Day One Competition

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Cory had a good start to the 2010 Special Olympics National Summer Games. This event is being held at Fleetway Lanes in London, Ontario. There are eight teams from BC competing in this event, Cory's team is BC #5. All athletes stay in dorms at the University of Western Ontario; our contact with him is very limited, just some very brief conversations before and after competition. Here's a Team BC bus arriving at Fleetway:








Cory's team anxiously waiting for the start of competition:





Cory here looking good in warmup:





And the first ball he's ever thrown in National competition is a good one, but....



His next one is even better:




And a double! Bowling next to teammate Tyler:





A good ball going for the triple - which is called a Turkey - but the corners don't drop, and that's called Aces:






Back on track here with a strike:






The scoring system for this tournament is a bit unusual. The teams are divisioned according to averages, then each player is matched up against a player from the other team. Those players then compete using pins over average, meaning whichever player scores highest over their average wins. Cory bowled 251 in his first game, 42points over his average of 209. His opponent bowled well under that, so Cory's team earned one point. That is done with all 5 players on each team. As well, the team with the highest score over average is awarded 3 points. In this game, Cory's team earned 7 points, with 4 of his 5 teammates winning their individual matchups and the team collected the 3 team points.

It's time for us to head to the bowling alley for Day Two of competition, so we'll post this now and come back later to finish it, and add the results from Day Two.

Thanks to Brian, Becky, and Elaine for your comments yesterday!