One of my all-time pet peeves is having to report on an event that I didn't actually see live. Unfortunately, it is a necessary evil in journalism -- especially working with weekly papers -- since even the best reporter can't be all places at all times.
That said, I was unable to make it down to Carolier Lanes for the State individual tournament yesterday, so I'm not going to pretend to know what went on outside of what I've read from various other media. However, this brings us to a convenient end: although The Record's Varsity Aces bowling blog is, technically speaking, a rival to the North Jersey Bowling Blog, author Tim Leonard does a solid job... and (sneaking suspicion) may or may not be taking a peek at this site every once in a while. All I'm saying is, in our recap of the girls State team finals, the NJBRG wrote about putting a positive spin on things -- and in the Aces' latest entry, the phrases "glass half-full" and "starting with the good news first" crop up. Hmmmmmmmm...
At any rate, to serve the dual purpose of informing you about the North Jersey entrants into Wednesday's State individual finals -- as well as to see if any Aces are paying attention -- here now is a link to their recap:
http://njmg.typepad.com/varsityaces/2009/02/crank-and-crush-nj-state-bowling-singles-tournament.html
In addition, I myself must follow up with an apology. This blog's "North Jersey" coverage area is fairly similar to that of The Record, and of course includes all of the WGHT listening area as well. I decided to go the extra step and include Hudson County, since I've gotten some feedback from the folks in that region and will, on occasion, check out the Jersey Journal online. (One edition of the paper earlier in the winter had Union City's Omar Espinal featured on the back page after he had that 854 series -- you give bowling that kind of pub, and you are clearly a friend of the NJBRG).
Well, in my listing of all the "North Jersey" individual State qualifiers last entry, I specified Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties... forgetting that the 'GHT listening area also covers several towns in Morris County. Oops. Never mind the fact that I've covered bowling for the local Butler paper before (and have stated as much on this very blog), then forgot to mention their only individual qualifier. As such, congrats to Butler's Brian Ball for earning a spot in yesterday's tournament -- he shot a first-round 600 to end up 28th.
All that said, there's one last tournament left to cap off bowling's "February Fever" -- I tried coining that term in an article once as the answer to college basketball's "March Madness," and not surprisingly, it didn't really take -- and the NJBRG will be back at Carolier, live and In Living Color, for the boys State team finals on Saturday.
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