Day 4 : Sunday 8th June
Day Off!!! Jemma & I had a day off today, was a bit weird having a day off during championships but it was quite nice to relax and perfect opportunity for Jemma's ankle to get better!
Day 5 : Monday 9th June
Me & Jemma had the early shift today - Urgh 6am alarm's are not my favourite!
After a bad start on saturday we were determined not to start like that again and we came out fighting! 225 for me & 212 for Jemma, we were both feeling good! When we moved to th enext pair I was forced to play different to the first game and sturggled to find something for a 160. I struggled for the rest of the squad after this, getting close all the time but never looking too convincing. Our scores were as follows
Jo Allsebrook 225 160 195 163 190 170 = 1103
Jemma Smith 212 194 192 199 159 224 = 1180
As a team, over the long & short games we finished on 4775.
Zara & Lisa played there final set of 6 in the afternoon. They were in a good position for a medal spot after the short and started well on the long. It was very tense and they so very nearly made 4th spot for the finals but unfortunatley fell 14 pins short. It was an experience watching them play and me, Jemma, Nicki & Jenny sat at the back getting nervous and filling up with tears!
Sweden's team of Helen Johnson & Nina Flack went on to win the Gold medal, Tina Hulsch & Patricis Schwartz from Germany in 2nd and Denamrk's Anja & Mai Ginge Jenson shared 3rd place with the other Swedish team Therese Forsell & Diana Alfredson!
Day 6 : Tuesday 10th June
Trios started today. Shift 1 was at 9am - that bloody 6am alarm again :o( Jenny, Nicki & I were in this shift, in practice we saw a noticeable difference in the short pattern to the other days, they seemed to be a lot hookier! We all got sorted in practice but for both Jenny & Nicki they changed as the game started!
Jenny managed to find it again moving further towards the right hand gutter but Nicki was struggling to find something consistently! Our first game was a good starting game for us as it gave us back a bit of confidence. Jenny 201, Nicki 163, Me 269.
The 2nd game was lower, Jenny had a good start then her reaction went. She managed to make the change to another ball before too many pins were lost and struck out for 214. Nicki still had the same sorta problems for a 160 and I had a 175. I struggled carrying the corner pins in this game and I opened a split in the 8th frame.
Into the 3rd game and we came back fighting, Jenny had lots of strikes for a 245 game, Nicki flushed the pocket for 12 shots only carrying 1 at the beginning and 5 at the end for a 217 and I rounded them off with a 237 for a team game of 699!
This made our team total 1881 and 4th plae in the shift behind Germany, Denmark & Holland!
Jemma, Lisa & Zara are on now for the first 3 games of there trios on short! Tomorrow we all play a further 3 games on the long condition.
I will write again tomorrow!
JoJo
xxx
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