have Moonlight Bowling.
One of the things I've learned in my two years of bowling after coming out of retirement is that it's not the journey that matters, it's who you meet along the way that makes it memorable. There was a real neat moment that happened at the end of Moonlight Bowling that drove that point home. I had made enough money shots that it was a cheap night out. My wife had two money shots in a 10th frame that she buried to win most of her money back, but it was another money shot that stuck with me. A bowler in our league was bowling and she doesn't have the highest average. She loves bowling and sticks with it. As the night was winding down, she got a colored head pin. She went up and buried the shot to win $5 and the cheering from our group sounded loud enough to be a crowd watching a PBA championship match. That moment is what I'll take from that evening. My wife posted this on Facebook and I think it is worth sharing,
This is the last issue of the Faribault Bowling Observer for this season. Will there be one next season? I have no idea at this time. It doesn't look like it but there is a lot of time that goes into writing these blogs. I think there are areas in which I can add some elements to the blog to make it even better, but it may take some help. I started it to try to do my part when it looked like we were at risk of having our bowling alley close. I didn't have the money to help out but I felt like maybe this blog could be a tool to drum up interest in bowling and business to Bashers/Faribowl. From the feedback I received, I think it did help.
I want to thank the Clayton family for their support. They were great to my wife Amy and her son Nicholas long before I finally jumped back in to bowling late in the 2020-21 season. I feel like they have become family to me and Bashers has finally become a place in Faribault where I feel comfortable hanging out at to have a beverage and some dinner after work.
I want to thank the bowlers in my Wednesday night league that have become like my little weekly social club. I hope our league can find a way to become an even bigger league next year. I think I know someone who would like to take a stab at being league president and help the league become bigger and better than it's ever been.
And finally I want to thank you, the reader. If you came on here to see if you got one of the Stars of the Week, was checking to see how a family member or friend was bowling, or was just seeing what was going on at the local bowling alley. I hope this little blog was destination reading. I wanted to fill a void that the local not so daily newspaper left, and I hope I've done my share to make that happen.
For those reading that will still be bowling Nationals this Spring or will be participating in the Wednesday Night Pro Shot League this Summer, Good Luck and Good Shooting.
P.S. Look for my coverage of Faribault Lakers baseball beginning next Friday Night as the Lakers host Lonsdale at Bell Field, 7:30 first pitch, $3 for adults, free for kids. See ya out there.
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