Things are extremally tight at the top of Bill Mastronardi’s Masters league, and with only four weeks left until the final position round, it should be a fun finish.  

 

As I noted above, the league has seven teams that are within 21 points of the top spot in the standings, and only four weeks remain before the last position round of the year, it was a big night for teams that find themselves in the middle of the standings.

 

Plaza Lanes jumped from 5th to tied for 1st after winning 40 points from the first-place team Linn Lanes.

 

W. Down Under also used a big night to stay right in the thick of things taking 42 of 50 points from Potters Alley, doing so puts them 11 points back from the top two teams T&D Windshield and Plaza Lanes.

 

Linn Lanes is 5 points back, Mt. Hawley Bowl is 6 points behind the leaders, while Morton Industries is 8.

 

Landmark who was 42 points back from the lead coming into the night, was able to capture Team of the Week at Sunset Monday with a total series of 2805, doing so won them 36 points allowing them to claw themselves to only 21 back of first place.

 

They will bowl T&D next week, who is tied for first with a chance to shake the standings up even more.

 

Although T&D is tied points wise currently with Plaza lanes at 177, Plaza has the most overall year-to-date points won which would give them the tie breaker.

 

Remember, if a team at the end of the regular schedule has accumulated the most overall points than any other team in the league and has not won any of the three thirds, that team would enter the tournament as a “Wild Card” team. This rewards the team as the overall point winner with an opportunity to win the league.

 

Like I said, we are in store for a fun finish to the last third of the year.

 

Tommy Barnwell was your Bowler of the Week with games of 258, 275 and 248 for 781.

 

Matt Liening was second high with 768 and 300 the last game, while somehow, I, Shane Taylor was third high on the night with 744 and 296 the second game.

 

The Strikeout pot will be at $360 dollars next week as it has only been broken once this year.

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WEEKLY STATISTICS

 

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After a huge night at Potters last week, the overall average on the night this week was 219.65, a seven-pin decrease from last week.

 

With that, the league average before bowling was 219.56, but after 79 of the 144 games were bowled under that number, the overall average is now 219.40

 

We added one 300 to the total Monday night, the league now has 14 300s on the year, and 7 800s.  

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TOP 3 TEAM SERIES – MARCH 2ND, 2026

1 – 2808 – LANDMARK

2 – 2763 – T&D WINDSHIELD

3 – 2747 – W. DOWN UNDER

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TOP 3 TEAM SERIES – MARCH 2ND, 2026

1 – 1022 – LANDMARK

2 – 985 – T&D WINDSHIELD

3 – 968 – W. DOWN UNDER

 

CURRENT LEADERS

High Average

1 – 240.01 – Tony DeVita

2 – 236.30 – Travis Anderson

3 – 233.03 – Steve Taylor

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Standings

1 – T&D Windshield 177 - 123

2 – Plaza Lanes 177 - 123

3 – Linn Lanes – 172 - 128

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